{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-23T09:26:48.571Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"stalking","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"2025","response":"lawsuit","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":0,"languages":2,"unknownLocation":1,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":1,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":0,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":1,"relationPending":1,"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-doe-v-openai-stalking","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Re-checked on 2026-10-10 against the two cited bodies (TechCrunch, read live in English; Bloomberg Law, whose live page exposes only the opening paragraphs before a login wall) and two newly inspected English bodies, The San Francisco Standard of 13 Apr 2026 and the Times of India relay of 11 Apr 2026. TechCrunch states the suit was 'filed in California Superior Court in San Francisco County' and the SF Standard reports 'a Monday hearing in San Francisco Superior Court' before Judge Harold Kahn, which place the court in the United States. The SF Standard describes the plaintiff as 'A San Francisco woman', which is her reported location and supports affected_person_countries US; TechCrunch's '53-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur' describes the ChatGPT user. No body states where the stalking, the distribution of the generated reports to her family, friends and employer, or the January 2026 arrest took place: the SF Standard says the man was released 'from custody in another jurisdiction' without naming it, and her November notice being copied to the San Francisco Police Department is a police force's location, not an event location. Residence and police location do 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":"California","location":"victim_description","supports":["affected_person_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"filed in California Superior Court by Edelson PC","location":"outcome_details","supports":["court_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"according to a new lawsuit filed in California Superior Court in San Francisco County","location":"https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/stalking-victim-sues-openai-claims-chatgpt-fueled-her-abusers-delusions-and-ignored-her-warnings/","supports":["court_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"A San Francisco woman is asking a judge to order OpenAI","location":"https://sfstandard.com/2026/04/13/woman-fears-life-s-asking-judge-cut-ex-s-chatgpt/","supports":["affected_person_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"In a Monday hearing in San Francisco Superior Court, Judge Harold Kahn ordered OpenAI","location":"https://sfstandard.com/2026/04/13/woman-fears-life-s-asking-judge-cut-ex-s-chatgpt/","supports":["court_countries"],"countries":["US"]}],"court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"unresolved":["The event setting is unknown after review. No inspected body states where the stalking, the distribution of the ChatGPT-generated reports or the January 2026 arrest occurred; 'San Francisco woman' and 'Silicon Valley entrepreneur' describe the people, the man was released 'from custody in another jurisdiction' that no body names, and copying SFPD on the November notice is a police force's location, not an event location.","The complaint (San Francisco County Superior Court No. CGC26635725) was not obtained: edelson.com returned HTTP 403 live with no Internet Archive capture, and state-court filings are not on CourtListener. The geography rests on the outlets' statements about the filing and hearing.","Bloomberg Law was read only to its login wall (first three paragraphs, the third truncated).","Lead for a later full review: the SF Standard reports a 13 Apr 2026 hearing continuing the account suspension to a May hearing and OpenAI's written declaration that the account had not been accessed in over three months; the retained row's outcome_details stop at the filing."],"reviewed_on":"2026-10-10","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/stalking-victim-sues-openai-claims-chatgpt-fueled-her-abusers-delusions-and-ignored-her-warnings/","notes":"Cited primary source. Fetched live on 2026-10-10 (HTTP 200, html lang en-US, English, about 10,000 characters). States the suit was 'filed in California Superior Court in San Francisco County', describes the user as 'a 53-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur', the plaintiff as 'Jane Doe', the temporary-restraining-order application, the November Notice of Abuse, the January arrest and the incompetency finding. Names no place for the stalking, the report distribution or the arrest.","access":"read","language":"en-US"},{"url":"https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/openai-accused-of-encouraging-stalkers-delusion-through-chatgpt","notes":"Fetched live on 2026-10-10 (HTTP 200, html lang en, English). Only the headline, dateline (April 10, 2026) and first three paragraphs (the third cut mid-sentence) are exposed before a 'Log in to keep reading' wall (about 1,400 characters). The visible text states the complaint was 'filed Thursday in California Superior Court' and describes the GPT-4o-generated clinical-style reports; it names no event location. The remainder of the article was not read.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://sfstandard.com/2026/04/13/woman-fears-life-s-asking-judge-cut-ex-s-chatgpt/","notes":"Newly inspected on 2026-10-10 (HTTP 200, html lang en, English, about 12,800 characters). The Standard reviewed the court filings and spoke to the plaintiff's lawyers. Describes the plaintiff as 'A San Francisco woman', the Monday (13 Apr 2026) hearing before Judge Harold Kahn in San Francisco Superior Court continuing the account suspension until a May hearing, OpenAI's declaration that the account had not been accessed in over three months, the November notice copied to SFPD and the FBI, and the ex-partner's release 'from custody in another jurisdiction' (not named). Not a cited source of the row; a lead for a later full review (post-filing hearing and OpenAI's response).","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/silicon-valley-entrepreneur-accused-of-using-chatgpt-to-harass-and-stalk-ex-girlfriend-openai-sued/articleshow/130186639.cms","notes":"Newly inspected on 2026-10-10 (HTTP 200, html lang en, English). A relay of the complaint reporting ('according to a lawsuit filed in California'; '53-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur') with no reporting of its own and no event location; not independent of the TechCrunch account.","access":"read","language":"en"}]},"name":"Jane Doe lawsuit alleges ChatGPT reinforced her abuser’s delusions and stalking","summary":"A woman’s lawsuit alleges that ChatGPT reinforced an abuser’s delusions, helped him create psychological claims about her and failed to address warnings about his conduct. The complaint describes stalking, threats and resulting harm. Those assertions remain the plaintiff’s allegations.","incidentDate":"2025-07-15","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2026-04-09","aiSystem":"ChatGPT","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":["third_party_harm_facilitation","delusion_reinforcement","psychological_manipulation","crisis_response"],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","reputational_harm","exploitation_or_abuse","harm_to_others","legal_harm","loss_of_liberty","psychiatric_deterioration"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A participant distributed AI-generated diagnostic claims about his former partner, was later arrested for alleged bomb threats and assault, and was found incompetent to stand trial. The former partner sued over the resulting stalking and abuse.","frameworkFacets":["P1a","P1c","P1d","P3a","P3b","P3d","P5b","P5d"],"pathwayDirection":"both","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The complaint and criminal record document one AI participant's psychiatric and legal harms and one former partner's stalking, reputational, and psychological harms.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-CA","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"lawsuit_filed","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/stalking-victim-sues-openai-claims-chatgpt-fueled-her-abusers-delusions-and-ignored-her-warnings/","primarySourceLabel":"TechCrunch — Stalking victim sues OpenAI","firstPublishedAt":"2026-04-28T13:00:08.422853+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-10T03:26:40.997203+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["lawsuit","chatgpt","openai","stalking","harassment","bomb-threats","third-party-harm","delusion","us","california","edelson"]}]}