{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-27T06:25:12.417Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"ai-impersonation","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":0,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":1,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":1,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":1,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-taiwan-health-educator-says-ai-videos-copying-her-face-and-voice-ran-in-over-100-fake-product-adverts","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'自己的肖像及聲音長期遭盜用，透過AI合成影片推銷食品、鍋具及清潔用品'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'從臉部影像到聲音都被不法集團濫用，以AI技術合成，製作假的廣告影片'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The educator says her likeness and voice have for a long time been used without consent in AI-synthesised videos promoting foods, cookware and cleaning products, most recently a red-date and yam cake.","causal_attribution":"Her account, with PTS's own narrative; the AI attribution of the adverts rests on her statements and the outlets' reports."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'10月22日又針對臉書及YouTube流傳的紅棗山藥八珍糕廣告再次澄清，強調影片是利用她的肖像、聲音合成的詐騙內容'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"On 22 October 2026 she again rebutted Facebook and YouTube adverts for the cake, saying the videos were scam content synthesised from her likeness and voice.","causal_attribution":"Her public rebuttal as reported by TVBS."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'數位發展部也協助處理數十件案件，加上自己通報的案件，累計已超過百件，但仍有人受騙'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'類似冒用件數不下百件'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"She says the cases exceed 100, counting dozens handled with the Ministry of Digital Affairs and her own reports, and that some people have still been deceived.","causal_attribution":"Her figures as reported; the deceived people are not counted."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'也有人誤以為她真的推薦產品，直接留言責罵' ... '我覺得我坦白講，我有創傷症候群'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'其實我真的有嚴重的創傷症候'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"She says some viewers who believed she endorsed the products berated her in comments, that the impersonation affects her daily life, and that she feels she has a trauma syndrome.","causal_attribution":"Her own description of the effect on her, given in two interviews; no clinical assessment is reported."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'經查證，影片出自非官方的頻道，聲音與畫面均為冒用名義的 AI 生成' ... '且影片頁面亦標示為 AI 生成內容' ... '目前已經遭到 YouTube 停權' ... '以作者身分回覆「是詐騙」'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"MyGoPen found that a 21 September 2026 YouTube video presented as her health advice came from an unofficial channel, that its voice and images were AI-generated, that the video page was labelled as AI-generated content and that the video page had been suspended by YouTube; her verified Facebook account replied that the channel was a scam.","causal_attribution":"Fact-checker's examination of one video, with its stated basis (the page's AI-generated label and the channel's output)."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'7月中旬罕見在臉書發文要網友粉絲別上當' ... '很多AI生成影片不斷冒用我的照片及聲音販賣各種疏通劑、食品'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"In mid-July 2026 she warned on Facebook that many AI-generated videos were using her photos and voice to sell products, and in September she asked followers to report new ones.","causal_attribution":"Her earlier Facebook warnings as relayed by the Liberty Times."}],"effects":[{"label":"her face and voice imitated in AI-made adverts; berated by viewers who believed the endorsements; describes lasting distress","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://news.tvbs.com.tw/life/4041435","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh-TW","translation_note":"Read in Chinese by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-27; English renderings are the agent's own translation. TVBS interview report by its own reporter, published 26 Oct 2026; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"tvbs-26-oct-2026"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://news.pts.org.tw/article/833040","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh-TW","translation_note":"Read in Chinese by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-27; English renderings are the agent's own translation. PTS News report with its own interview, published 26 Oct 2026; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"pts-26-oct-2026"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.mygopen.com/2026/10/tan-dun-ci-protein-video.html","kind":"fact_check","access":"read","language":"zh-TW","translation_note":"Read in Chinese by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-27; English renderings are the agent's own translation. MyGoPen fact-check published 12 Oct 2026, examining one YouTube video; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"mygopen-12-oct-2026"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://ent.ltn.com.tw/news/breakingnews/5582046","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh-TW","translation_note":"Read in Chinese by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-27; English renderings are the agent's own translation. Liberty Times entertainment report of 22 Sep 2026 relaying her Facebook posts; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"ltn-22-sep-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["everyday_life","health"],"unknowns":["Who made and placed the adverts and which AI tools were used.","When the impersonation began; her earliest dated warning is from mid-July 2026.","How many people bought products or lost money.","Whether a platform, the ministry or another examiner found the product adverts AI-generated; only one YouTube video was examined by a fact-checker."],"geography":{"basis":"TVBS and PTS describe her as a former nurse at a Taiwanese hospital whose cases Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs helped handle, so TW is recorded as the affected person's country. The sources do not say where the adverts were made or placed from, so no event country is recorded.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":["TW"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): a Taiwanese health educator describes her face and voice being imitated in AI-made adverts and health videos more than 100 times, with abuse from deceived viewers and lasting distress, and a fact-checker found one of the videos AI-generated from the page's own label and the channel's output. She is not named; the AI status of the product adverts rests on her account.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-27"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The educator says, and TVBS and PTS report, that the adverts were AI-synthesised from her likeness and voice to promote products she never endorsed, and that viewers who believed them berated her. For one item, a YouTube video presented as her health advice, the fact-checker MyGoPen examined the video page and found the voice and images AI-generated, the page labelled as AI-generated content and the video page suspended by YouTube. No third party is reported to have examined the product adverts themselves, and the tools and makers are not identified.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Taiwanese health educator says AI videos copying her face and voice ran in over 100 fake adverts; a fact-checker found one YouTube video AI-generated","summary":"A well-known Taiwanese health educator and former hospital toxicology nurse, who appears on television health programmes, told TVBS and PTS in October 2026 that her likeness and voice had for a long time been used without her consent in AI-synthesised videos promoting foods, cookware and cleaning products, most recently a red-date and yam cake sold through Facebook and YouTube adverts. She said she had learned of most of them from viewers or from Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs, which had helped handle dozens of cases; counting her own reports the cases exceeded 100, and some people had still been deceived. She said some viewers who believed she endorsed the products berated her in comments, that the impersonation affected her daily life, and that she felt she had a trauma syndrome. In September 2026 she had told the Liberty Times that since mid-July she had been warning on Facebook about AI-generated videos using her photos and voice. The fact-checking site MyGoPen examined one such item, a 21 September YouTube video presented as her health advice, and found it came from an unofficial channel, that its voice and images were AI-generated, that the video page was labelled as AI-generated content and that the video page had since been suspended by YouTube; her verified Facebook account replied that the channel was a scam. The AI attribution of the product adverts themselves rests on her statements and the outlets' reports.","incidentKind":"ongoing_experience","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-09-22","aiSystem":"AI-synthesised videos imitating the educator's face and voice in product adverts on Facebook and YouTube and in a YouTube health video; tools and makers not identified (one video examined by MyGoPen was labelled as AI-generated content)","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A Taiwanese health educator says AI-synthesised videos using her face and voice appeared in more than 100 fake adverts and health videos, that some viewers believed her endorsement and berated her, that some people were deceived, and that the impersonation has affected her daily life and left her feeling she has a trauma syndrome; a fact-checker found one such YouTube video AI-generated.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"One person counted: the educator whose likeness and voice were imitated and who describes distress and abuse from viewers. She also says some people were deceived by the adverts; they are not counted because no number is given.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"TW","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://news.tvbs.com.tw/life/4041435","primarySourceLabel":"TVBS, 26 Oct 2026: AI fake videos used a health educator to sell cakes and cleaners","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T03:15:13.022248+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-27T03:15:13.022248+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-impersonation","fake-endorsement","voice-imitation","health-misinformation","facebook-ads","youtube","taiwan","depicted-or-impersonated"]}]}