{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-18T08:35:35.755Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"custody","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"","response":"lawsuit","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":0,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":1,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":1,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":1,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"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"]}]}