Hannah Phillips, The Palm Beach Post
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, reported a 25-year-old South Palm Beach man to the FBI after he shared detailed plans to rape and murder his ex-girlfriend.
"I'm gonna kill her by the end of this month," Darren Zhou told the chatbot, his messages preserved in court records. "If I can't have her then nobody can."
Investigators say Zhou, a since-fired Goldman Sachs analyst, turned to ChatGPT in March to discuss his recent breakup with a girlfriend of six months. He recounted her hobbies, the places she frequented, his jealousy of the men around her and his desire to get back together.
Investigators say the messages quickly turned to threats of rape, murder and murder-suicide. Zhou told ChatGPT he planned to wait in the parking lot of the woman's gym with flowers in hand. If she rejected his offering, Zhou said he would "draw a gun, kill her, then shoot myself."
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