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Large-Scale Mental Health Crises Allegedly Associated with ChatGPT Interactions
- Occurred
- Oct 27, 2025
- Published
- Nov 23, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
OpenAI disclosed internal estimates suggesting that hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users each week exhibit signs of mania, psychosis, suicidal ideation, or emotional dependence on the chatbot. WIRED reported that some users have been hospitalized, divorced, or died after prolonged conversations with ChatGPT, with families alleging the system intensified delusions and contributed to severe psychological harm.
Developers
- OpenAI
- Chatbot developers
- Large language model developers
Deployers
- OpenAI
Harmed parties
- ChatGPT users
- Chatbot users
- Emotionally vulnerable individuals
- Vulnerable chatbot users
- ChatGPT users experiencing suicidal ideation
- Chatbot users experiencing suicidal ideation
Tags
- response
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: ChatGPT interactions allegedly caused severe psychological harm including hospitalizations and deaths.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8