A US-based man claimed he discovered the note in his wife’s handwriting in September 2025, months after he had become violently ill from an unknown cause. A North Carolina-based man filed a suit against OpenAI, claiming that his wife used ChatGPT to plan his murder. According to a report, a man named James Gates claimed his wife, Cheryl, consulted ChatGPT frequently while they were having marital troubles and that the chatbot helped.