{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-24T07:30:34.415Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"ai-modified-image","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"","response":"minors","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":1,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":1,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":1,"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":"2025-texas-affidavit-says-state-police-sergeants-hard-drive-held-ai-modified-sexual-images-of-female-colleagues","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'A Texas Department of Public Safety staff sergeant was arrested earlier this month after his wife discovered a hard drive containing child sexual abuse material, or CSAM.'; 'was arrested March 3 on a charge of possession or promotion of child pornography.'; 'He bailed out of the Hidalgo County Adult Detention Center on March 6 on a $300,000 bond.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'has been charged with possession or promotion of child pornography.'; '“A $300,000 bond has been set.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"A Texas Department of Public Safety staff sergeant was arrested on 3 March 2025 on a charge of possession or promotion of child pornography, after his wife found a hard drive and gave it to investigators; a $300,000 bond was set.","causal_attribution":"Court records and the affidavit as relayed by two local outlets; context for how the AI-made material was found."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'investigator who reviewed the material with'; 'hard drive also contained “several sexually explicit videos and pictures of current female DPS employees’ faces that were modified using an artificial inteiligence (sic) application (deepfake) exposing intimate body parts.”'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"According to the affidavit, a Texas Rangers investigator said the hard drive held several sexually explicit videos and pictures of current female DPS employees' faces modified using an artificial intelligence application to expose intimate body parts.","causal_attribution":"The investigating officer's account, relayed by one outlet; the technical basis for the AI attribution is not disclosed."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'which included multiple images of female children under the age of eighteen with their genitals exposed,” the affidavit stated. “The pictures had been deepfake.”'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The affidavit says a folder on the drive held multiple images of girls under 18 with their genitals exposed and that the pictures had been deepfake.","causal_attribution":"Affidavit wording as relayed by one outlet; the affidavit says deepfake without naming a tool or method."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'was immediately suspended following his arrest'; 'has also launched a separate administrative investigation,” the statement read.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'As we investigate further, additional charges may follow,” said Hidalgo County District Attorney Terry Palacios.'; 'has been suspended from duty, pending an administrative investigation.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"DPS suspended the sergeant with pay pending an administrative investigation by its Office of Inspector General, and the District Attorney said additional charges may follow.","causal_attribution":"Statements by DPS and the District Attorney relayed by two outlets; institutional response to the arrest."}],"effects":[{"label":"female colleagues' faces modified with an AI application into sexually explicit videos and pictures","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"deepfake nude images of girls under 18 found on the drive","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://myrgv.com/local-news/2025/03/19/dps-sergeant-from-edinburg-arrested-for-creating-deepfake-child-porn/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-24 through an Internet Archive capture (web.archive.org/web/2025id_/...; the origin returned HTTP 403). The Monitor (MyRGV) report of 19 March 2025 relaying a probable cause affidavit and a DPS statement.","independence_group":"myrgv-affidavit"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://foxrgv.tv/dps-sergeant-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-24 directly. FOX RGV report of 6 March 2025 relaying Hidalgo County court records, the District Attorney and a DPS statement; it does not mention AI or deepfakes.","independence_group":"foxrgv-court-records"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","work","justice"],"unknowns":["Which application was used, who made the material and when","How investigators established that AI was used","How many women and girls are depicted, and whether any of them has been told","Whether the material was shared","The outcome of the charge and of the DPS administrative investigation"],"geography":{"basis":"Event: the drive was found and examined in Texas (Hidalgo County); where the material was made is not stated. Affected persons: the depicted women are current employees of the Texas Department of Public Safety; the girls' location is not stated. Court: Hidalgo County, Texas.","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a reported case from a probable cause affidavit relayed by The Monitor: the investigator who examined the hard drive said it held sexually explicit videos and pictures of female DPS employees' faces modified with an artificial intelligence application, and the affidavit describes deepfake nude images of girls. The AI attribution is the investigators' account with its technical basis undisclosed. The accused is untried and is not named; no depicted person is identified.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-24"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Monitor relays the probable cause affidavit: the Texas Rangers investigator who examined the hard drive said it held sexually explicit videos and pictures of current female DPS employees' faces modified using an artificial intelligence application, and the affidavit says images of girls under 18 had been deepfake. The AI output is itself the non-consensual sexual depiction of the women and girls (depicted_or_impersonated). The attribution comes from the investigators who examined the material; its technical basis and the application are not disclosed.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Texas: affidavit says a state police sergeant's hard drive held AI-modified sexual images of female colleagues and deepfake nude images of girls","summary":"The Monitor (MyRGV) reports, citing a probable cause affidavit, that a Texas Department of Public Safety staff sergeant was arrested on 3 March 2025 on a charge of possession or promotion of child pornography after his wife handed investigators a hard drive she had found. According to the affidavit, the drive held images of girls under 18 with their genitals exposed that \"had been deepfake\", and a Texas Rangers investigator said it also held sexually explicit videos and pictures of current female DPS employees' faces modified using an artificial intelligence application. DPS suspended him with pay and opened an administrative investigation; he was released on a $300,000 bond. He is presumed innocent, and no later outcome was found.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2025-03-19","aiSystem":"An artificial intelligence application used to modify female colleagues' faces into sexually explicit images and videos, as a Texas Rangers investigator describes it (application not identified)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image and video tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to a probable cause affidavit reported by The Monitor, a Texas Rangers investigator found sexually explicit videos and pictures of female colleagues' faces modified with an AI application, and images of girls under 18 that the affidavit calls deepfakes, on a state police sergeant's hard drive; the reports do not say whether the material was shared.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"unquantified","affectedCountEvidence":"Unquantified: the affidavit as reported refers to \"several\" videos and pictures of \"current female DPS employees\" and to \"multiple images of female children\", without a number of people depicted (claims c2, c3). Plural nouns are not an explicit lower bound, so numeric placeholders are zero. No depicted person used the AI. The wife, the friends and the girl she recognised are not counted because the reports do not say their images were AI-made.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://myrgv.com/local-news/2025/03/19/dps-sergeant-from-edinburg-arrested-for-creating-deepfake-child-porn/","primarySourceLabel":"The Monitor (MyRGV), 19 March 2025: DPS sergeant from Edinburg arrested for creating deepfake child porn","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-24T03:05:59.100275+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-24T03:05:59.100275+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-modified-image","non-consensual-sexual-imagery","minor","workplace","criminal-charges","texas","united-states","depicted-or-impersonated"]}]}