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Alleged Harmful Health Outcomes Following Reported Use of Purported ChatGPT-Generated Medical Advice in Hyderabad
- Occurred
- Nov 10, 2025
- Published
- Nov 10, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Reports from Hyderabad describe two alleged patient harms after individuals acted on purportedly ChatGPT-generated medical advice instead of clinician guidance. A kidney-transplant recipient reportedly discontinued prescribed post-transplant medications based on a chatbot suggestion and experienced graft failure. In a separate case, a man with diabetes allegedly developed severe hyponatremia after following a chatbot-advised zero-salt diet.
Developers
- OpenAI
Deployers
- OpenAI
Harmed parties
- Unnamed patient with diabetes in Hyderabad
- Unnamed kidney transplant patient in Hyderabad
- OpenAI users
- General public of India
- General public of Hyderabad
- General public
- ChatGPT users
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Chatbot-generated medical advice led to serious patient harm including graft failure and severe hyponatremia.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8