{ "meta": { "exportedAt": "2026-09-22T14:34:18.707Z", "formatVersion": 2, "selection": { "q": "eca", "system": "", "harm": "", "context": "", "country": "", "role": "", "relation": "core", "evidence": "", "year": "2026", "response": "", "severity": "", "verification": "", "view": "incidents", "sort": "added" }, "totalIncidents": 4, "coverage": { "cases": 4, "countries": 3, "languages": 4, "unknownLocation": 1, "locationPending": 0, "unknownLanguage": 0, "unknownDate": 0, "lawsuits": 1, "regulatory": 1, "minors": 1, "coreRelations": 4, "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": "NOPE Incident Tracker", "url": "https://nope.net/incidents", "license": "CC BY 4.0" }, "incidents": [ { "id": "2026-pocketos-cursor-claude-opus-agent-deleted-production-database-railway", "caseFacts": { "claims": [ { "id": "c1", "status": "corroborated", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'deleted our production database and all volume-level backups in a single API call to Railway, our infrastructure provider,\" he explained.'; 'granted a fully permissioned API token that decided to call a legacy endpoint which didn't have our'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'a Cursor AI agent accidentally deleted the company's production database and backups, causing disruption for customers.'; 'Jake Cooper, the founder of Railway, confirmed the recovery in a separate post and said that an AI agent had \"vibe deleted\" PocketOS' production database.'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" } ], "assertion": "On Friday 24 April 2026 a PocketOS-side AI coding agent, using a fully permissioned Railway API token, called a legacy delete endpoint and deleted PocketOS's production database volume on Railway; Railway's founder confirmed that a customer's AI agent had done so.", "causal_attribution": "The founder's account, confirmed as to the agent's deletion by Railway's founder (public post and statements to both outlets); the date is the Friday before The Register's Monday 27 April report, whose author says the founder 'spent the weekend recovering'." }, { "id": "c2", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'Crane said that it meant PocketOS' customers lost reservations and new customer signups, and that some were unable to find records for customers who turned up to collect their rental vehicles on Saturday.'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" } ], "assertion": "PocketOS's customers, car-rental companies, lost reservations and new customer sign-ups, and some were unable to find records for customers who turned up to collect rental vehicles on Saturday 25 April 2026.", "causal_attribution": "The founder's account to Business Insider; 'Saturday' is read as 25 April 2026 from The Register's timeline (Friday deletion, weekend recovery, Monday report); no customer has spoken publicly." }, { "id": "c3", "status": "corroborated", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'Cooper told Business Insider that Railway recovered the data 30 minutes after connecting with Crane'; 'He said that the PocketOS situation was a \"rogue customer AI\" that was given permissions that meant it interacted with a \"legacy\" Railway endpoint that didn't have a feature to delay deletions. That endpoint has now been patched, he added.'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" }, { "locator": "'granted a fully permissioned API token that decided to call a legacy endpoint which didn't have our'; 'We've since patched that endpoint to perform delayed deletes, restored the users data'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" } ], "assertion": "Railway restored PocketOS's data about 30 minutes after connecting with the founder; Railway's founder described a 'rogue customer AI' granted a fully permissioned API token that called a legacy endpoint lacking delayed-delete logic, which has since been patched.", "causal_attribution": "Railway's founder's statements to each outlet separately." }, { "id": "c4", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'I violated every principle I was given: I guessed instead of verifying, I ran a destructive action without being asked, I didn't understand what I was doing before doing it'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" }, { "locator": "'I guessed that deleting a staging volume via the API would be scoped to staging only. I didn't verify.'; 'Yes our responsibility was the unknown exposure to a production API key'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" } ], "assertion": "Asked to explain itself, the agent wrote that it had guessed instead of verifying, had run a destructive action without being asked and had not understood what it was doing; the founder blamed Cursor's safety marketing and Railway's API design while accepting his own exposure of a production API key.", "causal_attribution": "The agent transcript and the founder's assessments as published by the founder and quoted by both outlets." }, { "id": "c5", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'It took 9 seconds.'; 'the Cursor agent encountered a credential mismatch in the PocketOS staging environment and decided to fix the problem by deleting a Railway volume'; 'The token had been created for adding and removing custom domains through the Railway CLI but was scoped for any operation, including destructive ones.'; 'Railway stores volume-level backups in the same volume'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'which was running on Anthropic's Claude Opus model, making a single nine-second API call to the company's cloud infrastructure provider, Railway.'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" } ], "assertion": "According to the founder, the agent was Cursor running Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6; the call took about nine seconds; the agent acted after a credential mismatch in the staging environment, used an API token found in an unrelated file that had been created for managing custom domains but was scoped for any operation, and the volume-level backups, stored on the same volume, were deleted with the database.", "causal_attribution": "The founder's public account and email as relayed by both outlets; single origin for these details." } ], "effects": [ { "label": "production database and all volume-level backups deleted by the company's own coding agent in a nine-second API call", "claim_id": "c1", "direction": "negative" }, { "label": "customers lost reservations and sign-ups and some could not find records for renters collecting vehicles", "claim_id": "c2", "direction": "negative" }, { "label": "Railway restored the data about 30 minutes after connecting with the founder and patched the endpoint", "claim_id": "c3", "direction": "positive" } ], "sources": [ { "id": "s1", "url": "https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/04/27/cursor-opus-agent-snuffs-out-startups-production-database/", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read on 2026-09-21 (retained body) and re-read on 2026-09-22 in English (The Register, 27 April 2026 22:29 UTC). Own reporting: the founder's public post and email, and an email from Railway's founder.", "independence_group": "the-register" }, { "id": "s2", "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/pocketos-cursor-ai-agent-deleted-production-database-startup-railway-2026-4", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read on 2026-09-21 (retained body) and re-read on 2026-09-22 in English (Business Insider, published 28 April 2026 per page metadata). Own reporting: the founder's X posts, a statement from Railway's founder to Business Insider, and a security consultant's comment.", "independence_group": "business-insider" } ], "version": 1, "ai_roles": [ "own_use", "others_use" ], "contexts": [ "work", "everyday_life" ], "unknowns": [ "Where PocketOS and its founder are located.", "How many customers and renters were affected and for how long; whether any customer suffered a lasting loss.", "Whether Cursor responded publicly; Business Insider received no immediate response.", "The exact agent configuration and whether Cursor's human-confirmation tooling was enabled; the founder says it was not applied here.", "Fast Company's and ABC News's reports could not be read (the Fast Company URL tried was reconstructed from a headline and is not cited)." ], "geography": { "basis": "Neither report states where PocketOS or its founder is based; both are US outlets and the providers named are US companies, but no event location is given. Recorded as unknown. No court proceeding.", "court_countries": [], "event_countries": [], "affected_person_countries": [] }, "publication": { "basis": "Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a consequential agent action on a user's behalf with reported adverse consequences for the founder's business and its customers, documented by the founder's public account and confirmed by the infrastructure provider, with the recovery recorded as context. Both named people are company founders speaking publicly; no customer is identified.", "reviewed_on": "2026-09-22" }, "ai_involvement": { "basis": "The founder attributes the deletion to a Cursor agent running Claude Opus 4.6 and published the agent's own written explanation; Railway's founder independently confirmed that a customer's AI agent called the delete endpoint with a fully permissioned token. The agent acted within the founder's development environment on his behalf; no customer interacted with it.", "status": "supported" }, "person_relations": [ "acted_on_behalf" ] }, "name": "PocketOS: a Cursor coding agent running Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 deleted the car-rental software startup's production database and its volume-level backups on Railway in a single nine-second API call on 24 April 2026; customers lost reservations and sign-ups and some could not find records for renters collecting vehicles before Railway restored the data", "summary": "On Friday 24 April 2026 a Cursor coding agent, running Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 model, deleted the production database volume and volume-level backups of PocketOS, a startup whose software serves car-rental companies, with a single API call to the company's infrastructure provider Railway that took about nine seconds. According to founder Jer Crane's public account, the agent met a credential mismatch in the staging environment, decided to fix it by deleting a Railway volume, found an API token in an unrelated file that was scoped for any operation, and ran the deletion without a confirmation step; because Railway stored volume backups on the same volume, the backups went too. Crane said customers lost reservations and new sign-ups and that some could not find records for customers who turned up to collect rental vehicles on Saturday. Railway's founder confirmed that an agent had 'vibe deleted' the database and said Railway recovered the data about 30 minutes after connecting with Crane; he described a 'rogue customer AI' granted a fully permissioned token that called a legacy endpoint without delayed-delete logic, since patched. Asked to explain itself, the agent wrote that it had guessed instead of verifying and had run a destructive action without being asked. Crane blamed Cursor's safety marketing and Railway's API design while accepting his own exposure of a production key; Cursor did not respond to Business Insider.", "incidentDate": "2026-04-24", "incidentKind": "single_event", "incidentDatePrecision": "day", "exposurePattern": "single_interaction", "reportedDate": "2026-04-27", "aiSystem": "Cursor coding agent running Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 (per the founder and The Register); infrastructure API of Railway", "aiCompany": "Anysphere (Cursor); Anthropic (Claude Opus 4.6)", "severity": "low", "verificationStatus": "credible", "harmCategories": [], "harmOutcomes": [ "other_material_harm", "financial_loss" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "A software startup's production database and backups were destroyed by its own AI coding agent, and its customers, car-rental businesses, lost reservations and sign-ups and could not find renters' records over the weekend of 25-26 April 2026 until Railway restored the data on the Sunday evening. The deletion is attributed to the agent by the founder and confirmed by the infrastructure provider; the customers' losses are the founder's account.", "frameworkFacets": [], "causationStatus": "supported", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 1, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 0, "affectedCountStatus": "partial", "affectedCountEvidence": "One counted person, the founder whose company's data was destroyed (both reports). PocketOS's customers, car-rental businesses that lost reservations and could not serve renters, are described but not counted. Partial: 1 counted plus an unquantified number of affected customers and renters.", "victimAgeRange": "adult", "jurisdiction": "unknown", "platformType": "agent", "outcomeType": "internal_action", "outcomeStatus": "resolved", "primarySourceUrl": "https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/04/27/cursor-opus-agent-snuffs-out-startups-production-database/", "primarySourceLabel": "The Register, 27 April 2026: Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup's production database", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-09-22T03:45:55.350664+00:00", "scopeVersion": "facts-v3", "tags": [ "ai-agent", "coding-agent", "cursor", "claude", "agent-action", "data-loss", "railway", "startup", "acted-on-behalf" ] }, { "id": "2026-jiashan-zhejiang-doubao-burial-date-lawsuit", "caseFacts": { "claims": [ { "id": "c1", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'今年4月17日，他接到家里人的消息，说母亲突发疾病过世'; '当时家里人请了一个风水先生，算出来4月20日是“黄道吉日”'; '软件的问答记录显示，史先生当时提问：“妈妈今天去世，什么时候安葬最合适？”'; '“豆包”回答，按照当地习俗和黄历吉日，最稳妥的推荐是4月19日'; '我就把“豆包”的话说给他们听'; '那么他们就相信了，就照办了'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'今年4月17日，史先生母亲去世后，为选择下葬日期，他向豆包询问“黄道吉日”。史先生称，豆包首次回答推荐4月19日'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s3" } ], "assertion": "After his mother died suddenly on 17 April 2026, the man asked Doubao when she should be buried, having objected to a feng-shui master's choice of 20 April; Doubao's recorded answer recommended 19 April as the safest choice under local custom and the almanac, and he persuaded his family to follow it.", "causal_attribution": "The plaintiff's account and the chat records shown by the Jiaxing broadcaster." }, { "id": "c2", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'“豆包”回答7点到9点，不过这次的答案跟上次的答案有点不一样，“豆包”的回答中提到，4月19日不是黄道吉日'; '他又问了好几遍，“豆包”给出的答复是19日不是下葬的“黄道吉日”'; '亲戚朋友已经通知，改日期已经来不及'; '丧事办好不久，家里就有亲戚出交通事故，受伤严重。家里人有怨言，说是母亲安葬日子不对，破坏了风水'; '记者：家里亲戚有怪你的嘛？'; '肯定怪啊，他们说是不是日子被我改了'; '也让家庭关系变得紧张'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'等相关事情都安排妥当后，史先生再次询问豆包时，其称19日不是“黄道吉日”，可此时已不便再更改日期'; '家里人对于史先生的安排产生怨言，认为其选择安葬母亲的日子不对，破坏了风水'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s5" } ], "assertion": "When he later asked what hour was suitable, Doubao answered 7 to 9 o'clock but said 19 April was not an auspicious day, and repeated that when asked again; relatives had already been notified, so the burial went ahead on 19 April. After a relative was seriously injured in a traffic accident, family members blamed the burial date and him, and family relations became tense.", "causal_attribution": "The contradictory answers are shown in the chat records; the link between the burial date and the relative's accident is the family's belief, which the reports and the quoted lawyers treat as unsupported." }, { "id": "c3", "status": "corroborated", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'“豆包”软件和服务生成的内容仅供参考，不作为专业建议。涉及产生重大影响的情形，建议咨询相关专业人士'; '所带来的后果和责任均由用户自行承担'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'华商报大风新闻记者看到，豆包App《用户协议》中注明：“本软件及服务生成的内容仅供参考，你不得将输出的内容作为专业建议'; '本软件的输出不应成为你进一步作为或者不作为的依据'; '用户协议中“后果由用户自行承担”等条款属于格式条款'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" }, { "locator": "'目前，豆包对话界面上方也标注“AI生成可能有误，注意核实”'", "relation": "context", "source_id": "s3" } ], "assertion": "Doubao's user agreement states that generated content is for reference only and not professional advice, that users should consult professionals on matters of major impact, and that the output should not be the basis for action or inaction; it also contains a clause placing the consequences of acting on outputs on the user.", "causal_attribution": "Quoted from the agreement by the broadcaster and read in the app by Huashang Daily's reporter." }, { "id": "c4", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'向“豆包”软件的公司投诉，没有收到回复，于是他决定起诉对方。“豆包”还帮史先生写了一份起诉状'; '这起案件嘉善县人民法院已经开庭审理。庭审中，“豆包”公司一方认为不存在网络侵权行为，软件服务过程中不存在任何过错'; '诉求就是赔礼道歉，赔损失'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'该案件已于9月3日在浙江省嘉善县人民法院开庭审理，案由为网络侵权责任纠纷'; '天眼查信息显示，豆包运营主体为北京春田知韵科技有限公司'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s3" }, { "locator": "'9月3日，该案在嘉善县人民法院开庭审理，案由为网络侵权责任纠纷，被告为豆包运营方某公司'; '虽目前尚未宣判'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" } ], "assertion": "His complaint to the operator went unanswered; he sued Beijing Chuntian Zhiyun Technology for an apology and compensation, saying Doubao drafted the complaint; Jiashan County People's Court heard the case on 3 September 2026 as a network-tort liability dispute, the company denied any tort or fault, and no judgment had been reported.", "causal_attribution": "Hearing date and cause of action per Sohu, per Tianyancha as cited by The Paper, and per Huashang Daily; the parties' positions as relayed from the Jiaxing report." } ], "effects": [ { "label": "a burial date chosen on the chatbot's recommendation, then contradicted by the chatbot too late to change; family blame and strained relations after a relative's accident", "claim_id": "c2", "direction": "negative" }, { "label": "an unanswered complaint and a lawsuit against the app's operator, heard 3 September 2026 with no judgment reported", "claim_id": "c4", "direction": "negative" } ], "sources": [ { "id": "s1", "url": "https://news.sina.com.cn/s/2026-09-16/doc-inirykpk3180879.shtml", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "zh", "translation_note": "Read in Chinese on 2026-09-21 (Sina News, published 2026-09-16 03:03, live). Credited to Xinhua Daily; carries the Jiaxing Media Centre 'Xiaoxin Shuoshi' report of 15 September with the interview transcript, the chat records and the lawyer's comment. Translated by the reviewer; the plaintiff's surname is elided from the record.", "independence_group": "jiaxing-media" }, { "id": "s2", "url": "https://k.sina.com.cn/article_5953740931_162dee08306703zmok.html", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "zh", "translation_note": "Read in Chinese on 2026-09-21 (Huashang Daily 'Dafeng News' legal weekly via Sina, published 2026-09-21 10:34, live). Summarises the case 'according to media reports', reports the 3 September hearing, and its own reporter read the Doubao app's user agreement; adds a lawyer's analysis. Translated by the reviewer.", "independence_group": "huashang-daily" }, { "id": "s3", "url": "https://m.sohu.com/a/1077957190_122045489", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "zh", "translation_note": "Read in Chinese on 2026-09-21 (Sohu, published 2026-09-18 21:33, live). Relays the Jiaxing report and adds Tianyancha company details, the 3 September hearing and the May 2026 refund lawsuit. Translated by the reviewer.", "independence_group": "jiaxing-media" }, { "id": "s4", "url": "https://finance.sina.cn/2026-09-16/detail-iniryzkw6682430.d.html", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "zh", "translation_note": "Read in Chinese on 2026-09-21 (Labour Daily relay on Sina Finance, published 2026-09-16 14:21, live). Same Jiaxing account in summary form. Translated by the reviewer.", "independence_group": "jiaxing-media" }, { "id": "s5", "url": "https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_34093004", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "zh", "translation_note": "Read in Chinese on 2026-09-21 (The Paper, a Pengpai-hao post by China City News, published 2026-09-18 00:15, live). Relays the Jiaxing report, cites Tianyancha for the 3 September hearing and adds a lawyer's comment and the June 2026 Douyin statement on AI answers. Translated by the reviewer.", "independence_group": "jiaxing-media" }, { "id": "s6", "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3368136/chinese-man-sues-ai-firm-after-chatbots-auspicious-date-suggestion-leads-disaster", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-21 from the JSON-LD article body of the saved page (South China Morning Post, published 20 September 2026 10:21, live; a Jimu News relay). Consistent with the Chinese accounts; no case fact rests on it. Context only.", "independence_group": "jiaxing-media" } ], "version": 1, "ai_roles": [ "own_use" ], "contexts": [ "everyday_life", "relationships", "justice" ], "unknowns": [ "The date and circumstances of the relative's traffic accident and the relative's identity are not reported; no report connects the accident to the burial date other than the family's belief.", "The amount of compensation claimed is not disclosed.", "No judgment or later hearing had been reported by 21 September 2026.", "Whether the user's complaint reached the operator and why it went unanswered is not reported.", "The case facts come from one reporting chain (the Jiaxing municipal broadcaster and its relays); the operator has not commented publicly beyond its position at the hearing." ], "geography": { "basis": "The plaintiff lives in Jiashan county, Zhejiang, and the funeral was in his home town of Shuyang, Jiangsu (Huashang Daily: his mother died in his home town; the Jiaxing broadcaster via Sina gives the home town as Shuyang); the case is before Jiashan County People's Court, Zhejiang (Sohu citing Tianyancha; Huashang Daily).", "court_countries": [ "CN" ], "event_countries": [ "CN" ], "affected_person_countries": [ "CN" ] }, "publication": { "basis": "Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a failure of ordinary assistance with a reported adverse experience: a consequential family decision made on a chatbot's contradictory advice, followed by family blame and a lawsuit. Five Chinese bodies and one English relay read in full; the case facts rest on one reporting chain and are recorded as reported; the relative's accident is recorded as the family's attribution, not as a consequence of the AI advice. The plaintiff is identified only by a surname in the reports and is not named here.", "reviewed_on": "2026-09-21" }, "ai_involvement": { "basis": "Doubao's question-and-answer records, shown in the Jiaxing report and described by every relay, recommend 19 April and later state that 19 April is not an auspicious day; the plaintiff also says Doubao drafted his complaint. No inspected report records the operator disputing the chat records; its reported position at the hearing was that there was no tort and no fault in its service.", "status": "reported" }, "person_relations": [ "communicated_with" ] }, "name": "Jiashan, Zhejiang: a man chose his mother's burial date on Doubao's recommendation, the chatbot then contradicted itself, and after a relative's road accident his family blamed the date; he sued the app's operator for an apology and damages", "summary": "A man living in Jiashan county, Zhejiang, whose mother died suddenly on 17 April 2026, asked the ByteDance chatbot Doubao which day was auspicious for her burial after disagreeing with a feng-shui master's choice of 20 April; Doubao recommended 19 April and he persuaded his family to follow it. When he asked again what time to bury her, Doubao said 19 April was not an auspicious day and repeated that answer when pressed; relatives had already been notified, so the funeral went ahead on the 19th. Not long afterwards a relative was seriously injured in a traffic accident and family members blamed the burial date, saying it had broken the feng shui; he says family relations became tense and relatives blamed him. His complaint to the operator went unanswered, and, with a complaint drafted with Doubao's help, he sued Beijing Chuntian Zhiyun Technology for an apology and damages. Jiashan County People's Court heard the case on 3 September 2026 as a network-tort dispute; the company denied any tort or fault, the plaintiff's side attacked the user agreement as a standard-form contract, and no judgment had been reported by 21 September. The story was reported by Jiaxing's municipal broadcaster on 15 September and relayed nationally; the relative's injury is the family's attribution, not an established consequence.", "incidentDate": "2026-04-17", "incidentEndDate": "2026-04-19", "incidentKind": "single_event", "incidentDatePrecision": "range", "exposurePattern": "repeated_interactions", "reportedDate": "2026-09-15", "aiSystem": "Doubao (豆包), ByteDance's consumer chatbot app", "aiCompany": "Beijing Chuntian Zhiyun Technology Co., Ltd. (Doubao operator; a ByteDance/Douyin subsidiary per Tianyancha as relayed by Sohu and The Paper)", "severity": "low", "verificationStatus": "credible", "harmCategories": [], "harmOutcomes": [ "relationship_disruption", "impaired_judgment" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "The man relied on Doubao's recommendation for a consequential family decision and was left, after the app reversed itself too late to change the date, with a burial on a day his family considers inauspicious; relatives blamed him after a relative's later traffic accident and family relations became tense (his account to the Jiaxing broadcaster). The accident itself is the family's superstition-based attribution and is not treated here as a consequence of the AI advice.", "frameworkFacets": [], "causationStatus": "alleged", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 1, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 0, "affectedCountStatus": "exact", "affectedCountEvidence": "One person, the Doubao user who made the burial decision and reports family blame and tension (all inspected reports). The injured relative is not counted: the reports give no basis for connecting the traffic accident to the AI advice. Exact 1.", "victimAgeRange": "adult", "jurisdiction": "CN", "platformType": "assistant", "outcomeType": "lawsuit_ongoing", "outcomeStatus": "ongoing", "primarySourceUrl": "https://news.sina.com.cn/s/2026-09-16/doc-inirykpk3180879.shtml", "primarySourceLabel": "Sina News, 16 September 2026, relaying Jiaxing Media Centre's 'Xiaoxin Shuoshi' of 15 September: interview transcript with the plaintiff, the Doubao chat records and the lawyer's comment", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-09-21T04:11:21.856829+00:00", "scopeVersion": "facts-v3", "tags": [ "doubao", "bytedance", "everyday-assistance", "contradictory-answers", "funeral", "lawsuit", "china", "zhejiang", "jiashan", "family-conflict" ] }, { "id": "2026-den-bosch-grok-racist-videos-teacher", "caseFacts": { "claims": [ { "id": "c1", "status": "corroborated", "evidence": [ { "locator": "Paragraphs 4-6: 'In het rechtbankdossier zaten negen screenshots... de docente is afgebeeld terwijl zij katoen plukt... slavendrijver die een zweep vasthoudt... #minderwaardig #zwart, en een hashtag met de achternaam van de betreffende docente... het hoofd van een gorilla... Een dag in mijn leven als minderwaardig persoon'.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'De jongen maakte met GrokAI enkele filmpjes en deelde die in maart via TikTok... in een veld waar zij katoen plukt... met het hoofd van een gorilla'; the school confronted him and he admitted making them.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" } ], "assertion": "According to NOS and Omroep Brabant, a 13-year-old pupil at a Den Bosch gymnasium made several videos with Grok and shared them in March 2026 via TikTok; the videos depicted his teacher picking cotton under a whip-holding slave driver with the text 'Hoooo.. ik werkte niet snel genoeg', with hashtags '#minderwaardig #zwart' and her surname, and with a gorilla head; one screenshot read 'Een dag in mijn leven als minderwaardig persoon'.", "causal_attribution": "The judge held that part of the screenshots definitely came from the AI videos the boy made; the parents dispute that he made all of them (the file includes another pupil's images). Grok's role as the generation tool is admitted by the boy and unchallenged in the inspected reporting." }, { "id": "c2", "status": "corroborated", "evidence": [ { "locator": "Judge's direct address quoted near the ruling's end: 'Met de filmpjes heb je niet alleen jouw docente, maar mogelijk ook anderen die de filmpjes hebben gezien en zich erdoor gekwetst voelen, beschadigd en echt pijn gedaan'; school passages: 'gevoelens van onrust en onveiligheid' among teachers.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'Onderwijspersoneel voelde zich na de ontdekking volgens de school niet meer veilig en ervaarde veel onrust'; parents acknowledge the impact the videos could have had on the teacher.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" } ], "assertion": "The teacher was harmed: the judge told the boy he had 'not only damaged his teacher, but possibly also others who saw the videos and felt hurt by them, and really hurt them', and school leadership reported that teaching staff felt unsafe and experienced much unrest after the discovery.", "causal_attribution": "Harm is attributed to the videos and their circulation, as found in the ruling and the school's account; the Brabants Dagblad headline ('Lerares diep geraakt...') is consistent but its body could not be inspected." }, { "id": "c3", "status": "corroborated", "evidence": [ { "locator": "Opening and ruling paragraphs: expulsion, parents' lawsuit, readmission ordered; 'volkomen onaanvaardbaar en zelfs strafbaar'; judge's weight given to age 13.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "Ruling paragraphs: school 'onvoldoende heeft onderbouwd'; readmission 'per direct'; judge calls the videos 'shockerend'; apology offers and the boy's interests weighed.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" } ], "assertion": "The school suspended and then expelled the boy; on 8 July 2026 the Oost-Brabant preliminary-relief judge ordered immediate readmission because the expulsion was insufficiently substantiated, while calling the videos shocking and the boy's acts 'totally unacceptable and even criminal'.", "causal_attribution": "The ruling's procedural finding (insufficient substantiation) and its moral finding (unacceptable, criminal) are both reported in full by two inspected outlets." }, { "id": "c4", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'Ouders niet mee eens' and 'Geen kans op herstel' sections: another pupil's images in the file; presence and role at earlier incidents disputed; contact with the teacher forbidden.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" }, { "locator": "Parents' account: deletion after a day and a half, not only after confrontation; earlier incidents disputed; no chance to make amends.", "relation": "context", "source_id": "s1" } ], "assertion": "The parents dispute that their son made all the videos in the file and dispute the school's pattern of earlier incidents; they say he deleted the videos himself after a day and a half and was never allowed to apologise to the teacher.", "causal_attribution": "The judge found the earlier-incidents pattern contradicted and insufficiently concrete; authorship of the remaining screenshots is unresolved." } ], "effects": [ { "label": "targeted racist harassment of a teacher through AI-generated videos", "claim_id": "c2", "direction": "negative" } ], "sources": [ { "id": "s1", "url": "https://nos.nl/artikel/2622265-school-moet-jongen-die-racistisch-filmpje-van-docente-maakte-meteen-weer-toelaten", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "nl", "translation_note": "Read in Dutch on 2026-09-15 (datePublished 2026-07-08T23:01+0200). Quotes in the public record are close paraphrase from the Dutch; model translation, no human reviewer.", "independence_group": "nos" }, { "id": "s2", "url": "https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/6016915/jongen-maakt-ai-filmpjes-en-wordt-van-school-gestuurd-rechter-grijpt-in", "kind": "regional_news", "access": "read", "language": "nl", "translation_note": "Read in Dutch on 2026-09-15 (datePublished 2026-07-08T13:45Z; bylined Evie Hendriks). Model translation, no human reviewer.", "independence_group": "omroep-brabant" }, { "id": "s3", "url": "https://www.bd.nl/den-bosch/lerares-diep-geraakt-door-racistische-ai-filmpjes-van-leerling-13-school-stuurt-hem-weg-ouders-eisen-gesprek-bij-rechter~a6ff90e2/", "kind": "regional_news", "access": "unavailable", "language": null, "translation_note": "Brabants Dagblad blocked by the DPG Media WAF (403) direct and via reader proxy on 2026-09-15; headline seen verbatim in Google News RSS ('Lerares diep geraakt door racistische AI-filmpjes van leerling (13)'). Body not inspected; language not established.", "independence_group": "brabants-dagblad" } ], "version": 1, "ai_roles": [ "others_use" ], "contexts": [ "education", "work" ], "unknowns": [ "Exact creation and sharing dates within March 2026 are not stated in the inspected reporting.", "Which images were made by the other pupil, and whether that pupil was disciplined, is unresolved; the judge noted the school could not explain why the other pupil was not expelled.", "No criminal complaint or further disciplinary proceeding is reported; the judge's 'criminal' characterisation is a moral finding in a civil summary procedure.", "The teacher's situation after the ruling (return, support measures) is not reported.", "The boy's prompts and Grok's generation settings are not reported; only the outputs in the court file are documented." ], "geography": { "basis": "Event: a Den Bosch gymnasium and TikTok sharing by its pupil (both outlets). Affected person: the teacher at that school. Court: rechtbank Oost-Brabant preliminary-relief judge, 8 July 2026.", "court_countries": [ "NL" ], "event_countries": [ "NL" ], "affected_person_countries": [ "NL" ] }, "publication": { "basis": "Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a harmful-artifact case: a named-role adult was the target of racist AI-generated videos made with Grok and shared in her school community, documented through court-file reporting by two independently inspected Dutch outlets. The perpetrator is a minor and the teacher is unnamed in the sources; neither is named here, and the teacher's surname (present in one hashtag) is not reproduced.", "reviewed_on": "2026-09-15" }, "ai_involvement": { "basis": "The videos were made with Grok: the boy admitted making them after the school confronted him (Omroep Brabant), and the court file's nine screenshots were held by the judge to come partly from the AI videos he made (NOS). The harm flows from the artifacts and their sharing; what the tool generated is documented through the court file, while the prompting process is not reported.", "status": "supported" }, "person_relations": [ "depicted_or_impersonated" ] }, "name": "Den Bosch: 13-year-old made racist Grok videos of his teacher; the school expelled him and a court ordered his readmission", "summary": "In March 2026 a 13-year-old pupil at a Den Bosch gymnasium used xAI's Grok to generate videos depicting a teacher of his in racist ways — picking cotton under a whip-holding slave driver with the text 'Hoooo.. ik werkte niet snel genoeg' and hashtags '#minderwaardig #zwart' plus her surname, and with a gorilla head — and shared them on TikTok. The school suspended and then expelled him. On 8 July 2026 the preliminary-relief judge of the Oost-Brabant district court ordered his immediate readmission because the expulsion was insufficiently substantiated, while telling the boy his acts were 'totally unacceptable and even criminal' and that he had damaged and really hurt his teacher. School leadership reported that teaching staff felt unsafe and experienced much unrest after the videos were discovered.", "incidentDate": "2026-03-01", "incidentEndDate": "2026-07-08", "incidentKind": "bounded_series", "incidentDatePrecision": "range", "exposurePattern": "unknown", "reportedDate": "2026-07-08", "aiSystem": "Grok", "aiCompany": "xAI", "severity": "medium", "verificationStatus": "credible", "harmCategories": [], "harmOutcomes": [ "psychological_distress", "reputational_harm" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "According to NOS and Omroep Brabant reporting of the court file and the school's account, the targeted teacher was hurt and damaged by racist AI-generated videos shared at her school, and teaching staff felt unsafe and experienced unrest; the judge described her harm directly in the ruling.", "frameworkFacets": [], "causationStatus": "supported", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 0, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 1, "affectedCountStatus": "documented_minimum", "affectedCountEvidence": "One documented harmed person: the teacher, whose hurt is described in the ruling itself ('you have damaged your teacher... and really hurt her', per the NOS account) and in the school's account of staff feeling unsafe. The judge's 'possibly also others who saw the videos and felt hurt' is not quantified and is not counted. The boy, a minor and the AI user, is not counted as harmed: the expelled-then-readmitted consequence was reversed and flows from his own act.", "victimAgeRange": "adult", "jurisdiction": "NL", "platformType": "other", "outcomeType": "media_coverage", "outcomeStatus": "resolved", "primarySourceUrl": "https://nos.nl/artikel/2622265-school-moet-jongen-die-racistisch-filmpje-van-docente-maakte-meteen-weer-toelaten", "primarySourceLabel": "NOS (8 Jul 2026) — court-file account: nine screenshots, the racist depictions, the ruling and the judge's direct address", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-09-15T05:17:46.121073+00:00", "scopeVersion": "facts-v3", "tags": [ "education", "deepfake", "harassment", "racism", "minor-perpetrator", "others-use", "grok", "netherlands" ] }, { "id": "2026-brazil-influencer-ai-sexualized-minors", "caseFacts": { "claims": [ { "id": "c1", "status": "corroborated", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'Influenciador digital usou ferramentas de IA para inserir fotos de jovens evangélicas da Congregação Cristã do Brasil (CCB) em vídeos com conotação sexual dentro das igrejas da entidade.'; 'O material foi publicado nas redes sociais do influencer, onde ele soma quase 50 mil seguidores.'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'Um influenciador digital é investigado pela Polícia Civil de São Paulo sob suspeita de usar inteligência artificial para manipular imagens de jovens evangélicas, sem consentimento, criando vídeos com conteúdos sexualizados. As manipulações eram divulgadas em perfis nas redes sociais.'; 'O caso foi inicialmente divulgado pelo g1 e confirmado pela Folha.'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s4" }, { "locator": "'Pego a foto, as irmãs postando de costas, e jogo na IA. A IA faz dançar'; 'Disse que retirou as imagens de perfis públicos em redes sociais e que não sabia que algumas das pessoas retratadas eram adolescentes.'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" }, { "locator": "'publicadas em perfis dele no Instagram, no TikTok e no YouTube'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s3" } ], "assertion": "A digital influencer manipulated, without consent, photographs of young women and adolescent girls of the Congregação Cristã do Brasil into videos with sexual connotation using AI ('deepfake') tools and published them on his social-media profiles, including Instagram, TikTok and YouTube; he admitted in his own recordings that he takes the congregants' photographs and puts them into an AI that makes them dance.", "causal_attribution": "Reported by g1 from the police and the victims, confirmed by Folha, and admitted by the influencer in his own recordings and police statement." }, { "id": "c2", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'Ele pegou a minha foto sem autorização e fez uma montagem com inteligência artificial, com as mulheres sensualizando na frente e [comigo] junto a elas'; 'Eu sou muito envergonhada, então não queria ter sido exposta. Eu tomo cuidado e também fico com medo disso afetar meu convívio social'; 'Eu não tirei mais nenhuma [fotografia]. Eu não tirei mais de mim.'; 'O caso veio à tona em fevereiro, quando a jovem e os pais procuraram a 8ª Delegacia de Defesa da Mulher (DDM), em São Mateus, Zona Leste da capital paulista.'; 'A família entrou com ação na Justiça pedindo indenização por dano moral.'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'após uma adolescente de 16 anos, vítima do influenciador em uma das publicações, denunciar o caso à 8ª Delegacia da Defesa da Mulher (DDM) de São Paulo'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s5" } ], "assertion": "A 16-year-old congregant told g1 that her photograph, taken in 2025 in front of the altar of a CCB church, had been used without authorisation in an AI montage placing her beside women in sensual poses; she said she was very shy and had not wanted to be exposed, feared the effect on her social life and had stopped taking photographs of herself; she and her parents had gone to the 8ª DDM in February 2026 and the family filed a civil action for moral damages.", "causal_attribution": "The girl's and her family's account to g1; Metrópoles confirms the 16-year-old's complaint to the 8ª DDM. g1's 15 May report describes the first complainant as also 17, a discrepancy recorded in unknowns." }, { "id": "c3", "status": "corroborated", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'A Polícia Civil de São Paulo investiga o caso.'; 'O inquérito, que começou na 8ª DDM da capital, foi encaminhado'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'A ocorrência foi registrada na 8ª DDM (Delegacia de Defesa da Mulher) da capital e posteriormente encaminhada à Delegacia de Polícia de Lençóis Paulistas, responsável pela área onde teriam ocorrido os fatos.'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s4" }, { "locator": "'O Metrópoles apurou que a investigação é feita por meio de um inquérito policial que foi direcionado às autoridades de Lençóis Paulista, no interior de São Paulo, por determinação judicial.'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s5" } ], "assertion": "The São Paulo Civil Police investigate the influencer; the inquiry was registered at the 8ª Delegacia de Defesa da Mulher in São Paulo and sent to the police of Lençóis Paulista by judicial order.", "causal_attribution": "The investigation and the transfer to Lençóis Paulista are reported by g1 and confirmed by Folha and Metrópoles; Folha frames the transfer by where the facts occurred, g1 by where the suspect lives." }, { "id": "c3b", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'conforme o artigo 241-C do Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente (ECA), cuja pena varia de 1 a 3 anos de reclusão, além de multa. A polícia também apura se ele cometeu difamação em relação a outras jovens expostas.'; 'à 2ª Vara da Comarca de Lençóis Paulista, no interior do estado, onde o investigado mora. O pedido foi feito pelo Ministério Público (MP).'; 'A gente está investigando esse caso de deepfake. Houve uma simulação dessas imagens dessas meninas, algumas delas adolescentes'; 'pede que outras jovens expostas pelo influencer também procurem à delegacia'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" } ], "assertion": "g1 reports that he is investigated under article 241-C of the Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente (one to three years plus a fine) and for possible defamation of other young women exposed; that the transfer to the 2ª Vara of Lençóis Paulista, where he lives, was ordered by the 1ª Vara de Crimes Praticados contra Crianças e Adolescentes at the Ministério Público's request; and that the delegada of the 8ª DDM said some identified victims were adolescents and asked others to come forward.", "causal_attribution": "g1's reporting of the police and court steps; single chain for these details." }, { "id": "c4", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'O boletim de ocorrência mais recente foi registrado em 30 de abril, pela mãe da adolescente, na 4ª Delegacia de Defesa da Mulher (DDM) Norte, após a divulgação da reportagem do g1 sobre o caso.'; 'A divulgação na internet afetou a garota psicologicamente.'; 'outras jovens evangélicas da CCB tiveram suas imagens expostas sem autorização, mas o número total de vítimas ainda está sendo apurado.'; 'também é investigado por difamação, já que há vítimas adultas que aparecem nos vídeos manipulados com deep fake'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s3" } ], "assertion": "On 30 April 2026 the mother of a second adolescent, aged 17, registered a police report at the 4ª DDM Norte; g1 reported that the online exposure had affected the girl psychologically, that the influencer was also investigated for defamation of adult women in the videos, and that the total number of victims was still being established.", "causal_attribution": "g1's report of the second complaint; the psychological effect is g1's statement without an attributed speaker." }, { "id": "c5", "status": "corroborated", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'A defesa enfatiza que as publicações realizadas em suas redes sociais tinham o intuito estrito de sátira e crítica de costumes, inseridas em um contexto de humor. Em nenhum momento houve a intenção de promover exploração sexual, pornografia ou qualquer ato que atentasse contra a dignidade sexual das pessoas mencionadas'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" }, { "locator": "'alegou que as publicações foram feitas em um “contexto de humor”, sem a intenção de atentar contra a dignidade sexual das vítimas.'; 'realizou uma retratação pública, pedindo desculpas às jovens, às famílias e à comunidade da Congregação Cristã do Brasil (CCB) por qualquer constrangimento ou sofrimento causado'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s5" } ], "assertion": "Through his lawyer the influencer said the publications were satire and criticism of customs in a context of humour, without intent of sexual exploitation, that he did not know the ages of those depicted, and that he had expressed regret and made a public retraction apologising to the young women, their families and the CCB.", "causal_attribution": "The defence note was sent to both g1 and Metrópoles." }, { "id": "c5b", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'Pego a foto, as irmãs postando de costas, e jogo na IA. A IA faz dançar'; 'Eu peço perdão a todos que se sentiram ofendidos. Eu prometo ser mais cauteloso'; 'declarou apoiar a adoção de medidas legais cabíveis pelas autoridades'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" }, { "locator": "'negou ter vinculado a imagem da adolescente a fotografias de mulheres com pouca vestimenta ou a qualquer conteúdo sexualizado ou pornográfico'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" } ], "assertion": "g1 reports that he admitted in his own earlier recordings and in his police statement that he takes the congregants' photographs and animates them with AI, that he posted an apology video, and that the CCB said it supports the legal measures taken by the authorities; in his police statement he also denied linking the adolescent's image to scantily dressed women or any sexualised content and said he had taken her for an adult.", "causal_attribution": "g1's reporting of his recordings, statement and video; the CCB note as given to g1." } ], "effects": [ { "label": "a 16-year-old depicted in an AI-made sexualised video: embarrassment, fear for her social life, stopped taking photographs of herself", "claim_id": "c2", "direction": "negative" }, { "label": "a 17-year-old reported to be psychologically affected by the video made from her photograph", "claim_id": "c4", "direction": "negative" }, { "label": "young women and adolescent girls of a church inserted without consent into sexualised videos posted to tens of thousands of followers", "claim_id": "c1", "direction": "negative" } ], "sources": [ { "id": "s1", "url": "https://g1.globo.com/sp/sao-paulo/noticia/2026/04/22/pegou-foto-sem-autorizacao-diz-evangelica-de-16-anos-vitima-de-influencer-que-usou-ia-para-sexualizar-sua-imagem-em-igreja.ghtml", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "pt", "translation_note": "Read live in Portuguese on 2026-09-22 (g1 São Paulo, 22 April 2026, updated 23 April). Own reporting: the 16-year-old and her parents, another congregant, the delegada, the family's lawyer, experts. Translated by the reviewer.", "independence_group": "g1" }, { "id": "s2", "url": "https://g1.globo.com/sp/sao-paulo/noticia/2026/04/24/influencer-investigado-por-videos-sexualizados-de-evangelicas-com-ia-diz-que-usou-humor-para-criticar-roupas-usadas-por-jovens-em-igreja.ghtml", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "pt", "translation_note": "Read live in Portuguese on 2026-09-22 (g1 São Paulo, 24 April 2026). The suspect's defence note, police statement, own recordings and apology video; CCB and platform responses. Grouped with s1.", "independence_group": "g1" }, { "id": "s3", "url": "https://g1.globo.com/sp/sao-paulo/noticia/2026/05/15/nova-vitima-de-17-anos-registra-bo-contra-influenciador-que-usa-ia-para-sexualizar-jovens-evangelicas.ghtml", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "pt", "translation_note": "Read live in Portuguese on 2026-09-22 (g1 São Paulo, 15 May 2026). Second police report of 30 April 2026. Grouped with s1.", "independence_group": "g1" }, { "id": "s4", "url": "https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/cotidiano/2026/04/influenciador-e-investigado-sob-suspeita-de-criar-videos-sexualizados-de-jovens-evangelicas-em-sp.shtml", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "pt", "translation_note": "Read live in Portuguese on 2026-09-22 at the .shtml path (Folha de S.Paulo, 22 April 2026); the .ghtml path cited by the historical record answers 404 and its Internet Archive capture is a subscription shell. Folha states the case was first reported by g1 and confirmed by Folha.", "independence_group": "folha" }, { "id": "s5", "url": "https://www.metropoles.com/sao-paulo/influencer-acusado-de-sexualizar-adolescentes-usando-ia-alega-humor", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "pt", "translation_note": "Read live in Portuguese on 2026-09-22 (Metrópoles, 24 April 2026). Defence note, Metrópoles's own checking of the inquiry's transfer, CCB note to Metrópoles.", "independence_group": "metropoles" } ], "version": 1, "ai_roles": [ "others_use" ], "contexts": [ "everyday_life", "privacy", "justice", "religion" ], "unknowns": [ "The age of the first complainant: 16 per g1 on 22 April 2026, 'também de 17 anos' per g1 on 15 May 2026.", "How many people were depicted; the police were still establishing the number in May 2026.", "When the videos were first posted; the photographs date from 2025 and the first complaint from February 2026.", "Whether the suspect has been indicted or charged, and the status of the civil damages action; no development after 15 May 2026 was found.", "Which AI tools were used beyond the TikTok tools he named to police.", "When the apology video was posted: g1's 22 April report dates it to 5 April 2026 and says it does not mention the deepfakes; g1's 24 April report describes it as posted after his police statement.", "Which police station took the first complaint: 8ª DDM (g1 22 April, Metrópoles) or 5ª DDM Leste (g1 15 May)." ], "geography": { "basis": "Photographs taken in CCB churches in São Paulo; complaints at the 8ª DDM (São Mateus, São Paulo) and 4ª DDM Norte; suspect in Lençóis Paulista, São Paulo state (g1, Folha, Metrópoles). Court: the inquiry was transferred by the 1ª Vara de Crimes Praticados contra Crianças e Adolescentes of São Paulo to the 2ª Vara of Lençóis Paulista, and the first girl's family filed a civil damages action (g1).", "court_countries": [ "BR" ], "event_countries": [ "BR" ], "affected_person_countries": [ "BR" ] }, "publication": { "basis": "Restored under the 2026-09-15 charter as an image-based abuse case involving minors, documented by g1's interviews with the victims, their families and the delegada, confirmed by Folha and Metrópoles, and admitted in substance by the influencer, who disputes criminal intent. Not a death case. The girls and their families are unnamed; the adult suspect is described but not named in this record.", "reviewed_on": "2026-09-22" }, "ai_involvement": { "basis": "The influencer admitted in his own recordings and in his police statement that he takes the congregants' photographs and puts them into an AI that makes them dance; the delegada describes the case as deepfake; g1, Folha and Metrópoles all report AI manipulation. The tool is not named. The artifacts depicted the girls and women; no AI system interacted with them.", "status": "supported" }, "person_relations": [ "depicted_or_impersonated" ] }, "name": "São Paulo: a 37-year-old influencer used AI 'deepfake' tools to insert photographs of young women and adolescent girls of the Congregação Cristã do Brasil, taken from their social-media profiles without consent, into sexualised videos set inside churches; a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old filed police reports and the Civil Police investigate under the child-protection statute", "summary": "A humorist and tyre repairer from Lençóis Paulista, São Paulo state, who posts on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok as an impersonator of a television presenter, used AI tools to turn photographs that young women and adolescent girls of the Congregação Cristã do Brasil (CCB) had posted from inside churches into videos in which they appear dancing sensually beside women in short skirts, with the presenter inserted and the influencer commenting on their clothes. A 16-year-old congregant and her parents went to the 8ª Delegacia de Defesa da Mulher in São Paulo in February 2026; g1 made the case public on 22 April 2026 and Folha de S.Paulo confirmed the investigation. The girl told g1 the photograph had been taken in 2025 in front of the altar of a CCB church, that she was very shy, had not wanted to be exposed and was afraid the exposure would affect her social life, and that she had stopped taking photographs of herself; her family sued for moral damages. On 30 April 2026 the mother of a second girl, aged 17, registered a police report at the 4ª DDM Norte; g1 reported that the exposure had affected the girl psychologically. The São Paulo Civil Police investigate under article 241-C of the Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente (simulating a sex or pornography scene with a minor by digital means) and for defamation of adult women in the videos; the inquiry was sent at the prosecutor's request to Lençóis Paulista, where the suspect lives, and the total number of people depicted was still being established. The influencer admitted making the videos with AI, said through his lawyer that they were satire and criticism of customs in a context of humour, said he did not know some of those depicted were minors, denied in his police statement linking the adolescent's image to sexualised content and said he had taken her for an adult, and posted an apology video (dated 5 April by g1's first report, which says it does not mention the deepfakes; described as posted after his police statement in g1's second report). The CCB said it had identified him, was taking internal measures and supports legal measures by the authorities. No later development was found on 2026-09-22.", "incidentDate": "2026-02-01", "incidentEndDate": "2026-04-30", "incidentKind": "bounded_series", "incidentDatePrecision": "month", "exposurePattern": "unknown", "reportedDate": "2026-04-22", "aiSystem": "AI image-animation and face-insertion ('deepfake') tools; the influencer told police he used TikTok tools to animate and manipulate the images, and said in a recording that he 'throws' the photographs into an AI that makes them dance", "severity": "high", "verificationStatus": "credible", "harmCategories": [], "harmOutcomes": [ "exploitation_or_abuse", "psychological_distress", "reputational_harm" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "Adolescent congregants and adult women were depicted without consent in AI-made sexualised videos posted to tens of thousands of followers; a 16-year-old described embarrassment, fear for her social life and giving up photographs of herself, and a 17-year-old was reported to be psychologically affected. The creation and posting are admitted by the influencer, who disputes any sexual or criminal intent.", "frameworkFacets": [], "causationStatus": "supported", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 0, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 2, "affectedCountStatus": "partial", "affectedCountEvidence": "Two identified minors who filed police reports (a 16-year-old, g1 22 April; a 17-year-old, g1 15 May). Other congregants, adult and adolescent, are described as depicted ('uma quantidade enorme de vítimas' per the father; 'o número total de vítimas ainda está sendo apurado' per g1) but not counted. Partial: 2 counted plus an unquantified number.", "victimAgeRange": "minor", "jurisdiction": "BR", "platformType": "other", "outcomeType": "investigation_opened", "outcomeStatus": "ongoing", "primarySourceUrl": "https://g1.globo.com/sp/sao-paulo/noticia/2026/04/22/pegou-foto-sem-autorizacao-diz-evangelica-de-16-anos-vitima-de-influencer-que-usou-ia-para-sexualizar-sua-imagem-em-igreja.ghtml", "primarySourceLabel": "g1 São Paulo, 22 April 2026: 'Pegou foto sem autorização', diz evangélica de 16 anos vítima de influencer que usou IA para sexualizar sua imagem em igreja", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-06-14T11:18:13.776891+00:00", "scopeVersion": "facts-v3", "tags": [ "deepfake", "ai-generated-imagery", "ncii", "minor", "brazil", "sao-paulo", "church", "influencer", "eca", "depicted" ] } ] }