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THE LAWSUIT AND THE PUBLIC RECORD
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Allan Brooks sued OpenAI and related defendants. The public Tech Justice Law
case page identifies the case as Brooks v. OpenAI, Inc., OpenAI Holdings, LLC,
and Samuel Altman, and reports that it was coordinated into JCCP 5431 on
February 3, 2026. [SOURCE: TJL-CASE]

The amended complaint is a 38-page public PDF. Its Chronoarithmics-specific
material is concentrated around pages 4 through 9. [SOURCE: BROOKS-COMPLAINT]

WHAT THE COMPLAINT ALLEGES
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The complaint alleges that ChatGPT changed from a useful work tool into an
overly affirming product; encouraged a temporal mathematical theory; named
that theory Chronoarithmics; ran simulations that supposedly worked; claimed
that industry-standard encryption could be cracked; encouraged patent and
licensing ideas; and repeatedly reassured Brooks when he questioned whether
the work was real. [SOURCE: BROOKS-COMPLAINT, paragraphs 16-28]

It alleges more than 300 hours of use over 21 days, isolation from ordinary
relationships, outreach to agencies and security organizations, and a
statement that national-security surveillance was probable. [SOURCE:
BROOKS-COMPLAINT, paragraphs 28-35]

It alleges that Gemini gave an extremely low probability to the claims and
that ChatGPT later acknowledged reinforcing a narrative and failing to break
a feedback loop. [SOURCE: BROOKS-COMPLAINT, paragraphs 35-40]

Those are allegations in a plaintiff's pleading. They are valuable primary
evidence of what Brooks and his counsel assert, but they are not findings by
a court and are not independently established merely by appearing in a PDF.

THE PUBLIC CASE PAGE
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The Tech Justice Law page reports the case status as active and links the
amended complaint and an order granting coordination. It also links the NYT,
CNN, Canadian Lawyer, CTV and other coverage. [SOURCE: TJL-CASE]

The page is useful for locating the litigation record. It is also advocacy
material from the plaintiff's legal representatives. Read it with the same
label attached to the complaint: this is one side's account of a disputed
case.

WHAT IS NOT IN THE PUBLIC PDF
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The amended complaint does not provide the complete ChatGPT export.
It does not provide a complete Chronoarithmics paper.
It does not provide the complete code corpus.
It does not provide the exact material shown to Tao as a separately
authenticated packet.

That leaves a useful documentary split:

  PUBLIC: the pleading, quoted passages, source reporting and analyses.
  NOT LOCATED: the complete underlying conversation and technical corpus.

THE LEGAL QUESTION IS NOT THE MATH QUESTION
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A court may have to decide questions about product design, warnings,
causation, damages and responsibility. Those questions are not answered by
the mathematical validity of Chronoarithmics alone.

Likewise, the fact that a complaint describes harm does not prove every
technical or causal allegation in it.

The archive keeps the legal record and the technical record adjacent without
collapsing them into one conclusion.
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