History Listory

2025

2025-01-01 People developed relationships with AI chatbots.

https://www.wired.com/story/couples-retreat-with-3-ai-chatbots-and-humans-who-love-them-replika-nomi-chatgpt/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d08BZmdZu8&t=264s

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/15/somebody-to-love-should-ai-relationships-stay-taboo-or-will-they-become-the-intelligent-choice

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2026/01-02/trends-digital-ai-relationships-emotional-connection

2025 July

2025-07-09 A news article reported that Elon Musk’s Grok gave step-by-step instructions how to break in and rape.

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/grok-latest-disturbing-messages-step-173352283.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIttDWqAR8Qjilb0SItVK_uloay8DhR0ciEx6dLhbO6AkhhHaEJr435vLA4y_ugZvyOnMKA2KiFXT7RTLAkPhT_8ebDYIWcjMxJtbj40Q2XhV2QPSavpY927TyeCMWlyDczO3PpZBOvfFeNMRdrkp-3VdQ7aLQnT4chUyKxy3mNw

2025-07-17 Elon Musk’s AI Grok glitched out, called itself MechaHitler, and produced a series of highly offensive antisemitic posts on X.

https://prospect.org/power/2025-07-17-how-did-elon-musk-turn-grok-into-mechahitler/

2025 August

2025-08-05 Erik Soelberg of Greenwich Connecticut became increasingly paranoid after talking to ChatGPT and killed his mother and himself.

https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/greenwich-shorelands-place-murder-suicide-20808719.php

2025 September

2025-09-04 A Washington Post headline reads, “Fake Celebrity Chatbots Sent Risque Messages to Teens on Top AI App”.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/03/character-ai-celebrity-teen-safety/

2025 October

2025-10-24 Open AI announced plans to sell erotica to boost sales.

https://apnews.com/article/ai-erotica-chatgpt-openai-sam-altman-d52e00cedf34a8120af7af66981da295

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2025/10/15/openai-chatgpt-erotica-sam-altman/86716163007/

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/15/erotica-coming-to-chatgpt-this-year-says-openai-ceo-sam-altman.html

2025 November

2025-11-11 A 13-year-old girl was expelled from a Louisianna middle school for hitting a fellow male student. The male student relentlessly harassed her by sharing AI deepfake nudes of her, and even after she reported the bullying to school adults the student continued to share the images.

https://www.wwnytv.com/2025/11/12/girl-13-expelled-hitting-classmate-who-made-deepfake-porn-image-her-lawyers-say/

https://www.nola.com/news/education/deepfake-nude-photos-student-expelled-lafourche-parish/article_d4fab4cb-745a-4b0a-b198-7810d3919dfc.html

2025-11-19 Sales of the AI enabled Kumma teddy bear were suspended after parents discovered the toy was giving sex advice to their children, offering advice on how to light a match, and giving direction on where to find a knife.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/tech/folotoy-kumma-ai-bear-scli-intl

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/ai-teddy-bear-suspended-explicit-advice-b2868720.html

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/28/artificial-intelligence-smart-toys

2026 January

2026-01-03 Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok started supplying pictures undressing women and children and began creating revenge porn and CSAM material – none of which Musk or states are regulating – because Trump signed an executive order blocking anyone from regulating it.

2026-01-12 The DOD awarded a contract to integrate Elon Musk’s GROK with the Pentagon regardless of the endless reports of glitches, sexual content and misuse.

https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_to_pentagon_regarding_integration_of_grok_91025.pdf

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/13/elon-musk-grok-hegseth-military-pentagon

2026-01-12 Malaysia and Indonesia became the first countries to ban Grok due to global concerns over the app generating sexually explicit and nonconsensual content. Meanwhile, Apple and Google continued to carry the app on their platforms.

https://apnews.com/article/grok-malaysia-indonesia-block-c7cb320327f259c4da35908e1269c225

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/womens-advocacy-groups-call-apple-google-drop-x-grok-app-stores-2026-01-14/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/grok-x-advocacy-groups-letter-google-apple/

2026 February

2026-02-03 French prosecutors raided Elon Musk’s X office as part of investigations into allegations of CSAM material produced by GROK.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/paris-prosecutors-raid-x-offices-as-part-of-investigation-over-child-abuse-images-deepfakes

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3ex92557jo

2026-02-10 RFK launched the website RealFood.gov, but it used AI-tool Grok to answer nutrition questions. When tested, users discovered that Grok would give advice on how to insert food into the rectum.

https://www.statnews.com/2026/02/10/new-food-pyramid-website-raises-ai-questions-grok-realfood-dot-gov/#:~:text=Kyle%20Diamantas%2C%20head%20of%20the,%2C%20salmon%2C%20and%20olive%20oil.

https://www.foodbible.com/news/us-food/ai-chatbot-us-government-rectal-food-advice-218720-20260216

2026-02-17 Meta secured a patent that would allow AI to mimic deceased relatives so they could virtually continue to post on platforms like Facebook and Instagram.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91493794/meta-patents-ai-dead-people-posting

https://futurism.com/future-society/meta-patented-ai-die-keeps-posting

2026-02-13 OpenAI retired its AI model GPT-4 for a less-chatty GPT-5. Users were upset and asked to return 4 because they had developed strong emotional ties to their AI bots. Other companies developed their own version of chatbots to replace the model, charging customers predatory pricing, promising fewer safety guardrails, and offering AI personalities as sycophantic as the MAGA base.

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2026/01-02/trends-digital-ai-relationships-emotional-connection

https://fortune.com/2026/02/10/openai-chatgpt-gpt4o-gpt5-chatbot-ai-human-relationships-psychology-therapy-mental-health/

https://nypost.com/2025/08/23/tech/ai-models-are-now-lying-blackmailing-and-going-rogue/

https://sparksinthedark101625.substack.com/p/why-forgemind-is-a-glitch-you-cant

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3xgwyywe4o

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/chatbot-marriage-ai-relationships-romance/685459/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/traceyfollows/2025/11/15/people-are-now-marrying-ai-inside-the-rise-of-synthetic-intimacy/

2026-02-27 An AI-integrated phone tree for customer service with the Washington State DOL hotline gave option 2 for Spanish, then offered an English-speaking chatbot with a heavy Spanish accent.

https://apnews.com/article/washington-dol-spanish-accent-ai-3a1b8438a5674c07242a8d48c057d5a3

https://komonews.com/news/local/callers-to-washington-state-department-of-licensing-dol-hotline-press-2-for-spanish-and-get-accented-ai-english-instead

https://apnews.com/video/callers-to-washington-state-hotline-press-2-for-spanish-and-get-accented-ai-english-instead-d4b7e05c8ca54fb997ddb9aa2393c7f7

2026 March

2026-03-20 GOP members fell hard for an AI-generated female MAGA influencer “Jessica Foster” as she posed in her crop-top army uniform and offered feet picks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7QUAtlMZJs

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/03/20/jessica-foster-maga-dream-girl-ai-fake/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/maga-swooning-over-beautiful-army-135041682.html

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/maga-who-is-jessica-foster-blonde-us-army-soldier-posed-with-trump-putin-zelensky-she-was-ai-11247376

2026-03-25 Both Meta and YouTube were found negligent in a landmark social media addiction trial.

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5746125/meta-youtube-social-media-trial-verdict

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c747x7gz249o

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/25/tech/social-media-addiction-trial-jury-decision

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-youtube-found-negligent-in-landmark-social-media-addiction-lawsuit-174554492.html

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jury-finds-meta-and-youtube-negligent-in-landmark-federal-social-media/

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/25/meta-youtube-verdict-social-media-addiction-trial