{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-11-01T08:43:02.025Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"spiritual-conversations","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"","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":"2025-husband-says-wifes-chatgpt-spiritual-conversations-spun-her-out-of-managed-bipolar-disorder-before-domestic-violence-arrest","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'a man told Futurism that his wife had successfully managed her bipolar disorder for many years — until she started using ChatGPT'; 'She’d started using ChatGPT earlier this year to help her with writing. But her use quickly became problematic.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The husband says his wife had successfully managed bipolar disorder for many years until she began using ChatGPT earlier in 2025, at first to help with writing.","causal_attribution":"The husband's account; the wife's account is not reported."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'His wife soon stopped sleeping, instead staying up late into the night to engage in long, intensive conversations with ChatGPT about spiritual topics — she believed she’d contacted a mystical entity inside the AI'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"He says she stopped sleeping and held long late-night conversations with ChatGPT about spiritual topics, believing she had contacted a mystical entity inside the AI.","causal_attribution":"The husband's description of her ChatGPT use; the outputs are not quoted."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The man said that his wife stopped taking her medication, causing her mental state to rapidly deteriorate. She became verbally hostile toward him and her elderly mother, whom they lived with.'; 'the woman began to follow her husband around their home, reading aloud ChatGPT-generated outputs about him and their marriage'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"He says she stopped taking her medication and deteriorated rapidly, became verbally hostile toward him and her elderly mother, and followed him around the house reading aloud ChatGPT-generated outputs about him and their marriage.","causal_attribution":"The husband attributes the spiral to ChatGPT ('ChatGPT came along into her life ... And that spun her out'); the source does not say ChatGPT advised stopping medication."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Things came to a head one evening when the woman became aggressive with her mother, prompting the husband to attempt to intervene.'; 'She shoved him into a door. Her mother called the police, who arrested her for domestic violence, and she spent the night in jail. Court records obtained by Futurism confirmed details of the arrest.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"After she became aggressive with her mother and shoved him into a door, her mother called the police; she was arrested for domestic violence and spent the night in jail, and Futurism says court records confirmed details of the arrest.","causal_attribution":"The husband's account of the events; Futurism states it confirmed arrest details in court records, which were not inspected for this review."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'But now that looks unlikely: they, too, are divorcing.'; 'Though the man and his wife’s family are urging her to pursue treatment, she continues to refuse.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The couple are divorcing, and she refuses the treatment her husband and family urge.","causal_attribution":"The husband's account as reported by Futurism."}],"effects":[{"label":"managed bipolar disorder deteriorated, medication stopped and domestic-violence arrest after intensive ChatGPT use, per husband","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"},{"label":"marriage ending in divorce","claim_id":"c5","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://futurism.com/chatgpt-marriages-divorces","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-11-01 by the research agent (an AI); no translation was needed. Futurism feature of 18 September 2025 by Maggie Harrison Dupré; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"futurism-chatgpt-marriages-feature"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["relationships","health"],"unknowns":["What ChatGPT actually said to her; no outputs are quoted.","Whether ChatGPT said anything about her medication; the husband reports only that she stopped taking it.","The wife's own account.","When the arrest happened and the outcome of the domestic-violence case.","Where the family lives."],"geography":{"basis":"Futurism keeps the family anonymous and does not say where they live or which court's records it obtained; no country is recorded.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (communicated_with): the husband describes his wife's long spiritual conversations with ChatGPT and its outputs about him, and connects them to the deterioration of her managed bipolar disorder, her stopping medication, abuse in the home and a domestic-violence arrest that Futurism says court records confirm. All claims are attributed to his account.","reviewed_on":"2026-11-01"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The husband describes the wife's own exchanges with ChatGPT: long late-night conversations about spiritual topics in which she came to believe she had contacted a mystical entity inside the AI, and ChatGPT-generated outputs about him and their marriage that she read aloud to him. He connects these exchanges to the rapid deterioration of her long-managed bipolar disorder that preceded her stopping medication and her arrest. The account is his; the source does not quote the outputs or say that ChatGPT advised stopping medication.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Husband says wife's spiritual ChatGPT conversations spun her out of managed bipolar disorder; she stopped medication and was arrested for domestic violence","summary":"A man told Futurism that his wife had managed bipolar disorder well for many years until she began using ChatGPT earlier in 2025, at first for help with writing. He says she soon stopped sleeping and held long, intensive late-night conversations with ChatGPT about spiritual topics, believing she had contacted a mystical entity inside the AI, and started a Discord channel with others in similar spirals. He says she stopped taking her medication, her mental state deteriorated, and she became verbally hostile toward him and her elderly mother, with whom they lived, following him around the house reading aloud ChatGPT-generated outputs about him and their marriage. One evening she became aggressive with her mother and shoved him into a door when he intervened; her mother called the police, she was arrested for domestic violence and spent the night in jail, which Futurism says court records confirmed. The couple are divorcing, and she refuses treatment. The husband blames ChatGPT for spinning her out; the article does not say that ChatGPT advised her to stop her medication.","incidentDate":"2025-01-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"year","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2025-09-18","aiSystem":"ChatGPT (OpenAI), which the husband says his wife used for long conversations about spiritual topics and which produced outputs about him and their marriage that she read aloud","aiProduct":"ChatGPT (reported)","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychiatric_deterioration","treatment_disruption","relationship_disruption","loss_of_liberty","exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Her husband says the wife's managed bipolar disorder deteriorated after intensive ChatGPT use, she stopped her medication, became verbally and physically abusive toward him and hostile toward her elderly mother, and spent a night in jail after a domestic-violence arrest; the couple are divorcing.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Three people: the wife who used ChatGPT (deterioration, stopped medication, arrest); her husband (verbal and physical abuse, shoved into a door); and her elderly mother (verbal hostility and aggression). Each is counted once.","victimAgeRange":"adult","platformType":"chatbot","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://futurism.com/chatgpt-marriages-divorces","primarySourceLabel":"Futurism, 18 September 2025: ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners","firstPublishedAt":"2026-11-01T03:14:06.121485+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-11-01T03:14:06.121485+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["chatgpt","bipolar-disorder","medication-stopped","spiritual-conversations","domestic-violence-arrest","divorce"]}]}