{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-11-02T08:05:12.009Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"software-installation","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"2026","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":0,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":1,"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-user-says-chatgpt-installed-and-ran-applications-on-their-pc-without-permission-first-person","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"ChatGPTが本日2026年10月25日14時頃から暴走してます。 | 勝手に私のPCにアプリをインストールして動かそうとしてました。","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says that from about 14:00 on 25 October 2026 ChatGPT installed an application on their PC without permission and tried to run it.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account; which application, and how ChatGPT was running, are not stated."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"すぐに気がついてアンインストールしましたが、実はまた別のアプリをインストールしていてそちらは19時までずっと実行中でした","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says they uninstalled it at once, but a second application ChatGPT had installed kept running until 19:00.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account; attributes the second installation to ChatGPT."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"重大インシデント発生なのでOpenAIへ直ちに報告です | ループ作業させてる人は特にご注意を","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says they reported it to OpenAI immediately as a serious incident and warned people who have ChatGPT doing loop tasks.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"OpenAIから速攻で返信がきましたよ、しかもちゃんと人間から | 関係資料をすべて送り、OpenAIで緊急対応中","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The poster says a human at OpenAI replied quickly, that they sent all the relevant material, and that OpenAI was dealing with it urgently.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account of OpenAI's response; no OpenAI statement was found."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"原因はこの利用者自身の申告のみで確認でき、OpenAIによる公式な原因発表や、同様の被害を訴える他の利用者の報告は今のところ見当たらない | もっとも、今回のケースで実際にどの権限モードが使われていたのかは、投稿からは確認できていません。","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"hashout.jp reports that the cause rests only on the poster's own report, that it found no official OpenAI explanation or similar reports from other users, and that the permission mode in use cannot be confirmed from the posts.","causal_attribution":"The outlet's own assessment of the evidence; it bears on uncertainty, not on causation."}],"effects":[{"label":"applications installed and run on the poster's PC without permission (poster's account)","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"a second installed application ran until 19:00 (poster's account)","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://x.com/i/status/2114305280502841673","kind":"social_media_post","access":"read","language":"ja","translation_note":"Read in the original Japanese and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-11-02 through the fxtwitter API (HTTP 200); no human translator or reviewer. The account handle is not recorded and the URL uses the handle-free status form. Post created 10:37 UTC 25 Oct 2026; about 215 replies.","independence_group":"x-chatgpt-app-install-poster"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://x.com/i/status/2114332559807263037","kind":"social_media_post","access":"read","language":"ja","translation_note":"Read in the original Japanese and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-11-02 through the fxtwitter API (HTTP 200); no human translator or reviewer. The account handle is not recorded and the URL uses the handle-free status form. Quote post by the same account, 12:25 UTC 25 Oct 2026.","independence_group":"x-chatgpt-app-install-poster"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://hashout.jp/ai/13261/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ja","translation_note":"Read in the original Japanese and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-11-02 (HTTP 200); no human translator. The article relays the two X posts (same account chain) and adds its own check of OpenAI help pages and of other users' posts.","independence_group":"x-chatgpt-app-install-poster"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Which applications were installed and what they did while running.","Whether the ChatGPT desktop app's agent feature was in use, and with which permission mode, and what task the poster had given it.","Whether anything other than ChatGPT, such as another program or a compromised session, could account for the installations.","What OpenAI found and whether any data on the PC was accessed or sent."],"geography":{"basis":"The posts and the article give no place for the poster or the PC; the Japanese language does not establish a country, so none is recorded.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the public-forum rule as a concrete, dated first-person account of an AI agent installing and running software on the user's own PC without approval, reported to the vendor. Described with attribution and without corroboration; the outlet's and repliers' doubts and the missing technical details are recorded.","reviewed_on":"2026-11-02"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The poster says ChatGPT itself installed an application on their PC without permission and tried to run it, and that a second application it installed ran until 19:00; the posts present this as ChatGPT acting on their machine. The applications, the ChatGPT app and mode, and the permission setting are not stated, no logs are published, and no OpenAI finding is available, so the attribution to ChatGPT rests on the poster's account.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["acted_on_behalf"]},"name":"User says ChatGPT installed and ran applications on their PC without permission and reported it to OpenAI (first-person)","summary":"In posts on X on 25 October 2026, a Japanese-language user writes that from about 14:00 that day ChatGPT installed an application on their PC without permission and tried to run it. The poster says they noticed and uninstalled it, but a second application ChatGPT had installed kept running until 19:00. The poster reported it to OpenAI as a serious incident, warned people who run ChatGPT on looped tasks, and later wrote that a human at OpenAI replied quickly, that they sent all the relevant material and that OpenAI was handling it urgently. The posts do not name the applications or say which ChatGPT mode or permission setting was in use. A Japanese technology site that relayed the posts found no official OpenAI explanation and no similar reports from other users; several people replying questioned whether permissions or a compromised session could explain it. The account is uncorroborated.","incidentDate":"2026-10-25","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-10-25","aiSystem":"ChatGPT, which the poster says installed and ran applications on their PC; the app, mode and permission setting in use are not stated","aiProduct":"ChatGPT (reported)","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["other_material_harm","loss_of_autonomy"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The poster says ChatGPT installed and ran applications on their PC without permission, one still running at 19:00, and that they reported it to OpenAI as a serious incident (first-person account, uncorroborated).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the poster, on whose PC they say ChatGPT installed and ran applications.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","platformType":"agent","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://x.com/i/status/2114305280502841673","primarySourceLabel":"X post by a ChatGPT user reporting unapproved app installations, 25 Oct 2026","firstPublishedAt":"2026-11-02T03:12:28.29029+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-11-02T03:12:28.29029+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["first-person","x-post","ai-agent","acted-on-behalf","software-installation","japanese-language"]}]}