AI-to-person relation
- Depicted or impersonated the person
Core relations are communication, acting on someone’s behalf, and depiction or impersonation. Decision and claim relations are retained as contextual cases.
Someone else’s AI use. Settings: Education, Privacy, Justice.
Claim status: Reported
From December 2024 a girl in the Ribera Alta area reported fake accounts in her name with an AI-generated video and AI-manipulated nude photos of minors, plus a webpage advertising the images commercially; 15 other minors complained; the Guardia Civil traced the accounts to a 17-year-old schoolmate, now investigated for corrupting minors under a Valencia youth court.
Causal attribution: Guardia Civil statement as reported by the Guardian; single chain.
- News report (supports): 'began investigating in December last year after a female student reported the creation of a social media account in her name that featured an AI-generated video'; '"All these photos had been modified from the originals, which had been manipulated so that the people in them appeared completely naked"'; 'a webpage devoted to advertising the images for commercial purposes'; 'After 15 other minors came forward with similar complaints'; 'a 17-year-old boy was being investigated on suspicion of corrupting minors'.
Source reading, translation and location
News report · en · Source inspected
Read in English on 2026-09-18 (The Guardian, 27 July 2025). Reports and quotes the Guardia Civil's statement of 27 July 2025; the Spanish original of the statement was not read.
Event countries: Spain. Affected-person countries: Spain. Court countries: Spain.
Guardia Civil officers in the Ribera Alta area of Valencia province investigated; the victims are the suspect's schoolmates there; a youth court in Valencia oversees the case (Guardian).
Reviewed for publication 2026-09-18: Restored under the 2026-09-15 charter as a harmful-artifact case involving identified (unnamed) depicted minors, an impersonation and a police investigation under a youth court. One chain read; claims recorded as reported. Original ID and first-publication timestamp preserved; incident date corrected to the first complaint.