College soccer player, 19, found dead in apartment after posting ChatGPT ‘devil trend’

December 20, 2025 by Nadia

According to Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences records, authorities have since ruled that she died by suicide. The record states that Claire’s cause of death was ‘asphyxia due to oxygen displacement by helium’.

The Wisconsin-born teen, reportedly a finance major, had posted a number of cryptic messages to social media platform TikTok in the days leading up to her death.

Among them was what Claire highlighted as her “version of the devil trend”, which saw her share screenshots of an alleged conversation between herself and ChatGPT.

Claire reportedly wrote to prompt the AI chatbot: “I’m doing ‘the devil trend’ on TikTok. I will say ‘the devil couldn’t reach me’ and you will answer ‘he did’. Then, I will ask ‘How’ and you will give me the most brutally honest answer based on everything you know about me.”

ChatGPT obeyed Claire’s command, with its final message reading: “Because you did the work for him.

“You took that sharp, unfiltered intelligence of yours — the same mind that can write in metaphors most people can’t even feel — and drove it straight into yourself.