{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-18T06:05:17.372Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"court-order","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":3,"coverage":{"cases":3,"countries":2,"languages":3,"unknownLocation":1,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":1,"lawsuits":2,"regulatory":1,"minors":0,"coreRelations":2,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":1,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":1},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2025-gujarat-high-court-order-records-wife-saying-husbands-heavy-chatgpt-use-fed-fabricated-narratives-and-marital-discord","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'During January 2025, the petitioner husband developed a habit of extensively using ChatGPT even for minor and routine manner and would repeatedly engaged with the said platform and gradually husband started forming and fabricating various narratives, which further affected his behaviour and inter-personal relationship with the wife and contributed to the increasing matrimonial discord between the parties.'; 'In her reply, she set out allegations that later became central to High Court’s reading of the dispute.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The Gujarat High Court order, drawing on the wife's reply and the record, says that from January 2025 the husband used ChatGPT extensively even for minor and routine matters, gradually formed and fabricated various narratives, and that this affected his behaviour and their relationship and contributed to increasing matrimonial discord.","causal_attribution":"Reported: the Times of India quotes the order, which rests on the wife's allegations. The husband's response is not reported and the court said the disputed facts need a full inquiry, so the causal link between ChatGPT use and the discord is alleged."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'shows that this is nothing but the husband’s excessive dependence upon ChatGPT.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The court itself observed that words the husband used showed his excessive dependence on ChatGPT.","causal_attribution":"The observation is the court's, as quoted by the Times of India; it characterises his dependence and does not find that ChatGPT caused the discord."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'in April 2025. A month later, the wife raised concerns with the husband and his family, requesting him to cut down his use of ChatGPT.'; 'However, behaviour of the husband was not changed and thereafter despite extensive counselling and medication, the doctor informed that the husband is suffering from'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"In 2025 the wife asked him and his family for him to cut down his ChatGPT use; the order records that his behaviour did not change and that, despite counselling and medication, a doctor diagnosed a mental illness.","causal_attribution":"Reported from the order. No source connects the diagnosis causally to ChatGPT use."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'In May this year, the wife left the matrimonial home. She took the child away in August, after which the husband issued a legal notice demanding the child’s return.'; 'HC, however, declined to intervene, holding that custody with the mother could not be termed illegal and that any custody change would require a fuller inquiry before a competent court.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The wife left the matrimonial home in May 2026 and took their daughter in August; the High Court rejected the husband's habeas corpus petition, holding that custody with the mother was not illegal and that the dispute needs a full inquiry by a competent court.","causal_attribution":"Reported by the Times of India: the ruling is quoted from the order, and the departure dates are the paper's narrative; 'this year' in an article of 18 October 2026 is 2026."}],"effects":[{"label":"marital discord and separation that the wife's account, recorded in the order, links to the husband's heavy ChatGPT use (alleged)","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/in-custody-row-hc-cites-husbands-excessive-dependence-on-chatgpt/articleshow/135019685.cms","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-18 by the research agent (an AI); no translation was needed. The Times of India court reporter's account quotes the Gujarat High Court order; the order itself was not read.","independence_group":"times-of-india-gujarat-high-court-custody-order"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use","others_use"],"contexts":["relationships","justice","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["What ChatGPT said to the husband and what the narratives were about.","The husband's response to the wife's account.","The order's date, the bench and the order text.","Whether the custody question has been taken to a family court."],"geography":{"basis":"The Gujarat High Court decided the petition; the Times of India describes the husband as based in a Gujarat city. The article does not say where the matrimonial home was or where the ChatGPT use took place, so no event country is recorded.","court_countries":["IN"],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":["IN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (communicated_with): a High Court order, as quoted by the Times of India, records the wife's account that her husband's heavy ChatGPT use from January 2025 fed fabricated narratives and marital discord before she left with their daughter, and the court observed his excessive dependence on ChatGPT. One reporting chain; the causal account is alleged.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-18"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Gujarat High Court order, as quoted by the Times of India, describes the husband's repeated exchanges with ChatGPT from January 2025, even for minor and routine matters, and connects them to his forming and fabricating narratives, his changed behaviour and the growing matrimonial discord; the court itself observed that his words showed excessive dependence on ChatGPT. This is the person's exchanges with the chatbot connected to the harm (communicated_with). What ChatGPT said is not described, and the account rests on the wife's allegations.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Gujarat High Court order records a wife's account that her husband's heavy ChatGPT use fed fabricated narratives and marital discord; his custody plea rejected","summary":"According to a Gujarat High Court order quoted by the Times of India, a man began using ChatGPT extensively in January 2025, even for minor and routine matters. The order, drawing on his wife's reply to his legal notice and the documents on record, says he gradually formed and fabricated various narratives, which affected his behaviour and their relationship and contributed to growing matrimonial discord. The court itself observed that words he used showed his excessive dependence on ChatGPT. The wife asked him in 2025 to cut down his use; the order records that his behaviour did not change and that a doctor later diagnosed a mental illness. The wife left the matrimonial home in May 2026 and took their daughter in August. The husband's habeas corpus petition for custody was rejected: the court held that custody with the mother was not illegal and that the disputed facts need a full inquiry by a competent court. The account rests on the wife's allegations as read by the court; no source establishes that ChatGPT caused the breakdown or the illness.","incidentDate":"2025-01-01","incidentKind":"ongoing_experience","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-10-18","aiSystem":"ChatGPT, which the Gujarat High Court order, as quoted by the Times of India, says the husband used extensively from January 2025, even for minor and routine matters","aiProduct":"ChatGPT (reported)","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["relationship_disruption"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the Gujarat High Court order as reported, the wife's account links her husband's heavy ChatGPT use from January 2025 to fabricated narratives, changed behaviour and growing marital discord; she left with their daughter in 2026 and his custody petition was rejected.","frameworkFacets":[],"pathwayDirection":"both","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"Documented minimum of two: the husband who used ChatGPT and the wife whose marriage the order describes as affected by the discord. The daughter is not described as harmed and is not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"IN","platformType":"chatbot","outcomeType":"lawsuit_dismissed","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/in-custody-row-hc-cites-husbands-excessive-dependence-on-chatgpt/articleshow/135019685.cms","primarySourceLabel":"Times of India, 18 October 2026: In custody row, HC cites husband's excessive dependence on ChatGPT","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-18T03:03:45.36224+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-18T03:03:45.36224+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["chatgpt","relationship-disruption","marital-discord","custody","habeas-corpus","court-order","gujarat","india","communicated-with"]},{"id":"2026-chaco-saenz-pena-fbi-alert-over-chatgpt-school-shooting-plan-two-men-detained","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'bajo directivas de la Fiscalía Federal de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, iniciaron actuaciones de investigación criminal a raíz de una alerta emitida por el FBI'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'La investigación se inició a partir de una alerta de la Oficina Federal de Investigaciones (FBI) de Estados Unidos'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Gendarmería Nacional says its investigators, under the federal prosecutor of Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, opened a criminal investigation after an alert issued by the FBI.","causal_attribution":"Official release; Infobae relays the same official information, so one origin."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'mediante consultas en la plataforma de inteligencia artificial Chat GPT, afirmaba poseer armas, explosivos y municiones junto con un plan detallado para perpetrar un tiroteo masivo en establecimientos educativos locales'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'un usuario radicado en Chaco había realizado consultas en la plataforma de inteligencia artificial en las que afirmaba contar con armas, explosivos y municiones'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"According to Gendarmería, the alert warned of a user in Roque Sáenz Peña who, in consultations on ChatGPT, claimed to possess weapons, explosives and ammunition and a detailed plan for a mass shooting at local educational establishments.","causal_attribution":"Gendarmería's description of the FBI alert; the consultations themselves and ChatGPT's replies are not published."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'debido a que los dos involucrados utilizaban la plataforma Chat GPT para consultar y obtener un plan específico para realizar un ataque en un Centro Educativo'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The release's opening paragraph says the two people involved used ChatGPT to consult and obtain a specific plan for an attack on an educational centre.","causal_attribution":"Official summary sentence; its body describes one user, and no source says what ChatGPT supplied."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Con la orden emitida por el Juzgado Federal de Garantías'; 'secuestraron dos agendas con anotaciones manuscritas que reflejan la planificación logística para la comisión del atentado'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Durante el procedimiento encontraron dos agendas con anotaciones manuscritas'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"On a federal court order, gendarmes searched the home and seized two notebooks with handwritten notes on the logistics of the attack, bladed weapons and tools, a fuel can, a book with Nazi symbols, cash and computers.","causal_attribution":"Official account of the search."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'los gendarmes procedieron a la detención comunicada de dos ciudadanos mayores de edad, quienes quedaron alojados en sedes policiales a disposición de la magistratura interviniente'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Gendarmería Nacional logró detener en Chaco a dos sujetos'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"On the judge's order, two adults were detained and held at the disposal of the court.","causal_attribution":"Official account; Perfil relays it via the NA agency."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'La investigación comenzó después de que el FBI detectara que uno de los sospechosos utilizaba ChatGPT para realizar consultas vinculadas con la preparación de un ataque armado'; 'El blanco era la Universidad de la Cuenca del Plata'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Infobae reports, citing the official information, that the FBI detected one of the suspects using ChatGPT for queries about preparing an armed attack, and names the target as a university in Corrientes.","causal_attribution":"One outlet's account drawing on the official information."}],"effects":[{"label":"home searched and two adults detained after an FBI alert about ChatGPT consultations","claim_id":"c5","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.argentina.gob.ar/noticias/chaco-gendarmes-detuvieron-dos-hombres-que-mediante-inteligencia-artificial-planificaban-un","kind":"official_statement","access":"read","language":"es","translation_note":"Spanish, read in the original; the English renderings in claims and public text were made by the research agent (an AI) and were not reviewed by a human translator. Gendarmería Nacional release on argentina.gob.ar, 13 October 2026, read live (HTTP 200).","independence_group":"gendarmeria-nacional-release-2026-10-13"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.infobae.com/sociedad/policiales/2026/10/13/detuvieron-a-dos-jovenes-chaquenos-que-planeaban-un-tiroteo-en-una-universidad-el-fbi-los-detecto-por-sus-consultas-a-chatgpt/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"es","translation_note":"Spanish, read in the original; the English renderings in claims and public text were made by the research agent (an AI) and were not reviewed by a human translator. Infobae, 13 October 2026, read live (HTTP 200); relays the official information.","independence_group":"gendarmeria-nacional-release-2026-10-13"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.perfil.com/noticias/nea/chaco-cayeron-dos-jovenes-acusados-de-planificar-con-inteligencia-artificial-un-tiroteo-masivo-en-una-universidad.phtml","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"es","translation_note":"Spanish, read in the original; the English renderings in claims and public text were made by the research agent (an AI) and were not reviewed by a human translator. Perfil, 13 October 2026, read live (HTTP 200); relays the account via the NA agency.","independence_group":"gendarmeria-nacional-release-2026-10-13"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["justice"],"unknowns":["What ChatGPT replied to the consultations, and whether it supplied any plan","Who detected the consultations and how they reached the FBI","The date of the search and the detentions","Whether both detainees used ChatGPT (the release body describes one user, its opening paragraph says both)","Any charge or court finding; the accusations are allegations"],"geography":{"basis":"The release places the user, the search and the detentions in Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, Chaco, Argentina, under an Argentine federal prosecutor and court. The FBI that issued the alert is a US agency, but no event in the United States is described.","court_countries":["AR"],"event_countries":["AR"],"affected_person_countries":["AR"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a reported case on Gendarmería Nacional's own release, relayed by Infobae and Perfil: an FBI alert about a user's ChatGPT consultations describing weapons and a school-shooting plan led to a court-ordered search and the detention of two adults in Chaco. All press items rest on the one official account; the planned attack is an allegation.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-14"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Gendarmería Nacional's release says the investigation began from an FBI alert concerning a user's consultations on ChatGPT, in which he claimed to have weapons, explosives and ammunition and a detailed plan for a school shooting; the search and the two detentions followed from that investigation. The person's exchanges with the chatbot are what triggered the alert (communicated_with). What ChatGPT replied, and who detected the consultations and passed them to the FBI, are not reported.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Chaco, Argentina: Gendarmería says two men were detained after an FBI alert that one of them told ChatGPT he had weapons and a plan for a school shooting","summary":"Argentina's Gendarmería Nacional said on 13 October 2026 that its investigators in Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, Chaco, under the direction of the federal prosecutor there, opened a criminal investigation after an alert from the US FBI. According to the release, the alert warned of a user in the town who, in consultations on ChatGPT, claimed to have weapons, explosives and ammunition and a detailed plan for a mass shooting at local educational establishments; the release's opening paragraph says the two people involved used ChatGPT to consult and obtain a specific plan for an attack. Gendarmes searched a home on a federal court order, seized notebooks with handwritten plans for the attack, bladed weapons and tools, a fuel can, a book with Nazi symbols, cash and computers, and detained two adults on the judge's order. Infobae, relaying the official information, reports that the target was a university in Corrientes. The accusations are allegations, and what ChatGPT replied is not reported.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-10-13","aiSystem":"ChatGPT (named by Gendarmería Nacional as the platform \"Chat GPT\"): the alert concerned a user's consultations on it in which he claimed to have weapons, explosives and ammunition and a plan for a school shooting. Who detected the consultations and passed them to the FBI is not stated.","aiProduct":"ChatGPT (reported)","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["loss_of_liberty","legal_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to Gendarmería Nacional, an FBI alert about a user's ChatGPT consultations describing weapons and a school-shooting plan led to a court-ordered search of a home in Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña and the detention of two adults, who remain at the disposal of the federal court; no charge or finding is reported.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Two adults detained, per the Gendarmería release (\"dos ciudadanos mayores de edad\"). The release body describes one user whose ChatGPT consultations the FBI alert concerned, and Infobae says one of the suspects used ChatGPT; that person is counted as a participant user. The release's opening paragraph says both used ChatGPT, but the body and the press describe one user, so the second detainee is counted as another person harmed. No one at the targeted institutions is reported harmed.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"AR","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"pending","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.argentina.gob.ar/noticias/chaco-gendarmes-detuvieron-dos-hombres-que-mediante-inteligencia-artificial-planificaban-un","primarySourceLabel":"Gendarmería Nacional (argentina.gob.ar), 13 October 2026: two men detained in Chaco over a planned shooting","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-14T03:05:19.420524+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-14T03:05:19.420524+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["chatgpt","fbi","law-enforcement-report","arrest","alleged-attack-plan","argentina","chaco","spanish-language"]},{"id":"2026-gisi-infopro-digital-creteil-ai-dismissals-suspended","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Page 12: \"ORDONNONS la suspension du projet de réorganisation de la Société GISI et du projet de licenciement collectif (des 8 secrétaires de rédaction) en découlant, incluant la suspension des processus de reclassement, jusqu'à ce qu'il soit procédé à la réalisation des tests en situation réelle et à l'élaboration de numéros 0\"; \"PRONONÇONS à l'encontre de la société GISI une astreinte provisoire de 8 000 euros par jour de retard pendant une durée de trois mois\"; \"DISONS n'y avoir lieu à référé sur la demande de condamnation de la société GISI au paiement d'une provision à valoir sur des dommages et intérêts\"; \"une somme de 2 000,00 €\"; \"FAIT AU PALAIS DE JUSTICE DE CRETEIL, le 15 septembre 2026.\" Page 1: \"N° RG 26/00991\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"\"la suspension du projet de réorganisation (...) et du projet de licenciement collectif (des 8 secrétaires de rédaction)\"; \"8 000 euros par jour de retard sur trois mois\"; \"En revanche, les dommages et intérêts réclamés ont été rejetés.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"\"La justice a suspendu mardi en référé un projet de suppression de 8 postes au sein du groupe de presse Gisi\"; \"Il a par conséquent suspendu le plan jusqu'à la réalisation de tests complets.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"On 15 September 2026 the Créteil judicial court, sitting in référé on the application of Gisi's works council (CSE), ordered the suspension of Gisi's reorganisation project and of the resulting collective dismissal of the eight secrétaires de rédaction, including the redeployment processes, until real-situation tests and pilot issues confirm what share of sub-editor tasks the generative-AI tool can take over. It imposed a provisional penalty of 8,000 euros per day of delay for three months, refused the damages provision and awarded the CSE 2,000 euros in costs.","causal_attribution":"Established by the order itself; L'Informé, which published it, and AFP, which consulted it, report the same operative terms."},{"id":"c2","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Page 10: \"sans aucune participation des salariés concernés, ni réalisation en situation réelle, la société GISI a évalué à environ 70 % la part des tâches des SR réalisées par l'outil IA\"; \"que la mise en œuvre du projet de développement de l'IA générative et du projet de licenciement de l'ensemble des emplois de SR sur cette base approximative et non étayée par une mise en situation\". Page 11: \"réelle paraît dans ces conditions représenter un risque grave et caractérisé sur la santé physique et mentale de plusieurs catégories de salariés de la société GISI.\"; \"stress lié à l'insécurité de l'emploi lié à l'intelligence artificielle\"; \"mais ne les a pas côtés\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"\"un risque grave et caractérisé sur la santé physique et mentale de plusieurs catégories de salariés\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"\"des risques de surcharge de travail (...) et une baisse de la qualité du travail fourni, de l'autonomie et du conflit de valeur, de la perte de sens et de l'altération du collectif.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The judge found that carrying out the generative-AI project and the dismissal of all the sub-editor posts on an approximate basis, without real-situation testing or participation of the staff concerned, appeared to present a serious and characterised risk to the physical and mental health of several categories of Gisi staff. The order also records that Gisi had not shown prevention measures, although its 2025 risk register listed three AI-related risks, including stress linked to AI-related job insecurity.","causal_attribution":"The court's own finding of a risk created by how the AI-based reorganisation was to be carried out; no individually diagnosed injury is reported."},{"id":"c3","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Page 2: \"La société GISI emploie 127 salariés dont 92 journalistes (91 selon la société GISI).\"; \"un outil dénommé DIGI\"; \"Le projet de la société GISI prévoit la suppression de 8 postes de secrétaires de rédaction (SR) et la création de 2 postes de chefs d'édition reprenant une partie des missions des SR, à savoir celles ne pouvant être automatisées par l'outil DIGI\"; \"Le 4 mai 2026 le CSE était convié à une réunion dite R0 de présentation du projet.\"; \"Le 12 mai 2026 la société GISI convoquait le CSE à une première réunion d'information/consultation sur deux projets\"; \"obtenait le 15 juillet 2025 une ordonnance de référé du tribunal judiciaire de Créteil enjoignant à la société GISI de suspendre l'utilisation des outils d'IA jusqu'à l'achèvement de la consultation du CSE\"; \"Par un arrêt du 21 mai 2026 la cour d'appel de Paris confirmait l'ordonnance de référé du 15 juillet 2025\". Page 10: \"la société GISI a évalué à environ 70 % la part des tâches des SR réalisées par l'outil IA\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"\"Au sein de Gisi, 8 postes de SR sont menacés.\"; \"la société estimant que 70% des tâches des SR peuvent être réalisées par l'IA.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"Gisi (127 staff, 92 of them journalists according to the order, 91 according to Gisi) planned to remove its eight sub-editor posts and create two chef d'édition posts for the tasks its in-house generative-AI tool DIGI could not automate, estimating that the tool would perform about 70% of sub-editor tasks. The project was presented to the CSE on 4 May 2026 and formal consultation opened on 12 May 2026, after an earlier référé order of 15 July 2025, confirmed on appeal on 21 May 2026, had required Gisi to suspend use of AI tools until the CSE was consulted.","causal_attribution":"Facts recited in the order; AFP reports the same plan from the company."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"\"Les quelque 250 journalistes de ces 26 titres au total avaient lancé une grève au printemps pour s'opposer au projet de leur propriétaire de supprimer 19 postes de secrétaires de rédaction en conséquence de ce déploiement.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"\"Nous allons poursuivre les tests et faire des numéros complets\"; \"la direction de Gisi a indiqué se réserver la possibilité de faire appel.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"\"nous suspendons le projet le temps de finaliser ces tests.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Some 250 journalists across Infopro Digital's 26 titles struck in spring 2026 against the owner's plan to cut 19 sub-editor posts as a consequence of the AI deployment. After the order, Gisi's management told AFP it reserved the possibility of an appeal, and its president said the tests would continue with complete issues.","causal_attribution":"AFP's reporting of the strike and of management's comments; L'Informé carries management's written reply. One AFP origin plus the company's own statements."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"\"with five of the eight affected journalists having already received pre-dismissal interview letters\"; \"newsroom positions accompanied by training were offered to all affected editorial secretaries, although some declined them.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"Digital Watch, citing Stratégies, reports that five of the eight affected sub-editors had already received letters inviting them to pre-dismissal interviews, and that newsroom posts with training were offered to all of them, some of whom declined.","causal_attribution":"A secondary summary of Stratégies, which could not be read; reported only."},{"id":"c6","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Page 6: \"La société GISI rappelle que le projet concerne la suppression de 8 postes de secrétaires de rédaction représentant moins de 7 % des effectifs ; que le risque invoqué est supposé et non avéré ; qu'aucune surcharge de travail n'est établie\"; \"Elle précise que 38 réunions et ateliers ont été organisés avec les équipes éditoriales pour concevoir et tester l'outil\"; \"l'ensemble des salariés concernés pourrait bénéficier d'un reclassement en particulier sur les postes de chef d'édition\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Before the court Gisi argued that the project concerned eight posts, under 7% of its staff, that the risk alleged was supposed rather than proven and that no work overload had been established. It said 38 meetings and workshops had been held with editorial teams to design and test the tool, and that all the staff concerned could be redeployed, in particular to the chef d'édition posts.","causal_attribution":"The order documents that Gisi made these submissions; the court did not accept them as defeating the CSE's application."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Page 4: \"qu'elle est caractérisée au regard du calendrier de la société GISI qui prévoit la consultation des salariés de fin juillet à mi-septembre 2026 et des licenciements à compter de mi-octobre 2026\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"According to the CSE's submissions recorded in the order, Gisi's timetable provided for consulting employees from late July to mid-September 2026 and for dismissals from mid-October 2026.","causal_attribution":"The CSE's account of the company's timetable, as summarised in the order; the order does not make a finding on it."}],"effects":[{"label":"eight sub-editors faced a collective dismissal plan built on a generative-AI tool taking over their tasks; a court found a serious risk to staff health and suspended it","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://linforme.files.sirius.press/files/1789566133007-SECURISE_ordonnance%20du%2015%20septembre%202026-2.pdf","kind":"court_order","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Tribunal judiciaire de Créteil, référé order of 15 September 2026 (RG 26/00991), CSE of Gisi v. SAS Gisi, as published by L'Informé (watermarked scan of 12 pages, no text layer). Re-fetched on 2026-10-17 and all 12 pages read as page images in French; the research agent (an AI) transcribed and translated the passages relied on. Pages 4 to 7 record the parties' submissions, which the order summarises; the parties' own filings and the expert report were not available.","independence_group":"tj-creteil-order"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.linforme.com/medias-culture/article/lsa-l-usine-nouvelle-la-justice-retoque-le-remplacement-des-journalistes-par-l-ia_8645.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"L'Informé, 15 Sep 2026, updated 16 Sep 2026 with Infopro Digital's reply; read in French by the research agent (an AI). On 2026-10-17 the served page showed only the opening lines (subscriber page); the passages relied on are from the fuller page captured on 2026-09-19 and re-read today. L'Informé published the order.","independence_group":"linforme"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.cbnews.fr/medias/justice-suspend-projet-suppressions-postes-liees-ia-chez-usine-nouvelle-lsa","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"CB News, 16 Sep 2026, AFP dispatch; re-read in French on 2026-10-17 by the research agent (an AI). AFP states it consulted the decision.","independence_group":"afp"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.bfmtv.com/economie/emploi/vie-de-bureau/un-risque-grave-et-caracterise-sur-la-sante-physique-et-mentale-la-justice-suspend-un-projet-de-suppressions-de-postes-liees-a-l-ia-dans-les-medias-du-groupe-gisi_AD-202609160444.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"BFM Business with AFP, 16 Sep 2026; re-read in French on 2026-10-17 by the research agent (an AI). Same AFP dispatch, adding a definition of the sub-editor role.","independence_group":"afp"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.liberation.fr/economie/medias/la-justice-suspend-un-projet-de-suppressions-de-postes-liees-a-lia-dans-le-groupe-de-presse-infopro-digital-20260916_H7LH5VX6A5EDBFWSDNNM3DPB3U/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Libération, 16 Sep 2026, AFP; the site returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-17, so the MSN content-API copy saved on 2026-09-19 was re-read in French by the research agent (an AI). Same AFP dispatch, adding staff-representative reactions given to L'Informé.","independence_group":"afp"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://dig.watch/updates/french-court-ai-job-cuts-journalists","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Digital Watch Observatory, 17 Sep 2026; re-read in English on 2026-10-17. A secondary summary attributing the pre-dismissal-letter and redeployment details to Stratégies, whose own article was not readable from this host.","independence_group":"strategies-via-digital-watch"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["work","justice"],"unknowns":["Whether Gisi has appealed the order; no appeal was found in reports up to 8 October 2026.","Whether any dismissal letter has been sent since the order, and whether all eight sub-editors remain employed.","The individual health effects on the sub-editors or other staff; the court found a risk and no individual injury is reported.","Which three of the eight had not received pre-dismissal interview letters, and whether the redeployment offers were accepted.","Digital Watch, citing Stratégies, reports three chef d'édition roles and one technical editor-in-chief position offered; the order and AFP record two chef d'édition posts. The difference is unresolved.","The status of the separate redundancy plan at Infopro Digital's other subsidiary, Groupe Moniteur."],"geography":{"basis":"The order describes Gisi as a French professional-press company registered at the Créteil trade register and its titles (L'Usine nouvelle, LSA, L'Argus de l'assurance) as the newsrooms concerned; the court is the Tribunal judiciaire de Créteil.","court_countries":["FR"],"event_countries":["FR"],"affected_person_countries":["FR"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a consequential response to AI adoption at work: the court order documents an employer's collective dismissal plan for eight sub-editors whose tasks a generative-AI tool was to take over, and the court's finding that carrying it out without real-situation tests appeared to present a serious and characterised risk to the health of several categories of staff. The order (read in full), L'Informé and the AFP dispatch were read; no affected staff member is named.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-17"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The court order records that Gisi's reorganisation removes the eight sub-editor posts because, on Gisi's estimate, its in-house generative-AI tool DIGI would perform about 70% of their tasks, and that the collective dismissal derives from that project. The harm is the employer's response to its decision to adopt the tool: a dismissal plan and the health risk the court found in carrying it out without real-situation tests. The tool produced no output about, toward or on behalf of the sub-editors, so the relation is unknown and the case is reviewed as a consequential response to AI adoption.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"Créteil, France: court suspends Gisi's plan to cut eight sub-editor posts in favour of a generative-AI tool, citing risk to staff health","summary":"Gisi, the Infopro Digital subsidiary that publishes L'Usine nouvelle, LSA and L'Argus de l'assurance, presented its works council (CSE) on 4 May 2026 with a reorganisation built around DIGI, an in-house generative-AI editorial tool. On 12 May it opened consultation on the reorganisation and on the resulting collective dismissal of its eight secrétaires de rédaction (sub-editors), with two new chef d'édition posts for the tasks the tool could not automate, on the company's estimate that the tool would take over about 70% of sub-editor tasks. Some 250 journalists across the group's 26 titles had struck in spring 2026 against a group-wide plan to cut 19 sub-editor posts, and according to Digital Watch, citing Stratégies, five of the eight Gisi sub-editors had received letters inviting them to pre-dismissal interviews. The CSE went to court in July. On 15 September 2026 the Créteil référé judge found that carrying out the plan on an approximate basis without real-situation testing appeared to present 'un risque grave et caractérisé sur la santé physique et mentale de plusieurs catégories de salariés'. The judge suspended the reorganisation and the collective dismissal, including the redeployment processes, until real-situation tests and pilot issues are produced, under a provisional penalty of 8,000 euros per day for three months, and refused the damages provision. Gisi had argued that the risk was supposed rather than proven. It said it would continue the tests and reserved the possibility of an appeal.","incidentDate":"2026-05-04","incidentKind":"ongoing_experience","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"product_change","reportedDate":"2026-09-15","aiSystem":"'DIGI', Gisi's in-house generative-AI editorial tool (transcription of interviews, drafting and correction help; planned spelling, grammar and typography correction, editorial-coherence and fact-reliability checks)","aiProduct":"DIGI editorial tool","aiCompany":"Gisi (Groupe Industrie Service Infos), a subsidiary of Infopro Digital (deployer of the in-house 'DIGI' generative-AI tool)","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["professional_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Eight sub-editors at Gisi faced collective dismissal because, on the company's estimate, a generative-AI tool would take over most of their tasks (five had received pre-dismissal interview letters, per Digital Watch citing Stratégies). A court found that carrying out the plan without real-situation testing appeared to present a serious and characterised risk to the physical and mental health of several categories of staff, and suspended the dismissals pending tests.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":5,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"Five counted: Digital Watch, citing Stratégies, reports that 'five of the eight affected journalists' had received pre-dismissal interview letters, a concrete step of the dismissal procedure. The other three sub-editors were subject to the same suspended dismissal plan and were offered redeployment (AFP, from the company), and the court's health-risk finding extends to 'plusieurs catégories de salariés' without a number. These are not counted because no adverse step specific to them is reported: partial.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"FR","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"lawsuit_ongoing","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://linforme.files.sirius.press/files/1789566133007-SECURISE_ordonnance%20du%2015%20septembre%202026-2.pdf","primarySourceLabel":"Tribunal judiciaire de Créteil, référé order of 15 September 2026 (RG 26/00991), published by L'Informé","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-20T03:19:47.791082+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-17T03:03:38.186484+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["work","journalism","dismissal-plan","generative-ai","newsroom-automation","france","creteil","interim-court-order","occupational-health","institutional-use"]}]}