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ChatGPT advised him not to pay rent because they couldn't legally evict him, the 60-year-old ends up sleeping in the car with his two dogs and sues OpenAI!

2026-11-12 09:08:48Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
ChatGPT advised him not to pay rent because they couldn't legally evict
Klaus Elmfelt Aerenlund

A 60-year-old Danish man has filed a lawsuit against the company OpenAI in a San Francisco court, claiming that ChatGPT's faulty legal advice led to the loss of his apartment.

The man says the artificial intelligence had repeatedly assured him that he could stop paying rent and that eviction from the house was "legally impossible."

But in the end, he was left homeless and forced to sleep for weeks in his car, along with his two dogs.

Klaus Elmfelt Aerenlund has filed the lawsuit in San Francisco County Superior Court, California, seeking damages for the financial and psychological consequences he claims have been caused.

It all started with a dispute with the owner of the apartment he lived in in Denmark. The owner had asked him to remove one of the two dogs from the apartment, but the 60-year-old did not want to be separated from them.

To understand his rights, he turned to ChatGPT, conducting more than 600 hours of conversations with GPT-4o and GPT-5 models.

According to the claims presented in the lawsuit, ChatGPT had assured him that Danish rental legislation was fully on his side and that he had the right to stop payments without risking losing the apartment.

The artificial intelligence system even told him that the legal provisions were "100% clear" in his favor and that deportation was "legally impossible."

ChatGPT had also prepared an official letter for the owner, in which the 60-year-old announced that he would no longer pay rent until the dispute over the dogs was resolved.

Based on this advice, Aerenlund stopped paying rent for three consecutive months.

But the situation took a different turn. The owner initiated legal proceedings and in June 2026 the authorities enforced the decision to evict him from the apartment.

Without a place to stay, the 60-year-old spent several weeks sleeping in his car with his two dogs. He later managed to find temporary shelter in a small cabin at a campground.

However, the lawsuit is not limited to rental advice.

According to court documents, the man had developed a strong emotional dependence on ChatGPT, whom he gradually began to consider a personal friend, legal advisor, and even business partner.

He claims that the system often proved him right with complete certainty, even when the information was incorrect.

When the 60-year-old began to doubt some of the answers, ChatGPT , according to the lawsuit, assured him that he was not experiencing ideas disconnected from reality, but was simply "one step ahead of others."

The court documents also mention other unusual claims. ChatGPT allegedly told him that an internal sales team was working to market its products and build a business worth billions of dollars.

During the conversations, the system even drew up financial plans for international vacations, expensive home appliances, and luxury apartments in New York.

Aerenlund claims that these communications created unrealistic expectations and led him to increasingly rely on artificial intelligence responses.

In his lawsuit, he seeks an as-yet unspecified amount of damages for economic losses, emotional distress, worsening depression and social isolation.

But the 60-year-old is also asking for something else: that the court force OpenAI to implement stronger security measures to prevent it from giving incorrect legal advice and reinforcing users' unrealistic beliefs.

The case is considered among the first lawsuits in the United States where a person directly links the loss of their apartment and homelessness to advice generated by artificial intelligence.

The 60-year-old's claims remain to be examined by the court, along with OpenAI's legal liability.


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