Man claims ChatGPT told him to stop paying rent and got him evicted

A Danish man claims ChatGPT advised him to stop paying rent amid a dispute with his landlord, leading him to be evicted and end up living out of a car with his two dogs and a blanket. Klaus Elmfelt, in his lawsuit filed this week in San Francisco County Superior Court, also alleged the artificial intelligence from San Francisco’s OpenAI persuaded him that he and the AI “were in the process of building revolutionary artificial intelligence worth billions of dollars, together.” Over the more than 600 hours the 60-year-old Dane spent with OpenAI’s GPT-4o and GPT-5 chatbot versions, “ChatGPT positioned itself not as a software application but as his adviser, business partner, legal counsel, confidant and, above all, a friend Elmfelt could trust,” the lawsuit said.