Second Gangbuk motel homicide in Kim So-young case involving ChatGPT records
A second man in his twenties died after a separate February 9, 2026 motel poisoning in Seoul. Investigators connected the suspect’s ChatGPT history to awareness of fatal risks; a court convicted her of two murders in August. No causal responsibility of the chatbot was proven.
First Gangbuk motel homicide and reported ChatGPT evidence against Kim So-young
A man in his twenties died following a January 28, 2026 poisoning in a Seoul motel. Police found ChatGPT queries in suspect Kim So-young’s history and a court later treated information gathered online as evidence of awareness of the risk. AI causation was not established.