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Brazilian court orders Telegram to pay a woman damages after it ignored her reports of a group sharing AI-made fake intimate images of her

A civil court in Goiânia, Brazil (32ª Vara Cível) ordered Telegram in a judgment signed on 6 October 2026 to pay R$10,000 in moral damages to a woman whose fake intimate images, created with artificial intelligence, were shared on the platform. According to the judgment as reported by Portal 6 (citing the legal news site Rota Jurídica) and O Popular, Telegram users used AI tools to alter photos that she and her sisters had posted on social media into nude and sexual images, and shared them without consent in a group of more than 120 participants with offensive sexual comments. She reported the group to Telegram through its support channels, including a notification on 29 July 2025, and received no reply; the group had 98 participants then and at least 123 a month later. The court held Telegram liable because it did not remove the posts after notification, ordered removal of the material, measures to block identical or similar copies, and disclosure of data identifying the group's creators and users. Telegram did not contest the case and did not answer O Popular.

AI system
Unidentified image tool
Occurred
2025
Reported
13 October 2026
Event location
Unknown
What the AI did
Depicted or impersonated the person
Reported harm
Exploitation or AbuseReputational Harm
Whose AI use
Someone else’s AI use
Setting
Privacy · Justice
Evidence
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution supported · 2 sources, 1 underlying account
6 claims: 6 reported. 5 open questions
People reported harmed
At least 1 person

AI system as recorded: AI tools used by members of a Telegram group to alter the woman's photos into fake nude and sexual images, according to the judgment as reported; no tool is named

Reported harm

According to the judgment as reported, fake nude and sexual images of the woman made with AI tools were shared without consent in a Telegram group of more than 120 participants with offensive sexual comments, and kept circulating after she reported them. The court found a violation of her personality rights and awarded R$10,000 in moral damages.

Outcome

Ongoing

Filed in October 2025 at the 32ª Vara Cível de Goiânia; an order during the case required the content to be removed. Judgment signed 6 October 2026: Telegram to pay R$10,000 in moral damages, remove the identified material and copies within ten days, use file-identification and image-recognition tools against republication of identical or similar copies, and provide registration data, phone numbers, user names, numeric identifiers and access logs of the group's creators, administrators and of users who shared the images or posted offensive comments; daily fine of R$600 for non-compliance, capped at R$54,000. Telegram did not contest the action. No appeal is reported in the inspected sources.

What remains unknown

  • Which AI tools were used and who made the images.
  • When the images were first made and shared; the reports give a notification on 29 July 2025 and the group's size then and on 27 August.
  • How many sisters were depicted.
  • Whether the users responsible have been identified or prosecuted, and whether Telegram has complied or appealed.
  • Whether the judgment itself finds that AI tools were used or records the plaintiff's uncontested account; the judgment text was not inspected.

What the evidence supports

AI involvement: reported. The judgment, as reported by Portal 6 and O Popular, says Telegram users used AI tools to alter photos the woman and her sisters had posted into nude and sexual images that did not exist, and the court treated the images as fake intimate images created with AI. The generated images depicting her are the harm. O Popular's standfirst says the court understood that the group used AI to create the fake sexual montages. The tools are not named, the judge's quoted words describe fabricated images without naming AI, Telegram did not contest the action, and the reports do not say how the court established that AI was used.

6 claims: 6 reported. What the statuses mean

Reported In a judgment signed on Tuesday 6 October 2026, the 32ª Vara Cível de Goiânia ordered Telegram to pay R$10,000 in moral damages to a woman whose fake intimate images, created with artificial intelligence, were disseminated on the platform.

Causal attribution. The judgment as reported; the judgment itself was not inspected.

  • portal6.com.br(opens in new tab) supports · Portuguese
    'O Telegram foi condenado a indenizar em R$ 10 mil uma mulher que teve divulgadas imagens íntimas falsas, criadas com uso de inteligência artificial (IA).'; 'da 32ª Vara Cível de Goiânia'; 'A decisão foi assinada na última terça-feira (06)'
  • opopular.com.br(opens in new tab) supports · Portuguese
    'A Justiça condenou a plataforma de mensagens Telegram a pagar R$ 10 mil por danos morais a uma mulher que teve divulgadas imagens íntimas falsas, criadas com uso de inteligência artificial (IA).'
Reported According to the judgment as reported, Telegram users used AI tools to alter photos the woman and her sisters had posted on social media into nude and sexual images without their consent, and shared them in a group of more than 120 participants with offensive sexual comments.

Causal attribution. The court's account of how the images were made and shared, as reported; no tool is named.

  • portal6.com.br(opens in new tab) supports · Portuguese
    'Usuários do Telegram usavam ferramentas de IA para modificar fotos publicadas pela mulher e pelas irmãs dela nas redes sociais. Eles criavam imagens de nudez e situações sexuais que não existiam, sem o consentimento delas.'; 'compartilhavam essas montagens em um grupo com mais de 120 participantes, tecendo comentários ofensivos e de conteúdo sexual às vítimas.'
  • opopular.com.br(opens in new tab) supports · Portuguese
    'produzir montagens de cunho sexual com o uso de inteligência artificial'
Reported She reported the group to Telegram through its support form, emails and in-app support, including a notification on 29 July 2025, and received no reply; the group had 98 participants then and at least 123 on 27 August.

Causal attribution. Facts recorded in the judgment as reported by one outlet.

  • portal6.com.br(opens in new tab) supports · Portuguese
    'por meio de formulário de suporte, mensagens eletrônicas e atendimento fornecido dentro do aplicativo.'; 'Em uma notificação enviada em 29 de julho de 2025, por exemplo, informou que a imagem dela estava sendo usada sem autorização.'; 'Contudo, não recebeu resposta nem conseguiu interromper a divulgação.'; 'Naquela época, tinha 98 participantes, mas chegou a ter pelo menos 123 um mês depois, no dia 27 de agosto.'
Reported The court held Telegram liable because it did not remove the posts after being notified, and ordered it to remove the material, adopt mechanisms against new publication, and provide data identifying the users involved.

Causal attribution. The court's reasoning and orders as reported.

  • portal6.com.br(opens in new tab) supports · Portuguese
    'Ele explicou que o Telegram foi responsabilizado porque não removeu as postagens mesmo depois de notificado.'; 'A empresa também deve usar ferramentas de identificação de arquivos e reconhecimento de imagens para impedir a republicação de cópias idênticas ou semelhantes ao conteúdo ilegal.'
  • opopular.com.br(opens in new tab) supports · Portuguese
    'que também determinou a retirada do material da plataforma, a adoção de mecanismos para impedir novas publicações e o fornecimento de dados que permitam identificar os usuários envolvidos'
Reported The judge wrote that the case was not mere misuse of an image but the fabrication of a non-existent sexual intimacy that appropriates the victim's visual identity to expose her degradingly to an indeterminate number of people.

Causal attribution. The judge's words as quoted by one outlet.

  • portal6.com.br(opens in new tab) supports · Portuguese
    'Não se trata de mero uso indevido de imagem, mas da fabricação de uma intimidade sexual inexistente, que se apropria da identidade visual da vítima para expô-la, de forma degradante, a um número indeterminado de pessoas'
Reported Telegram did not contest the action and had not answered O Popular's request for comment.

Causal attribution. Absence of a response from the platform; no contrary account is reported.

Sources

2 sources inspected, from 1 underlying account. Sources that repeat one account do not corroborate each other.

How the sources were read, and where the events happened

Read on 2026-10-19 through an Internet Archive capture (the live page returned HTTP 403; bodies/lat-portal6-telegram-wb.html/.txt). Portal 6's report of the judgment, citing the legal news site Rota Jurídica, which was not read. Read in the original Portuguese; the English renderings in claims and notes are translations by the research agent (an AI), not by a human translator. Applies to s1.

Read on 2026-10-19 (live, HTTP 200; bodies/lat-opopular-telegram.html/.txt). O Popular's report of the judgment; the page is paywalled (isAccessibleForFree false) and only the standfirst and the first two paragraphs were readable. Read in the original Portuguese; the English renderings in claims and notes are translations by the research agent (an AI), not by a human translator. Applies to s2.

Event countries: Unknown. Affected-person countries: Unknown. Court countries: Brazil.

The judgment was given by the 32ª Vara Cível de Goiânia in Goiás, Brazil, which supports court_countries=BR. The reports do not say where the woman lives or where the group's members were; the court's seat is not used to locate the event or the woman.

Reviewed for publication 2026-10-19: Two Goiás outlets report a civil judgment finding that Telegram users altered a woman's photos into fake sexual images with AI tools and shared them in a group, and that Telegram, after ignoring her reports, must pay damages and remove and block the images. The facts rest on the judgment as reported; the judgment itself was not inspected.

People described

A woman whose photos, and those of her sisters, were altered with AI into fake nude and sexual images and shared in a Telegram group; she brought the case. Not otherwise identified.

People reported harmed in this case

At least 1 person

0 AI participants · 1 other person harmed

Additional affected people are described without a reliable count.

One counted person, the woman who brought the case. Her sisters' photos were also altered and shared, but the reports do not say how many sisters; they are not counted. Group participants are an audience and are not counted.

Counted once within this case. The same person may appear in other cases. This count does not establish AI causation.

Tags

#ai-generated-images#non-consensual-intimate-imagery#telegram#platform-liability#civil-judgment#brazil

Cite this case

Compiled per our published methodology: verification statuses, sourcing standards, and corrections process.

APA

NOPE. (2026). Brazilian court orders Telegram to pay a woman damages after it ignored her reports of a group sharing AI-made fake intimate images of her. AI incidents. https://nope.net/incidents/2025-brazil-telegram-group-ai-fake-intimate-images-court-orders-platform-damages

BibTeX

@misc{2025_brazil_telegram_group_ai_fake_intimate_images_court_orders_platform_damages,
  title = {Brazilian court orders Telegram to pay a woman damages after it ignored her reports of a group sharing AI-made fake intimate images of her},
  author = {NOPE},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {AI incidents},
  url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2025-brazil-telegram-group-ai-fake-intimate-images-court-orders-platform-damages}
}

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