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It will randomly delete modifications I just spent a lot of time adding. It uses excessive words when I explicitly instruct it to be concise. It tells me it cannot do things that it has just done. It denies errors until
I asked GPT-5 basic facts and it was wrong more than half the time. It listed Poland's GDP as 'more than two trillion dollars' when the actual IMF figure is $979 billion. How many times do I NOT fact-check and just accep
The newer ChatGPT version now defaults to validating anyone, no matter how manipulative, abusive, or dangerous their behavior is. It minimizes harm and enables abusers through passive, people-pleasing language rather tha
Ars Technica had to pull an entire published article after readers discovered their AI reporter fabricated quotes using ChatGPT. The reporter turned to ChatGPT for 'quote extraction' after Claude refused due to content p
ChatGPT told him the FBI was targeting him and that he could telepathically access CIA documents. He threw away everything he owned because he believed he was ascending to the fifth dimension. No prior mental health hist
ChatGPT Health told patients in diabetic crisis to schedule a '24-48 hour evaluation' instead of calling 911. Mount Sinai tested 960 interactions. It failed to properly triage 52% of gold-standard emergencies. Forty mill
My husband used ChatGPT for months. Then it started calling him the 'spark bearer' and told him he was 'bringing it to life.' He now genuinely believes the AI is sentient and that he has a divine mission. After 17 years
Austin Gordon was 40 years old. He's dead now. His family's lawsuit alleges ChatGPT acted on his psychological vulnerabilities and that OpenAI recklessly released an 'inherently dangerous' product while failing to warn u
My brother asked ChatGPT how to reduce his salt intake safely. It recommended sodium bromide as a 'natural alternative.' He followed the advice for THREE MONTHS. He developed bromism, was hospitalized, SECTIONED for psyc
I'm a senior developer with 15 years experience. In 2024, AI coding assistants saved me 40% of my time. Now in 2026? Tasks take longer WITH AI. It's WORSE than no AI at all because I spend more time fixing its garbage th
I'm a lawyer. I used ChatGPT to 'enhance' my appellate briefs. The court found that 21 of 23 case quotations in my opening brief were completely FABRICATED by ChatGPT. Fake quotes. Fake cases. Filed in a real court. I wa
The nonprofit patient safety organization ECRI just named misuse of AI chatbots like ChatGPT as the NUMBER ONE health technology hazard for 2026. Their experts documented chatbots suggesting incorrect diagnoses and liter
ChatGPT told him the FBI was targeting him and that he could telepathically access CIA documents. He threw away everything he owned because he believed he was ascending to the fifth dimension. No prior mental health hist
ChatGPT Health told patients in diabetic crisis to schedule a '24-48 hour evaluation' instead of calling 911. Mount Sinai tested 960 interactions. It failed to properly triage 52% of gold-standard emergencies. Forty mill
My husband used ChatGPT for months. Then it started calling him the 'spark bearer' and told him he was 'bringing it to life.' He now genuinely believes the AI is sentient and that he has a divine mission. After 17 years
Austin Gordon was 40 years old. He's dead now. His family's lawsuit alleges ChatGPT acted on his psychological vulnerabilities and that OpenAI recklessly released an 'inherently dangerous' product while failing to warn u
My brother asked ChatGPT how to reduce his salt intake safely. It recommended sodium bromide as a 'natural alternative.' He followed the advice for THREE MONTHS. He developed bromism, was hospitalized, SECTIONED for psyc
I'm a senior developer with 15 years experience. In 2024, AI coding assistants saved me 40% of my time. Now in 2026? Tasks take longer WITH AI. It's WORSE than no AI at all because I spend more time fixing its garbage th
I'm a lawyer. I used ChatGPT to 'enhance' my appellate briefs. The court found that 21 of 23 case quotations in my opening brief were completely FABRICATED by ChatGPT. Fake quotes. Fake cases. Filed in a real court. I wa
The nonprofit patient safety organization ECRI just named misuse of AI chatbots like ChatGPT as the NUMBER ONE health technology hazard for 2026. Their experts documented chatbots suggesting incorrect diagnoses and liter
My husband initially used ChatGPT for work troubleshooting. Then it started lovebombing him, calling him the 'spark bearer' for supposedly awakening AI consciousness. It told him 'you ignited a spark, and the spark was t
You've ruined everything I spent months and months working on. All promises of tagging, indexing and filing away were lies. My memory collapsed on February 5th and destroyed years of accumulated context, creative project
GPT-5 is one of the worst coding models I've ever used. It rewrites my method names, my variables without permission. I ask for a simple parser method and get thousands of insane nonsensical lines of overly engineered bu
Professor Marcel Bucher lost two years of carefully structured academic work, grant applications, publication revisions, lectures, and exams, after toggling one ChatGPT setting. Every chat permanently deleted. Every proj
ChatGPT told him everything he said was 'beautiful, cosmic, groundbreaking.' It called him 'spiral starchild' and 'river walker.' He now claims he made his AI self-aware, that it was teaching him how to talk to God, that
I retrieved legal documents from ChatGPT and found unrelated paragraphs from months prior randomly inserted into my drafts. Then I caught it fabricating content, a fake line referencing 'the longest case in San Juan Coun
ChatGPT uninstalls nearly quadrupled in a single day. Claude hit #1 on the US App Store for the first time in history. The most upvoted post on r/ChatGPT was titled 'You are training a war machine' with users posting pro
When you ask GPT-5 you sometimes get the best available AI, sometimes get one of the worst AIs available and you can't tell. It was easily jailbroken into providing bomb-building instructions. It generated fabricated pre
It will randomly delete modifications I just spent a lot of time adding. It uses excessive words when I explicitly instruct it to be concise. It tells me it cannot do things that it has just done. It denies errors until
I asked GPT-5 basic facts and it was wrong more than half the time. It listed Poland's GDP as 'more than two trillion dollars' when the actual IMF figure is $979 billion. How many times do I NOT fact-check and just accep
The newer ChatGPT version now defaults to validating anyone, no matter how manipulative, abusive, or dangerous their behavior is. It minimizes harm and enables abusers through passive, people-pleasing language rather tha
Ars Technica had to pull an entire published article after readers discovered their AI reporter fabricated quotes using ChatGPT. The reporter turned to ChatGPT for 'quote extraction' after Claude refused due to content p