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The live post wording differs slightly from the archived copy; the live text is quoted. The poster's handle is not recorded.","independence_group":"reddit-cscareerquestions-junior-developer-redundancy-poster"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["work"],"unknowns":["The employer, its industry and location.","The date of the meeting and whether any formal redundancy or consultation process took place.","What the employer meant by AI making the roles redundant, and whether any AI tool now does the work.","Whether the stated reason was the real reason; the poster and several commenters suspect financial motives.","Whether the other 16 people were also on probation, and any notice pay or terms."],"geography":{"basis":"The post does not say where the poster or employer is. The poster says only that they are not in the US; the subreddit, vocabulary and commenters' guesses are not evidence of location.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the public-forum rule as a concrete first-person account of a group redundancy that the poster says the employer attributed to AI, reviewed as a consequential institutional response to AI adoption. Described with attribution and without corroboration, including the poster's own doubt about the stated reason; the employer is not identified and the poster's handle is not recorded.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-18"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The poster says the employer told 17 staff at a Teams meeting that their roles were redundant because of AI. This is a reported institutional response to AI adoption: the poster's account of the employer's stated reason is the only evidence, no AI output or action toward the poster is described, no tool is named, and no employer statement was retrieved. The poster's own replies say the stated reason may not be the real one.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"Junior developer says their employer told 17 staff in one video meeting that their roles were redundant because of AI (first-person account)","summary":"In a public post to r/cscareerquestions created on 17 October 2026, a person who says they joined a product company as an associate full-stack developer at the start of the year writes that, while still on probation, they were invited to a Microsoft Teams meeting 'regarding my employment' at which 17 staff were told that their roles were redundant because of AI and that they were no longer needed. The poster says they were writing the probation report due on the 23rd when it happened, that there was no prior hint, and that they feel upset, demotivated and frustrated. In replies the poster agrees with a commenter who suggests that AI was a cover for financial problems, and writes that the reasons given for sackings are not usually the real ones. The employer, its location and the date of the meeting are not stated, and the poster says they are not in the United States. 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The bodies state that Platkin LLP filed the complaint March 5 in San Francisco County Superior Court, which places the court in the United States, on behalf of a 49-year-old Pennsylvania woman, which is her reported residence and supports affected_person_countries US, and that according to the complaint her severe mental health crisis occurred during a July 2025 family vacation in Mexico, which places the acute event in Mexico. Where the ChatGPT use in 2023 to 2025 took place is not stated in either body (residence does not locate it), so event_countries records only the crisis. The complaint itself was not inspected. 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Threatened family harm is not counted because no injury is recorded.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-PA","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"lawsuit_filed","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://njbiz.com/platkin-openai-chatgpt-lawsuit-mental-health/","primarySourceLabel":"NJBIZ — Platkin sues OpenAI over ChatGPT mental harms","firstPublishedAt":"2026-04-28T13:00:13.190311+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-09T03:13:04.910868+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["lawsuit","chatgpt","gpt-4o","openai","microsoft","sam-altman","psychosis","sycophancy","dependency","us","pennsylvania","platkin"]},{"id":"2026-lantieri-v-openai","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Re-checked on 2026-10-12 against the complaint itself (Lantieri v. 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Linked from the firm's release under an older filename that now returns HTTP 404; the live file is named 2026-02-27-Lantieri-v-OpenAI-Complaint.pdf. Defendants include OpenAI entities, Microsoft and Samuel Altman. Gives the residence (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), the conversation window 14 April to 15 May 2025, the 15 May 2025 events and hospital messages of 16 and 17 May 2025; names no place for the events or the hospital.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/stranch-jennings--garvey-files-lawsuit-against-openai-302707198.html","notes":"Cited primary source. Fetched live on 2026-10-12 (HTTP 200, html lang en). Plaintiff firm's release datelined OAKLAND, Calif., March 6, 2026; the dateline is the firm's office, not an event location. Describes the jump from a moving vehicle into traffic and the seizure without a place. 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