{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-05T08:14:10.456Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"celebrity","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"2025","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":0,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":1,"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":"2025-deepfake-king-philippe-aq-trade-ai-investment-video-250-euro-payment","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'tombe sur une vidéo en ligne qui attire immédiatement sa confiance : le roi des Belges y vante les mérites'; 'plateforme baptisée AQ Trade AI, vantant des investissements basés sur'; 'Mais tout est faux : la vidéo est un deepfake, une manipulation numérique utilisant'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"In April, the person saw an online video in which the King of the Belgians appeared to promote a platform called AQ Trade AI, and RTL Info states the video was a deepfake.","causal_attribution":"The outlet's characterisation of the video; how it was identified as a deepfake is not stated."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Après un appel téléphonique avec une prétendue conseillère, elle cède et verse 250 euros.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"After a phone call with a supposed adviser, the person paid €250.","causal_attribution":"The person's own account as reported; the person attributes the trust placed in the offer to the King appearing in the video."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Mais dans la nuit, le doute'; 'téléphoné à ma banque qui a immédiatement bloqué la carte.'; 'Elle a évité de peu une spirale infernale.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"That night the person called the bank, which immediately blocked the card, and RTL Info says further losses were narrowly avoided.","causal_attribution":"Reported account; whether the €250 was recovered is not stated."}],"effects":[{"label":"paid €250 to a fake investment platform promoted by a deepfake video of the King of the Belgians","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.rtl.be/actu/belgique/societe/cetait-le-roi-jy-ai-cru-bernee-par-une-fausse-video-de-philippe-gisele-verse-de/2025-10-03/article/765771","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in French on 2026-10-04 (HTTP 200; datePublished 2025-10-03). Researcher translation. Reports the person's own account by first name.","independence_group":"rtl-info-aq-trade"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Where the video was seen (platform or site).","Where the person lives.","Whether the €250 was recovered and whether a complaint was filed.","How the video was identified as a deepfake and which tool made it."],"geography":{"basis":"RTL Info is a Belgian outlet and frames the account within a Belgian awareness campaign, but it does not state where the viewer lives or where the video was seen. Countries are left unknown rather than inferred from the outlet. No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a core case: according to one outlet's report of the person's account, a deepfake video impersonating a head of state led a viewer to pay €250 to a fake investment platform. The person is identified in the source by first name only.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-04"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"RTL Info states that the video in which the King of the Belgians promoted AQ Trade AI was a deepfake, a digital manipulation using a celebrity's image. The AI-made video impersonated the King (depicted_or_impersonated). The viewer then dealt with a human-sounding phone adviser, and the report does not say that AI was used in that call. How the video was identified as a deepfake and which tool made it are not reported.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"A viewer paid €250 to a fake investment platform after an online deepfake video showed the King of the Belgians promoting it, RTL Info reports","summary":"RTL Info (Belgium) reported on 3 October 2025 that in April a woman, identified only by first name, came across an online video in which the King of the Belgians appeared to promote a platform called AQ Trade AI, offering AI-based investments from €250. The video was a deepfake. After a phone call with a supposed adviser, the viewer paid €250. That night the viewer grew suspicious and called the bank, which immediately blocked the card. The report does not say whether the €250 was recovered. RTL Info ran the account alongside a Belgian authorities' awareness campaign on fake online investment offers.","incidentDate":"2025-04-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2025-10-03","aiSystem":"Deepfake video using the image of the King of the Belgians to promote the AQ Trade AI investment platform, as reported (tool not identified)","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A viewer paid €250 to the AQ Trade AI platform after a deepfake video showed the King of the Belgians promoting it, then had the card blocked, according to the viewer's account to RTL Info.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the viewer who paid €250 (RTL Info). The King, whose image was used, is not reported to have been harmed and is not counted. Aggregate victim figures in the same report are not counted. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.rtl.be/actu/belgique/societe/cetait-le-roi-jy-ai-cru-bernee-par-une-fausse-video-de-philippe-gisele-verse-de/2025-10-03/article/765771","primarySourceLabel":"RTL Info, 3 October 2025: «C'était le roi, j'y ai cru», bernée par une fausse vidéo de Philippe","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-04T03:29:33.888375+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-04T03:29:33.888375+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","celebrity-impersonation","investment-scam","fraud","belgium","depicted-or-impersonated"]}]}