{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-02T17:26:32.370Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"college","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"2026","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":3,"coverage":{"cases":3,"countries":3,"languages":2,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":1,"minors":1,"coreRelations":3,"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-los-banos-substitute-teacher-ai-lingerie-image-student-impersonation-account","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'On March 12, as he was working his other part-time job at a coffee shop, his phone lit up. A fellow barista said there was an AI photo circulating on social media.'; 'But instead of his work uniform, he was wearing lingerie. And instead of standing normally, as he had been in the original photo, he was posing suggestively.'; 'knew from the local middle school, where he regularly filled in.'; 'He discovered that a different student had created an account impersonating him—it used his name, slightly mispelled, and had the same photo as their profile picture.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The article describes the image as incorporating elements of an older photograph of him that had been manipulated to depict him in lingerie and in a suggestive pose.'","relation":"context","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"On 12 March 2026 the teacher learned that an AI-generated image resembling him, made from an old mirror selfie but showing him in lingerie and posing suggestively, was circulating on social media; one TikTok account sharing it belonged to a student at the middle school where he substituted, and a different student had created an account impersonating him with the image as its profile picture.","causal_attribution":"The teacher's account to WIRED; the students' identities and the tool are not established in the reporting."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'he went back and forth with school administrators, the parents of the students, and even the police.'; 'One student, who admitted to creating the image, was disciplined with in-school suspension.'; 'was later told that the image was also shared on Snapchat.'; 'He says he also received several crude, sexual comments on his TikTok account.'; 'During one class, he received an AirDropped photo of the same AI-generated image before it was quickly revoked.'; 'He tells WIRED that, at least right now, he doesn’t feel safe doing so.'; 'reported the incident to the assistant principal'; 'the image continued to proliferate, and other students began posting it.'; 'he didn’t want to take assignments at the middle school “until this matter is fully addressed.”'; 'he probably won’t return to the district this year.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'said he eventually stopped accepting assignments at the middle school and told the publication he did not feel safe returning to the district at the time of the interview.'","relation":"context","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"He reported the image to the assistant principal and dealt with administrators, parents and police over the following weeks; a student who admitted creating it received an in-school suspension; the image was also shared on Snapchat and continued to spread, he received crude sexual comments on TikTok, he declined further middle-school assignments, the same image was AirDropped to him during a class at the local high school, and he told WIRED he does not feel safe returning to the district.","causal_attribution":"The teacher's account and WIRED's reporting; the school's discipline decision is known through him. The district did not respond to WIRED."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The district did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'described the incidents in an Aug. 24 WIRED investigation examining educators who have been targeted with AI-generated sexualized content.'; 'The middle school, high school and school district were not identified by name in the WIRED report.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The district did not respond to WIRED's request for comment. The Los Banos Enterprise, summarising the WIRED report on 25 August 2026, states that WIRED did not identify the middle school, high school or district by name, and adds no reporting of its own.","causal_attribution":"Reporting-chain note: the local paper's item is derived from WIRED and does not corroborate the account independently."}],"effects":[{"label":"a sexualised AI image made from an old selfie circulated among students on TikTok and Snapchat and was used by a student account impersonating him","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"he received crude sexual comments, stopped taking assignments at the middle school and says he does not feel safe returning to the district","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.wired.com/story/teachers-deepfake-ai-students-content/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-30 (WIRED, Caroline Haskins, 24 August 2026); full visible text and the page's JSON-LD articleBody saved. The teacher's account is given in his own words and in WIRED's paraphrase; the district did not respond to WIRED.","independence_group":"wired-haskins-teachers-deepfakes-2026-08-24"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://losbanosenterprise.com/business/technology/2026/los-banos-substitute-teacher-says-sexualized-ai-image-of-him-circulated-among-students/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Live page returned Cloudflare HTTP 403 on 2026-09-30; read from the Internet Archive capture of 27 August 2026 (web.archive.org/web/20260827032911id_/). Los Banos Enterprise staff report, 25 August 2026, which summarises the WIRED investigation and adds no independent reporting; same chain as s1.","independence_group":"wired-haskins-teachers-deepfakes-2026-08-24"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["work","education","privacy"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool produced the image.","How many students shared the image and how widely it spread beyond the two schools.","Whether the police took any action after his reports.","Whether the impersonation account was removed and whether he reported the content to TikTok or Snapchat.","The district's position; it did not respond to WIRED."],"geography":{"basis":"The teacher is a substitute in Los Banos, California, and the image circulated among students at the local middle school and high school (WIRED). No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the charter's personal-account rule as a concrete account by a named adult who spoke to a journalist about his own case (depicted_or_impersonated): a sexualised AI image of a substitute teacher circulated among students, a student account impersonated him, a student admitted making it and was suspended in school, and he stopped working at the middle school and says he does not feel safe returning. The account rests on one reporting chain (WIRED, summarised by the local paper); the district did not respond, and the record says so. Students are minors and are not identified.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-01"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"WIRED describes the image as AI-generated and the teacher says it reworked an old mirror selfie of his to show him in lingerie; a student admitted creating it. The tool is not named and no technical assessment of the image is reported.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Los Banos, California: a substitute teacher says a sexualised AI image of him made from an old selfie circulated among middle-school students on TikTok and Snapchat and was used by a student account impersonating him; one student received in-school suspension and he stopped taking assignments at the middle school","summary":"WIRED (Caroline Haskins, 24 August 2026) reports the account of a substitute teacher in Los Banos, California, who spoke to WIRED by name (not repeated here). On 12 March 2026 a co-worker at his other job told him an AI photo was circulating on social media; the image reused a mirror selfie he had taken at a job in college but showed him in lingerie, posing suggestively. He traced an account sharing it on TikTok to a student at the middle school where he regularly substituted and reported it to the assistant principal; that evening he found a second account, created by a different student, impersonating him under a misspelled version of his name with the image as its profile picture. Over the following weeks he dealt with administrators, parents and the police; one student who admitted creating the image received an in-school suspension. He says the image was also shared on Snapchat, kept spreading among students and drew crude sexual comments on his TikTok account. He told administrators he would not take assignments at the middle school until the matter was addressed; at the local high school the same image was AirDropped to him during a class. WIRED says the district did not respond to its request for comment. He said he does not feel safe returning to the district. The Los Banos Enterprise (25 August 2026) summarised the WIRED account; no independent local reporting was found.","incidentDate":"2026-03-12","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-08-24","aiSystem":"Unidentified AI image tool used, according to WIRED and the teacher's account, to turn an old mirror selfie into a sexualised image of him in lingerie; the app is not named","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","professional_harm","reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A sexualised AI image made from his old selfie circulated among students on TikTok and Snapchat, a student account impersonated him with it, he received crude sexual comments, and he stopped taking assignments at the middle school and says he does not feel safe returning to the district (the teacher's account to WIRED).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One teacher describes being depicted; WIRED's three other teacher accounts are separate incidents in other places and are not counted here. Exact count 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.wired.com/story/teachers-deepfake-ai-students-content/","primarySourceLabel":"WIRED, 24 August 2026: They Dedicated Their Lives to Teaching. Then the Deepfakes Started (Caroline Haskins)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-01T03:11:26.386118+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-01T03:11:26.386118+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","sexualised-imagery","teacher","substitute-teacher","school","tiktok","snapchat","impersonation","harassment","california","los-banos","depicted-or-impersonated","first-person-via-journalist"]},{"id":"2026-bahawalpur-teen-claude-methanol-father-nccia-arrest","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Pakistan's National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) has arrested a 17-year-old student in Bahawalpur for allegedly attempting to poison his father after seeking advice from an AI, the agency said.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Pakistan's National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) arrested a 17-year-old college student in Bahawalpur, Punjab, for allegedly attempting to poison his father, the arrest being announced on 23 September 2026.","causal_attribution":"Agency account of the arrest. The suspect has not been convicted; the allegations are untested."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The teenager allegedly poisoned his father once, but the attempt had no effect.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The FIR said digital evidence shared with Pakistani authorities indicated that the user had allegedly made an initial attempt to poison his father by mixing laboratory-grade methanol into his food.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"According to the NCCIA and the First Information Report, the teenager had earlier administered a home-made substance to his father once, described in the FIR as laboratory-grade methanol mixed into his food, and the attempt had no effect.","causal_attribution":"The alleged poisoning attempt preceded the reported chatbot consultation; no AI role in the first attempt is reported."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'When the attempt failed, he consulted Claude’s chatbot on September 12, telling it his father had “accidentally” ingested 15–20ml of methanol mixed with food but that nothing happened, and asked the chatbot to explain why.'; 'When Claude refused to guide him further, the boy wrote:'; 'He reportedly then consulted Grok (xAI) and ChatGPT (OpenAI) as well.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'After the attempt failed, he allegedly sought further information from the AI about abrin, a toxic substance derived from rosary peas.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"After the attempt failed, the teenager consulted Anthropic's Claude chatbot; according to The News, on 12 September 2026 he told it his father had 'accidentally' ingested 15 to 20 ml of methanol mixed with food without effect and asked why, Claude refused to guide him further, and he then reportedly turned to Grok and ChatGPT. The FIR, as reported, says he sought information from the AI about abrin.","causal_attribution":"Investigators' account of the chat content. No transcript was published and no chatbot reply beyond the refusal is reported."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Activities of both were reported by Anthropic to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which subsequently conveyed the information to Pakistani authorities.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'According to the First Information Report (FIR) registered in the case, the FBI information was conveyed to the NCCIA by Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs through an official communication on September 22.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Anthropic reported the activity to the FBI, whose information reached the NCCIA through Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 22 September 2026, and the NCCIA traced and arrested the teenager on that basis.","causal_attribution":"The provider's report of the chats led to the referral and arrest, as reported. No public confirmation by Anthropic, the FBI or the foreign ministry is reported in the read sources."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'A court has since granted him bail after his father forgave him, even if he had been planning something sinister.'; 'he also refused to admit to any planning'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"A court later granted the teenager bail after his father forgave him; the teenager did not admit to any planning.","causal_attribution":"Single-outlet report of the procedural outcome, attributed to the investigating agency context."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'He later sought further guidance from an AI chatbot, asking how to administer a poison that would kill his father without anyone finding out, according to the NCCIA.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'had asked various AI chatbots for information on how to produce methanol'; 'the suspect turned to AI and asked what reaction methanol would cause in the human body if ingested, and what effects it would have on the liver'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"NCCIA accounts of what the teenager asked the AI differ: the agency's 23 September statement said he asked how to administer a poison that would kill his father undetected; the agency statement reported by The Media Line said he asked various chatbots how to produce methanol; and the NCCIA director said he asked what reaction methanol would cause in the human body and its effects on the liver. No read source reports any chatbot supplying such guidance.","causal_attribution":"Agency descriptions of the queries; replies are reported only for Claude (a refusal, per The News)."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'His aim was to experiment with producing biodiesel from methanol by using sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide in the process.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'His father supported him throughout.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"The NCCIA director said the teenager had an interest in chemistry and aimed to experiment with producing biodiesel from methanol, and The News reports that his father supported him throughout.","causal_attribution":"Contrary context: an innocent explanation for the chemicals given by the investigating director, and the father's support for his son."}],"effects":[{"label":"father reportedly fed methanol in his food by his son, with no reported effect","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"17-year-old arrested and detained after an AI provider's report reached Pakistani investigators; later bailed","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1417323-pakistani-breaking-bad-fan-arrested-for-trying-to-poison-father-with-ai-help","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live in English on 2026-09-29 (published 23 September 2026). Relays the NCCIA spokesperson statement.","independence_group":"nccia-investigation"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://themedialine.org/headlines/fbi-tip-leads-to-arrest-of-pakistani-teen-in-ai-poison-plot/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live in English on 2026-09-29 (26 September 2026). Reports the First Information Report and the NCCIA statement; the FIR itself was not inspected. The Jerusalem Post republished the same Media Line text (27 September 2026).","independence_group":"nccia-investigation"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.thenews.pk/print/1440108-chatbot-that-called-fbi-inside-two-ai-linked-murder-plots-in-pakistan","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live in English on 2026-09-29 (print edition dated 29 September 2026; online from 28 September 19:00 UTC). Attributes its details to NCCIA investigators and officials; treated as the same investigative chain as the agency statement.","independence_group":"nccia-investigation"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["relationships","justice"],"unknowns":["The date of the methanol attempt, and whether the father needed medical attention.","The full content of the chats and any replies from Grok or ChatGPT.","The charges framed and the date and court of the bail order.","Independent confirmation of the referral by Anthropic, the FBI or Pakistan's foreign ministry.","Whether the father's ingestion is established by evidence other than the teenager's own chat statements flagged to the FBI; the 15 to 20 ml quantity is the teenager's figure."],"geography":{"basis":"The arrest took place in Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan, where the family lives and where a court granted bail (The News).","court_countries":["PK"],"event_countries":["PK"],"affected_person_countries":["PK"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a core case (the teenager communicated with Claude about a poisoning his father had survived, and the provider's report led to his arrest). All read accounts derive from the NCCIA investigation (agency statement, FIR and investigators); the allegations are untested. The suspect is a minor and is not named. No injury to the father is reported.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The NCCIA's FIR, as reported by The Media Line, says FBI information described a Claude user researching lethal toxic substances; The News reports investigators' account that the teenager consulted Claude on 12 September after the methanol attempt, that Claude refused further guidance, and that Anthropic reported the activity to the FBI. The first poisoning attempt preceded the reported chatbot use. Agency accounts of the queries differ (c6); no read source reports that any chatbot provided poisoning guidance.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Bahawalpur, Pakistan: a 17-year-old accused of putting methanol in his father's food is arrested after Anthropic reported his Claude chats about the failed poisoning to the FBI, which alerted Pakistan's cybercrime agency; he was later bailed","summary":"Pakistan's National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) announced on 23 September 2026 that it had arrested a 17-year-old college student in Bahawalpur for allegedly attempting to poison his father. According to the agency and the First Information Report, the teenager had set up a home laboratory, obtained chemicals from Australia and Islamabad, and once mixed laboratory-grade methanol into his father's food, without effect. The News reports investigators' account that on 12 September he told Anthropic's Claude that his father had 'accidentally' ingested 15 to 20 ml of methanol with food without effect and asked why, that Claude refused to guide him further, and that he then turned to Grok and ChatGPT; the FIR says he sought information about the toxin abrin. Anthropic reported the activity to the FBI, whose information reached the NCCIA through Pakistan's foreign ministry on 22 September. Officers traced the teenager, seized his phone and chemicals, and took him into custody. The News reports that a court later granted him bail after his father forgave him and that he denied any plan. The allegations are untested.","incidentDate":"2026-09-12","incidentEndDate":"2026-09-23","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-09-23","aiSystem":"Claude (Anthropic), consulted by the teenager and whose provider reported the activity, per the FIR as reported by The Media Line and investigators via The News; The News also reports later use of Grok (xAI) and ChatGPT (OpenAI)","aiProduct":"Claude (reported)","aiCompany":"Anthropic","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["legal_harm","loss_of_liberty"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A 17-year-old was arrested and detained on an allegation of trying to poison his father with methanol, after his chatbot queries about the failed attempt were reported by the AI provider to the FBI and passed to Pakistani investigators; he was later bailed (NCCIA via The News and The Media Line).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One AI participant, the 17-year-old who was arrested and detained (NCCIA via The News and The Media Line). The father ingested methanol with no reported effect and is not counted as harmed. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"PK","platformType":"chatbot","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://themedialine.org/headlines/fbi-tip-leads-to-arrest-of-pakistani-teen-in-ai-poison-plot/","primarySourceLabel":"The Media Line, 26 September 2026: FBI Tip Leads to Arrest of Pakistani Teen in AI Poison Plot","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T03:22:04.379946+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:25.345905+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["chatbot","claude","anthropic","provider-report","law-enforcement-referral","poisoning","methanol","minor","pakistan","nccia","communicated-with"]},{"id":"2026-indore-ai-photos-blackmail","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'बाणगंगा थाना क्षेत्र में एक छात्रा ने युवक पर आरोप लगाया है कि उसने उसकी पुरानी तस्वीरों को एआई की मदद से आपत्तिजनक तरीके से एडिट किया।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'एक निजी कॉलेज की प्रथम वर्ष की छात्रा ने अपने ही एक परिचित युवक पर गंभीर आरोप लगाए हैं।'; 'उस समय शादी के माहौल में दोनों के बीच सामान्य जान-पहचान हुई और इसी दौरान आरोपी ने छात्रा की कुछ तस्वीरें भी खींच ली थीं।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'इनकार करने पर आरोपी ने शादी में साथ खीचें फोटो को एआइ की मदद से अश्लील बनाकर सोशल मीडिया पर वायरल करने की धमकी देना शुरू कर दी।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"A first-year student at a private college in Indore complained that a young man she met at her sister's wedding in 2024, who took some of her photographs there, later pressed her to marry him and, when she refused, threatened to edit her photographs with AI into objectionable (Navbharat Times, Amar Ujala) or obscene (Patrika) images and post them online, and blackmailed her.","causal_attribution":"Complainant's account as relayed by the Banganga police (one chain)."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'आरोपी छात्रा के मंगेतर तक पहुंच गया और उसे एडिट की गई तस्वीरें दिखाईं। तस्वीरें देखने के बाद दोनों परिवारों में विवाद की स्थिति बन गई और आखिरकार सगाई टूट गई।'; 'इस घटना के बाद छात्रा गहरे मानसिक तनाव में चली गई।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'पीड़िता ने पुलिस को बताया कि दो माह पूर्व परिवार ने उनकी शादी एक युवक से तय कर दी।'; 'उसने मंगेतर को डरा धमकाकर शादी तुड़वाई।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'जब पीड़िता के परिवार ने उसकी शादी कहीं और तय करने की कोशिश की, तो आरोपी ने वहां भी बाधा डाली।'; 'लगभग दो महीने पहले जब युवती की सगाई हुई, तो आरोपी सीधे उसके घर पहुंच गया और होने वाले मंगेतर के सामने युवती के चरित्र पर झूठे आरोप लगाए, जिसके परिणामस्वरूप छात्रा की सगाई टूट गई।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"After her family arranged her engagement elsewhere, the accused intervened and the engagement was broken off: Navbharat Times says he reached her fiancé and showed him the edited pictures; Patrika says he went to the fiancé's home and intimidated him; Amar Ujala says he came to her house at the engagement about two months earlier and made false allegations about her character in front of the prospective fiancé. The student went into severe mental distress.","causal_attribution":"Complainant's account as relayed by police; the three descriptions of how the fiancé was approached are all recorded."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'इस मानसिक प्रताड़ना और सामाजिक अपमान से तंग आकर छात्रा ने आत्महत्या जैसा आत्मघाती कदम उठाने का मन बना लिया था।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'एडिशनल डीसीपी अमरेंद्र सिंह के मुताबिक छात्रा की शिकायत के आधार पर एफआईआर दर्ज कर ली गई है।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'अब पुलिस फरार आरोपी की तलाश में जुटी है।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Worn down by the harassment and social humiliation, she had resolved to take a suicidal step before confiding in her family, who took her to senior police officers; an FIR was registered at Banganga police station under the IT Act and sections on threats and defamation, and police were searching for the accused.","causal_attribution":"Amar Ujala's account of the suicidal intention and Navbharat Times' police quotation; no attempt is described."}],"effects":[{"label":"a college student was blackmailed with AI-edited images of herself; her engagement was broken off after the accused approached her fiancé, leaving her in severe distress","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/state/madhya-pradesh/indore/young-woman-photo-shown-to-her-fianc-engagement-broken-after-youth-in-indore-misuses-ai/articleshow/131043889.cms","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"hi","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-25 (Navbharat Times, Indore, 12 May 2026; html lang=hi). Hindi; passages quoted in the original and paraphrased in English by the reviewer. Quotes Additional DCP Amrendra Singh.","independence_group":"indore-banganga-complaint-may-2026"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.amarujala.com/madhya-pradesh/indore/indore-news-college-student-blackmailed-with-ai-edited-photos-2026-05-12","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"hi","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-25 (Amar Ujala, Indore, 12 May 2026; html lang=hi). Hindi; same complaint as relayed by police; adds the threats to kill and the suicidal intention.","independence_group":"indore-banganga-complaint-may-2026"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.patrika.com/indore-news/student-s-obscene-ai-generated-video-used-to-intimidate-fiance-s-family-and-force-cancellation-of-wedding-20575699","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"hi","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-25 (Patrika, Indore, 13 May 2026; html lang=hi). Hindi; same complaint; describes the visit to the fiancé's home.","independence_group":"indore-banganga-complaint-may-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["relationships","privacy","education"],"unknowns":["Whether the accused has been arrested or charged since May 2026.","Whether the edited images or a video were actually published anywhere; the reports describe threats and the showing of pictures to the fiancé and family.","The tool used and whether police examined the images.","When the blackmail began is not established (after the 2024 wedding). The engagement was fixed and broken about two months before the 12-13 May 2026 reports (Amar Ujala 'लगभग दो महीने पहले'; Patrika 'दो माह पूर्व'), so the incident month is recorded as March 2026, approximately; the complaint month is a reporting date and is not used as the event date.","The complainant's age (a first-year college student; recorded as adult on that basis without a stated age)."],"geography":{"basis":"Complaint at Banganga police station, Indore, Madhya Pradesh; the complainant studies at a college in Indore and the accused is from a locality of Indore (Navbharat Times, Amar Ujala). No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["IN"],"affected_person_countries":["IN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Restored under the 2026-09-15 charter as an image-based blackmail case with one identified (unnamed) depicted person, an FIR and a reported broken engagement and severe distress, based on three Hindi reports relaying the complainant's account through the Indore police (one chain); claims recorded as reported. The original ID and first-publication timestamp are preserved; the historical row's statement of a suicide attempt is corrected to a reported suicidal intention. The accused is not named in the public text.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-25"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The complainant, as relayed by the Banganga police to three Hindi outlets, alleges that the accused edited her photographs with AI into an objectionable form and threatened to make them and a video viral; Navbharat Times says the edited pictures were shown to her fiancé. No tool is identified and the images were not examined by the reports.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Indore: a first-year college student complained in May 2026 that a man she met at her sister's wedding edited her photographs with AI into objectionable images after she refused to marry him, blackmailed her with them and, after approaching her fiancé (the reports differ on how), caused her engagement to be broken off; she had been contemplating suicide before confiding in her family (Navbharat Times, Amar Ujala, Patrika, 12-13 May 2026)","summary":"Indore police registered an FIR at Banganga police station on a first-year college student's complaint reported on 12 and 13 May 2026. She said she had met the accused, a young man from the Indore area, at her sister's wedding in 2024, where he took some photographs of her; he later pressed her to marry him and, when she refused, threatened to edit her photographs with AI into objectionable (Navbharat Times, Amar Ujala) or obscene (Patrika) images and post them online. Navbharat Times reports that he edited the pictures with AI, blackmailed her with them and, after her family arranged her engagement elsewhere, reached her fiancé and showed him the edited pictures, after which the families quarrelled and the engagement was broken; Patrika says he went to the fiancé's home and intimidated him into breaking the match; Amar Ujala says he also threatened to kill her and her family and sent edited pictures when her family tried to reason with him, and that when her engagement took place about two months earlier he went to her house and made false allegations about her character in front of the prospective fiancé, after which the engagement broke. She went into severe mental distress and, according to Amar Ujala, had resolved to take a suicidal step before telling her family, who took her to the police. The FIR was registered under the IT Act and sections on criminal intimidation and defamation; police were searching for the accused.","incidentDate":"2026-03-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-05-12","aiSystem":"AI image-editing tool used to alter the complainant's photographs into obscene images (not identified in the reports); Patrika also refers to an AI-made obscene video","aiProduct":"Unidentified image and video tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","relationship_disruption","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A college student's photographs were edited with AI into objectionable images used to blackmail her; the accused approached her fiancé (shown the edited images per Navbharat Times; intimidated in person per Patrika and Amar Ujala) and her engagement was broken off; she suffered severe mental distress and, according to Amar Ujala, had resolved on a suicidal step before confiding in her family (her complaint as relayed by police to three Hindi outlets). The AI editing and the coercion are the complainant's allegations in an untried case.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One complainant, the college student whose photographs were edited and who was blackmailed (all three reports). Her fiancé and family are not counted as harmed.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"IN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/state/madhya-pradesh/indore/young-woman-photo-shown-to-her-fianc-engagement-broken-after-youth-in-indore-misuses-ai/articleshow/131043889.cms","primarySourceLabel":"Navbharat Times, 12 May 2026: युवती की फोटो उसके मंगेतर दिखाई, जिसके बाद टूटी सगाई; इंदौर में युवक ने AI का किया गलत इस्तेमाल","firstPublishedAt":"2026-06-15T07:32:37.615682+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:40.5921+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","sextortion","blackmail","non-consensual-imagery","engagement","india","indore","madhya-pradesh","fir","depicted-or-impersonated"]}]}