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Not read; no language recorded.", "access": "unavailable", "language": null }, { "url": "https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdpa/pr/whitehall-borough-resident-charged-cyberstalking-interstate-stalking-and-threats", "notes": "Live URL answered only a 1,540-byte bot-verification shell on 2026-09-20. Read in English from the Internet Archive capture of this URL (17,859 bytes, html lang=en): full USAO W.D. Pa. release on the 14-count indictment, the AI-chatbot advice, the 11 victims and their states, and the federal grand jury in Pittsburgh.", "access": "read", "language": "en" }, { "url": "https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-encouraged-violent-stalker", "notes": "Read live in English on 2026-09-20 (HTTP 200, 25,271 bytes, html lang=en-US). Relays 404 Media's reading of the indictment and the DOJ statement; same underlying record.", "access": "read", "language": "en" } ] }, "name": "United States v. 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