{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-12T06:16:53.492Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"deferred-prosecution","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":1,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":1,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-taipei-ai-deepfake-nude-drug-photo-of-mayoral-candidate-resharer-deferred-prosecution","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'今年6月4日晚間9時18分，利用AI技術合成沈伯洋與裸露女子不實影像，再將照片擺放在疑似毒品施用器具的桌面上拍攝，營造沈涉及不良場所、吸毒及性行為的假象'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'製作沈伯洋與穿著裸露之不詳女子合照，照片中還有一張桌子，桌上還有不明白色粉末及疑似毒品施用器具，以此深度偽造不實的性影像'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"An X account posted a fabricated photo on 4 June 2026 showing Shen with a scantily dressed woman and apparent drug paraphernalia, implying drug use and sexual activity; prosecutors say the account used AI technology to synthesise it.","causal_attribution":"Prosecutors' decision as relayed by two outlets; the AI wording appears in the Liberty Times account, TaiSounds says computer synthesis or other technological methods."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'調查局使用深偽影像檢測軟體Reality Defender分析，結果顯示「發現深度偽造」'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'調查局先以深偽影音檢測軟體Reality Defender分析本案照片，結果顯示「發現深度偽造」。再以Resemble.AI及Media Integrity AI等多種科技工具複測，均判定為合成影像'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The Investigation Bureau's analysis with Reality Defender returned 'deepfake detected', and re-tests with Resemble AI and Media Integrity AI found the image synthetic.","causal_attribution":"Forensic finding of the investigating agency, reported from the prosecutors' decision; detector outputs are probabilistic."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'沈伯洋發現後認為名譽嚴重受損，委任律師向法務部調查局台北市調查處提起告訴'; '於同年6月7日上午，在Threads瀏覽該張照片後，未經合理查證，即在其個人臉書公開張貼該照片'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'沈伯洋提出告訴後，案件由調查局台北市調查處偵辦'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Shen considered his reputation seriously damaged and filed a complaint through a lawyer with the Investigation Bureau's Taipei office after a 66-year-old man reshared the image on Facebook on 7 June with a real photo of him.","causal_attribution":"The complainant's position as recorded in the prosecutors' decision."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'緩起訴期間為2年。'; '接受地檢署法治教育10場次'; '告訴人沈伯洋已具狀表示同意緩起訴'; '檢調追查發現其IP位址位於中國，目前已另案深入偵辦中'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'已涉犯加重誹謗罪，考量他無前科、坦承犯行，接獲調查局通知後立即刪文，並公開道歉、澄清影像造假'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Prosecutors concluded that the resharer's reposting amounted to aggravated defamation and, citing his confession, deletion of the posts, public apology and Shen's written consent, deferred prosecution for two years with ten law-education sessions; the original X account, whose IP address was traced to China, is under separate investigation.","causal_attribution":"Prosecutorial decision as reported; the decision document itself was not inspected."}],"effects":[{"label":"a politician falsely depicted in an AI-synthesised sexualised, drug-related photo, reporting serious reputational damage","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/society/breakingnews/5603305","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh-Hant","translation_note":"Read in Traditional Chinese by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-12 and translated by that agent; no human translation. Liberty Times, 12 Oct 2026 10:45, HTTP 200; reports the deferred-prosecution decision in detail. A rated-content interstitial precedes the article text.","independence_group":"taipei-prosecutors-deferred-prosecution-decision"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.taisounds.com/news/content/97/293471","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh-Hant","translation_note":"Read in Traditional Chinese by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-12 and translated by that agent; no human translation. TaiSounds, 12 Oct 2026 10:29, HTTP 200; article text taken from the page body (the generic strip lost it). Same underlying decision as s1, so the same independence group.","independence_group":"taipei-prosecutors-deferred-prosecution-decision"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["justice","public_life"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool generated the image.","Who operates the original X account, and the outcome of the separate investigation.","Whether the woman shown in the image is a real person.","How widely the image circulated."],"geography":{"basis":"The depicted politician is a Taipei mayoral candidate, the resharer posted on Facebook and the complaint and decision were handled by the Investigation Bureau's Taipei office and the Taipei District Prosecutors Office. The original account's IP address was traced to China, which is not recorded as the event country because the posting location is not established.","court_countries":["TW"],"event_countries":["TW"],"affected_person_countries":["TW"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core depiction case: according to the Taipei prosecutors' decision reported by two outlets, an X account used AI to synthesise a sexualised, drug-related image of a named politician, the Investigation Bureau's detection tools found it to be a deepfake, the politician complained of serious reputational damage, and a resharer received a deferred prosecution for aggravated defamation. The politician is named as a public figure and the complainant; the resharer and the reposting accounts are not named.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-12"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The prosecutors' decision, as reported by the Liberty Times, states that the X account used AI technology to synthesise the image of Shen with a nude woman, and the Investigation Bureau, which examined the image, reports a Reality Defender result of 'deepfake detected' confirmed by Resemble AI and Media Integrity AI. That generated image is the false depiction that was reshared and on which the complaint and the defamation finding rest (depicted_or_impersonated). TaiSounds describes the method only as computer synthesis or other technological methods.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Taipei prosecutors say an AI deepfake photo showed mayoral candidate Puma Shen with a nude woman and drug gear; a man who reshared it gets deferred prosecution","summary":"On the evening of 4 June 2026 an account on X posted a fabricated photo showing Puma Shen (沈伯洋), the Democratic Progressive Party's prospective candidate for Taipei mayor, beside a scantily dressed woman at a table with white powder and apparent drug paraphernalia, suggesting drug use and sex. According to the Taipei District Prosecutors Office decision reported by the Liberty Times and TaiSounds, the account used AI technology to synthesise the image, and it was then reposted by other accounts. On 7 June a 66-year-old man shared it on Facebook with a real photo of Shen and the comment 'does it look alike?'. Shen, who considered his reputation seriously damaged, filed a complaint with the Investigation Bureau's Taipei office, whose deepfake-detection software (Reality Defender) returned 'deepfake detected', and two further tools found the image synthetic. Prosecutors concluded that the man's reposting amounted to aggravated defamation; because he confessed, deleted the posts, published an apology and Shen agreed in writing, they deferred prosecution for two years on 12 October 2026 and ordered ten law-education sessions. The X account's IP address was traced to China and is under separate investigation. Shen is named as a public political figure and the complainant; the resharer is not named.","incidentDate":"2026-06-04","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-10-12","aiSystem":"An image that, according to the Taipei District Prosecutors Office decision as reported by the Liberty Times, an X account 'used AI technology to synthesise'; the Investigation Bureau's Reality Defender analysis returned 'deepfake detected' and re-tests with Resemble AI and Media Integrity AI found it synthetic. The generation tool is not named","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to Taipei prosecutors as reported by two Taiwanese outlets, an AI-synthesised photo falsely showed Taipei mayoral candidate Puma Shen with a nude woman and drug paraphernalia; Shen reported serious reputational damage and complained, and a man who reshared it received a two-year deferred prosecution for aggravated defamation.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: Shen, the depicted complainant who reported reputational damage. Shen did not use the tool, so is counted as another person harmed. The woman in the image is not identified and is not counted; viewers and reposters are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"TW","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/society/breakingnews/5603305","primarySourceLabel":"Liberty Times (自由時報), 12 Oct 2026: AI deepfake photo of Puma Shen, resharer gets deferred prosecution","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-12T03:23:17.888414+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-12T03:23:17.888414+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","ai-generated-image","politician","defamation","deferred-prosecution","taiwan","reputational-harm"]}]}