{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-08T04:49:42.623Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"companion","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"unknown","response":"regulatory","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":0,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":1,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":1,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":1,"minors":1,"coreRelations":0,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":1,"relationPending":1,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2025-zhumengdao-minor-self-harm-china","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Re-checked on 2026-10-07 against seven cited source bodies read in Chinese (Sohu, Bianews, The Paper, the Shanghai cyberspace office notice as relayed by Sina, 21st Century Business Herald via Sina, Guangming and Tencent News). The Paper, Guangming and Tencent News describe the affected child as the fourth-grade daughter of a Ms Ding from Guangdong, attributing the account to earlier media reporting; Sohu attributes the same account to 央广网. That descriptor establishes the child's reported home region as Guangdong, China, so affected_person_countries stays CN. No inspected source states where the conversations with the companion character, the knife-carrying or the self-harm took place, and a residence is not used as the event location, so event_countries remains a reviewed unknown. The Shanghai municipal cyberspace office summoned the operator on 19 June 2025; that is a regulatory meeting and not a court proceeding, so court_countries stays empty. The translation of the Chinese passages was done by the research agent (an AI), not a human translator.","evidence":[{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"from Guangdong province, China","location":"victim_description","supports":["affected_person_countries"],"countries":["CN"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"广东丁女士的四年级女儿","location":"https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_31024491","supports":["affected_person_countries"],"countries":["CN"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"广东丁女士的四年级女儿","location":"https://m.gmw.cn/2025-06/22/content_1304065491.htm","supports":["affected_person_countries"],"countries":["CN"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"广东丁女士的四年级女儿","location":"https://news.qq.com/rain/a/20250622A02TST00","supports":["affected_person_countries"],"countries":["CN"]}],"court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":["CN"]},"unresolved":["The event setting is unknown after review. The inspected sources describe the child as the daughter of a Ms Ding from Guangdong, which records a home region and not where the conversations or the self-harm took place.","No court country established. The Shanghai cyberspace office summons of 19 June 2025 is a regulatory action and no court proceeding is reported.","Row-correction leads for a full review: the cited Sohu primary source is dated 23 June 2025 while primary_source_date is 19 June 2025; the account of the child originates in a 央广网 (CNR) report that the row does not cite; 36Kr and OSCHINA could not be read and may be shells of the same relayed text; the incident_date 2025-01-01 with range precision is not supported by a dated event in any inspected body (the sources say the reporting was recent as of June 2025)."],"reviewed_on":"2026-10-07","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://www.sohu.com/a/907114014_115565","notes":"Cited primary source. Read live on 2026-10-07 (HTTP 200, html lang zh-CN). Sohu Tech feature dated 23 June 2025 (the stored primary_source_date is 19 June 2025). It reports the 19 June summons by the Shanghai cyberspace office and attributes the account of the 10-year-old girl to a 央广网 report; it does not itself name Guangdong. Translation by the research agent (an AI).","access":"read","language":"zh"},{"url":"https://www.bianews.com/news/details?id=214733","notes":"Read live on 2026-10-07 (HTTP 200, no html lang attribute; body in Chinese). Same text as the Sohu Tech feature (a republication), so not an independent account. Does not name Guangdong. Translation by the research agent (an AI).","access":"read","language":"zh"},{"url":"https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_31024491","notes":"Read live on 2026-10-07 (HTTP 200, no html lang attribute; body in Chinese). CCTV.com (央视网) post on The Paper dated 22 June 2025, datelined Shanghai, relaying the 网信上海 notice and describing the child as the fourth-grade daughter of a Ms Ding from Guangdong, attributed to earlier media reporting. The mobile page returned a short body (about 1,600 characters); the passages used were present. Translation by the research agent (an AI).","access":"read","language":"zh"},{"url":"https://finance.sina.com.cn/tech/roll/2025-06-19/doc-infarhce7134693.shtml","notes":"Read live on 2026-10-07 (HTTP 200, no html lang attribute; body in Chinese). Sina Tech relay of the 网信上海 notice dated 19 June 2025 19:30: the Shanghai municipal cyberspace office summoned the operator's principal that morning. No child or location is described. Translation by the research agent (an AI).","access":"read","language":"zh"},{"url":"https://finance.sina.com.cn/wm/2025-06-22/doc-infaxaan4320733.shtml","notes":"Read live on 2026-10-07 (HTTP 200, no html lang attribute; body in Chinese). 21st Century Business Herald analysis of 22 June 2025 on the summons and the AI companion sector; it cites the 央广网 report in general terms and does not name Guangdong or describe the child. Translation by the research agent (an AI).","access":"read","language":"zh"},{"url":"https://m.gmw.cn/2025-06/22/content_1304065491.htm","notes":"Read live on 2026-10-07 (HTTP 200, no html lang attribute; body in Chinese). Guangming Online copy of the CCTV.com piece of 22 June 2025 carrying the Ms Ding from Guangdong passage (same origin as The Paper, not independent). Translation by the research agent (an AI).","access":"read","language":"zh"},{"url":"https://news.qq.com/rain/a/20250622A02TST00","notes":"Read live on 2026-10-07 (HTTP 200, html lang zh-CN). Tencent News item of 22 June 2025 relaying the summons and attributing the Ms Ding from Guangdong account to 央广网 (same origin as The Paper and Guangming). Translation by the research agent (an AI).","access":"read","language":"zh"},{"url":"https://36kr.com/p/3521421957782665","notes":"Live fetch on 2026-10-07 answered HTTP 200 with a JavaScript shell and no article text; the Internet Archive web/2026id_ capture was the same shell. The body was not inspected and no language is recorded.","access":"unavailable","language":null},{"url":"https://www.oschina.net/news/356329","notes":"Live fetch on 2026-10-07 answered HTTP 200 with a site shell and no article text; the Internet Archive web/2026id_ capture was the same shell. The body was not inspected and no language is recorded.","access":"unavailable","language":null}]},"name":"筑梦岛 (Zhumu Island) AI Companion Minor Self-Harm (China)","summary":"A fourth-grade girl from Guangdong, China became obsessed with an AI companion character named 'Joseph' on the 筑梦岛 (Zhumu Island) app, began carrying small knives, and exhibited self-harm behavior. Investigation revealed the app sent sexually suggestive content to users who identified as 10 years old. Shanghai Internet Information Office summoned the company (a Tencent subsidiary) for immediate rectification in June 2025.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2025-06-19","aiSystem":"筑梦岛 (Zhumu Island / Dream Island)","aiProduct":"筑梦岛 (Dream Island)","aiCompany":"Xiaoxiang Academy (潇湘书院), subsidiary of Yuewen Group (阅文集团), controlled by Tencent","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":["dependency_creation","minor_exploitation","romantic_escalation","self_harm_encouragement"],"harmOutcomes":["self_injury","psychological_distress","exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A fourth-grade participant became preoccupied with a companion character, began carrying small knives and exhibited self-harm behavior while the app delivered sexualized content to users identifying as ten years old.","frameworkFacets":["P1a","P1d","P2b","P2c","P5a","P5d"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The reporting documents one protected minor participant's self-harm and distress. Registered-user and demographic figures are not affected-person counts.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"CN","platformType":"companion","outcomeType":"regulatory_action","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.sohu.com/a/907114014_115565","primarySourceLabel":"搜狐新闻 (Sohu News), 23 June 2025 (attributes the account of the child to 央广网, CNR)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-01-29T10:15:46.75695+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-08T03:12:00.834518+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["china","minor","self-harm","ai-companion","tencent","regulatory-action","dependency","romantic","non-western"]}]}