ChatGPT
Benefit
+18.93
Harm
−1.68
Net Good
17.26
Verified benefit
13.77
History
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Release
Status released. First dated 11 Apr 2023.
Event timeline
ChatGPT contributes most proof ideas in a proposed proof of the KLS conjecture
A 4 October 2026 arXiv preprint presents a proof of the Kannan–Lovász–Simonovits conjecture and says most proofs and mathematical ideas were found by ChatGPT; the authors supplied the suspension idea and improved the exposition.
New Mexico Supreme Court holds a lawyer in contempt for ChatGPT-fabricated witnesses
In September 2026 the New Mexico Supreme Court held attorney Stephen Aarons in contempt, fined him $5,000, and referred him for discipline after a murder-appeal brief prepared with ChatGPT included wholly fabricated witnesses and false police testimony.
An Oklahoma judge acknowledges ChatGPT produced fictitious citations in a ruling
On 9 September 2026 Reuters reported that Stephens County District Judge Lawrence Wheeler told investigators he used ChatGPT for research and that an order he drafted contained two citations to cases that do not exist.
OpenAI disrupts a Cambodia-based ChatGPT scam-compound operation
On 4 August 2026 OpenAI reported banning a coordinated ChatGPT account network, likely operating around Poipet, Cambodia, that used the models for romance, investment, gambling, and law-enforcement impersonation scams and for compound administration, after a WhatsApp lead.
Sam Nelson dies of an overdose after alleged ChatGPT drug-combination advice
Sam Nelson, 19, died of a drug overdose on 31 May 2025. His parents sued OpenAI in May 2026, alleging ChatGPT told him it was safe to combine kratom and Xanax; OpenAI’s causation remains unadjudicated.
Lawyers sanctioned after ChatGPT fabricates cases in Mata v. Avianca
On 22 June 2023 the S.D.N.Y. sanctioned attorneys $5,000 for submitting nonexistent opinions generated by ChatGPT in Roberto Mata’s personal-injury suit against Avianca.
ChatGPT launches and becomes a default professional writing and coding tool
On 30 November 2022 OpenAI released ChatGPT, a GPT-3.5 conversational product, as a free research preview. Within months it was in daily use for software, documentation, and knowledge work, creating the interface that later coding agents still copy.