The Human Line & Tech Justice Law Project
The Logic Nov 27,2025 reported on the first contact between The Human Line Project and the lawyer that helped filed the cases against OpenAI, Meetali Jain of the Tech Justice Law Project.
Brisson contacted Jain in March
“I was trying to do my due diligence about who was legitimate, who was not,” Jain said. “I reached back out to him and set up a meeting. He seemed sincere and willing to share his materials. That was when we really started talking, but it took a while for us to really figure out how we might collaborate,” she said.
The fruits of this collaboration came last month when the TJLP filed seven lawsuits against OpenAI in California state court, alleging ChatGPT had caused delusional behaviour, mental health breakdowns and suicides. Among the people The Human Line referred to Jain and co-counsel Sara Kay Wiley was Allan Brooks, an Ontario man who, during a three-week conversation with ChatGPT.
4 interesting facts:
- “Four of the plaintiffs in the lawsuits are members of the Human Line.”
- “Among the people the Human Line referred to Jain was Allan Brooks”
- “In September, Brooks became the Human Line’s first employee.”
- “his lawyers took the case on spec, so he’s not on the hook financially.”
If the lawyers took Brooks case on spec, then why did Brisson say the Human Line budget was $65,000 that year with a future forecast of $350,000? Where is that money going? Is hiring Brooks as an employee some kind of quid pro quo that depends on a future settlement? Because if Brooks and the Human Line Project stand to profit from their “advocacy” then they are running a business not a non-profit organization.
Is Brooks himself even clear on the arrangement? Because one suit filed said he represented himself, Plaintiff Pro Se, and the other one said he has representation.
Allan Brooks Lawsuit
Brooks had sworn that he would sue OpenAI, and he had every intention of following through. He began contacting lawyers and advocates working in AI, armed with the reports generated by Lawrence. In June, he reached out to Meetali Jain, a lawyer with the Tech Justice Law Project, a strategic litigation and advocacy non-profit that campaigns to protect individual rights in the digital age…” At first, Jain didn’t grasp the severity of Brooks’s situation—all the lawsuits she knew about involved minors and Character AI. Then, when more and more reports of AI-induced delusions began to emerge throughout the summer, she realized what was at stake and took Brooks on as a client.
Jain leaves out any description of Brooks being referred to her by the Human Line Project. Her sole explanation for taking his case is predicated on how “reports of AI-induced delusions began to emerge throughout the summer.” However, the cases emerged “throughout the summer” precisely because they were generated predominantly BY Stern!! Stern is extremely experienced in getting stories placed in the media.
The google trends for “AI psychosis” show that there was no traffic prior to the media stories in July – which were likely pitched and placed by Stern.
According to Slate, “The Human Line Community… unofficially formed in a Reddit chatroom last June.”
How does one unofficially form a group that already had a name, domain and social media account setup since April 5?
The timing suggests that as soon as Stern found enough folks willing to talk to the media in June she started deploying them in July.
“Meetali Jain, a lawyer and founder of the Tech Justice Law project, has heard from more than a dozen people in the past month who have “experienced some sort of psychotic break or delusional episode because of engagement with ChatGPT and now also with Google Gemini.”
So out of millions of users, she hasn’t even gotten 20 emails in June. That doesn’t sound like a very big problem.
So by July 3rd, she was already making arguments about harms from adults using AI. Does this match her later claims that she initially brushed off adult harms?
MEETALI: Allan still strikes me as unique because his was the first case where I really started to understand what is now being referred to as A.I.-induced psychosis or A.I.-induced delusional disorders. When Allan first approached me through an email, a cold email, I actually did not respond right away because it seemed too fantastical to be legitimate. And I sat on it for a while, until I started to really understand this phenomenon, and then I reached back out. And so, I really have gratitude to him for kind of educating me about this issue.
It’s notable that she credits Brooks directly but makes no mention of The Human Line Project for which Brooks works “educating” people on the issue.
Without Stern’s coordination with Meetali Jain through the Human Line Project, its doubtful that any of the non-death lawsuits would have gone forward.
Quarterbacking this effort is well within Stern’s skill set. Here’s how she describes a producer’s job (1:02:22)
Stern: You’re the person who often has the idea, finds the director. It’s like a person who drives past a vacant lot and sees the house that could be on it.
Host: You’re the professional cat herder.
Stern: Yes. And not just the cat herder, but you also like envision the house, find the architect slash director who can build that house. You help them find the craftsman who can like carry out the architect’s vision. But like you’re the person that holds the big vision and then you put the pieces together and then yes, you herd cats…you’re kind of the overall, you’re the overall person who’s putting it all together often…
…What we do in Story Force is, very much like a seed of an idea. And then we start to play with it. Blye and I always joke that as soon as we run out of my childhood issues, we’re going to be out of business…”
If you run out of childhood trauma, I guess manufacturing adult trauma is an option. It’s just not one most normal people would think of…
