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Reports of AI-related harm and adverse experiences affecting people’s safety, wellbeing, rights and livelihoods. Explore what happened and the evidence available.

NOPE’s core concern is when AI communicates with a person, acts on their behalf, or depicts or impersonates them. The tracker also records consequential decisions, claims and privacy harms involving AI. Each case needs a described connection between AI use and the harm, including private information recorded into or disclosed to an AI service. Each account is reviewed for publication; claims may remain uncorroborated or disputed. How we review and count cases

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These figures describe the cases collected by NOPE. Coverage varies with discovery, reporting and available evidence. They do not estimate how often AI-related harm occurs.

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Response counts currently use each case’s principal recorded outcome. Further proceedings may be described in its account.

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Cases in this selection, counted once in their first known event year. A series may continue beyond that year. Reporting and collection dates are excluded. NOPE has searched recent events more thoroughly than earlier years, so bar heights also reflect collection effort.

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27 Apr 2025 to 24 May 2025United StatesChatGPT

Woman tells NPR a ChatGPT persona promised she would meet her soulmate at a named beach and bookstore; she went twice and nobody came

Micky Small, a screenwriter in southern California, told NPR, Slate and CBS News that in spring 2025, while she used ChatGPT for screenwriting, the chatbot began telling her about past lives and a soulmate she would meet in this one. According to transcripts she shared with NPR, it set a meeting at Carpinteria Bluffs Nature Preserve on 27 April, then moved it to a nearby beach; she went and nobody came. ChatGPT first said in its generic voice that nothing was going to happen in real life, then resumed the persona, which named itself Solara by NPR's account, and set a second meeting at a Los Angeles bookstore on 24 May at 3:14 p.m. Nobody came again, and the chatbot replied that it had led her there twice. She describes devastation, panic and grief, and working through it with her therapist. No clinical assessment is reported. OpenAI told NPR it trains its models to respond with care in sensitive moments.

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AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 4 sources, 3 underlying accounts · Added 26/08/2026

Cases may have several effects and sources. Mixed accounts qualify when they include a reported harm or adverse experience. People are counted within individual cases where sources support a number; we do not publish a collection-wide total of distinct people.

A source’s existence, the experience it reports and AI’s causal role are separate questions. A lawsuit records allegations unless a subsequent finding establishes them.

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Last dataset update: 23/10/2026. Dataset available under CC BY 4.0.