Doe had broken up with the user in 2024, and he used ChatGPT to process the split, according to emails and communications cited in the lawsuit. Rather than push back on his one-sided account, it repeatedly cast him as rational and wronged, and her as manipulative and unstable. He then took these AI-generated conclusions off the screen and into the real world, using them to stalk and harass her. This manifested in several AI-generated, clinical-looking psychological reports that he distributed to her family, friends, and employer.

For months, her then-fiancé and partner of several years had been fixating on her and their relationship with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In mid-2024, she explained, they’d hit a rough patch as a couple; in response, he turned to ChatGPT, which he’d previously used for general business-related tasks, for “therapy.” Before she knew it, she recalled, he was spending hours each day talking with the bot, funneling everything she said or did into the model and propounding on pseudo-psychiatric theories about her mental health and behavior. He started to bombard the woman with screenshots of his ChatGPT interactions and copy-pasted AI-generated text, in which the chatbot can be seen armchair-diagnosing her with personality disorders and insisting that she was concealing her real feelings and behavior through coded language. The bot often laced its so-called analyses with flowery spiritual jargon, accusing the woman of engaging in manipulative “rituals.” Trying to communicate with her fiancé was like walking on “ChatGPT eggshells,” the woman recalled. No matter what she tried, ChatGPT would “twist it.” “He would send [screenshots] to me from ChatGPT, and be like, ‘Why does it say this? Why would it say this about you, if this is not true?'” she recounted. “And it was just awful, awful things.”

Shortly after moving out, the former fiancé began to publish multiple videos and images a day on social media accusing the woman of an array of alleged abuses — the same bizarre ideas he’d fixated on so extensively with ChatGPT. In some videos, he stares into the camera, reading from seemingly AI-generated scripts; others feature ChatGPT-generated text overlaid on spiritual or sci-fi-esque graphics. In multiple posts, he describes stabbing the woman. In another, he discusses surveilling her. (The posts, which we’ve reviewed, are intensely disturbing; we’re not quoting directly from them or the man’s ChatGPT transcripts due to concern for the woman’s privacy and safety.) The ex-fiancé also published revenge porn of the woman on social media, shared her full name and other personal information, and doxxed the names and ages of her teenage children from a previous marriage. He created a new TikTok dedicated to harassing content — complete with its own hashtag — and followed the woman’s family, friends, and neighbors, as well as other teens from her kids’ high school. “I’ve lived in this small town my entire life,” said the woman. “I couldn’t leave my house for months… people were messaging me all over my social media, like, ‘Are you safe? Are your kids safe? What is happening right now?'”

A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.)

This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):

Opinion | Beware conservatives promoting “intellectual freedom” Victor Ray: This conservative lie about schools like mine is furthering authoritarianism

Important read by @victorerikray.bsky.social about the anti-intellectualism centers popping up at universities across the US. Also critical to point out universities are hypocritically & simultaneously shutting down departments born from ‘movements for broader inclusion in mainstream American life.’

It no joke took me like an hour today to properly go through it and get a sense of all the panels 😅 How are we supposed to choose where to go for each session!

OMG the #ESHS-HSS program is wild! So many parallel sessions!
Stay until the very last session to hear @arnoldke.bsky.social , @whitmerkelly.bsky.social , @annalsvensson.bsky.social & yours truly talk about #pedagogy #objects #collections & #NaturalHistoryHumanities

#histmed #histSTM 📜

Management consultants are ruining UK universities Relentless off-the-peg commercial rewiring has undermined British higher education

Excellent article from @gsoh31.bsky.social on how management consultancy (a parasitic industry at the best of times) is aiding and hastening the destructions of UKHE

www.ft.com/content/5032...

Trump Slashed Science Funding. Now the U.S. Could Face a Costly Brain Drain.

Typically, this article does not talk about the humanities at all - even though these disciplines are key to saving people’s critical thinking, and a thing called democracy, which is needed to avoid such a brain drain in the first place.

The New York Times drops freelance journalist who used AI to write book review Writer and author Alex Preston said he “made a serious mistake” after a reader spotted similarities between his review and one that appeared in the Guardian

This is all reminding me of a conversation I had recently with an old friend who works in tech and extremely gung-ho about AI. When I told him about my process for writing a long New Yorker piece, he was absolutely sure that AI could make it more "efficient." / www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

Well, this is simply infuriating. Someone's got to fight this in court. BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service open.substack.com/pub/morethan...

Pupils in England are losing their thinking skills because of AI, survey suggests Two-thirds of secondary school teachers report a decline in core abilities such as writing and problem-solving

This is a good start.
But someone soon is going to have to admit and address the addictive behaviour that educators are seeing. And the fact that it is encouraged by AI companies.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

It is really, really wild how persistent and prominent this remains in common LLMs. There seems to be an air of "well they fixed that" and it is 100% not true: most of the energy just seems to be going towards 'being plausible enough to be accepted', ie style and not accuracy or truth

wurman, basically: “just because you can find a bunch of ideological white supremacists trying to redefine the 14th amendment to write ideological racism into its substance doesn’t mean you can’t rely in their arguments to, uh, advance the interests of ideological racists”

Seminole Nation of Oklahoma Passes Moratorium on Data Centers First Tribal Council to Block Data Center Development on Tribal Lands In a landmark unanimous vote, the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma has become one of the first Native American Tribes to enact a comple...

"As Sovereign Nations, we need not participate in the extractive colonial systems of generative AI and hyperscale data centers or their false, predatory economic promises at the expense of our lands and waters, communities and economies, security and sovereignty"
nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/...

The UK’s free-to-access museums are the envy of the world. Charging for entry would be a big mistake | Karin Hindsbo There are better ways to raise money than jeopardising a model that draws visitors to Britain and has huge benefits for the wider economy, asks Tate interim director Karin Hindsbo

The UK’s free-to-access museums are the envy of the world. Charging for entry would be a big mistake | Karin Hindsbo

Britain’s food supply ‘at risk of catastrophic failure by 2030’ A report written before the 2024 election says climate change, habitat loss and geopolitical instability are a danger to food security — and it has been ignored

Hard to know which is more shocking - the dire warnings of the potential collapse of our food system in the UK or the fact that governments have tried to cover it up. Their complacency is off the scale. We urgently need to switch to growing more food domestically & to restore nature now

Even in hard times, teaching staff are vital assets, not costs to be shed When teaching staff are casualised and cut while delivering the core business of universities, something is broken, say Katharine Hubbard and Damien Page

'Sector-wide, teaching-related income represents 52 per cent of income, compared with 25 per cent for research.

At post-92 institutions specifically, teaching accounts for 73 per cent of income, and research only 13 per cent.'

Edinburgh staff urge university to ditch OpenAI deal Academics raise concerns over ChatGPT owner’s links to US military and claim tools are ‘looking to replace knowledge workers’

'Staff at the University of Edinburgh have demanded an end to the institution’s partnership with technology giant OpenAI, calling it “unsafe” and “insecure”. 1/2

Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.

Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

1/3 Since I wrote this response to Nigel Biggar’s malicious and completely false attack on me and university colleagues in The Spectator he has re-published it on his subscribers-only substack with me as the poster boy for “bad” history teaching at Sussex.

alanlester.co.uk/blog/smearin...

Historians' Handbook for Saving the World TOC A Historian’s Handbook for Saving the World: Responding to the Global Climate Emergency Co-organized by Alexandra Hui and Emily Pawley Forthcoming from MIT Press, 2026 Table of Contents Acknowled...

Today's #histSTM lunchtime read: The table of contents from **A Historian’s Handbook for Saving the World: Responding to the Global Climate Emergency**, an incredible anthology edited by @alixhui.bsky.social & @emilypawley.bsky.social, which will be published later this year by @mitpress.bsky.social

Photo of a hand holding a large round pink sticker up against goldenrod tassels in the fall light. The sticker has a child’s drawing of a mermaid and the words “coming soon… A Historian’s Handbook for Saving the World: Responding to the Global Climate Emergency”

PAGE! PROOFS! ARE! HERE! PAGE! PROOFS! ARE! HERE!

#envhum #envhist #histstm #histsci

Historians' Handbook for Saving the World TOC A Historian’s Handbook for Saving the World: Responding to the Global Climate Emergency Co-organized by Alexandra Hui and Emily Pawley Forthcoming from MIT Press, 2026 Table of Contents Acknowled...

If you want to see a WILD Table of Contents, have I got an (uncorrected) Table of Contents for you!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I was very lucky to be part of this amazing book. I've co-authored a piece on natural history collections and climate change with Martha Fleming (Natural History Museum of Denmark) as part of @collecol.bsky.social. Looking forward to finally seeing it in print! ✨🌿 #nathist #envhist #collections

Page proof screenshot from MIT Press "A Historian's Handbook for Saving the World: Responding to the Global Climate Emergency"

Friends, @alixhui.bsky.social and I and 70+ historians have been working on this gigantic project for three years and it finally feels like it's going to be real.

This is a companion piece to Sadiah's longer article 'The Rebirth of the Wollemi Pine: Plant Lives in Histories of Extinction' which is currently free to read in Issue 100 of History Workshop Journal 🌱

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds.

'All major large language models (LLMs) can be used to either commit academic fraud or facilitate junk science, a test of 13 models has found.'

All versions of Claude are 'the most resistant to committing fraud'.

Which LLM is your university encouraging students to use most? Asking for a friend.

The collapse of a global news service

Feb 26, 1981 - Science writer warns readers about the greenhouse in the Guardian…. - All Our Yesterdays Forty two years ago, on this day, February 26, 1981,  science writer John Gribbin had a long detailed piece in the Guardian about the state of the art of climate science, and the geopolitical implicat...

45 years ago today, the guardian lays out climate facts

allouryesterdays.info/2023/02/25/f...

It’s rather depressing that when we don’t provide face to face teaching (because lockdown) students are angry, when we do provide face to face teaching, they don’t turn up/say they prefer to catch up on lecture capture/dont want to take part in seminars etc etc. We can’t do right

I wrote a piece for the CDBU blog with some low or no cost things our employers could do right now if they care about precarious staff as much as they say they do.

one of the best things I ever found online