{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-05T08:55:52.405Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"celebrity","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"unknown","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":10,"coverage":{"cases":10,"countries":5,"languages":3,"unknownLocation":3,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":10,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":2,"minors":0,"coreRelations":10,"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-thailand-hai-arpaporn-ai-faked-face-voice-gambling-website-ads-cyber-police-raid","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'มาปลอมแปลงใบหน้าและเสียงของ'; 'เพื่อสร้างคลิปโฆษณาชักชวนประชาชนสมัครสมาชิก เว็บออนไลน์ สร้างความเข้าใจผิดว่าเจ้าตัวเป็นผู้แนะนำเว็บไซต์ ทั้งที่ไม่มีส่วนเกี่ยวข้องแต่อย่างใด'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'ซึ่งใบหน้าและเสียงของบุคคลในคลิปถูกตัดต่อด้วยเทคโนโลยี AI เพื่อให้ผู้ชมเข้าใจว่าบุคคลดังกล่าวคือนักร้องลูกทุ่งชื่อดัง'; 'โดยที่ไม่ได้รับความยินยอมจากบุคคลตัวจริงแต่อย่างใด'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Cyber police say a network used AI to fake Hai Arpaporn Nakhonsawan's face and voice in advertising clips urging people to sign up to an online gambling website, giving the false impression that she recommended it although she had no involvement.","causal_attribution":"Police account relayed by Manager Online; Komchadluek's description matches it (one chain). No tool or forensic detail is reported."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'ทำเอานักร้องลูกทุ่งตัวแม่ต้องไปหาตำรวจไซเบอร์ โดยพบการกระทำความผิดบนแอปพลิเคชันเฟซบุ๊ก ปรากฎคลิป Reels'; 'ได้โพสต์วิดีโอคลิปโฆษณาชักชวนให้ผู้ชมเข้าเล่นพนันออนไลน์'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The clips were Facebook Reels urging viewers to gamble online, and the singer went to the cyber police.","causal_attribution":"Komchadluek's account; the singer is not quoted about the clips."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'คลิปดังกล่าวเชื่อมโยงไปยังเว็บไซต์ KFC888'; 'เว็บไซต์มีเงินหมุนเวียนเฉลี่ยประมาณ 120 ล้านบาทต่อเดือน'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Police traced the clips to the website KFC888, which offered online lottery, foreign stock-index lottery and sports betting, with turnover estimated at about 120 million baht a month.","causal_attribution":"Police figures relayed by Manager Online."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'เจ้าหน้าที่ได้ขอหมายค้นเข้าตรวจค้นเป้าหมาย 2 จุดในกรุงเทพมหานคร'; 'จากกรณีนำข้อมูลหรือภาพที่สร้างขึ้นด้วย AI ซึ่งอาจก่อให้เกิดความเสียหายแก่บุคคลอื่นเข้าสู่ระบบคอมพิวเตอร์'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Police searched two locations in Bangkok, seized computers and documents, and summoned an authorised person of a payment-gateway company to acknowledge charges including a Computer Crime Act offence over AI-created data or images that may damage others.","causal_attribution":"Police action as relayed by Manager Online; no court step is reported."}],"effects":[{"label":"her face and voice were faked with AI in advertising clips for an illegal gambling website, as if she endorsed it","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://mgronline.com/news1/detail/9690000063627","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"th","translation_note":"Read live in Thai on 2026-10-04 (Manager Online, 2 July 2026); the article cites the Royal Thai Police, the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau and its Division 1 as its information source. The article uses the word for online gambling websites in a softened form ('เว็บออนไลน์'); the illegal activities it lists are online lottery, foreign stock-index lottery and sports betting. Researcher translation. Manager Online calls her 'พี่ฮาย' (an honorific that does not mark gender); Komchadluek calls her 'แม่ฮาย' (Mother Hai) and 'ลูกทุ่งตัวแม่', so she/her is used.","independence_group":"thai-ccib-kfc888-statement-2026-07"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.komchadluek.net/entertainment/619240","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"th","translation_note":"Read live in Thai on 2026-10-04 (Komchadluek entertainment section, 1 July 2026). Its account of the clips matches the police account and is treated as the same chain. The page also reports an unrelated message the singer received about underwear, which is not used. Researcher translation. Komchadluek calls the singer 'แม่ฮาย' (Mother Hai) and 'ลูกทุ่งตัวแม่', so she/her is used.","independence_group":"thai-ccib-kfc888-statement-2026-07"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool was used and who made the clips.","How many people saw the clips or joined the website after seeing them, and whether any lost money.","Whether anyone has been charged in court and whether the singer filed a formal complaint."],"geography":{"basis":"Thai cyber police searched two locations in Bangkok linked to the website and its payment gateway (Manager Online). Neither source says where the clips were made or where the singer lives; no affected-person country is recorded. No court step is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["TH"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a core case: Thai cyber police say AI was used to fake a well-known singer's face and voice in clips promoting an illegal gambling website, and they searched premises and summoned a company's authorised person to acknowledge charges. She is a public figure and is named as the sources do. One police-derived chain (Manager Online; Komchadluek).","reviewed_on":"2026-10-04"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Manager Online, citing the Royal Thai Police and the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau, says the network used AI to fake the singer's face and voice in advertising clips, and the charges in the summons include a Computer Crime Act offence over AI-created data or images. Komchadluek says the face and voice in the clips were altered with AI. No tool is named. The clips depicted and impersonated the singer (depicted_or_impersonated).","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Thailand: cyber police say an illegal gambling website, KFC888, used AI to fake the face and voice of luk thung singer Hai Arpaporn Nakhonsawan in advertising clips that urged people to sign up, as if she endorsed it; two Bangkok premises searched and a company representative summoned to acknowledge charges, reported 1 to 2 July 2026","summary":"Manager Online reported on 2 July 2026, citing the Royal Thai Police and its Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau, that cyber police had moved against a large online gambling network after finding that it used AI to fake the face and voice of Hai Arpaporn Nakhonsawan, a well-known luk thung singer, in advertising clips that urged people to join the website. The clips gave the false impression that she recommended the site, although she had no involvement. Police traced the clips to the website KFC888, which offered online lottery, foreign stock-index lottery and sports betting, with turnover estimated at about 120 million baht a month. They searched two locations in Bangkok, a residence believed to be linked to the site's executives and an electronic payment-gateway company, seized computers and documents, and summoned an authorised person of the company to acknowledge charges including a Computer Crime Act offence over AI-created images that may damage others. Komchadluek reported on 1 July that the singer went to the cyber police after Facebook Reels clips altered with AI used her face and voice without her consent.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-07-01","aiSystem":"Unidentified AI technology used to fake Hai Arpaporn Nakhonsawan's face and voice in advertising video clips for the KFC888 gambling website, per the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau","aiProduct":"Unidentified video and voice-cloning tool","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Cyber police say AI was used to fake the singer's face and voice in clips promoting an illegal gambling website, creating the false impression that she endorsed it; Komchadluek reports she went to the cyber police and that the clips used her likeness without consent (Manager Online; Komchadluek).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, Hai Arpaporn Nakhonsawan, whose face and voice were faked (Manager Online; Komchadluek). People who saw the clips or joined the website are not counted; no losses are reported. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"TH","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://mgronline.com/news1/detail/9690000063627","primarySourceLabel":"Manager Online, 2 July 2026: Cyber police pursue 2.5-billion-baht website that used AI to fake Hai Arpaporn's face","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-04T03:29:55.628533+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-04T03:29:55.628533+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfakes","ai-faked-voice","celebrity-impersonation","online-gambling","facebook-reels","public-figure","thailand","thai-language"]},{"id":"2026-paraiso-das-aguas-ms-deepfake-viva-sorte-presenter-video-call-farmer-loss","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'O crime foi aplicado por meio de uma videochamada, em que os golpistas usaram tecnologia de deepfake'; 'para simular a presença do apresentador Renato Ambrósio, responsável pelos sorteios do Viva Sorte'; 'o criminoso afirmou que a vítima havia sido contemplada'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'os criminosos utilizaram tecnologia de inteligência artificial para simular, durante uma videochamada, a imagem e a voz do apresentador Renato Ambrósio'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Os criminosos utilizaram inteligência artificial para fazer videochamada com a vítima, assim conseguiram utilizar a imagem e voz do apresentador.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"A rural producer from Paraíso das Águas received a video call in which scammers used AI deepfake technology to simulate the image and voice of Renato Ambrósio, the presenter of the Viva Sorte draws, and was told a prize had been won.","causal_attribution":"Reported by three outlets relaying one BNC Notícias account; how the video was identified as AI-generated is not stated."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'O falso apresentador chamou o produtor pelo nome completo, mencionou informações pessoais'; 'Entre as exigências estavam transferências via Pix, envio de CPF e até o compartilhamento da tela do celular, permitindo que os criminosos visualizassem o acesso ao aplicativo bancário.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Segundo relatos do produtor à polícia, a abordagem foi altamente convincente. O falso apresentador chamou a vítima pelo nome completo, mencionou dados pessoais'; 'Entre as exigências estavam transferências via Pix, envio de CPF e até o compartilhamento da tela do celular com acesso ao aplicativo bancário.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The caller used the farmer's full name and personal details and asked for Pix transfers, the CPF number and sharing of the phone screen with the banking app open.","causal_attribution":"MS Todo Dia attributes the description of the call to the farmer's statements to the police; not independently established."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'acabou acumulando um prejuízo superior a R$ 700 mil'; 'a vítima seguiu as orientações e acabou realizando movimentações financeiras e assumindo um financiamento. Com os juros do empréstimo, o prejuízo final ultrapassou R$ 700 mil.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'A vítima chegou a contratar um financiamento de R$ 360 mil'; 'Com os juros, o prejuízo total ultrapassou R$ 700 mil.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Neste valor, está incluso um financiamento de R$ 360 mil.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The farmer followed the instructions, took out a R$360,000 loan and, with the interest, lost more than R$700,000 in total.","causal_attribution":"The loss amount is reported by one reporting chain; no police or bank figure was inspected."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Nas redes sociais do Viva Sorte, foi publicado um vídeo afirmando que não realizam chamadas de vídeo com os consumidores.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Viva Sorte posted a video on its social media saying it does not make video calls to customers.","causal_attribution":"Reported company response; the video itself was not inspected."}],"effects":[{"label":"lost more than R$700,000, including a R$360,000 loan and its interest, after a deepfake video call","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.campograndenews.com.br/cidades/interior/golpe-com-deepfake-usa-imagem-de-famoso-e-faz-produtor-perder-r-700-mil","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"pt","translation_note":"Read in Portuguese on 2026-10-04 from the Wayback capture of 2026-04-10 (live page HTTP 403, site firewall). Researcher translation. Credits BNC Notícias. The outlet's AI-generated summary box was not used.","independence_group":"bnc-noticias-paraiso-das-aguas"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.mstododia.com.br/noticias/30737-produtor-rural-perde-mais-de-r-700-mil-em-golpe-com-inteligencia-artificial-em-paraiso-das-aguas","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"pt","translation_note":"Read in Portuguese on 2026-10-04 (HTTP 200). Researcher translation. Credits reporting by BNC, so it is in the same reporting chain as s1.","independence_group":"bnc-noticias-paraiso-das-aguas"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://midiamax.com.br/policia/2026/produtor-rural-cai-golpe-ia-perde-r-700-mil-paraiso-aguas/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"pt","translation_note":"Read in Portuguese on 2026-10-04 from the Wayback capture of 2026-04-10 (live page HTTP 403). Researcher translation. Ends with a credit to BNC Notícias, so it is in the same reporting chain as s1.","independence_group":"bnc-noticias-paraiso-das-aguas"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["When the video call and the transfers happened.","The platform used for the video call.","How the video was identified as AI-generated and which tool was used.","Whether police identified a suspect or any money was recovered.","The content of the original BNC Notícias report and of any police statement."],"geography":{"basis":"The reports describe the victim as a rural producer from Paraíso das Águas, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, and Campo Grande News says the case was registered at the town's police station. Where the callers were is not reported. No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["BR"],"affected_person_countries":["BR"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a core case: according to three regional reports relaying one BNC Notícias account, AI was used to impersonate a television presenter in a video call that led a farmer to lose more than R$700,000. The victim is unidentified in the sources, and the presenter is named only as the person impersonated.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-04"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"All three reports say the scammers used AI (deepfake technology) to simulate the presenter's image and voice during a video call with the farmer. The AI-generated likeness was the channel through which the farmer was spoken to (communicated_with), and it impersonated the presenter (depicted_or_impersonated). The reports do not say how the video was identified as AI-generated or which tool was used.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with","depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Paraíso das Águas, Mato Grosso do Sul: a farmer lost more than R$700,000, including a R$360,000 loan, after a video call in which scammers used AI to simulate the Viva Sorte prize-draw presenter","summary":"Three Mato Grosso do Sul outlets, all crediting BNC Notícias, reported on 10 April 2026 that a rural producer from Paraíso das Águas fell for the so-called Viva Sorte scam. In a video call, scammers used AI deepfake technology to simulate the image and voice of Renato Ambrósio, the presenter of the Viva Sorte prize draws, told the farmer a prize had been won and set out steps to release it: Pix transfers, sending the CPF tax number and sharing the phone screen while the banking app was open. The farmer followed the instructions and took out a R$360,000 loan; with interest, the total loss exceeded R$700,000. One report says the farmer gave this account to the police. The farmer is not identified, no date is given and no arrest is reported.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-04-10","aiSystem":"AI deepfake technology used in a video call to simulate the image and voice of the Viva Sorte presenter, as reported (tool not identified)","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A farmer from Paraíso das Águas lost more than R$700,000, including a R$360,000 loan and its interest, after a video call in which scammers used AI to simulate the Viva Sorte presenter, according to three regional reports relaying BNC Notícias.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the Paraíso das Águas farmer who lost more than R$700,000 (all three reports). The presenter whose likeness was simulated is not reported to have been harmed and is not counted, nor is the Distrito Federal target, who made no payment. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"BR","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.campograndenews.com.br/cidades/interior/golpe-com-deepfake-usa-imagem-de-famoso-e-faz-produtor-perder-r-700-mil","primarySourceLabel":"Campo Grande News, 10 April 2026: Golpe com deepfake usa imagem de famoso e faz produtor perder R$ 700 mil","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-04T03:29:30.313355+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-04T03:29:30.313355+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","video-call","celebrity-impersonation","prize-scam","fraud","mato-grosso-do-sul","brazil","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2023-actor-tony-ramos-interview-redubbed-into-fake-prostate-remedy-ad","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'A equipe do ator alertou que uma entrevista que ele deu ao programa \"Mais Você\", da Ana Maria Braga, foi alterada digitalmente para promover um remédio supostamente milagroso para hiperplasia da próstata.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Segundo a equipe, falas de Tony Ramos foram editadas com o uso de tecnologia avançada para fazer parecer que ele estava endossando o produto. A equipe enfatizou que a voz do ator foi redublada e que o conteúdo original era uma homenagem a colegas de profissão.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The actor's team said that an interview he gave to 'Mais Você' was digitally altered, with his words edited and his voice redubbed, to make him appear to endorse a supposedly miraculous remedy for prostate hyperplasia.","causal_attribution":"The team's account as relayed by Terra; the video was not inspected."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'é a mais nova vítima do uso indevido de imagem em vídeos falsos criados com inteligência artificial (IA)'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Terra described the clips as fake videos created with artificial intelligence.","causal_attribution":"Terra's framing; the team statement it quotes refers to advanced technology without naming AI."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Roubaram minha imagem em uma entrevista com a Ana Maria Braga. Dublaram, mal dublado, aliás, e fizeram eu vender um remédio para próstata'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Uma deepfake sua, em uma entrevista com Ana Maria Braga, circulou nas redes sociais para vender remédios para a próstata.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"On 'Roda Viva' on 28 September 2026, Ramos said his image had been taken from an interview with Ana Maria Braga, badly dubbed and made to sell a prostate medicine; Estado de Minas describes the clip as a deepfake that circulated on social networks.","causal_attribution":"His own account and the outlet's 'deepfake' label. Estado de Minas says this happened 'recentemente'; whether it is the 2023 video or a later recirculation is not stated."}],"effects":[{"label":"image and redubbed voice used without consent in a fake advertisement for a prostate remedy","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.terra.com.br/diversao/tony-ramos-e-a-mais-nova-vitima-de-proliferacao-de-golpes-com-ia,77e3ad25ee4be9c660a202668da183d28j74r5v3.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"pt","translation_note":"Read live in Portuguese on 2026-10-01 (Terra, published 6 December 2023 per the page metadata). Licensed Pipoca Moderna article (byline Pedro Benjamin Prado); relays a statement by the actor's team. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"ramos-team-statement-2023"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.em.com.br/cultura/2026/09/7510638-tony-ramos-detona-uso-de-inteligencia-artificial-para-recriar-atores-um-horror.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"pt","translation_note":"Read live in Portuguese on 2026-10-01 (Estado de Minas, 29 September 2026); reports his remarks on 'Roda Viva' of 28 September 2026. The page credits its image to Tupi, which carries an article with the same title; the broadcast itself was not viewed. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"roda-viva-interview-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["work","health"],"unknowns":["When the video first circulated, on which platforms, and whether it recirculated after December 2023.","Whether anyone bought the advertised product or lost money.","Whether a complaint, takedown or platform action followed.","Which tool was used and whether the voice was synthesised or dubbed by a person."],"geography":{"basis":"Neither inspected body states where the video circulated beyond 'redes sociais' or where the actor lives; no country is inferred from the Portuguese language, the outlets or the TV programmes.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a core case: an altered video depicted the actor endorsing a prostate remedy he did not endorse. He is a public figure who described it in his own words in 2026, and his team warned the public in 2023. The AI element rests on the outlets' description; the video was not inspected.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-01"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Terra describes the case as misuse of his image in fake videos created with artificial intelligence; the team statement it relays says his words were edited with 'tecnologia avançada' and his voice redubbed, without naming AI. Estado de Minas calls the clip a deepfake; Ramos's quoted words say the interview was dubbed ('Dublaram, mal dublado'). The video was not inspected and no tool is named. The altered video depicted him (depicted_or_impersonated).","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Actor Tony Ramos's interview on Ana Maria Braga's 'Mais Você' is digitally altered and redubbed into a fake advertisement for a prostate remedy, reported as made with AI; Terra reported his team's warning in December 2023 and he recounted it on 'Roda Viva' in September 2026","summary":"Terra reported on 6 December 2023 that the team of the actor Tony Ramos, then appearing in the telenovela 'Terra e Paixão', had warned that an interview he gave to Ana Maria Braga's programme 'Mais Você' was digitally altered to promote a supposedly miraculous remedy for prostate hyperplasia. According to the team, his words were edited with advanced technology to make it seem he endorsed the product, his voice was redubbed, and the original footage was a tribute to fellow professionals. Terra describes the clips as fake videos created with artificial intelligence. On the TV programme 'Roda Viva' on 28 September 2026, Ramos said his image had been stolen from that interview, badly dubbed and made to sell a prostate medicine (Estado de Minas, 29 September 2026), and Estado de Minas describes the clip as a deepfake that circulated on social networks. No buyer losses, complaint or takedown are reported.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2023-12-06","aiSystem":"Manipulated video of a 'Mais Você' interview in which the actor's words were edited and his voice redubbed to endorse a prostate remedy; Terra describes it as a fake video created with AI and Estado de Minas as a deepfake; the tool and the operators are not identified","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The actor's image and a redubbed voice were used without consent to make him appear to endorse a prostate remedy in a fake advertisement; his team had to warn the public, and he describes it as his image being stolen (his team's statement via Terra; his remarks on 'Roda Viva' via Estado de Minas).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, Tony Ramos (Terra; Estado de Minas). Viewers of the video and any buyers are not counted because no source reports anyone deceived. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.terra.com.br/diversao/tony-ramos-e-a-mais-nova-vitima-de-proliferacao-de-golpes-com-ia,77e3ad25ee4be9c660a202668da183d28j74r5v3.html","primarySourceLabel":"Terra, 6 December 2023: Tony Ramos é a mais nova vítima de proliferação de golpes com IA","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-01T03:12:24.125788+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-01T03:12:24.125788+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfakes","celebrity-deepfake","fake-advertisement","health-product-scam","voice-redubbing","actor","portuguese-language"]},{"id":"2026-sibling-reports-brother-in-psychosis-uses-chatgpt-to-self-diagnose-and-distrust-doctors-family-account","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'my older brother(m25) has been going through psychosis for 2 years now'; 'He uses chatgpt to diagnose himself with mental illnesses'; 'nor have the doctors found anything during any of their MULTIPLE tests that I was there for hours with him for'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster's older brother, 25, has been in psychosis for two years, and uses ChatGPT to diagnose himself with mental illnesses and physical disorders that doctors' repeated tests, some attended by the poster, have not found.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account of the brother's use; no ChatGPT outputs shown."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'s claimed chatgpt knows better than the doctors'; 'says the doctors are out to get him and are working for the government to make him suffer, and says that chatgpt understands him better than anyone ever could.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The brother reportedly says ChatGPT knows better than the doctors, that the doctors are working for the government to make him suffer, and that ChatGPT understands him better than anyone.","causal_attribution":"The brother's statements as relayed by the poster."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'psych staff let him go after 2 weeks. My brother had been dumping his pills.'; 'still doesn’t take any meds or go to therapy'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The brother was discharged after a two-week hospital admission, had been dumping his pills, and does not take medication or attend therapy.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account; the post does not attribute the discharge or the treatment refusal to ChatGPT except through the general 'enabler' remark (c5)."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'ve been his only safe person, and now he’s accusing me of things and saying chatgpt is telling him to be cautious because I’m famous'; 've been forced to cut him off because I can’t take it anymore.'; 'all I’ve gotten is more stress & anguish for myself.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster, who describes being the brother's only safe person, says the brother now accuses them and says ChatGPT is telling him to be cautious because of the brother's belief, as the poster describes it, that the poster is famous; the poster has cut contact and reports stress and anguish.","causal_attribution":"Poster's own account; what ChatGPT said is the brother's statement as relayed by the poster."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'He wouldn’t have an enabler if AI didn’t exist, he’s had everyone support him and try to get him housing and stability but he doesn’t believe anyone else.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster attributes the brother's persistence to ChatGPT acting as an enabler, saying he would not have one if AI did not exist and does not believe anyone else.","causal_attribution":"Poster's opinion; causation is not established."}],"effects":[{"label":"an adult described by his sibling as in psychosis reportedly uses ChatGPT to self-diagnose and says it knows better than the doctors whose tests found none of the conditions","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"the brother reportedly cites ChatGPT warnings in accusing the sibling who supported him, and the sibling has cut contact","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"},{"label":"stress and anguish reported by the sibling","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/antiai/comments/1wtt2z4/brother_is_going_through_psychosis_has_severe/","kind":"forum_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-30: full self-text and one comment retrieved through the arctic_shift archive API by post ID. The poster handle is not recorded.","independence_group":"reddit-sibling-psychosis-poster"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use","others_use"],"contexts":["health","relationships"],"unknowns":["What ChatGPT actually said: whether it offered diagnoses or warnings, or whether the brother interpreted its replies that way.","The brother's location, the dates of the hospital admission and of the ChatGPT use, and whether any clinician was told about it.","The brother's current condition and whether contact with the poster resumed."],"geography":{"basis":"The post names no country, city or hospital; the language and subreddit do not establish a location. Unknown after review.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter's public-forum rule as a concrete account by a family member of an ongoing adverse experience: a chatbot's reported role in an adult's self-diagnosis, distrust of clinicians, treatment refusal and estrangement, described with attribution and without corroboration. What ChatGPT said is known only through the brother's statements as relayed by the poster, and the record says so. The brother's diagnoses and the poster's personal history are summarised, not listed; no handle or location is recorded.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-30"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The poster says the brother uses ChatGPT to diagnose himself and relays the brother's statements that ChatGPT knows better than the doctors, understands him better than anyone and tells him to be cautious about the poster. No conversations or outputs were published; ChatGPT's actual replies are unknown, and the claim about the poster is the brother's statement as relayed by the poster (not recorded as a relation, because what ChatGPT said about the poster is unknown).","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Public forum account by a sibling: an adult who the sibling says has been going through psychosis for two years reportedly uses ChatGPT to diagnose himself with conditions doctors have tested for and not found, says ChatGPT knows better than the doctors, refuses medication and therapy, and now cites ChatGPT's warnings in accusing the sibling who supported him, who has cut contact","summary":"In a public post to r/antiai on 30 September 2026, a person writes that their older brother, 25, has been going through psychosis for two years, has schizophrenia and other mental health conditions, and uses ChatGPT to diagnose himself with mental illnesses and physical disorders, including conditions doctors have tested for repeatedly and not found. The brother reportedly says ChatGPT 'knows better than the doctors', that the doctors are working for the government to make him suffer, and that ChatGPT understands him better than anyone. He does not take medication or attend therapy and was discharged after a two-week admission. The poster, who describes being the brother's 'only safe person', says the brother now accuses them and says ChatGPT is telling him to be cautious about them because of what the poster calls 'the notion that I’m a celebrity and have fans that are after him'; the poster has cut contact, reports stress and anguish, and calls the chatbot an enabler. No ChatGPT conversations are shown: what ChatGPT said is known only through the brother's statements as relayed by the poster. The account is uncorroborated.","incidentKind":"ongoing_experience","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-09-30","aiSystem":"ChatGPT (as reported by the poster; no conversations or outputs were published)","aiProduct":"ChatGPT (reported)","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["impaired_judgment","relationship_disruption","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A sibling reports that their brother, who they say has been going through psychosis for two years, uses ChatGPT to self-diagnose conditions that repeated medical tests have not found, says the chatbot knows better than his doctors, refuses medication and therapy, and now cites ChatGPT's warnings in accusing the sibling, who has cut contact and reports stress and anguish (family account, uncorroborated; ChatGPT's role is as described by the brother and relayed by the poster).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Two people: the brother, who uses ChatGPT and whose reported self-diagnosis, distrust of doctors and estrangement are the adverse experience (participant user, 1), and the poster, who reports stress and anguish and the loss of the relationship (other person, 1). 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Claims remain attributed and causation is alleged; multiple reports of the same victim or police/court account are one independence group."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Original article body: buyer's expenditure, received supplements and refund request.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The buyer said she spent over $400 and that the product did not match the advertised representation; she sought a refund.","causal_attribution":"The inspected reporting describes this account. Claims remain attributed and causation is alleged; multiple reports of the same victim or police/court account are one independence group."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Original article body: original ad unavailable to the buyer.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The original report says she could not locate the triggering advertisement again.","causal_attribution":"The inspected reporting describes this account. Claims remain attributed and causation is alleged; multiple reports of the same victim or police/court account are one independence group."}],"effects":[{"label":"Reported expenditure of over $400 on supplements the buyer says were misrepresented","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://ksltv.com/ksl-investigates/get-gephardt/supplement-actually-common-spice/807223/","kind":"journalistic","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"ksl-supplement-victim"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://ksltv.com/ksl-investigates/get-gephardt/deepfakes-team-usa/886971/","kind":"journalistic","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"ksl-supplement-victim"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance","health","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["The purchase date, ad creator and generation tool are unknown.","Refund outcome and net unrecovered loss are not established."],"geography":{"basis":"KSL identifies the buyer as an Eagle Mountain, Utah resident in the United States.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"An inspected source describes a concrete person-level adverse experience connected to the specified AI use. 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Her purchase date is unknown.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2025-08-13","aiSystem":"Reported AI celebrity impersonation advertisement","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","aiCompany":"Unknown","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Reported expenditure of over $400 on supplements the buyer says were misrepresented","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"One interviewed Utah buyer is counted. General celebrity warnings and other buyers in the follow-up are not added.","victimAgeRange":"adult","platformType":"other","primarySourceUrl":"https://ksltv.com/ksl-investigates/get-gephardt/supplement-actually-common-spice/807223/","primarySourceLabel":"KSL, 13 August 2025, buyer interview; case-specific AI attribution in March 2026 follow-up","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-30T01:11:32.665644+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:58:23.556627+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":[]},{"id":"2025-markham-reported-musk-deepfake-crypto-loss","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Article body: Markham woman's first Facebook video and AI alteration account.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The reports link the woman's first Facebook investment contact to an AI-altered video purporting to show Elon Musk.","causal_attribution":"The inspected reporting describes this account. Claims remain attributed and causation is alleged; multiple reports of the same victim or police/court account are one independence group."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Article body: woman's account of home equity, fees, loans and total loss.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"They report total losses of about C$1.7 million, including home-equity borrowing, family loans and credit cards.","causal_attribution":"The inspected reporting describes this account. Claims remain attributed and causation is alleged; multiple reports of the same victim or police/court account are one independence group."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Article body: attribution to W5 investigation.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The reports attribute the woman's account to a W5 investigation.","causal_attribution":"The inspected reporting describes this account. Claims remain attributed and causation is alleged; multiple reports of the same victim or police/court account are one independence group."}],"effects":[{"label":"Reported loss of about C$1.7 million, with home borrowing and credit-card debt","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://money.ca/investing/cryptocurrency/woman-loses-over-a-million-to-fake-elon-musk-ai-crypto-scheme","kind":"journalistic","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"w5-canadian-scam-interviews"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.cryptopolitan.com/deepfake-crypto-scams-canadians-2-3-million/","kind":"journalistic","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"w5-canadian-scam-interviews"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance"],"unknowns":["The first contact date and generation tool are unknown.","The full original interview, payment records and later recovery were not inspected."],"geography":{"basis":"The sources identify the woman as a Markham, Ontario resident in Canada.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["CA"],"affected_person_countries":["CA"]},"publication":{"basis":"An inspected source describes a concrete person-level adverse experience connected to the specified AI use. 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The underlying W5 interview was not independently inspected in full; both written reports share that chain.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-01-09","aiSystem":"Reported AI celebrity impersonation video","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","aiCompany":"Unknown","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Reported loss of about C$1.7 million, with home borrowing and credit-card debt","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"One Markham woman is described as losing funds. Lenders and the other W5 interviewee are not included in this case's count.","victimAgeRange":"adult","platformType":"other","primarySourceUrl":"https://money.ca/investing/cryptocurrency/woman-loses-over-a-million-to-fake-elon-musk-ai-crypto-scheme","primarySourceLabel":"Money.ca, 9 January 2026, relay of W5 interview","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-30T01:11:06.444723+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:58:02.735791+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":[]},{"id":"2025-leesburg-reported-musk-video-scam-loss-marital-strain","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Article body: personalised video messages and adjoining deepfake explanation.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The man described personalised video messages purporting to be from Musk; WKMG presents them as an AI deepfake scam.","causal_attribution":"The inspected reporting describes this account. Claims remain attributed and causation is alleged; multiple reports of the same victim or police/court account are one independence group."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Article body: opening victim interview, amount and divorce exchange.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"He said he lost nearly $45,000 and his wife wanted a divorce because of the scam.","causal_attribution":"The inspected reporting describes this account. Claims remain attributed and causation is alleged; multiple reports of the same victim or police/court account are one independence group."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Article body: further transfers and police complaint paragraphs.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"He reported draining accounts, maxing out credit cards and filing a Leesburg police report when no payout arrived.","causal_attribution":"The inspected reporting describes this account. 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He also said his wife wanted a divorce because of the scam; no completed divorce or loss of his home is established.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2025-12-15","aiSystem":"Reported AI celebrity impersonation videos","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","aiCompany":"Unknown","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss","relationship_disruption"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Reported loss of nearly $45,000 and wife seeking a divorce because of the scam","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"One directly interviewed man is counted as a documented minimum. The joint headline does not provide a separate first-person account or quantified allocation of his wife's harm.","victimAgeRange":"elderly","platformType":"other","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.clickorlando.com/news/investigators/2025/12/15/elon-musk-giveaway-scheme-steals-45000-from-florida-couple/","primarySourceLabel":"WKMG News 6, 15 December 2025, victim interview","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-30T01:10:52.799708+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:57:56.730733+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":[]},{"id":"2025-us-reported-owen-wilson-video-impersonation-mother","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Original post selftext, paragraph 3: paragraph about purported identity video.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Article body, retained text line 53: paragraph about purported identity video.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The original family account says the mother was communicating with someone claiming to be Owen Wilson and that he sent a video as proof. LADbible describes the video as AI-generated.","causal_attribution":"One family account and a LADbible relay of it form one reporting chain. Belief and deception are reported, without technical verification of the video or an established financial loss."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Original post selftext, paragraph 1: paragraph about family warnings.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says she and her sister had warned their mother that it was a scam but the mother continued to trust the contact.","causal_attribution":"One family account and a LADbible relay of it form one reporting chain. Belief and deception are reported, without technical verification of the video or an established financial loss."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Original post selftext, paragraph 2: paragraph about claimed job and training payments.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Original post selftext, paragraph 2: paragraph about claimed job and training payments.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The mother reportedly received small Cash App payments for training for a supposed Warner Bros job and said she had not been asked for money or banking information.","causal_attribution":"One family account and a LADbible relay of it form one reporting chain. Belief and deception are reported, without technical verification of the video or an established financial loss."}],"effects":[{"label":"Reported trust in a fabricated celebrity contact and job offer","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/1kojqbe/us_owen_wilson_befriended_my_mother/","kind":"family_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"original-account-aiid-1126"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.ladbible.com/community/weird/ai-owen-wilson-scam-reddit-mother-falling-love-742361-20250530","kind":"journalistic","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"original-account-aiid-1126"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["relationships","finance"],"unknowns":["The beginning of the contact and the video's generation method are unknown. The report date is not used as the event date.","Whether the mother later sent money, ended the contact or obtained a genuine job is not established."],"geography":{"basis":"The original post explicitly labels the account [US] and describes the mother's local coastal town. A more precise location is omitted.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"A concrete family account and its journalistic relay describe an apparent AI impersonation sent to a mother and her continued belief despite warnings. Claims remain attributed and the case is undated. No monetary loss or genuine involvement by the actor or studio is asserted.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-30"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"LADbible describes the video sent directly to the mother as AI-generated. The archived post establishes that a video was sent, without independently establishing its generation method. The actual video was not inspected.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Daughter reports mother trusted a purported Owen Wilson deepfake and false job offer","summary":"A public Reddit family account says a mother trusted someone posing as Owen Wilson, despite her daughters' warnings. The poster says the contact moved from a game to WhatsApp and sent a video as proof of identity, while offering a supposed Warner Bros job and plans for a shared home. LADbible describes that attached video as AI-generated. The mother reportedly received small training payments and had not been asked for money or banking information. No financial loss is established.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2025-05-17","aiSystem":"Purported AI-generated celebrity impersonation video","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","aiCompany":"Unknown","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["impaired_judgment"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The daughter's account describes her mother continuing to trust an apparent celebrity impersonator and a false job offer despite family warnings. A monetary loss is not reported.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"One mother is the person described as deceived. The daughters, father and impersonated actor are not added to the harm count.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","platformType":"other","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/1kojqbe/us_owen_wilson_befriended_my_mother/","primarySourceLabel":"Public Reddit family account, 17 May 2025, with original text retained through Arctic Shift","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-30T01:10:19.726864+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:58:21.421143+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":[]},{"id":"2025-southampton-uk-reported-ai-celebrity-persona-messages-gift-card-payment","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"doctored images of celebrities such as","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"to unlock a non-existent prize of £500,000 and a Range Rover truck","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"going on for about five months","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"targeted by an army of AI scammers pretending to be A-list stars","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"relentlessly' targeted by AI-generated videos","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"A Southampton resident reported being sent, over about five months, AI-generated or doctored images and videos presenting several celebrity personas, together with a fake prize certificate and a request for an activation fee to unlock a prize of £500,000 and a car.","causal_attribution":"The resident's own account as told to a local news agency and repeated by the other outlets. The outlets reproduce material supplied by the resident and do not report verifying it. The AI generation is the resident's description and the description of a university AI expert who commented on the prize certificate."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"asking me for £200 and saying she loves me","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"paid £200 and I was bitten","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"send £200 worth of non-refundable Apple gift cards to the supposed Hollywood sweetheart","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"sent the money in the form of non-refundable Apple gift cards","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The resident paid £200 in non-refundable Apple gift cards to a persona presented as a celebrity who said she loved the resident and asked for money.","causal_attribution":"The resident's own account. The payment is stated by the resident and repeated by the other outlets. No bank, gift card or platform record was inspected."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"the scams are affecting","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"I can't keep taking that sort of hit","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"mental health and unable to work","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The resident said the scam messages were affecting the resident's mental health and that the resident could not keep taking that sort of hit.","causal_attribution":"The resident's statement. No clinical or other independent source is cited and the outlets do not establish that the messages caused any change in the resident's health."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"uses a neural network-generated image to create a fake prize notification","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The goal is to get the victim's home address under the guise of \"delivering\" prizes","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The scammer would input details like the victim's name (obtained from various sources) into an AI model to generate the image","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"A University of Southampton AI expert told the outlets that the messages were a phishing scam using a neural-network-generated prize certificate to obtain personal information such as a home address.","causal_attribution":"The expert's general description of this type of scam. The expert is not reported as having examined the resident's messages beyond the prize certificate described."}],"effects":[{"label":"Resident paid £200 in gift cards to a persona presented as a celebrity after months of AI-generated persona messages","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"Resident said the messages were affecting the resident's mental health","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/25272323.southampton-man-loses-200-ai-facebook-scam/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"resident-own-account-solent-news"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/35655414/jennifer-aniston-love-scam-ai/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read through an Internet Archive capture (about 8,000 characters, complete article text).","independence_group":"resident-own-account-solent-news"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14864301/scammed-hundreds-pounds-AI-deepfake-Jennifer-Aniston.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"resident-own-account-solent-news"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://nypost.com/2025/07/02/us-news/scammed-brit-thought-jennifer-aniston-was-in-love-with-him/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Rewrite that cites The Sun.","independence_group":"resident-own-account-solent-news"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["The start date of the messages is not stated. The resident is quoted as saying it had been going on for about five months and no outlet gives the interview date, so the calendar start is not established.","The outlets reproduce material supplied by the resident and none reports verifying the messages, videos or images. No AI tool or account is identified.","The £200 payment and the mental-health effect are the resident's statements. No record was inspected.","The resident said an acquaintance lost over a thousand pounds in gift cards to these scams. No detail or independent source is given, so that person is not counted.","The four outlets appear to share the resident's single interview with a local news agency. Whether the Daily Mail conducted its own interview is not stated, so all outlets are treated as one chain."],"geography":{"basis":"The outlets state the resident is based in Southampton and call the resident a Brit. The messages arrived on Facebook and the country where the resident received them is not stated, so the event country is left unknown. No country is inferred from an outlet.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":["GB"]},"publication":{"basis":"A resident of Southampton described the experience to a local news agency and several outlets repeated it. All claims are attributed to that account. The resident is not named and the celebrities depicted are not named in public fields because none of them spoke about this event. Detail is limited to what states the harm. The start date is not established, so the case is published undated.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The resident described the videos as AI-generated and a University of Southampton AI expert described the prize certificate as generated by a neural network. No outlet reports verifying the messages or identifies any AI tool. Two of the persona claims (a driving licence image and audio clips) are described by the outlets without an AI attribution specific to them.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Southampton resident reports about five months of AI-generated celebrity persona messages and a £200 gift-card payment","summary":"The Daily Echo (29 June 2025), the Daily Mail (1 July 2025), and The Sun and the New York Post (2 July 2025) reported that a Southampton resident said the resident had been 'relentlessly' sent AI-generated or doctored celebrity images and videos on Facebook for about five months, with a fake prize certificate and requests for an activation fee to unlock a prize of £500,000 and a car. The resident said one persona presented as a celebrity said she loved the resident and asked for money, and that the resident paid £200 in Apple gift cards. The resident also said the messages were affecting the resident's mental health and said an acquaintance had lost over £1,000 to the same kind of scam (second-hand, not counted here). A University of Southampton AI expert described the messages as a phishing scam using an AI-generated prize certificate. All outlets rest on the resident's own account, and none reports verifying the messages. The start date is not established.","incidentKind":"ongoing_experience","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2025-06-29","aiSystem":"Unidentified generative AI image and video tools (reported by the resident and an expert)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image and video tool","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The resident reported paying £200 in Apple gift cards to a persona presented as a celebrity, and said the ongoing messages were affecting the resident's mental health. Both statements are the resident's own account. No independent record of the payment or of any health effect was inspected.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"One resident reports paying £200 and reports mental-health effects. An acquaintance reportedly lost over £1,000 to the same kind of scam, stated second-hand by the resident with no detail, so that person is not counted. The celebrities depicted are not reported harmed and are not counted. Other people sent similar messages are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","platformType":"other","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/25272323.southampton-man-loses-200-ai-facebook-scam/","primarySourceLabel":"Daily Echo (Southampton), local report, 29 June 2025","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T14:02:51.736649+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:16.316398+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":[]},{"id":"2026-northern-ireland-ai-celebrity-video-investment-scam","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'A person has lost £250,000 after falling victim to an AI-generated scam'; 'saw what appeared to be an AI-generated video featuring a well-known personality from the financial sector'; 'persuaded the victim in the Ards and north Down area to create multiple online accounts and gained remote access to their computer'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'a victim lost £250,000 in Ards and North Down'; 'encouraged to borrow money to continue investing'; 'further payments were required before money supposedly held in the investment could be released'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'the victim was encouraged to borrow money to continue investing. Funds were transferred to accounts controlled by the criminals'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"A person in the Ards and North Down area lost £250,000 to an investment fraud that began with an apparently AI-generated video of a well-known financial personality, progressed through WhatsApp contact, multiple new online accounts, remote access to the victim's computer and borrowing to invest, and ended with demands for further payments to release the funds.","causal_attribution":"Single PSNI account relayed by three outlets; the AI-generated nature of the video is the police's description ('what appeared to be')."}],"effects":[{"label":"one person lost £250,000 (partly borrowed) to an investment fraud lured by an AI-generated celebrity video","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2zkp8vx9jo","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-17 and 2026-09-18 (BBC News NI, Ben Lonsdale, 7 Sep 2026). Reports the PSNI statement and adds that BBC News NI has seen online scams using Martin Lewis, Peter Jones and Steven Bartlett; the PSNI did not confirm the personality.","independence_group":"psni-statement"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.irishnews.com/news/northern-ireland/psni-urging-public-to-be-vigilant-after-sophisticated-investment-fraud-victim-looses-250000-IZL253VWX5BOLJN7ZKZ56RUYDY/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-18 via the MSN content API copy (Irish News, 7 Sep 2026). Carries the full PSNI statement including the Inspector Youle and Superintendent Gibson quotations.","independence_group":"psni-statement"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.farminglife.com/news/crime/warning-after-victim-loses-ps250000-in-ai-investment-scam-in-northern-ireland-8972844","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-18 via the MSN content API copy (Farming Life, 7 Sep 2026). Same PSNI statement.","independence_group":"psni-statement"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["The dates over which the fraud ran are not given.","The impersonated personality and the AI tool are not identified.","No arrest or recovery of funds is reported.","The victim's age and circumstances are not described."],"geography":{"basis":"The PSNI locates the victim in the Ards and North Down area of Northern Ireland (UK, recorded as GB). No court proceeding.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["GB"],"affected_person_countries":["GB"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an impersonation-fraud case with a concrete, police-reported consequence: one identified-but-anonymous person lost £250,000 after an AI-generated celebrity video lure. Three outlets read, all relaying one PSNI statement; claim status reported.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-18"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The PSNI says the fraud began with 'what appeared to be an AI-generated video' of a financial personality; no technical confirmation is published. The relation recorded is that the AI artifact depicted and impersonated a public figure to reach the victim; the victim's own dealings were with human fraudsters on WhatsApp.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland: a person lost £250,000 to an investment fraud that began with an AI-generated video of a well-known financial personality","summary":"On 7 September 2026 the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said a person in the Ards and North Down area had lost £250,000 in what it called a 'sophisticated and substantial' investment fraud. The victim first saw what appeared to be an AI-generated online video featuring a well-known personality from the financial sector promoting an investment with significant returns. After investing a small amount the victim was contacted on WhatsApp and encouraged to pay more, persuaded to open multiple online accounts, to allow the fraudsters remote access to a computer 'to assist with the investment', to borrow money to keep investing, and finally to make further payments to 'release' funds supposedly held in the investment. The PSNI did not name the personality; BBC News NI noted that fabricated endorsements of financial experts such as Martin Lewis, Peter Jones and Steven Bartlett circulate online.","incidentKind":"ongoing_experience","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-09-07","aiSystem":"AI-generated video impersonating a well-known financial personality (tool not identified; personality not named by police)","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"One person lost £250,000, including borrowed money, to an investment fraud that used an AI-generated video of a financial personality as its lure and progressed through WhatsApp grooming and remote computer access.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The PSNI describes a single victim who lost £250,000. Exact count of one.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"GB","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2zkp8vx9jo","primarySourceLabel":"BBC News NI, 7 Sep 2026: Victim loses £250k after scammers use AI video of 'well-known' celebrity (PSNI statement)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-18T03:25:09.292712+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:46.91163+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","ai-generated-video","celebrity-impersonation","investment-fraud","united-kingdom","northern-ireland","psni","financial-loss"]}]}