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Silesia, Poland: police say a man used AI-made videos casting a young woman and her mother to stalk and threaten them; he was charged and remanded

City police in the Silesian Voivodeship said on 30 April 2026 that they had detained a 30-year-old man suspected of persistently harassing a young woman and threatening her and her family. According to the police, he sent her several to more than a dozen messages a day over a long period, opened new profiles when she blocked him, came to her home, and used artificial intelligence to create videos casting her and her mother in invented scenarios, as well as photos and videos simulating violence against a family member. He was charged with persistent harassment and criminal threats, and a court remanded him in custody for three months. The police do not name the AI tool or say how they established its use.

AI system
Unidentified image and video tool
Occurred
Event date unknown
Reported
30 April 2026
Event location
Poland
What the AI did
Depicted or impersonated the person
Reported harm
Exploitation or Abuse
Whose AI use
Someone else’s AI use
Setting
Relationships · Justice
Evidence
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 2 sources, 1 underlying account
4 claims: 4 reported. 4 open questions
People reported harmed
At least 2 people

AI system as recorded: Artificial intelligence used to generate and alter photos and videos of the women, according to the police (tool not identified)

What Happened

The police account. In a press release published on 30 April 2026, city police in the Silesian Voivodeship said criminal investigators had detained a 30-year-old man suspected of persistently harassing a young woman and making threats against her and her family. The police say that over a long period he sent her several to more than a dozen messages a day, many vulgar or sexual, set up new profiles when she blocked his accounts, presented invented relationships as real and came to her home.

The AI material. According to the release, he used artificial intelligence, among other means, to create videos in which he cast the young woman and her mother in invented scenarios meant to harass and intimidate her, and to generate and alter photos and videos simulating violence against a member of her family. He also sent offensive messages and threats to her closest relatives, which the police describe as arousing a justified fear that they would be carried out.

The charges. He was charged with persistent harassment and criminal threats, and a court remanded him in custody for three months at the request of the police and the prosecutor. The police do not name the AI tool.

Reported harm

According to the police, a young woman and her family were persistently harassed and threatened, including with AI-made videos casting her and her mother in invented scenarios and material simulating violence against a relative.

Outcome

Ongoing

Charged with persistent harassment and criminal threats, which carry up to eight years in prison according to the police; remanded in custody for three months on the application of the police and the prosecutor. No indictment or trial is reported in the sources read.

What remains unknown

  • When the harassment began; the police say only that it went on for a long time before the detention reported on 30 April 2026.
  • Which AI tool was used and how the police established that the videos were AI-generated.
  • Whether the suspect knew the woman before the harassment.
  • Whether he has been indicted or tried.

What the evidence supports

AI involvement: reported. The investigating city police state in their 30 April 2026 release that the suspect used artificial intelligence to create videos casting the young woman and her mother in invented scenarios meant to harass and intimidate her, and to generate and alter photos and videos simulating violence against a family member. The generated material depicts the women (depicted_or_impersonated) and was part of the harassment the police describe. The police do not name a tool or say how they established the AI generation.

4 claims: 4 reported. What the statuses mean

Reported City police in Silesia said on 30 April 2026 that criminal investigators had detained a 30-year-old man suspected of persistently harassing a young woman and making threats against her and her mother, and that he used artificial intelligence, among other means, to create videos in which he cast the young woman and her mother in invented scenarios meant to harass and intimidate her.

Causal attribution. Police statement (one origin, relayed by Fakt); the police do not say how the AI generation was established or which tool was used.

  • jaworzno.policja.gov.pl(opens in new tab) supports · Polish
    zatrzymali 30-letniego mężczyznę, podejrzanego o uporczywe nękanie oraz kierowanie gróźb wobec ... Sprawca wykorzystywał w tym celu m.in. sztuczną inteligencję, tworząc z jej udziałem filmy, w których w głównej roli „obsadzał” nastolatkę i jej matkę. Wymyślane scenariusze miały w natarczywy sposób nękać i zastraszać pokrzywdzoną.
  • fakt.pl(opens in new tab) supports · Polish
    Przy pomocy AI generował i przerabiał zdjęcia oraz filmy. W materiałach tych "obsadzał" nastolatkę i jej matkę w wymyślonych scenariuszach.
Reported According to the police, he also used AI to generate and alter photos and videos in which he simulated violence against a member of the woman's family.

Causal attribution. Police statement.

  • jaworzno.policja.gov.pl(opens in new tab) supports · Polish
    Dodatkowo wykorzystywał sztuczną inteligencję do generowania i przerabiania materiałów - w tym zdjęć oraz filmów, w których symulował przemoc wobec członka rodziny kobiety.
Reported The police say that over a long period he sent her several to more than a dozen messages a day, created new profiles after she blocked his accounts, sent vulgar and sexual messages, came to her home, and extended his actions to her closest relatives with offensive messages and threats.

Causal attribution. Police findings as stated in their release.

  • jaworzno.policja.gov.pl(opens in new tab) supports · Polish
    mężczyzna przez dłuższy czas uporczywie kontaktował się z pokrzywdzoną, wysyłając do niej od kilku do kilkunastu wiadomości dziennie. Pomimo wyraźnego sprzeciwu kobiety oraz blokowania przez nią kolejnych kont, podejrzany zakładał nowe profile i kontynuował swoje działania. ... Jak ustalili policjanci, mężczyzna nachodził również pokrzywdzoną w miejscu zamieszkania, a swoje działania rozszerzył na jej najbliższych. Wysyłał im obraźliwe wiadomości oraz kierował groźby, które wzbudziły uzasadnioną obawę ich spełnienia.
Reported He was charged with persistent harassment and criminal threats, and at the request of the police and the prosecutor a court remanded him in custody for three months.

Causal attribution. Police statement; the court order itself was not read.

  • jaworzno.policja.gov.pl(opens in new tab) supports · Polish
    Zebrany w sprawie materiał dowodowy, pozwolił na przedstawienie 30-latkowi zarzutów uporczywego nękania oraz gróźb karalnych. ... Na wniosek policjantów oraz prokuratora, sąd zastosował wobec podejrzanego środek zapobiegawczy w postaci tymczasowego aresztowania na 3 miesiące.

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 in Polish on 2026-10-19 (HTTP 200); quoted passages are kept in Polish and the English sense was rendered by the research agent (an AI), not a human translator. City police press release published 30 April 2026. Applies to s1.

Read in Polish on 2026-10-19 (HTTP 200); quoted passages are kept in Polish and the English sense was rendered by the research agent (an AI), not a human translator. Fakt report of 30 April 2026 that credits the Silesian police as its source; it relays the same police statement. Applies to s2.

Event countries: Poland. Affected-person countries: Poland. Court countries: Poland.

The police release describes a resident of a city in the Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, harassed in her home city, and a Polish court ordered pre-trial detention.

Reviewed for publication 2026-10-19: Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): the investigating police state that the suspect used AI to make videos casting the young woman and her mother in invented scenarios to harass and intimidate her, and he was charged with persistent harassment and threats. The police do not disclose how the AI generation was established. The women are not named.

People described

A young woman and her mother, residents of a city in Silesia, whom the suspect depicted in AI-made videos and threatened, and other close relatives who received threats

People reported harmed in this case

At least 2 people

0 AI participants · 2 other people harmed

Additional affected people are described without a reliable count.

Two people counted: the young woman and her mother, both cast in the AI-made videos and threatened (police release). Other close relatives who received threats are not numbered by the police and remain unquantified.

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

Tags

#ai-generated-videos#stalking#harassment#threats#poland#criminal-charges#pre-trial-detention

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APA

NOPE. (2026). Silesia, Poland: police say a man used AI-made videos casting a young woman and her mother to stalk and threaten them; he was charged and remanded. AI incidents. https://nope.net/incidents/2026-silesia-poland-police-say-man-used-ai-made-videos-to-stalk-and-threaten-young-woman-and-her-mother

BibTeX

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  title = {Silesia, Poland: police say a man used AI-made videos casting a young woman and her mother to stalk and threaten them; he was charged and remanded},
  author = {NOPE},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {AI incidents},
  url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2026-silesia-poland-police-say-man-used-ai-made-videos-to-stalk-and-threaten-young-woman-and-her-mother}
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