{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-27T05:32:50.382Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"pyrenees","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":1,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"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":"2026-cauterets-pyrenees-park-agent-says-two-hikers-following-chatgpt-route-were-lost-in-the-wrong-valley","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Il était presque 20h, dans la vallée du Marcadau, et deux jeunes filles épuisées et inquiètes m'ont demandé où était le lac d'Estom, explique Julien Vignasse. Je leur ai dit qu'elles n'étaient pas dans la bonne vallée.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Elles ont finalement été retrouvées épuisées et perdues le 21 juillet dernier, aux alentours de 20 h, sur les hauteurs de Cauterets, dans la vallée du Marcadau'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'ont eu la chance de croiser Julien Vignasse, agent du parc national des Pyrénées, qui rentrait d'une opération de comptage des bouquetins ce mardi soir'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"On the evening of 21 July 2026, in the Marcadau valley above Cauterets, two young women hiking to the Lac d'Estom were exhausted, worried and in the wrong valley when a national park agent met them.","causal_attribution":"The park agent's account, given to several outlets; the hikers were not interviewed."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Elles suivaient l'itinéraire qu'elles avaient demandé à ChatGPT, sur les hauteurs de Cauterets.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Un tracé qu'elles avaient fondé sur la base de leurs échanges avec... Chat GPT. L'intelligence artificielle leur avait même fourni une carte détaillée, mais complètement fausse...'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'C’est à ce moment-là que les deux jeunes femmes ont révélé qu’elles avaient utilisé ChatGPT pour générer la carte.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'Interdites, les jeunes femmes lui avouent avoir généré la carte sur ChatGPT.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'Julien Vignasse a secouru deux randonneuses perdues dans les Pyrénées après qu’elles ont utilisé une carte générée par ChatGPT.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"The two hikers were following an itinerary and map they had obtained from ChatGPT.","causal_attribution":"The identification of ChatGPT rests on what the hikers told the park agent, as he relayed it."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Les temps de marche n'étaient pas adaptés, les localisations étaient fausses avec le lac de Gaube à côté du refuge de Wallon et celui d'Estom juste derrière, alors qu'il est trois vallées plus loin, même les altitudes n'avaient rien à voir.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'elles m'ont tendu leur téléphone et je leur ai dit que rien n'allait sur leur carte, tout était faux.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'La durée de la marche, estimée à 1h45 par l’IA, était totalement erronée, l’accompagnateur ayant estimé la durée de leur trajet à une dizaine d’heures.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The map was wrong in its walking times, locations and altitudes: it placed the Lac de Gaube beside the Wallon refuge and the Lac d'Estom just behind it, although the lake is three valleys away.","causal_attribution":"The park agent's assessment of the map he was shown; the map image published by ICI and La Depeche was described from its captions."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'je leur ai refait un itinéraire en revoyant à la baisse ce qu'elles avaient prévu parce qu'elles étaient novices, elles portaient des baskets de running'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Julien va leur proposer un itinéraire bis, elles qui partaient pour trois jours et deux nuits en bivouacs.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The agent redrew a less ambitious itinerary for the two novices, who wore running shoes, and no injury or rescue call is reported.","causal_attribution":"Outcome as described by the park agent."}],"effects":[{"label":"two hikers lost, exhausted and worried in the wrong valley after following a chatbot-generated route","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.ici.fr/emissions/l-info-d-ici-ici-bearn-bigorre/deux-randonneuses-demandent-un-itineraire-a-chatgpt-et-se-perdent-sur-les-hauteurs-de-cauterets-9812613","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in French by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-27 and translated by the research agent (an AI) into English; no human translator or reviewer was involved. ICI Bearn Bigorre (Radio France) report of 25 July 2026 interviewing the park agent; HTML read in full, HTTP 200.","independence_group":"ici-bearn-bigorre-interview"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.ladepeche.fr/2026/07/25/les-temps-de-marche-les-altitudes-les-localisations-tout-etait-lunaire-deux-randonneuses-completement-desorientees-apres-avoir-suivi-une-carte-generee-13483788.php","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in French by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-27 and translated by the research agent (an AI) into English; no human translator or reviewer was involved. La Depeche du Midi report of 25 July 2026 with its own quotes from the park agent and captions of the two maps; HTML read, HTTP 200 (subscription banner, article text present).","independence_group":"la-depeche-interview"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.20minutes.fr/societe/4237051-20260730-pyrenees-deux-randonneuses-retrouvees-perdues-fatiguees-apres-avoir-suivi-carte-generee-chatgpt","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in French by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-27 and translated by the research agent (an AI) into English; no human translator or reviewer was involved. 20 Minutes report of 30 July 2026, which cites franceinfo for the date and details; HTML read in full, HTTP 200.","independence_group":"franceinfo-video"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.franceinfo.fr/societe/il-secourt-deux-randonneuses-perdues-a-cause-d-une-carte-creee-sur-chatgpt_8121209.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in French by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-27 and translated by the research agent (an AI) into English; no human translator or reviewer was involved. franceinfo video page of 24 July 2026; only the standfirst text was readable (the video was not viewed).","independence_group":"franceinfo-video"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.vertigemedia.fr/ia-montagne-cartes-chatgpt-randonneur-perdus","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in French by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-27 and translated by the research agent (an AI) into English; no human translator or reviewer was involved. Vertige Media feature of 1 October 2026 based on a later phone interview with the park agent; HTML read in full, HTTP 200.","independence_group":"vertige-media-interview"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["everyday_life"],"unknowns":["The hikers' prompts and ChatGPT's actual replies, and which version of the service they used.","The hikers' own account; only the park agent was interviewed.","How long the hikers had been lost before the agent met them."],"geography":{"basis":"ICI and La Depeche place the encounter in the Marcadau valley above Cauterets in the Pyrenees National Park (Hautes-Pyrenees). The hikers' nationality and residence are not stated.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["FR"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a chatbot-advice case: a Pyrenees National Park agent told ICI Bearn Bigorre and La Depeche du Midi that two novice hikers he met lost and exhausted in the wrong valley were following a route and map they had obtained from ChatGPT, which he found wrong in its walking times, locations and altitudes.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-27"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The park agent who met the hikers looked at the map on their phone and says it was wrong in walking times, locations and altitudes; the hikers told him they had generated the route and map with ChatGPT (ICI, La Depeche, 20 Minutes, Vertige Media). The chatbot's output is therefore the route the hikers followed into the wrong valley. Their prompts and the chatbot's full replies were not published.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Pyrenees: national park agent says two novice hikers following a ChatGPT-generated route and map were lost and exhausted in the wrong valley above Cauterets","summary":"On the evening of 21 July 2026 an agent of the Pyrenees National Park met two young women hiking above Cauterets (Hautes-Pyrenees) who were exhausted, worried and lost: they were looking for the Lac d'Estom but were in the Marcadau valley. According to the agent's account to ICI Bearn Bigorre and other outlets, they showed him the route and map they had obtained from ChatGPT, and he found that nothing on it was right: walking times, altitudes and the positions of lakes and a mountain hut were wrong, with the lake placed three valleys from where it is. He redrew a shorter itinerary suited to novices; no injury or call to rescue services is reported. The account comes from the agent; the hikers were not interviewed and the chatbot conversation was not published.","incidentDate":"2026-07-21","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-07-24","aiSystem":"ChatGPT, which the two hikers told the national park agent they had used to generate their hiking route and map, according to his account in French regional and national media","aiProduct":"ChatGPT (reported)","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","other_material_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the park agent, the two hikers were lost in the wrong valley, exhausted and worried late in the day, and had to abandon their planned route for a shorter one.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":2,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Two hikers (\"deux jeunes randonneuses\", ICI), who had themselves asked ChatGPT for the itinerary, so both are counted as direct users. The agent's figure of about thirty people lost over the summer concerns other encounters and is not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"FR","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.ici.fr/emissions/l-info-d-ici-ici-bearn-bigorre/deux-randonneuses-demandent-un-itineraire-a-chatgpt-et-se-perdent-sur-les-hauteurs-de-cauterets-9812613","primarySourceLabel":"ICI Bearn Bigorre, 25 July 2026: two hikers ask ChatGPT for a route and get lost above Cauterets","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T03:08:44.334635+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-27T03:08:44.334635+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["chatgpt","trip-planning","hiking","pyrenees","communicated-with"]}]}