{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-22T10:17:41.302Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"ai-nudify-bot","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"2025","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":1,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"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-central-scotland-man-jailed-after-using-telegram-ai-nudify-bot-to-make-indecent-images-of-teenage-girl","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'an artificial intelligence bot on the Telegram app, which generates nude pictures from images of real people.' ... 'used this program to generate 12 indecent pseudo-images of a female child'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'an artificial intelligence bot on the Telegram app, which generates nude pictures from images of real people.' ... 'used the program to generate 12 indecent pseudo-images of a female child.' ... 'This child was identified as a teenage girl'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Police found a chat on the man's tablet between him and an artificial intelligence bot on Telegram that generates nude pictures from images of real people; he used it to generate 12 indecent pseudo-images of a female child, identified as a teenage girl known to him.","causal_attribution":"The prosecutor's account at the plea hearing, relayed by STV from one news-agency chain; the man pleaded guilty to downloading and distributing child sex abuse images. The bot is not named."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'On October 14, 2025, one of the images of the child – which police assessed as a Category C – was distributed between'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'On October 14, 2025, one of the images of the child – which police assessed as a Category C – was distributed between'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"On 14 October 2025 one of the images of the child, which police assessed as Category C, was distributed between the man and other users of an app called AnonChat.","causal_attribution":"The prosecutor's account at the plea hearing, relayed by STV from one news-agency chain."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'34 child sex abuse images and one video were found on it.' ... 'The material featured boys and girls aged approximately ten to 15 years old.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The tablet also held 34 child sex abuse images and one video featuring boys and girls aged approximately ten to 15; the reports do not say whether this material was AI-generated.","causal_attribution":"none"},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'pleaded guilty to downloading and distributing child sex abuse images.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'there was “no alternative” to a custodial sentence.' ... 'on the sex offenders’ register for ten years in addition to imposing the 12-month jail term.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The man pleaded guilty to downloading and distributing child sex abuse images; on 21 October 2026 the sheriff imposed a 12-month jail term and placed him on the sex offenders' register for ten years.","causal_attribution":"none"}],"effects":[{"label":"depicted in indecent AI-generated pseudo-images","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"one image shared with other users of an anonymous chat app","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://news.stv.tv/east-central/dad-jailed-for-using-nudify-bot-to-make-and-share-ai-image-of-schoolgirl","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-22 (HTTP 200). STV News court report credited to Central Scotland News Agency, published 21 October 2026 (sentencing hearing).","independence_group":"central-scotland-news-agency-court-reports"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://news.stv.tv/east-central/man-uploaded-photo-of-schoolgirl-into-ai-and-circulated-fake-naked-image-in-encrypted-chat","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-22 (HTTP 200). STV News court report credited to Central Scotland News Agency, published 26 August 2026 (plea hearing, prosecutor quoted).","independence_group":"central-scotland-news-agency-court-reports"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["Which Telegram bot generated the images.","When the 12 pseudo-images were generated.","Whether the girl or her family learned of the images and what effect on her is reported.","Whether any of the other 34 images or the video found on the tablet were AI-generated."],"geography":{"basis":"The prosecution and sentencing took place at a sheriff court in central Scotland, and police searched the man's home there (both STV reports). The girl is described as known to him; no source places her elsewhere. The event country rests on the police search and investigation in Scotland reported in both sources.","court_countries":["GB"],"event_countries":["GB"],"affected_person_countries":["GB"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): the prosecution account reported from both hearings says police found the man's chat with a Telegram AI bot that generates nude pictures from images of real people, and that the bot produced 12 indecent pseudo-images of an identified teenage girl, one of which was shared; he pleaded guilty and was jailed. Neither the man nor the girl is named, and the girl's age and the man's town are omitted.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-22"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The prosecutor told the court that police found a chat on the man's tablet between him and an artificial intelligence bot on Telegram that generates nude pictures from images of real people, and that he used the program to generate 12 indecent pseudo-images of a female child, identified as a teenage girl known to him. The generated images depict the girl (depicted_or_impersonated), and one was distributed to other users of an anonymous chat app. The bot is not named.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Central Scotland: man jailed after court hears he used a Telegram AI 'nudify' bot to make indecent pseudo-images of a teenage girl and shared one","summary":"According to court reports by STV News, a prosecutor told a sheriff court in central Scotland that police who searched a man's tablet found a chat between him and an artificial intelligence bot on Telegram that generates nude pictures from images of real people. The prosecutor said he used the bot to generate 12 indecent pseudo-images of a female child, identified as a teenage girl known to him, and that on 14 October 2025 one of the images was distributed between him and other users of an anonymous chat app. He pleaded guilty in August 2026 to downloading and distributing child sex abuse images, and on 21 October 2026 the sheriff jailed him for 12 months and placed him on the sex offenders' register for ten years.","incidentDate":"2025-10-14","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-08-26","aiSystem":"An artificial intelligence bot on the Telegram app that generates nude pictures from images of real people, according to the prosecution account reported by STV News (bot not named)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the prosecution account reported by STV News, an AI bot on Telegram generated 12 indecent pseudo-images of a teenage girl at the man's request, and one was shared with other users of an anonymous chat app.","frameworkFacets":[],"pathwayDirection":"outward","causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the teenage girl depicted in the 12 generated pseudo-images. The children in the 34 other images and one video are not counted because no source says that material was AI-generated; the convicted man is not counted as harmed.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"GB-SCT","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://news.stv.tv/east-central/dad-jailed-for-using-nudify-bot-to-make-and-share-ai-image-of-schoolgirl","primarySourceLabel":"STV News, 21 October 2026: Dad jailed for using 'nudify' bot to make and share AI image of schoolgirl","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-22T03:04:48.345924+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-22T03:04:48.345924+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-nudify-bot","telegram","pseudo-images","child-sexual-abuse-material","sheriff-court","scotland","guilty-plea","sentencing"]}]}