A Whitehall man accused of threatening and stalking more than 10 women on social media and in person was indicted in federal court on Tuesday on 14 counts.

Brett Dadig, 31, is accused of cyberstalking, interstate stalking and interstate threats.

According to the grand jury indictment, Dadig said he interacted with ChatGPT, an online artificial intelligence tool, which he claimed encouraged him to continue the harassment.

He is scheduled for a detention hearing on Dec. 15. A message left with his attorney was not immediately returned.

Dadig was previously charged by criminal complaint on Nov. 7.

The allegations against him — including publishing women’s names and addresses on social media, referring to them as his future wives, and threatening them with violence — date to the spring.

According to court documents, Dadig met several of his victims in Pittsburgh-area fitness centers. He started out befriending them, but then, investigators said, he would harass and threaten them on social media, on a podcast he has and in repeated phone calls.

The criminal complaint also alleged that Dadig traveled to the women’s workplaces to stalk and intimidate them — including after restraining orders had been issued against him.

“Dadig posts incessantly on social media and his podcast about his issues with women and violence,” the criminal complaint alleged.

“Dadig has referenced strangling people with his bare hands, called himself ‘God’s assassin,’ stated that women who ‘(mess)’ with him are ‘going to (expletive) hell,’ and declared on his podcast that he is nice until he is pushed to the breaking point, at which point he will ‘stop at absolutely nothing to bury you into the (expletive) ground.’”

Banned from gyms

According to the indictment, Dadig considered himself to be a social media influencer who posted multiple times each day on Instagram and other platforms. Much of that content related to his interactions with women.

On his podcast, in particular, he often expressed anger toward women and called them derogratory names, according to the indictment.

“Dadig posted about how he wanted to fall in love and start a family, but no woman wanted him,” the indictment said.

During the summer, Dadig was banned from fitness establishments in Pittsburgh and began to travel to other states, including New York, Florida, Iowa and Ohio, where investigators said he continued the same conduct.

“When Dadig was banned from gyms and businesses and was reported to police in one location, he would move on to another location to continue his stalking course of conduct,” the indictment said.

‘God’s plan’

He also began using an alias online, it continued.

On his podcast, Dadig discussed using ChatGPT as his “therapist” and “best friend,” the indictment said.

He claimed it encouraged him to continue his podcast “because it was creating ‘haters,’ which meant monetization for Dadig,” the indictment said.

“ChatGPT told him that God’s plan for him was to build a ‘platform’ and to ‘stand out when most people water themselves down,’ and that the ‘haters’ were sharpening him and ‘building a voice in you that can’t be ignored,’” investigators said.

When Dadig asked ChatGPT questions about his future wife, it responded that she would be fit and value health and that he may meet her at a boutique gym or in an athletic community.

“Dadig viewed ChatGPT’s responses as encouragement to continue his harassing behavior,” the indictment said.

The ‘future wife’

Investigators said Dadig would photograph women and post their pictures without consent, sometimes including their names and locations.

In June, Dadig met a woman at an event and called her his “future wife.” He took a picture with the woman, the indictment said, and sent it to her parents’ cell numbers from her phone — telling them he was excited to be their future son-in-law.

The Monday after that event, he showed up at the woman’s workplace — a Pilates studio in Pittsburgh.

The woman ended communications with Dadig within weeks, the indictment said, because of his “aggressive, angry and overbearing” communications that made her uncomfortable.

He responded, according to the investigation, by sending her an unsolicited nude photo of himself.

After Dadig repeatedly called the woman’s business and posted about her online, she obtained an emergency protection-from-abuse order against him on Aug. 16, the indictment said.

He violated it repeatedly online, in his podcast and by contacting the woman’s business, the indictment said. He was arrested for violating the order twice.

Similar instances happened with two other women in Western Pennsylvania, as well as a woman in Des Moines, Iowa, and others in Tampa, Fla., Ohio and New York City.

Dadig frequently spoke of the women on his podcast, using their full names and locations, the indictment said.

In September, while in St. Petersburg, Fla., Dadig was in the hospital after a bicycle accident. While there, the indictment said, he began to focus on one of the nurses, taking pictures of her without consent and posting them online, calling her his “wife.”

Dadig has additional charges of stalking and harassment pending in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court. They were both filed by Bethel Park police in August.

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