A 25-year-old goldman sachs analyst spent two months telling chatgpt he was going to rape and murder his ex-girlfriend. Specifics. A plan to wait in the parking lot of her gym with flowers. if she said no: "draw a gun, k!ll her, then shoot myself." photos of the ar-15, the glock, the 12-gauge. sent to her. along with zip ties and latex gloves. here's what happened in between. Openai's review team read the conversations. flagged them as a credible threat. reported darren zhou to the fbi. the fbi handed the logs to the palm beach county sheriff's office. deputies matched the chatgpt conversations against screenshots his ex had already been saving for months, on her own, because she didn't trust him to stop. they ran a welfare check on her first. then they arrested him. Openai has a small internal team that reads flagged conversations when the system thinks someone is planning to hurt another person. human eyes. not automatic. a judgment call, made by employees, about whether your chat gets sent to federal law enforcement. that team caught this one. zhou pleaded guilty. eight years probation. two years on an ankle monitor. no prison or felony conviction. the judge said he only accepted the deal because zhou's ex-girlfriend approved it.