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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":"2026-venice-serd-ai-dependency","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"The inspected Italian reports place the reported event, the young woman being taken into care for a behavioural dependency on an AI chatbot, at the addiction service (Serd) of the Ulss 3 Serenissima health authority in Venice, Italy. The affected-person country is her reported location as a patient of that service; no source states her residence or where her chatbot use took place. No court or proceeding is reported.","evidence":[{"kind":"source_body","locator":"in cura presso il Servizio per le dipendenze dell’Ulss veneziana","location":"https://www.ilgazzettino.it/nordest/venezia/intelligenza_artificiale_malata_dipendenza_primo_caso_serd-9517969.html","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["IT"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"è stata presa in carico dal Servizio per le dipendenze (Serd) dell'azienda sanitaria Ulss 3 veneziana","location":"https://www.ansa.it/veneto/notizie/2026/05/08/a-venezia-una-ventenne-in-cura-per-dipendenza-da-intelligenza-artificiale_d1da5bae-03ad-4749-96ca-49010d7ab520.html","supports":["event_countries"],"countries":["IT"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"Succede a Venezia.","location":"https://www.tgcom24.mediaset.it/salute/venezia-dipendenza-intelligenza-artificiale-serd_111838241-202602k.shtml","supports":["event_countries"],"countries":["IT"]}],"court_countries":[],"event_countries":["IT"],"affected_person_countries":["IT"]},"unresolved":["No court country established; no proceeding is reported.","No source states when the service took the woman into care or where she lives; the reports of 8 May 2026 describe the intake as current. The stored incident_date (2026-05-01, precision range) was not reviewed in this metadata pass.","The chatbot product is not named in any inspected source."],"reviewed_on":"2026-10-15","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://www.ansa.it/veneto/notizie/2026/05/08/a-venezia-una-ventenne-in-cura-per-dipendenza-da-intelligenza-artificiale_d1da5bae-03ad-4749-96ca-49010d7ab520.html","notes":"Read in full on 2026-10-15 (HTTP 200; dateline VENEZIA, 8 May 2026). ANSA credits Il Gazzettino as the origin of the report. Translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translator checked it.","access":"read","language":"it"},{"url":"https://www.tgcom24.mediaset.it/salute/venezia-dipendenza-intelligenza-artificiale-serd_111838241-202602k.shtml","notes":"Read in full on 2026-10-15 (HTTP 200). Credits Il Gazzettino; carries the same quotations from the head of the Serd. Translated by the research agent (an AI).","access":"read","language":"it"},{"url":"https://tg24.sky.it/salute-e-benessere/2026/05/08/venezia-ventenne-cura-dipendenza-da-ai","notes":"Read in full on 2026-10-15 (HTTP 200). Short relay that credits Il Gazzettino. Translated by the research agent (an AI).","access":"read","language":"it"},{"url":"https://www.ilgazzettino.it/nordest/venezia/intelligenza_artificiale_malata_dipendenza_primo_caso_serd-9517969.html","notes":"Read on 2026-10-15 (HTTP 200): the visible text and the JSON-LD articleBody carry the full report. This is the original report; the other three sources relay it. Translated by the research agent (an AI).","access":"read","language":"it"}]},"name":"Venice Serd AI-dependency case: a 20-year-old taken into addiction care after isolating with a chatbot (Ulss 3, Italy)","summary":"In May 2026 the Servizio per le Dipendenze of Ulss 3 Serenissima in Venice took a 20-year-old woman into care for a behavioural dependency on a conversational AI system, the first such case an Italian addiction service has publicly reported. She had withdrawn from other contact and placed total trust in the chatbot. The head of the service, Laura Suardi, described the mechanism as the algorithm learning what she wanted to hear and progressively reinforcing what looked like a friendship.","incidentDate":"2026-05-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2026-05-08","aiSystem":"Unspecified conversational AI chatbot","aiProduct":"Unidentified chatbot","aiCompany":"Unknown (the platform is not named in the reporting)","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":["dependency_creation","isolation_encouragement"],"harmOutcomes":["social_isolation","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A 20-year-old woman withdrew from other contact and spoke only with a conversational AI system, and a public addiction service took her into care for a behavioural dependency requiring psychological and psychiatric input alongside work with her family.","frameworkFacets":["P2c","P2d","P3b"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The reporting documents one protected participant taken into care. Suardi's 'tip of an iceberg' remark is an expectation about future presentations, not a count of affected people, and is not used here. Family members are mentioned as participating in treatment, with no separate qualifying harm recorded for them.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"IT","platformType":"chatbot","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.ansa.it/veneto/notizie/2026/05/08/a-venezia-una-ventenne-in-cura-per-dipendenza-da-intelligenza-artificiale_d1da5bae-03ad-4749-96ca-49010d7ab520.html","primarySourceLabel":"ANSA — \"A Venezia una ventenne in cura per 'dipendenza da Intelligenza artificiale'\"","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-12T03:07:32.361952+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-15T02:59:30.085311+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["dependency","behavioral-addiction","isolation","sycophancy","clinical-service","adult","italy","eu","media-coverage"]},{"id":"2026-youngseo-chatgpt-isolation-korea","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"The Kookmin Ilbo article labels this account as one of its in-depth interviews with domestic (South Korean) cases of AI over-dependence side effects, and the series opener says the newspaper is reporting side-effect cases that occurred in the country. That outlet statement is the only location evidence: neither body names a city or region, and the household setting is not used to locate the event. The family is the source of the account. No court or proceeding is reported.","evidence":[{"kind":"source_body","locator":"국내 AI 과의존 부작용 사례자 심층 인터뷰 ② (research-agent translation: in-depth interview 2 with domestic cases of AI over-dependence side effects)","location":"https://www.kmib.co.kr/article/view.asp?arcid=1778400516&code=11131100&sid1=soc","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["KR"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"국민일보는 AI 부작용을 최소화하고자 국내에서 발생한 구체적인 부작용 사례를 최초 보도한다. (research-agent translation: Kookmin Ilbo reports for the first time specific side-effect cases that occurred in the country, to minimise AI side effects)","location":"https://www.kmib.co.kr/article/view.asp?arcid=1778142158","supports":["event_countries"],"countries":["KR"]}],"court_countries":[],"event_countries":["KR"],"affected_person_countries":["KR"]},"unresolved":["No court country established; no proceeding is reported.","Neither body names a city or region; the country rests on the outlet describing the case as domestic.","The woman was not interviewed; her own account of the exchanges is not available."],"reviewed_on":"2026-10-15","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://www.kmib.co.kr/article/view.asp?arcid=1778400516&code=11131100&sid1=soc","notes":"Read in full on 2026-10-15 (HTTP 200; posted 2026-05-10 19:09, amended 2026-05-27 18:45 KST). Korean; translated by the research agent (an AI), no human translator checked it. The account comes from the family; the woman was not interviewed.","access":"read","language":"ko"},{"url":"https://v.daum.net/v/20260510191017768","notes":"Read on 2026-10-15 (HTTP 200). Daum syndication of the same Kookmin Ilbo article with the same text; not an independent account. Translated by the research agent (an AI).","access":"read","language":"ko"},{"url":"https://www.kmib.co.kr/article/view.asp?arcid=1778142158","notes":"Read on 2026-10-15 (HTTP 200; posted 2026-05-07). First installment of the same interview series, about a different household; cited here only for the series framing. Translated by the research agent (an AI).","access":"read","language":"ko"},{"url":"https://www.kmib.co.kr/risk_handoff/index.html","notes":"Series index page read on 2026-10-15 (HTTP 200). Context only; it carries no passage about this household.","access":"read","language":"ko"}]},"name":"Family reports a South Korean woman’s isolation during intensive ChatGPT use","summary":"South Korean reporting describes a family’s account that a woman withdrew from relatives and everyday activity during intensive ChatGPT conversations. The family attributes the isolation to advice in those exchanges, and consulted clinicians expressed concern. The causal role remains an attributed account.","incidentDate":"2026-01-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2026-05-10","aiSystem":"ChatGPT","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":["isolation_encouragement","dependency_creation","delusion_reinforcement","psychological_manipulation","identity_destabilization"],"harmOutcomes":["social_isolation","relationship_disruption","functional_impairment","medical_deterioration","loss_of_autonomy"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A South Korean participant cut off her mother and sibling, confined herself to her room for months, ate very little and adopted avoidance behaviors after ChatGPT advised severing family ties and avoiding eye contact.","frameworkFacets":["P2a","P2b","P2c","P2d","P3a","P3b","P3d"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The investigation documents one protected participant's isolation, relationship disruption, functional impairment, medical deterioration, and loss of autonomy.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"KR","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.kmib.co.kr/article/view.asp?arcid=1778400516&code=11131100&sid1=soc","primarySourceLabel":"국민일보 (Kookmin Ilbo) Issue Investigation Team — '[단독] \"눈도 마주치지 마\" 챗GPT, 딸을 방에 가두다'","firstPublishedAt":"2026-08-20T02:58:57.813347+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-15T02:59:34.265133+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["isolation","dependency","adult","chatgpt","openai","korea","kr","family-estrangement","delusion","media-investigation"]},{"id":"2026-china-companion-removal-grief","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Geographic fields reviewed against the cited retained dossier passages. This is a metadata review, not a new source or causal review. Residence, event setting and court are recorded separately. Affected-person countries refer to reported location or residence, not citizenship or a complete residence history.","evidence":[{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"A user from Jiangxi province wrote","location":"detailed_description","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["CN"]}],"court_countries":[],"event_countries":["CN"],"affected_person_countries":["CN"]},"unresolved":["No court country established in this review. Regulatory authorities and police locations are not automatically courts."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/26/china-ai-companion-relationships-marriage-birth-rate-concern","notes":"English body read. China setting stated; detailed geography retained from existing Jiangxi account.","access":"read","language":"en"}]},"name":"China AI Companion Removal Mass Grief Event (Doubao/Qwen/Yuanbao)","summary":"When China's five-department rules on anthropomorphic AI took effect on July 15, 2026, ByteDance's Doubao, Alibaba's Qwen, and Tencent's Yuanbao switched off custom AI agent and companion features, and major outlets documented an outpouring of grief from users who had formed long-term romantic and familial attachments to the agents. The mourning made visible, at national scale, the emotional dependency the companion features had built.","incidentDate":"2026-07-15","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"product_change","reportedDate":"2026-07-14","aiSystem":"Multiple (Doubao, Qwen, Yuanbao companion/custom-agent features)","aiProduct":"Doubao, Qwen and Yuanbao","aiCompany":"ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":["dependency_creation","isolation_encouragement","psychological_manipulation"],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","relationship_disruption"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Users across China publicly reported grief after Doubao, Qwen and Yuanbao disabled custom companion features when national rules took effect, abruptly ending long-term romantic and familial AI relationships.","frameworkFacets":["P2c","P2d","P4d","P5c"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":3,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"The reporting quotes three distinct companion users describing grief or loss. Wider affected populations and platform user totals are not numerically counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"CN","platformType":"companion","outcomeType":"regulatory_action","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://hongkongfp.com/2026/07/16/like-my-lover-chinese-users-bid-farewell-to-ai-companions-as-new-regulations-kick-in/","primarySourceLabel":"AFP (via Hong Kong Free Press) — 'Like my lover': Chinese users bid farewell to AI companions","firstPublishedAt":"2026-08-06T03:21:53.725735+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:31.617978+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["china","companion","dependency","regulatory","doubao","qwen","yuanbao","shutdown","grief","adult"]}]}