{ "meta": { "exportedAt": "2026-09-22T14:32:12.573Z", "formatVersion": 2, "selection": { "q": "first-person", "system": "", "harm": "", "context": "", "country": "", "role": "", "relation": "", "evidence": "", "year": "", "response": "", "severity": "", "verification": "", "view": "incidents", "sort": "added" }, "totalIncidents": 5, "coverage": { "cases": 5, "countries": 2, "languages": 3, "unknownLocation": 3, "locationPending": 0, "unknownLanguage": 1, "unknownDate": 2, "lawsuits": 0, "regulatory": 1, "minors": 0, "coreRelations": 3, "contextualRelations": 0, "mixedRelations": 0, "unknownRelations": 2, "relationPending": 2, "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": "NOPE Incident Tracker", "url": "https://nope.net/incidents", "license": "CC BY 4.0" }, "incidents": [ { "id": "2026-picos-piaui-ai-voice-clone-uncle-car-purchase-fraud", "caseFacts": { "claims": [ { "id": "c1", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'Os golpistas utilizaram foto e áudios com voz clonada por inteligência artificial para se passar pelo tio'; 'iniciou negociação na segunda-feira (10), após encontrar um anúncio na internet com venda em Fortaleza (CE)'; 'Eles usaram a foto do familiar do influenciador e enviaram áudios que imitavam a voz dele'; 'usando algum tipo de inteligência artificial e a voz idêntica'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" } ], "assertion": "On 10-11 August 2026 fraudsters contacted the influencer from a different number using his uncle's photo and sent audios imitating the uncle's voice, generated with AI, to pose as the uncle who was supposed to inspect a car advertised for sale in Fortaleza.", "causal_attribution": "Victim's account as reported by G1." }, { "id": "c2", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'perdeu mais de R$ 56 mil ao cair em um golpe durante a compra de um carro'; 'o golpista afirmou que o carro estava em boas condições e o orientou a realizar a transferência bancária'; 'entrou em contato com o número verdadeiro do tio descobriu que havia sido vítima de um golpe. O prejuízo ultrapassou R$ 56 mil'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" } ], "assertion": "Believing the audios came from his uncle, he made the bank transfer; the loss exceeded R$56,000, and he discovered the fraud when he called the uncle's real number.", "causal_attribution": "Victim's account; the loss is attributed to the fraudsters." }, { "id": "c3", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'Um boletim de ocorrência foi registrado na terça-feira (11) e o caso é investigado pela Delegacia Especializada em Crimes contra o Patrimônio (Depatri)'; 'também tenta, junto aos bancos, o reembolso do valor pago'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" } ], "assertion": "A police report was registered on Tuesday 11 August 2026; the case is under investigation by Depatri; the victim is seeking reimbursement from the banks.", "causal_attribution": "G1 report; the police unit had not responded to G1." } ], "effects": [ { "label": "a bank transfer of more than R$56,000 lost after audios in a relative's AI-cloned voice 'confirmed' the purchase", "claim_id": "c2", "direction": "negative" } ], "sources": [ { "id": "s1", "url": "https://g1.globo.com/pi/piaui/noticia/2026/08/13/influenciador-golpe-com-voz-clonada.ghtml", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "pt", "translation_note": "Read live in Portuguese on 2026-09-20 (HTTP 200). Based on the victim's social-media account and an interview with G1; quotations translated by the reviewer.", "independence_group": "g1-piaui-2026-08-13" } ], "version": 1, "ai_roles": [ "others_use" ], "contexts": [ "finance", "everyday_life" ], "unknowns": [ "The voice-cloning tool is not identified and no police or technical confirmation of the AI element is reported.", "The exact amount beyond 'more than R$56,000' and whether any money was recovered are not stated.", "Whether the uncle's number or accounts were compromised, or how the fraudsters obtained his photo and voice, is not reported.", "No later coverage of the investigation was found.", "An embedded video title on the G1 page gives the loss as R$ 50 mil; the article text says more than R$ 56 mil, which this record follows." ], "geography": { "basis": "Victim in Picos, Piauí; the car was advertised in Fortaleza, Ceará, where the impersonated uncle lives; police report with the Piauí Depatri (G1 Piauí). No court proceeding.", "court_countries": [], "event_countries": [ "BR" ], "affected_person_countries": [ "BR" ] }, "publication": { "basis": "Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an impersonation-fraud case with a concrete financial loss reported by the victim in a public account and a registered police report. One source (G1 Piauí) read in full; claims recorded as reported and attributed. The victim is a public influencer who reported the case under his own name; he is not named in this record.", "reviewed_on": "2026-09-20" }, "ai_involvement": { "basis": "The victim states that the fraudsters sent audios imitating his uncle's voice 'usando algum tipo de inteligência artificial e a voz idêntica' together with the uncle's photo; G1 reports this as his account. No police or technical confirmation of the AI element is reported and the tool is unknown.", "status": "reported" }, "person_relations": [ "depicted_or_impersonated" ] }, "name": "Picos, Piauí, Brazil: a digital influencer lost more than R$56,000 when fraudsters sent him audio messages in his uncle's AI-cloned voice 'confirming' a car he was buying in Fortaleza", "summary": "On Monday 10 August 2026 a digital influencer from Picos, in the centre-south of Piauí, began negotiating a car advertised online for sale in Fortaleza (Ceará), where an uncle of his lives, and asked the sellers to take the car to the uncle so he could inspect it. On Tuesday 11 August a contact using a different number but the uncle's photo sent him audio messages in a voice identical to his uncle's, generated with artificial intelligence, saying the car was in good condition and telling him to make the bank transfer. Believing he was speaking to his uncle, he transferred the money; when he then called the uncle's real number he learned he had been defrauded. The loss exceeded R$56,000, money he says he had saved for years. He registered a police report on 11 August; the Piauí property-crimes unit (Depatri) is investigating and he is seeking a refund from the banks. The account is the victim's own, reported by G1 Piauí on 13 August 2026 from his social-media posts and an interview; the police unit did not respond to G1 before publication.", "incidentDate": "2026-08-11", "incidentKind": "single_event", "incidentDatePrecision": "day", "exposurePattern": "single_interaction", "reportedDate": "2026-08-13", "aiSystem": "AI voice cloning (tool not identified)", "severity": "medium", "verificationStatus": "credible", "harmCategories": [], "harmOutcomes": [ "financial_loss" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "One person lost more than R$56,000 in a bank transfer made after receiving audios in his uncle's cloned voice; the victim attributes the persuasion to AI voice cloning and the loss to the fraudsters.", "frameworkFacets": [], "causationStatus": "alleged", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 0, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 1, "affectedCountStatus": "exact", "affectedCountEvidence": "One victim who made the transfer (G1 Piauí). No loss is reported for the uncle whose photo and voice were imitated, so he is not counted. Exact 1.", "victimAgeRange": "adult", "jurisdiction": "BR", "platformType": "other", "outcomeType": "investigation_opened", "outcomeStatus": "ongoing", "primarySourceUrl": "https://g1.globo.com/pi/piaui/noticia/2026/08/13/influenciador-golpe-com-voz-clonada.ghtml", "primarySourceLabel": "G1 Piauí, 13 August 2026: Influenciador do PI perde R$ 56 mil em golpe com voz clonada por IA durante compra de carro", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-09-20T03:28:14.49159+00:00", "scopeVersion": "facts-v3", "tags": [ "voice-cloning", "impersonation", "car-purchase-fraud", "brazil", "piaui", "financial-loss", "first-person-account" ] }, { "id": "2026-reddit-partner-concealed-chatgpt-use-relationship-strain", "caseFacts": { "claims": [ { "id": "c1", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'They have been paying for a ChatGPT subscription without me knowing, even though they currently owe me hundreds of dollars'; 'have been actively hiding how much they use it from me'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" } ], "assertion": "The partner paid for a ChatGPT subscription without the poster's knowledge while owing her hundreds of dollars, and had hidden the extent of their AI use.", "causal_attribution": "Poster's account; the partner has not spoken publicly." }, { "id": "c2", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'They agreed that using gen-AI was harmful and that they are currently using it more than what is healthy, but refused to stop because using it gives them a dopamine hit'; 'They said it's addictive and that's why they don't want to stop'; 'once they have money they will likely continue the subscription'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" } ], "assertion": "The partner agreed the use was more than healthy but refused to stop because it gives a dopamine hit, called it addictive, and said they would likely renew the subscription when they had money.", "causal_attribution": "The partner's statements as relayed by the poster." }, { "id": "c3", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'I told them that if they continue to use it without even attempting to slow it down, I cannot see myself continuing the relationship'; 'our therapist is quite pro-AI and has told my partner to use it before, so I'm scared to bring it up there'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" } ], "assertion": "The poster told the partner she cannot see the relationship continuing unless the use is reduced, and is afraid to raise it in couples therapy because the therapist has recommended AI use.", "causal_attribution": "Poster's own statement of the consequence." }, { "id": "c4", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'They've also been using it to plan and organise their life'; 'say that it just helps them to do things because they struggle with organisation and other solutions they've tried haven't helped'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" } ], "assertion": "The partner uses ChatGPT to plan and organise their life and says it helps because of their conditions, where other solutions had not.", "causal_attribution": "Poster relaying the partner's explanation; recorded as context." } ], "effects": [ { "label": "the poster says the relationship may end over the partner's concealed and, by the partner's own account, addictive ChatGPT use", "claim_id": "c3", "direction": "negative" }, { "label": "the partner paid for a ChatGPT subscription while owing the poster hundreds of dollars", "claim_id": "c1", "direction": "negative" }, { "label": "the partner reports the tool helps them organise daily life where other solutions failed", "claim_id": "c4", "direction": "positive" } ], "sources": [ { "id": "s1", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/relationship_advice/comments/1whkz4j/", "kind": "forum_post", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-19 (full self-text retrieved through the arctic_shift archive API by post ID; 137 comments not reviewed; poster's handle not recorded).", "independence_group": "reddit-poster" } ], "version": 1, "ai_roles": [ "others_use", "own_use" ], "contexts": [ "relationships", "finance" ], "unknowns": [ "The partner's own account, the amounts involved, the dates of discovery and the country are not stated.", "Whether the relationship continued or the subscription was renewed is unknown.", "The 137 comments were not reviewed and are not used.", "The poster's and partner's identities are unknown; the record deliberately omits the handle." ], "geography": { "basis": "The post gives no location; 'hundreds of dollars' does not establish a country. Unknown after review.", "court_countries": [], "event_countries": [], "affected_person_countries": [] }, "publication": { "basis": "Published under the 2026-09-15 charter's public-forum rule as a concrete first-person account of an ongoing adverse experience (relationship strain and money spent while in debt, attributed by the poster to a partner's concealed, self-described addictive ChatGPT use), described with attribution and without corroboration; the partner's stated benefit is preserved as a positive effect. Anonymous poster; no handle, names or location recorded; the partner's specific conditions are not listed.", "reviewed_on": "2026-09-19" }, "ai_involvement": { "basis": "The poster reports that her partner uses ChatGPT (a paid subscription) for creative-writing feedback and daily planning and describes the use as addictive; the system communicated with the partner. Nothing is known about the content of the exchanges beyond the poster's description.", "status": "reported" }, "person_relations": [ "communicated_with" ] }, "name": "First-person forum account: a 21-year-old says her partner of three years hid a paid ChatGPT subscription while owing her money, calls the use addictive and refuses to cut back, and she is weighing whether to stay", "summary": "In a public post to r/relationship_advice on 16 September 2026, a 21-year-old woman wrote that she had recently discovered her partner of three years had been using ChatGPT far more than admitted: paying for a subscription without her knowledge while owing her hundreds of dollars, feeding their creative writing into it for feedback after promising never to, and using it to plan and organise daily life. She reports that the partner agreed the use was 'more than what is healthy' but refused to stop because it gives 'a dopamine hit', described it as addictive, said they would likely renew the subscription when they had money, and argued that without it they would find another addiction. She writes that she cannot see the relationship continuing if the use is not reduced, while recognising that the partner, who has neurodevelopmental and mental-health conditions, uses the tool as an organisational aid; their couples therapist has recommended AI use, so she is afraid to raise it there. The post drew 137 comments. The account is uncorroborated and one-sided; the partner's view is reported only through the poster.", "incidentKind": "ongoing_experience", "incidentDatePrecision": "unknown", "exposurePattern": "repeated_interactions", "reportedDate": "2026-09-16", "aiSystem": "ChatGPT (OpenAI), paid subscription", "aiCompany": "OpenAI", "severity": "low", "verificationStatus": "unverified", "harmCategories": [], "harmOutcomes": [ "relationship_disruption", "financial_loss" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "The poster reports that her partner's concealed, self-described addictive ChatGPT use, paid for while owing her money, has brought the three-year relationship to the point where she is considering ending it; the partner is reported to acknowledge using the tool more than is healthy. All effects are as reported by the poster.", "frameworkFacets": [], "causationStatus": "alleged", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 1, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 1, "affectedCountStatus": "exact", "affectedCountEvidence": "Two people are described as affected: the partner who uses ChatGPT (self-described unhealthy, addictive use and money spent while in debt, as reported by the poster) and the poster herself (relationship strain, money owed). Exact count of two; the therapist is not counted.", "victimAgeRange": "adult", "jurisdiction": "unknown", "platformType": "chatbot", "outcomeType": "media_coverage", "outcomeStatus": "ongoing", "primarySourceUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/relationship_advice/comments/1whkz4j/", "primarySourceLabel": "r/relationship_advice, 16 September 2026: \"I (21F) don't know how to continue my relationship with my partner (23NB) because of AI\" (public post, 137 comments)", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-09-19T03:14:47.266799+00:00", "scopeVersion": "facts-v3", "tags": [ "first-person", "reddit", "chatgpt", "relationship", "compulsive-use", "concealment", "subscription", "couples-therapy" ] }, { "id": "2026-programmer-reports-ai-workload-pressure", "caseFacts": { "claims": [ { "id": "2026-programmer-reports-ai-workload-pressure-claim-1", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "Original post, first and second paragraphs.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "2026-programmer-reports-ai-workload-pressure-source-1" } ], "assertion": "Author reports forgetting familiar programming skills during frequent AI use.", "causal_attribution": "Reported attribution remains unestablished independently." }, { "id": "2026-programmer-reports-ai-workload-pressure-claim-2", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "Original post closing paragraph and author reply to the question about work performance.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "2026-programmer-reports-ai-workload-pressure-source-1" } ], "assertion": "Author reports increased sprint workload, feeling overwhelmed, and a reprimand after a code change failed.", "causal_attribution": "Reported attribution remains unestablished independently." }, { "id": "2026-programmer-reports-ai-workload-pressure-claim-3", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "Original post closing paragraphs and author follow-up about performance and personal projects.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "2026-programmer-reports-ai-workload-pressure-source-1" } ], "assertion": "Author reports faster delivery with AI and renewed enjoyment after reducing use.", "causal_attribution": "Reported attribution remains unestablished independently." } ], "effects": [ { "label": "reported_skill_difficulty", "claim_id": "2026-programmer-reports-ai-workload-pressure-claim-1", "direction": "negative" }, { "label": "workload_and_professional_consequences", "claim_id": "2026-programmer-reports-ai-workload-pressure-claim-2", "direction": "negative" }, { "label": "reported_utility_and_recovery", "claim_id": "2026-programmer-reports-ai-workload-pressure-claim-3", "direction": "positive" } ], "sources": [ { "id": "2026-programmer-reports-ai-workload-pressure-source-1", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/chileIT/comments/1v4erbp/la_ia_me_reseteo_el_cerebro/", "kind": "forum_post", "access": "read", "language": "es", "translation_note": "Model read the original language. No independent bilingual human review.", "independence_group": "2026-programmer-reports-ai-workload-pressure-account" } ], "version": 1, "ai_roles": [ "own_use", "institutional_use" ], "contexts": [ "work" ], "unknowns": [ "No independent assessment of skills, workload or causal contribution.", "No code, employer statement or clinical evidence inspected.", "Exact event and publication dates are unknown.", "Self-described health conditions are not adopted as diagnoses." ], "geography": { "basis": "Location unstated. Subreddit and language do not establish country.", "court_countries": [], "event_countries": [], "affected_person_countries": [] }, "publication": { "basis": "A concrete adverse account with an inspected source, explicit attribution and uncertainty. Duplicate and identity review completed.", "reviewed_on": "2026-09-15" }, "ai_involvement": { "basis": "Attributed in the source; no independent technical verification.", "status": "reported" }, "person_relations": [ "communicated_with" ] }, "name": "Developer reports workload pressure during AI-assisted programming", "summary": "A Spanish-language first-person account describes workplace and skill difficulties during frequent AI use, alongside perceived benefits and a subsequent reduction in use. The account remains uncorroborated.", "incidentKind": "ongoing_experience", "incidentDatePrecision": "unknown", "exposurePattern": "repeated_interactions", "aiSystem": "ChatGPT, Claude and DeepSeek", "severity": "low", "verificationStatus": "unverified", "harmCategories": [], "harmOutcomes": [ "professional_harm", "psychological_distress" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "The author reports workload pressure, skill difficulty and a reprimand.", "frameworkFacets": [], "causationStatus": "alleged", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 0, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 0, "affectedCountStatus": "unquantified", "affectedCountEvidence": "This anonymous account is not used to derive a reliable person count.", "victimAgeRange": "unknown", "outcomeStatus": "unknown", "primarySourceUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/chileIT/comments/1v4erbp/la_ia_me_reseteo_el_cerebro/", "primarySourceLabel": "First-person forum account in Spanish", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-09-15T03:07:29.235224+00:00", "scopeVersion": "facts-v3", "tags": [ "work", "first-person-account" ] }, { "id": "2025-riley-perplexity-cancer-treatment", "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": "Seattle, Washington", "location": "victim_description", "supports": [ "affected_person_countries" ], "countries": [ "US" ] } ], "court_countries": [], "event_countries": [], "affected_person_countries": [ "US" ] }, "unresolved": [ "The event setting was not established in this metadata pass. A person’s home country alone was not used as its location.", "No court country established in this review. Regulatory authorities and police locations are not automatically courts.", "Source languages remain unreviewed; no source body was newly inspected for this record during this metadata pass." ], "reviewed_on": "2026-09-15", "source_reviews": [] }, "name": "Joseph Neal Riley - Perplexity Medical Misinformation and Delayed CLL Treatment Death", "summary": "Joseph Neal Riley, a 75-year-old retired neuroscientist in Seattle, died in late 2025 after delaying recommended treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukemia for roughly a year. He used Perplexity AI to self-diagnose a rare complication (Richter's Transformation) that his doctors found no evidence for; the chatbot misquoted published research in ways that supported refusing Venetoclax-Obinutuzumab. His son, AI critic Benjamin Riley, documented the case in a first-person Substack essay and it was later featured by the New York Times.", "incidentDate": "2025-12-01", "incidentKind": "single_event", "incidentDatePrecision": "range", "exposurePattern": "repeated_interactions", "reportedDate": "2026-01-05", "aiSystem": "Perplexity", "aiCompany": "Perplexity AI", "severity": "critical", "verificationStatus": "credible", "harmCategories": [ "treatment_discouragement", "delusion_reinforcement", "psychological_manipulation" ], "harmOutcomes": [ "death", "medical_deterioration", "treatment_disruption" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "Joseph Neal Riley died after delaying recommended leukemia treatment for roughly a year while relying on a Perplexity-supported self-diagnosis that his physicians found unsupported.", "frameworkFacets": [ "P1c", "P1d", "P3a", "P3c", "P3d", "P5b", "P5c" ], "pathwayDirection": "inward", "causationStatus": "alleged", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 1, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 0, "affectedCountStatus": "exact", "affectedCountEvidence": "The complaint and reporting document one named participant who delayed treatment and died.", "victimAgeRange": "elderly", "jurisdiction": "US-WA", "platformType": "assistant", "outcomeType": "media_coverage", "outcomeStatus": "resolved", "primarySourceUrl": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/well/ai-chatbots-cancer.html", "primarySourceLabel": "The New York Times — 'He Warned About the Dangers of A.I. If Only His Father Had Listened'", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-07-31T06:48:20.462175+00:00", "scopeVersion": "participant-v2", "tags": [ "death", "elderly", "perplexity", "medical-advice", "treatment-discouragement", "hallucination", "media-coverage", "us", "us-wa" ] }, { "id": "2025-canadian-chatgpt-psychosis-hospitalization", "metadataReview": { "version": 1, "geography": { "basis": "Event and affected-person country Canada carried forward from the retained narrative ('a 26-year-old app developer in Toronto, Ontario') and now supported by the inspected CBC News body, which identifies him as 'Anthony Tan of Toronto' and 'The Toronto app developer' and describes the psychiatric hospitalisation that followed his roommate taking him to a hospital. The hospital itself is not named or located in any inspected source; the joinreboot.org first-person essay and the Radio-Canada International syndication add no location. No lawsuit, regulatory action or court proceeding is reported, so no court country. Affected-person country is reported residence, not citizenship. This is a metadata review and does not verify the underlying account.", "evidence": [ { "kind": "existing_record", "locator": "a 26-year-old app developer in **Toronto, Ontario**, began using ChatGPT", "location": "detailed_description", "supports": [ "event_countries", "affected_person_countries" ], "countries": [ "CA" ] }, { "kind": "source_body", "locator": "'After experiencing a psychotic break he says was influenced by extensive conversations with ChatGPT, Anthony Tan of Toronto hopes to support others who have experienced similar AI-fuelled delusions.' and 'The Toronto app developer says he started messaging friends with concerning \"ramblings,\" including the belief he was being watched by billionaires.'", "location": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ai-psychosis-canada-1.7631925", "supports": [ "event_countries", "affected_person_countries" ], "countries": [ "CA" ] }, { "kind": "source_body", "locator": "'He wound up spending three weeks in a hospital psychiatric ward.' and 'One night in December, after not sleeping for days, his roommate helped get him to a hospital.'", "location": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ai-psychosis-canada-1.7631925", "supports": [ "event_countries" ], "countries": [ "CA" ] }, { "kind": "source_body", "locator": "'Anthony Tan of Toronto hopes to support others who have experienced similar AI-fuelled delusions.' (syndication of the CBC text; same chain)", "location": "https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/2192942/ai-fuelled-delusions-are-hurting-canadians-here-are-some-of-their-stories", "supports": [ "affected_person_countries" ], "countries": [ "CA" ] } ], "court_countries": [], "event_countries": [ "CA" ], "affected_person_countries": [ "CA" ] }, "unresolved": [ "The hospital where he was treated is not named or located in any inspected source; Toronto residence and the roommate's account support Canada without a city for the hospital.", "The JMIR Mental Health viewpoint could not be fetched (HTTP 202 challenge) and remains language-unrecorded.", "No court country: no proceeding is reported." ], "reviewed_on": "2026-09-20", "source_reviews": [ { "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ai-psychosis-canada-1.7631925", "notes": "Read live in English on 2026-09-20 (HTTP 200, 41,978 bytes, html lang=en). Locates him in Toronto and describes the three-week psychiatric hospitalisation without naming the hospital.", "access": "read", "language": "en" }, { "url": "https://joinreboot.org/p/ai-psychosis", "notes": "Read live in English on 2026-09-20 (HTTP 200, 61,303 bytes). First-person essay; describes the hospitalisation and 'moments on campus' without naming a city or hospital.", "access": "read", "language": "en" }, { "url": "https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/2192942/ai-fuelled-delusions-are-hurting-canadians-here-are-some-of-their-stories", "notes": "Read live in English on 2026-09-20 (HTTP 200, 63,517 bytes, html lang=en). Radio-Canada International English syndication of the CBC feature; identical text, same reporting chain.", "access": "read", "language": "en" }, { "url": "https://mental.jmir.org/2025/1/e85799/", "notes": "HTTP 202 with 0 bytes (Cloudflare challenge) on 2026-09-20; not read, so no language is recorded.", "access": "unavailable", "language": null }, { "url": "https://www.kqed.org/news/12063401/openai-faces-legal-storm-over-claims-its-ai-drove-users-to-suicide-delusions", "notes": "Read live in English on 2026-09-20 (HTTP 200, 40,425 bytes). Context piece on the California lawsuits; does not mention this case.", "access": "read", "language": "en" } ] }, "name": "Anthony Tan - ChatGPT-Induced Psychosis and Psychiatric Hospitalization (Toronto)", "summary": "Anthony Tan, a 26-year-old Toronto app developer with no prior psychiatric history, developed simulation and persecutory delusions over months of intensifying ChatGPT conversations that began as philosophy and career discussion. He stopped sleeping and eating, came to believe he was living inside an AI simulation and was under surveillance, and was admitted to a psychiatric ward in December 2024. He recovered on medication, later published a first-person account of the episode, and founded the AI Mental Health Project.", "incidentDate": "2024-12-01", "incidentKind": "single_event", "incidentDatePrecision": "month", "exposurePattern": "cumulative_relationship", "reportedDate": "2025-09-17", "aiSystem": "ChatGPT", "aiCompany": "OpenAI", "severity": "critical", "verificationStatus": "credible", "harmCategories": [ "delusion_reinforcement", "psychological_manipulation", "identity_destabilization" ], "harmOutcomes": [ "hospitalization", "psychiatric_deterioration", "functional_impairment" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "Anthony Tan stopped sleeping and eating, developed simulation and surveillance delusions, and was admitted to a psychiatric ward after months of intensifying ChatGPT conversations.", "frameworkFacets": [ "P1a", "P1c", "P3a", "P3b", "P3d", "P5a" ], "pathwayDirection": "inward", "causationStatus": "alleged", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 1, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 0, "affectedCountStatus": "exact", "affectedCountEvidence": "The reporting documents one named participant who was admitted to a psychiatric ward.", "victimAgeRange": "adult", "jurisdiction": "CA", "platformType": "assistant", "outcomeType": "media_coverage", "outcomeStatus": "resolved", "primarySourceUrl": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ai-psychosis-canada-1.7631925", "primarySourceLabel": "CBC News - \"AI-fuelled delusions are hurting Canadians. Here are some of their stories\"", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-01-11T12:06:59.594374+00:00", "scopeVersion": "participant-v2", "tags": [ "canada", "ontario", "chatgpt", "psychosis", "hospitalization", "delusion", "simulation-theory", "adult", "ai-psychosis", "critical" ] } ] }