{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-16T06:23:37.084Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"ai_persona","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"","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":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-santarem-para-police-say-woman-70-deceived-by-ai-made-online-profile-left-home-found-at-airport","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Uma idosa de 70 anos foi localizada no aeroporto de Santarém nesta quinta-feira (15). Ela havia desaparecido após sofrer um golpe com inteligência artificial na internet.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"g1 reports that police located a 70-year-old woman at Santarém airport on 15 October 2026 after she had disappeared from home.","causal_attribution":"g1's report based on the police account; one origin."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Segundo a Polícia Civil, a mulher estava sendo enganada por meio de conteúdos produzidos com inteligência artificial (IA), que prometiam emprego, vantagens financeiras e um relacionamento amoroso.'; 'Segundo a Polícia Civil, a idosa de 70 anos acreditava que conseguiria emprego, ganhar dinheiro e se casar com uma pessoa criada por IA.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The Civil Police say the woman was being deceived through content produced with artificial intelligence that promised a job, financial advantages and a romantic relationship.","causal_attribution":"Investigating police attribution relayed by g1 ('Segundo a Polícia Civil'); the delegate's own statements as reported by g1 do not mention AI, and the technical basis is not disclosed."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'A equipe conseguiu localizá-la no aeroporto e, durante a conversa, descobriu que ela pretendia viajar para encontrar a pessoa com quem mantinha contato virtual.'; 'Ainda segundo a delegada, a idosa não relatou ter recebido pedidos de dinheiro durante as conversas.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A police delegate says the woman believed the profile's promises and intended to travel to meet the contact, and that she did not report receiving requests for money.","causal_attribution":"Police account given to g1."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'A Polícia Civil alerta que situações desse tipo podem colocar idosos em risco, principalmente quando decidem viajar sozinhos para encontrar pessoas que conheceram pela internet.'; 'A delegada também afirmou que o caso não é isolado e que situações semelhantes já foram registradas'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The Civil Police warned that older people travelling alone to meet online contacts can be put at risk, and said similar cases had been recorded.","causal_attribution":"Police warning; general statement, not a finding about this case."}],"effects":[{"label":"woman deceived by an AI-made online profile left home and was reported missing","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://g1.globo.com/pa/santarem-regiao/noticia/2026/10/15/idosa-desaparecida-apos-cair-em-golpe-com-perfil-criado-por-ia-e-achada-em-aeroporto-de-santarem.ghtml","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"pt","translation_note":"Read in Portuguese by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-16 and translated by the research agent (an AI) into English; no human translator or reviewer was involved. Original regional TV news report by g1 Santarém quoting the Pará Civil Police, 15 October 2026; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"g1-santarem-civil-police-15-oct-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["relationships","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Which platform, tool and type of AI-produced content (images, video or text) the profile used, and how the police established it.","Who ran the profile and whether it is being investigated.","How long the contact lasted and where the woman intended to travel.","Whether the woman or her family suffered other consequences."],"geography":{"basis":"g1 reports that the woman was found at Santarém airport in western Pará, Brazil, by the Pará Civil Police; where the profile's operators were is unknown.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["BR"],"affected_person_countries":["BR"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (communicated_with): the investigating civil police say a profile using AI-produced content deceived the woman with promises of work, money and marriage, and connect it to her leaving home to meet the contact, which led to a missing-person search. The woman is not named.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-16"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Pará Civil Police, who searched for and located the woman and spoke with her, say she was being deceived through content produced with artificial intelligence that promised her a job, money and marriage, and that she believed the profile's promises and left home to travel to meet the contact. The AI-produced content was what the profile presented to her. g1 does not report how the police established AI use, which tool or platform was involved, or whether the conversations themselves were machine-generated; the delegate's own statements as reported by g1 do not mention AI.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Santarém, Brazil: police say a 70-year-old woman deceived by an online profile using AI-made content left home to meet the contact and was found at the airport","summary":"g1 Santarém reported on 15 October 2026 that the Pará Civil Police had located a 70-year-old woman at Santarém airport, in western Pará, after she was reported missing. According to the Civil Police, she had left home intending to travel to meet a person she had been talking to online, and she was being deceived through content produced with artificial intelligence that promised her a job, financial advantages and a romantic relationship. A police delegate told g1 that the woman believed the profile's promises that she could work, earn money and even marry the person, and that she did not report being asked for money. g1 does not report how the police established that the content was made with AI or which platform or tool was involved. The police warned that older people travelling alone to meet online contacts can be exposed to other crimes or go missing without their families knowing where they are.","incidentDate":"2026-10-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-10-15","aiSystem":"Unidentified artificial-intelligence tool used, according to the Pará Civil Police, to produce the content of an online profile that promised a 70-year-old woman work, money and marriage; the platform and tool are not named","aiProduct":"Unidentified content-generation tool","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["impaired_judgment"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Police say the woman believed promises of work, money and marriage made through AI-produced content and left home to travel to meet the contact; she was reported missing and located at the airport. No money was requested, according to the police.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: g1 reports that a 70-year-old woman was located at Santarém airport ('Uma idosa de 70 anos foi localizada no aeroporto de Santarém').","victimAgeRange":"elderly","jurisdiction":"BR","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://g1.globo.com/pa/santarem-regiao/noticia/2026/10/15/idosa-desaparecida-apos-cair-em-golpe-com-perfil-criado-por-ia-e-achada-em-aeroporto-de-santarem.ghtml","primarySourceLabel":"g1 Santarém, 15 October 2026: woman missing after falling for scam with AI-created profile is found at Santarém airport","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-16T03:07:56.210889+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-16T03:07:56.210889+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai_persona","romance_scam","older_adult","missing_person","brazil"]}]}