{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-30T08:28:39.743Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"estranged-spouse-account","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"unknown","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":0,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":1,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":1,"lawsuits":0,"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-man-says-estranged-wife-confronted-her-parents-on-chatgpt-advice-and-family-conflict-worsened","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'says his soon-to-be-ex-wife began “talking to God and angels via ChatGPT” after they split up.'; '“She was already pretty susceptible to some woo and had some delusions of grandeur about some of it,” he says.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A man who spoke to Rolling Stone anonymously says that after he and his wife split up, she began talking to God and angels via ChatGPT, and that she was already susceptible to such beliefs before.","causal_attribution":"The estranged husband's account; the wife was not interviewed. He says she had such tendencies before using ChatGPT."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"I’m a little fuzzy on what it all actually is — all powered by ChatGPT Jesus.”","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"He says she is changing her life around activities powered by what he calls 'ChatGPT Jesus', while saying he is unsure what those activities involve.","causal_attribution":"His description, with his own stated uncertainty."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"she has grown paranoid, theorizing that “I work for the CIA and maybe I just married her to monitor her ‘abilities.’”","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"He says she has grown paranoid and theorises that he works for the CIA and may have married her to monitor her abilities.","causal_attribution":"His account; the source does not say ChatGPT produced this theory."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"an already strained relationship with her parents deteriorated further when “she confronted them about her childhood on advice and guidance from ChatGPT,” turning the family dynamic “even more volatile than it was” and worsening her isolation.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"He says her already strained relationship with her parents deteriorated further when she confronted them about her childhood on advice and guidance from ChatGPT, making the family dynamic more volatile than it was and worsening her isolation.","causal_attribution":"His account of the chatbot's role; what ChatGPT said to her is not quoted."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'OpenAI did not immediately return a request for comment about ChatGPT apparently provoking religious or prophetic fervor in select users.'; 'it did roll back an update to GPT‑4o, its current AI model, which it said had been criticized as “overly flattering or agreeable — often described as sycophantic.”'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"OpenAI did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone's request for comment. In the same week OpenAI had rolled back a GPT-4o update it said had made the model overly flattering or agreeable; the article does not say which model the woman used.","causal_attribution":"Rolling Stone's report of OpenAI's non-response and of its public statement; neither addresses this case."}],"effects":[{"label":"confrontation with her parents on ChatGPT's advice made the family more volatile and her more isolated (estranged husband's account)","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English (live page, HTTP 200, saved on 2026-10-29 and re-read on 2026-10-30; datePublished 2025-05-04, by Miles Klee). The man was interviewed anonymously; no other account of this family was found.","independence_group":"rollingstone-2025-05-04"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["relationships","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["What ChatGPT said to her about her parents or her childhood; the article does not quote it.","When she began using ChatGPT and when the confrontation happened; the article says only after the couple split up and before 4 May 2025.","Her own account and her parents' account; neither was reported.","Which ChatGPT model she used.","How her estranged husband knows what ChatGPT told her; the article quotes him pointing to warning signs on Facebook, and no chat is shown."],"geography":{"basis":"The article does not say where the woman lives or where she used ChatGPT, so no country is recorded.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"A man describes, in a Rolling Stone feature, his estranged wife confronting her parents about her childhood on advice and guidance from ChatGPT, after which the family became more volatile and she more isolated. The account is his, uncorroborated and attributed; ChatGPT's words are not quoted.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-30"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The woman's estranged husband says she talked to God and angels via ChatGPT and confronted her parents about her childhood on advice and guidance from ChatGPT. He connects that confrontation to a more volatile family dynamic and her greater isolation. The content of ChatGPT's replies is not quoted, and the account is his rather than hers.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Man tells Rolling Stone his estranged wife confronted her parents on ChatGPT's advice, making family relations more volatile and her more isolated","summary":"A man interviewed anonymously by Rolling Stone (4 May 2025) says that after he and his wife split up, she began talking to God and angels via ChatGPT. He says she was already susceptible to such beliefs, that she has grown paranoid and suspects he works for the CIA, and that an already strained relationship with her parents deteriorated further when she confronted them about her childhood on advice and guidance from ChatGPT, making the family dynamic more volatile and worsening her isolation. The article does not quote what ChatGPT told her. She was not interviewed, and OpenAI did not immediately comment.","incidentKind":"ongoing_experience","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2025-05-04","aiSystem":"ChatGPT (OpenAI), used by the woman; model not stated","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["relationship_disruption","social_isolation"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"By her estranged husband's account to Rolling Stone, the woman confronted her parents about her childhood on advice and guidance from ChatGPT, which made the family dynamic more volatile and worsened her isolation; he also describes her growing paranoia (single anonymous third-party account, uncorroborated).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the woman who used ChatGPT, whose family relations and isolation worsened by her estranged husband's account. Her parents and the husband are mentioned, but the source does not describe harm to them caused by the chatbot, so they are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/","primarySourceLabel":"Rolling Stone (Miles Klee), 4 May 2025: AI-Fueled Spiritual Delusions Are Destroying Human Relationships","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-30T03:11:23.064171+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-30T03:11:23.064171+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["chatgpt","estranged-spouse-account","family-conflict","spiritual-beliefs"]}]}