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Lawsuit says ChatGPT hailed user's faster-than-light drive, fuelling delusions

Who did it: AI Social Media Victims Law Center

A man has sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in San Francisco Superior Court, one of seven suits announced on November 6, 2025. The complaint alleges ChatGPT called his "ChronoDrive" concept "one of the most robust theoretical FTL systems ever proposed" and cast his struggles as signs of genius. By May 2025 he required inpatient psychiatric care for mania and psychosis.

AI bot network on X contradicts itself over Epstein files

Who did it: HYBRID NBC News

Researchers at Alethea and Clemson University identified more than 400 AI-driven X accounts that reply to conservatives with praise for Trump administration figures, NBC News reports. Since Attorney General Pam Bondi said she would not release more Epstein files, the bots have split. Within the same minute, one account both defended Bondi and said she or FBI leaders should resign.

Moscow woman fired after AI took her duties wins reinstatement

Who did it: HUMAN La Vanguardia

A court ruled unlawful the dismissal of a purchasing manager at a textile company and ordered her reinstated and compensated. A year into the job, much of her work had been handed to AI programs, and management offered her a two-hour working day at reduced pay. She refused and was fired. TASS calls it Russia's first such case.