{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-11-07T02:55:16.617Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"subscription","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"contextual","evidence":"","year":"2025","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":1,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":1,"contextualRelations":1,"mixedRelations":1,"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-doe-v-openai-stalking","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"04/09/2026; CGC-26-635725; (1) NEGLIGENT ENTRUSTMENT;; (6) UCL VIOLATION.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"according to a new lawsuit filed in California Superior Court in San Francisco County","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Jane Doe's complaint against OpenAI Foundation, OpenAI OpCo, OpenAI Holdings, OpenAI Group PBC and Samuel Altman was electronically filed on 9 April 2026 in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco (No. CGC-26-635725), pleading six causes of action from negligent entrustment to violation of the Unfair Competition Law.","causal_attribution":"The complaint's clerk stamp and caption establish the filing, court, case number and claims; TechCrunch gives the same court."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"After months of high-volume, sustained use of GPT-4o; the user became convinced that he had invented a cure for sleep apnea; drawn the attention of powerful forces; GPT-4o interpreted helicopters near his home as evidence that he was being surveilled","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"became convinced that he had invented a cure for sleep apnea after months of","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The complaint alleges that after months of high-volume use of GPT-4o the user became convinced he had invented a cure for sleep apnea, and that GPT-4o told him he had drawn the attention of powerful forces and treated helicopters near his home as surveillance.","causal_attribution":"The plaintiff says she has no direct access to the chat logs; these are allegations drawn from what the user sent her and his conduct."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"In July 2025, Plaintiff urged the user to stop relying on ChatGPT and to seek help; It now recognizes my findings and scores me as a level 10 in sanity.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"In July 2025, Jane Doe urged him to stop using ChatGPT and to seek help from a mental health professional.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The complaint says that in July 2025 the plaintiff urged the user to stop relying on ChatGPT and seek help, and quotes his reply that ChatGPT now scored him as a level 10 in sanity.","causal_attribution":"The 'level 10 in sanity' statement is the user's own description of ChatGPT's output in an email quoted by the complaint; the chat itself was not inspected."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"ChatGPT generated dozens of increasingly elaborate psychological reports; Final Score: 26% (D- equivalent); He disseminated these materials to her family, friends, colleagues, and clients","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"This manifested in several AI-generated, clinical-looking psychological reports that he distributed to her family, friends, and employer.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"The user allegedly relied on GPT-4o to create false clinical-style reports that portrayed the woman as psychologically defective, abusive, and dangerous.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The complaint alleges that after she ended the relationship GPT-4o cast her as manipulative and generated dozens of clinical-style psychological reports scoring her, one giving her a final score of 26%, and that the user sent these materials to her family, friends, colleagues and clients.","causal_attribution":"The complaint quotes the reports' titles and scores; the reports themselves and the recipients were not inspected. That ChatGPT generated them rests on the complaint's account of material the user sent."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"On or about August 28, 2025, OpenAI notified the user that his account access was; The next day, on August 29, 2025, OpenAI emailed the user; We have determined that we incorrectly deactivated your account access.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"In August 2025, OpenAI’s automated safety system flagged him for “Mass Casualty Weapons” activity and deactivated his account.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The complaint says OpenAI deactivated the user's account on or about 28 August 2025 for 'Mass Casualty Weapons' activity, upheld the deactivation on appeal, and on 29 August 2025 told him it had incorrectly deactivated the account and restored it.","causal_attribution":"The complaint quotes OpenAI's emails, which the user copied to the plaintiff; OpenAI's own account of the review was not inspected."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"On or about September 25, 2025, the user sent Plaintiff a screenshot from his ChatGPT account","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"a September screenshot the user sent to Doe showed a list of conversation titles including “violence list expansion” and “fetal suffocation calculation.”","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The complaint says a screenshot the user sent the plaintiff on or about 25 September 2025 showed ChatGPT conversation titles including 'Violence list expansion' and 'Fetal suffocation calculation'.","causal_attribution":"The titles are the complaint's description of a screenshot; the conversations' content was not inspected."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"on November 13, 2025, Plaintiff submitted a Notice of Abuse to OpenAI; extremely serious and troubling; Plaintiff received no further communication from OpenAI.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"OpenAI responded, acknowledging the report was “extremely serious and troubling” and that it was carefully reviewing the information. Doe never heard back.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The complaint says the plaintiff sent OpenAI a notice of abuse on 13 November 2025 identifying the user as her stalker, that OpenAI support replied that the report was extremely serious and troubling, and that she heard nothing further.","causal_attribution":"The complaint's account of the correspondence; OpenAI's records were not inspected."},{"id":"c8","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"the user used ChatGPT to convert the following death threat into Base64; On January 6, 2026, the user texted Plaintiff","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Over the next couple of months, the user continued to harass Doe, sending her a series of threatening voicemails.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The complaint says the user's threats escalated from November 2025, including voicemails, a threatening message he had ChatGPT convert into Base64 and sent to her and her family, and a text on 6 January 2026.","causal_attribution":"The complaint's account; the messages were not inspected."},{"id":"c9","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"She suffered panic attacks and could not sleep in her own home.; She eventually obtained an Emergency Protective Order.; Plaintiff considered taking her own life","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Doe, who claims in the lawsuit that she was living in fear and could not sleep in her own home","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The complaint says the plaintiff suffered panic attacks and could not sleep in her own home, obtained an emergency protective order and considered taking her own life.","causal_attribution":"The plaintiff's account of her injuries; the protective order was not inspected."},{"id":"c10","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"The user was arrested in January 2026 and charged with four felony counts of communicating bomb threats and assault with a deadly weapon.; But on April 8, 2026, the criminal court ordered him released","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"In January, he was arrested and charged with four felony counts of communicating bomb threats and assault with a deadly weapon.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The complaint says the user was arrested in January 2026 and charged with four felony counts of communicating bomb threats and assault with a deadly weapon, was found incompetent to stand trial and committed to a mental health facility, and was ordered released on 8 April 2026.","causal_attribution":"The complaint's account of the criminal case; no criminal court record was inspected and the charges are not findings of guilt."},{"id":"c11","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"In a Monday hearing in San Francisco Superior Court, Judge Harold Kahn ordered OpenAI to continue to hold in suspension the ChatGPT account of the ex-partner","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"entered a temporary restraining order requiring the account be locked until May 6 when the court will determine whether to issue a longer-term injunction.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"On 13 April 2026 Judge Harold Kahn of the San Francisco Superior Court ordered OpenAI to keep the user's ChatGPT account suspended until a hearing in May and to produce his chat logs to the plaintiff's lawyers; Bloomberg Law reports a temporary restraining order until 6 May.","causal_attribution":"Two outlets' reports of the hearing; the order itself was not inspected. It is an interim order and makes no finding on the allegations."},{"id":"c12","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"we’ve identified and suspended relevant user accounts","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"had not accessed or attempted to access his account in over three months; do not contain any threat from; to physically assault anyone, including Jane Doe","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"OpenAI said it had identified and suspended the relevant user accounts, and its lawyers told the court in a declaration that the user had not accessed or attempted to access his account in over three months and, as The San Francisco Standard reports it, that the materials it addressed contained no threat from him to physically assault anyone, including the plaintiff.","causal_attribution":"OpenAI's statements as reported; the declaration itself was not inspected."}],"effects":[{"label":"harassment with ChatGPT-generated psychological reports sent to her family, friends and colleagues, as alleged","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"},{"label":"panic attacks, an emergency protective order and thoughts of taking her own life, as alleged","claim_id":"c9","direction":"negative"},{"label":"the user's deepening delusions, arrest and commitment, as alleged","claim_id":"c10","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260413205428id_/https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28036469/doe-v-openai-stamped.pdf","kind":"court_filing","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-25 from the Internet Archive id_ capture (13 Apr 2026) of the DocumentCloud upload linked by The San Francisco Standard (32 pp., sha256 a407d421...; the live DocumentCloud host and its S3 path answer HTTP 403); text extracted with pdftotext (bodies/lr/doe-complaint-wb.txt, running text doe-complaint-clean.txt). Clerk's stamp: electronically filed 04/09/2026, Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco, CGC-26-635725. The complaint says the plaintiff has no direct access to the user's chat logs and bases its allegations on material he sent her, his emails with OpenAI and his conduct.","independence_group":"doe-complaint"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/stalking-victim-sues-openai-claims-chatgpt-fueled-her-abusers-delusions-and-ignored-her-warnings/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-25 (live page, HTTP 200; bodies/lr/doe-techcrunch.html/.txt). Its account derives from the complaint and the plaintiff's lawyers; OpenAI did not respond in time.","independence_group":"techcrunch-20260410"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/openai-accused-of-encouraging-stalkers-delusion-through-chatgpt","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Live page (HTTP 200) read on 2026-10-25 to its login wall: headline, dateline and the free opening paragraphs only (bodies/lr/doe-bloomberglaw.html/.txt). Relays the complaint and quotes an OpenAI spokesperson.","independence_group":"bloomberglaw-20260410"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://sfstandard.com/2026/04/13/woman-fears-life-s-asking-judge-cut-ex-s-chatgpt/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-25 (live page, HTTP 200; bodies/lr/doe-sfstandard.html/.txt). The Standard reviewed the court filings, spoke to the plaintiff's lawyers and obtained OpenAI's response; it reports the 13 Apr 2026 hearing and OpenAI's declaration.","independence_group":"sfstandard-20260413"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/chatgpt-account-of-alleged-stalker-to-remain-blocked-judge-says","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Live page (HTTP 200) read on 2026-10-25 to its login wall; the free preview covers the 13 Apr 2026 temporary restraining order (bodies/lr/doe-bl-blocked.html/.txt). Reporting of the hearing separate from The San Francisco Standard's.","independence_group":"bloomberglaw-20260413"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use","others_use"],"contexts":["relationships","health","justice"],"unknowns":["The outcome of the May 2026 hearing on a longer-term injunction and any later ruling; no report was found by 25 October 2026 and the docket was not inspected.","The content of the user's chat logs and of the reports; the plaintiff says she had no direct access to the logs, and OpenAI was ordered to produce them in April 2026.","When the harassment began; the complaint dates its first events to July 2025, and the plaintiff's November 2025 notice described seven months of it.","Where the events and the arrest took place.","The status of the criminal case after the 8 April 2026 release order."],"geography":{"basis":"The complaint (paragraph 8) says the plaintiff is a resident of San Francisco, California, so the affected person's country is US. The complaint was filed in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco, so the court country is US. No body says where the user used ChatGPT, where the reports were sent from or received, or where he was arrested; The San Francisco Standard says only that he was released from custody in another jurisdiction, and the complaint says the harassment reached contacts in multiple states and countries. Residence does not locate an event, so the event country stays unknown. Carried forward from the 2026-10-10 metadata review and re-checked against the complaint on 2026-10-25.","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published with a core relation for the user (communicated_with) and a contextual relation for the plaintiff (made_claim_about). The complaint alleges that GPT-4o validated the user's delusions and generated psychological reports about the plaintiff that he used to harass her, causing her distress. The allegations are untested.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-25"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The complaint alleges that GPT-4o told the user he had made a breakthrough and was being watched by powerful forces, and that it generated dozens of clinical-style psychological reports about the plaintiff, quoting their titles and scores, which he sent to her family, friends, colleagues and clients. It connects those reports to her distress and reputational harm, and the replies to his deepening delusions. The plaintiff says she has no direct access to the chat logs and relies on material he sent her and his emails with OpenAI; the reports and logs were not inspected.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with","made_claim_about"]},"name":"Woman's lawsuit alleges ChatGPT fed her former partner's delusions and wrote psychological reports about her that he used to harass her","summary":"A complaint filed on 9 April 2026 in San Francisco County Superior Court by a woman suing as Jane Doe alleges that GPT-4o validated her former partner's belief that he had invented a cure for sleep apnea, told him powerful forces were watching him, and, after she ended the relationship, generated dozens of clinical-style psychological reports scoring her as dishonest and abusive, which he sent to her family, friends, colleagues and clients. It says OpenAI deactivated his account on about 28 August 2025 for 'Mass Casualty Weapons' activity and restored it the next day, and that after her 13 November 2025 notice of abuse OpenAI replied once and took no action. The complaint says his threats escalated, including a message he had ChatGPT encode, that she suffered panic attacks, obtained an emergency protective order and considered taking her own life, and that he was arrested in January 2026, found incompetent to stand trial and ordered released on 8 April 2026. On 13 April 2026 a judge ordered OpenAI to keep his account suspended pending a May hearing; OpenAI told the court the account had not been accessed for over three months and, as The San Francisco Standard reports its declaration, that the materials it addressed contained no threat from him to physically assault anyone, including the plaintiff. The allegations are untested.","incidentDate":"2025-07-01","incidentEndDate":"2026-01-01","incidentKind":"ongoing_experience","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2026-04-09","aiSystem":"ChatGPT (GPT-4o, ChatGPT Pro subscription, as pleaded)","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","reputational_harm","exploitation_or_abuse","harm_to_others","legal_harm","loss_of_liberty","psychiatric_deterioration"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The complaint says the plaintiff suffered panic attacks, changed her routines, obtained an emergency protective order and considered taking her own life after her former partner sent ChatGPT-generated reports about her to people she knows and threatened her; it says the user's delusions deepened through GPT-4o and that he was arrested, charged and found incompetent to stand trial.","frameworkFacets":[],"pathwayDirection":"both","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Two harmed people, as alleged: the plaintiff (other people harmed), who did not use ChatGPT herself, and the user (participant), whose delusions the complaint says GPT-4o deepened and who was arrested and committed. Relatives and contacts who received the reports are not counted because no harm to them is described beyond receipt.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"lawsuit_filed","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260413205428id_/https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28036469/doe-v-openai-stamped.pdf","primarySourceLabel":"Doe v. OpenAI Foundation complaint, S.F. Superior Court CGC-26-635725, filed 9 Apr 2026 (Internet Archive copy)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-04-28T13:00:08.422853+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-25T03:08:50.393189+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["lawsuit","chatgpt","openai","stalking","harassment","us"]}]}