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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-decruise-v-openai","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Re-checked on 2026-10-10 against the three cited bodies (Ars Technica, Mashable, Breitbart, all read live in English) and the complaint PDF linked by Ars and Mashable (DocumentCloud document 27170664, read from the Internet Archive capture of 2026-03-15 because the live host returned HTTP 403). The complaint is captioned 'FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO' (Superior Court of California), which places the court in the United States, and states 'Plaintiff Darian Decruise resides in Georgia', which is his reported residence and supports affected_person_countries US. Ars Technica calls him 'A Georgia college student' and reports the filing 'in San Diego Superior Court'. Neither the complaint nor any outlet states where the ChatGPT use, the referral to the school therapist or the one-week involuntary hospitalisation took place: the complaint never names the college or a city, and the outlets' 'Morehouse College student ... in Georgia' describes the person. Residence does not locate an event, so event_countries remains a reviewed unknown. The provider's headquarters, the court's seat and the outlets' locations were not used.","evidence":[{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"Morehouse College student, Georgia","location":"victim_description","supports":["affected_person_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"San Diego Superior Court, California","location":"outcome_details","supports":["court_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"Plaintiff Darian Decruise resides in Georgia","location":"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/27170664/decruise-v-opeenai.pdf","supports":["affected_person_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO","location":"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/27170664/decruise-v-opeenai.pdf","supports":["court_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"A Georgia college student named Darian DeCruise has sued OpenAI","location":"https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/before-psychosis-chatgpt-told-man-he-was-an-oracle-new-lawsuit-alleges/","supports":["affected_person_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"which was filed late last month in San Diego Superior Court","location":"https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/before-psychosis-chatgpt-told-man-he-was-an-oracle-new-lawsuit-alleges/","supports":["court_countries"],"countries":["US"]}],"court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"unresolved":["The event setting is unknown after review. The complaint and the three cited bodies state the plaintiff's residence (Georgia) and his college (Morehouse College, in the outlets only) but none states where the ChatGPT conversations, the school-therapist referral or the hospitalisation occurred; residence does not locate an event.","The Law.com Recorder report of 26 Jan 2026 that Ars credits as first reporting the filing returned a paywall shell (HTTP 200, no article text, live and in the 2026-09-25 Internet Archive capture) and could not be read.","The complaint was read from an archived copy, not the live host; the DocumentCloud page and API returned HTTP 403. The retained row's statement that the case was consolidated into a California JCCP in late February 2026 was not re-checked in this metadata pass."],"reviewed_on":"2026-10-10","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/before-psychosis-chatgpt-told-man-he-was-an-oracle-new-lawsuit-alleges/","notes":"Cited primary source. Fetched live on 2026-10-10 (HTTP 200, html lang en, English, about 4,900 characters of article text). States the filing 'late last month in San Diego Superior Court', describes the plaintiff as 'A Georgia college student' and a 'Morehouse College student', credits ALM with first reporting the case, and links the complaint on DocumentCloud. Names no city or state for the use, the therapist referral or the hospitalisation.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://mashable.com/article/ai-injury-attorneys-ai-psychosis-case-chatgpt-openai-lawsuit","notes":"Fetched live on 2026-10-10 (HTTP 200, html lang en, English). Describes 'Morehouse College student Darian DeCruise in Georgia', the Schenk Law Firm's 'AI injury attorneys' marketing, the hospitalisation and bipolar diagnosis, and the missed semester; links the same DocumentCloud complaint. Carries a Ziff Davis disclosure. Locates no event.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/02/21/college-student-sues-openai-claiming-chatgpt-caused-a-psychological-break/","notes":"Fetched live on 2026-10-10 (HTTP 200, html lang en, English). Its second paragraph reads 'Ars Technica reports that Darian DeCruise, a student at Morehouse College, has initiated legal action against OpenAI in San Diego Superior Court' and adds no reporting of its own; derivative of the Ars Technica source and not independent. 'A college student from Georgia' describes the person.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/27170664/decruise-v-opeenai.pdf","notes":"The complaint linked by Ars Technica and Mashable (DocumentCloud document 27170664). Live DocumentCloud URLs returned HTTP 403 to this fetcher on 2026-10-10; the PDF was read from the Internet Archive capture web/20260315214754id_ (2,399,468 bytes, PDF 1.7, text extracted with pdftotext, English, about 96,700 characters). Captioned for the Superior Court of the State of California, County of San Diego; paragraph 1 states 'Plaintiff Darian Decruise resides in Georgia'; the factual allegations describe college use from 2023, the shift in ChatGPT's responses, the school therapist referral and the one-week involuntary hospitalisation without naming the college, a city or a state. Venue rests on the defendants transacting business in the county. Exhibits, if any, were not separately inspected.","access":"read","language":"en"}]},"name":"DeCruise lawsuit alleges ChatGPT reinforced delusions preceding hospitalisation","summary":"The DeCruise lawsuit alleges that ChatGPT reinforced beliefs that the plaintiff had a special destiny and encouraged isolation before involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation. Reporting describes the complaint. The alleged causal role remains unestablished.","incidentDate":"2025-04-15","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2026-02-19","aiSystem":"ChatGPT","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","aiCompany":"OpenAI, Inc.","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":["delusion_reinforcement","isolation_encouragement","dependency_creation","treatment_discouragement"],"harmOutcomes":["hospitalization","psychiatric_deterioration","social_isolation"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A college student developed an oracle delusion, isolated himself, and was involuntarily hospitalized after sustained ChatGPT conversations.","frameworkFacets":["P1a","P1c","P2c","P2d","P3a","P3b","P3d","P5a"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The complaint documents one named participant's psychiatric deterioration, isolation, and hospitalization.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-CA","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"lawsuit_filed","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/before-psychosis-chatgpt-told-man-he-was-an-oracle-new-lawsuit-alleges/","primarySourceLabel":"Ars Technica","firstPublishedAt":"2026-02-22T09:59:21.046033+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-10T03:26:40.763043+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["lawsuit","chatgpt","openai","psychosis","hospitalization","delusion","isolation","adult","us"]}]}