{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-11T09:43:24.059Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"colleagues","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"2025","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":2,"coverage":{"cases":2,"countries":2,"languages":3,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":2,"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-nt-police-deepfake-video-former-assistant-commissioner","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'In December 2025, I became aware that an AI-generated, sexually explicit video had been created using my official Northern Territory Police photograph,'; 'The video was then allegedly shared among serving members of the police force.'; 'A former Northern Territory Police assistant commissioner has taken her old colleagues to court for sharing a deepfake sexually explicit video that used her professional photograph.'; 'Ms Tonkin said what happened to her was \"extremely distressing, personally and professionally\".'; 'Janelle Tonkin issued a statement yesterday after criminal proceedings on the issue were finalised'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"In a statement issued on 23 September 2026, after criminal proceedings were finalised, the former NT Police assistant commissioner said that in December 2025 she became aware that an AI-generated, sexually explicit video had been created using her official NT Police photograph; ABC News reports the video was allegedly shared among serving members of the force and that she took former colleagues to court over it; she described the experience as extremely distressing personally and professionally.","causal_attribution":"The complainant's own statement and the ABC's description; the court proceedings and their outcome were not inspected. The 23 September date is derived from 'yesterday' in an article posted 24 September 2026."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The outcome of the court proceedings is unknown.'; 'However, the conduct that Commander Tonkin was subject to in this matter, was, and always will be, totally unacceptable,'; 'The NT Police Association (NTPA) also condemned the conduct, but could not confirm details of an internal police investigation into the matter'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The outcome of the court proceedings is not reported; the NT Police Force said it does not comment on internal investigations and was legally constrained on matters before the court, but called the conduct totally unacceptable; the NT Police Association condemned the conduct and could not confirm details of any internal investigation.","causal_attribution":"Statements to the ABC by the NT Police Force and the NTPA."}],"effects":[{"label":"an AI-generated sexually explicit video made from a senior police officer's official photograph was circulated among her colleagues, which she describes as extremely distressing personally and professionally","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-24/police-officers-share-ai-video-of-former-assistant-commissioner/107189604","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en-AU","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-25 (ABC News, Kylie Stevenson and Tilda Colling, 24 September 2026; html lang=en-AU). Carries Ms Tonkin's statement of 23 September, the NT Police Force and NT Police Association responses.","independence_group":"abc-tonkin-statement"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.ntnews.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-nt/former-nt-police-assistant-commissioner-janelle-tonkin-alleges-multiple-cops-shared-extremely-distressing-pornographic-deepfake-video/news-story/982b30e4376d3a54781c2d5a63576e2f","kind":"news_report","access":"unavailable","language":null,"translation_note":"Not read: the NT News item of 23 September 2026 returned HTTP 403 to this host (News Corp Australia); its headline in the Bing News feed refers to the same statement. Listed for completeness; no claim rests on it.","independence_group":"abc-tonkin-statement"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["work","privacy"],"unknowns":["Who created and who shared the video, how many officers were involved and how widely it circulated.","The charges laid, the court, and the outcome of the criminal proceedings (described by the ABC as finalised but unknown).","When the video was created; she became aware of it in December 2025.","The tool used to generate the video.","Whether an internal NT Police investigation or disciplinary process is continuing.","Whether Ms Tonkin remains a serving member of the NT Police Force: the ABC calls her a former assistant commissioner, while the NTPF statement refers to her as Commander Tonkin."],"geography":{"basis":"The video was circulated among serving members of the Northern Territory Police Force, the complainant's workplace when the video circulated (her own words: 'circulated among colleagues'), and the criminal proceedings concerned former colleagues in the Northern Territory (ABC News). Her residence is not stated separately; the affected-person country records her NT Police workplace. The court is not named in the report; court_countries is left empty.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["AU"],"affected_person_countries":["AU"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a workplace deepfake case with one identified depicted person who made the account public in her own name: an AI-generated sexually explicit video created from a senior officer's official photograph and allegedly circulated among her colleagues, reported by ABC News with the complainant's statement and the police force's and association's responses (one chain; a paywalled News Corp report was not read). Claims are recorded as reported; no alleged offender is named.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-25"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Ms Tonkin's statement, quoted by ABC News, says the sexually explicit video was 'AI-generated' and created from her official police photograph; the ABC describes it as a deepfake. No tool is identified and no court finding on the video's creation is reported.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Northern Territory: a former NT Police assistant commissioner says an AI-generated sexually explicit video made from her official police photograph was circulated among serving officers; she learned of it in December 2025 and issued a statement after criminal proceedings against former colleagues concluded (ABC News, 24 September 2026)","summary":"Janelle Tonkin, a former assistant commissioner of the Northern Territory Police Force and now president of the Australasian Council of Women and Policing, said in a statement issued on 23 September 2026, after criminal proceedings on the matter were finalised, that in December 2025 she became aware that an AI-generated, sexually explicit video had been created using her official NT Police photograph; ABC News reports that the video was allegedly shared among serving members of the force and that she had taken former colleagues to court over it. She called the experience 'extremely distressing, personally and professionally' and said having her professional portrait 'turned into pornography and circulated among colleagues is something no person should have to experience'. The outcome of the court proceedings is not reported. An NT Police spokesperson said the force does not comment on internal investigations and was legally constrained from commenting on matters before the court, but that the conduct she was subjected to 'was, and always will be, totally unacceptable'; the NT Police Association condemned the conduct. Ms Tonkin said the video sat within a broader set of experiences in the force that she intends to describe later.","incidentDate":"2025-12-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-24","aiSystem":"AI video-generation ('deepfake') tool used to create a sexually explicit video from an official police portrait photograph; not identified in the report","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A senior police officer's official portrait was used to create an AI-generated sexually explicit video that was allegedly circulated among her serving colleagues; she describes the experience as extremely distressing personally and professionally (her own statement as reported by ABC News). The circulation and the court proceedings are as described by ABC News; the proceedings' outcome is not reported.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One depicted person, the former assistant commissioner who issued the statement (ABC News). Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"AU","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-24/police-officers-share-ai-video-of-former-assistant-commissioner/107189604","primarySourceLabel":"ABC News, 24 September 2026: NT police officers allegedly circulated sexually explicit AI-generated video of former assistant commissioner","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-25T03:54:29.681398+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:47.302084+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","non-consensual-imagery","workplace","police","australia","northern-territory","criminal-proceedings","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2026-seoul-lab-colleagues-deepfake-sentence","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"Paragraphs 1-2: 서울북부지법 형사5단독 권소영 판사, 10일, 징역 1년6개월; 40시간 성폭력 치료 프로그램 이수; 취업제한 5년; 중국 국적 A(30)씨.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Paragraphs 1-3: 징역 1년 6개월; 40시간 치료프로그램; 5년간 취업제한; 중국 국적 대학원생 (30).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Opening paragraphs report the same 18-month sentence and associated orders but date sentencing to 9 September. That date contradicts the 10 September date reported by Newsis and News1; this source does not corroborate the exact date.","relation":"contradicts","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"On 10 September 2026 the Seoul Northern District Court sentenced a 30-year-old Chinese national doctoral student to 18 months in prison under the Sexual Violence Punishment Act for habitually producing manipulated sexual images of seven women from his university research laboratory, and ordered a 40-hour treatment programme and a five-year employment restriction at institutions for children, adolescents and people with disabilities.","causal_attribution":"Court judgment as reported by Newsis, News1 via Dong-A and The Korea Herald via The Straits Times; the written judgment was not inspected. The Korean accounts give 10 September while the Korea Herald copy gives 9 September. The record follows the two Korean accounts and retains the unresolved date discrepancy."},{"id":"c2","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"Paragraphs 5-8: 지난해 11월부터 약 6개월간; 1141개; 개인 노트북에 보관; 유포됐다고 확실히 볼 만한 정황은 없다.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Paragraphs 5-6 and 8: 1141건; 유포됐다고 볼 만한 사정은 없는 점.","relation":"context","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Paragraph 4: 1,141 files; paragraph 9: no evidence the content had been distributed.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Investigators found 1,141 manipulated images and videos on his computer, produced over about six months from November 2025 using the victims' facial photographs; the court found no evidence the material had been distributed.","causal_attribution":"Findings of the court as reported."},{"id":"c3","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"Paragraph 8: 생성형 인공지능(AI) '그록'의 안전장치를 우회하는 방법을 검색한 기록도 확인됐다.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Paragraph 5: 'Investigators also found that he had searched for ways to bypass safeguards built into Grok, a generative AI chatbot.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Investigators also found records of searches for ways to bypass the safeguards of the generative AI Grok.","causal_attribution":"Reported from the investigation; the reporting does not state which tool generated the images."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Paragraph 12: 'a lawyer representing five of the victims asked the court to impose a harsh sentence, saying they continued to suffer from fear, trauma and emotional distress'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"A lawyer representing five of the victims told the court they continued to suffer fear, trauma and emotional distress.","causal_attribution":"Victims' representative's statement as reported by The Korea Herald."},{"id":"c5","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"Paragraphs 4 and 9-10: 각 700만원 형사 공탁, 수령 거부; 검찰 징역 3년 구형, 신상정보 공개·고지 요청.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Paragraphs 6-7 and 9: 700만원씩 공탁, 수령 거부; 신상정보 공개·고지 명령 면제; 검찰 징역 3년 구형.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Paragraphs 7 and 10-11.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The defendant deposited 7 million won per victim with the court; the victims refused to accept it. Prosecutors had sought three years and public disclosure of his identity, which the court declined.","causal_attribution":"Procedural facts as reported."}],"effects":[{"label":"nonconsensual_sexualized_imagery","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"psychological_distress","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.newsis.com/view/NISX20260910_0003784048","kind":"news_report_court","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Model read the Korean original retained on 2026-09-15; no independent bilingual human review.","independence_group":"newsis"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.donga.com/news/Society/article/all/20260910/134641563/1","kind":"news_agency_report_syndicated_court","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Model read the Korean original retained on 2026-09-15; no independent bilingual human review. This Dong-A page is a News1 wire report, explicitly credited at the article’s beginning and end.","independence_group":"news1"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinese-student-sentenced-to-18-months-jail-in-s-korea-for-creating-1100-deepfakes-of-colleagues","kind":"news_report_syndicated","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"The Korea Herald report carried by The Straits Times (Asia News Network); read in English on 2026-09-15.","independence_group":"korea-herald"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["Which tool or service generated the images is not stated; the Grok safeguard-bypass searches are the only named system.","Whether either side appealed the first-instance sentence is not known.","The victims' ages are not reported; the university is not named here.","The written judgment was not inspected.","Exact event start day and end date are not reported; the sources describe about six months from November 2025.","Sentencing date differs across inspected reports: Newsis and News1 say 10 September 2026; the Korea Herald copy says 9 September. The written judgment was not inspected to resolve this."],"geography":{"basis":"Event and affected persons: the women and defendant worked or studied in the same university research laboratory in Seoul (Newsis; News1 via Dong-A). Court: Seoul Northern District Court. Newsis and News1 date the sentence to 10 September 2026; the Korea Herald copy gives 9 September.","court_countries":["KR"],"event_countries":["KR"],"affected_person_countries":["KR"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published after source, duplicate and sensitivity review under the 2026-09-15 charter: a first-instance criminal judgment reported by two Korean outlets and The Korea Herald. Neither the defendant nor the victims are named; no image content is described beyond the court's characterisation.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The court convicted the defendant of habitually editing and compositing the victims' faces into sexual images; Dong-A Ilbo and The Korea Herald report that investigators found search records for ways to bypass the safeguards of the generative AI Grok. The tool that produced the images is not named in the inspected reporting.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Seoul: doctoral student sentenced to 18 months for 1,141 AI-manipulated sexual images of seven laboratory colleagues","summary":"On 10 September 2026 the Seoul Northern District Court sentenced a 30-year-old Chinese national doctoral student to 18 months in prison for habitually producing manipulated sexual images of seven women who worked in his university research laboratory. Investigators found 1,141 files made over about six months from November 2025, and search records for ways to bypass the safeguards of the generative AI Grok; the court found no evidence of distribution. A lawyer for five of the victims said they continued to suffer fear, trauma and distress. Prosecutors had sought three years and public disclosure of his identity, which the court declined.","incidentDate":"2025-11-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-10","aiSystem":"Generative AI image tools (unspecified; investigators found searches for bypassing Grok's safeguards)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Seven women had their faces composited into sexual images and videos without consent; a lawyer for five of them told the court they continued to suffer fear, trauma and emotional distress.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":7,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The court identified seven victims, members of the same research laboratory (Newsis; Dong-A; Korea Herald). The defendant is not counted.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.newsis.com/view/NISX20260910_0003784048","primarySourceLabel":"뉴시스 (Newsis), 10 September 2026: \"'동료 여성 딥페이크 1141개 제작' 중국인 유학생, 징역 1년6개월\"","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-15T03:23:43.390259+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:52.80899+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfakes","south-korea","non-consensual-imagery","university","criminal-charges","grok"]}]}