By skyforbes 
On a late August night in 2025, a 19-year-old Missouri State University student allegedly crept into a freshman parking lot and went on a rampage: 17 cars smashed, windows shattered, mirrors ripped off.
Minutes later, he did something millions of us do every day:
he opened ChatGPT.
According to court documents, he typed messages like:
“I smashed those stupid cars”
and asked the bot whether he was going to jail. Police later recovered that conversation from his phone, and prosecutors in Missouri now say that his ChatGPT confession is part of the evidence used to justify his arrest and felony property-damage charges.