{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-02T17:24:18.131Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"email","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":19,"coverage":{"cases":19,"countries":9,"languages":7,"unknownLocation":6,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":3,"lawsuits":1,"regulatory":7,"minors":3,"coreRelations":19,"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-finland-small-town-ai-fake-nude-images-of-dozens-of-women-on-porn-sites-police-investigation","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Poliisi on tutkinut hitaasti tapausta, jossa pikkukaupungissa asuva mies tehtaili tekoälyn avulla alastonkuvia kymmenistä itselleen tutuista naisista.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Naiset oli muokattu valokuvissa tekoälyn avulla yläosattomiksi tai kokonaan alastomiksi.'; 'Poliisin mukaan tapauksessa on yksi epäilty.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Poliisi tutkii tekoälyn avulla muokattujen seksuaalisten kuvien levittämistä, jossa asianomistajina eli uhreina on useita naisia.'; 'Tekopaikkana on pohjoissuomalainen pieni kaupunki ja rikoksista epäiltynä yksi keski-ikäinen mies.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Yle reports that a man living in a small town made nude images of dozens of women he knew with AI, editing their photographs to appear topless or fully nude; police, who say the case has one suspect, are investigating, and Kaleva describes the investigation as concerning the distribution of sexual images edited with AI.","causal_attribution":"Yle's investigative finding and Kaleva's description of the police investigation; untested in court. The suspect earlier denied knowing about the matter (c6)."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Epäilty tekijä oli jakanut uhreista yhteensä useita satoja kuvia kahdelle eri pornosivustolle.'; 'Sekä poliisi että jotkut uhrit itse ovat tehneet sivustoille poistopyyntöjä, ja tekijän tilit kuvineen on sittemmin poistettu.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Nyt kuvat on poistettu myös toiselta sivustolta. Tälle sivustolle epäilty tekijä oli ladannut yli 300 kuvaa.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The suspect had shared several hundred images of the victims in total on two pornography sites, including more than 300 images on the second site; after takedown requests by police and some victims, the images and the suspect's accounts were removed.","causal_attribution":"Yle reporting with the head of investigation's account of the takedown requests."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Monet uhreiksi joutuneista naisista asuivat miehen kanssa samassa pienessä kaupungissa. Uhreissa oli hänen ystäviään, kollegoitaan ja jopa sukulaisiaan.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Uhrit eivät tienneet kuvista mitään ennen Ylen yhteydenottoa. Yhteensä kuusi uhria teki rikosilmoituksen juttuprosessin aikana.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The victims included the suspect's friends, colleagues and relatives, many living in the same small town; they did not know about the images until Yle contacted them, and six victims filed criminal complaints during Yle's reporting.","causal_attribution":"Yle's investigative reporting."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Tutkinnanjohtaja vahvistaa, että rikosilmoituksia on tähän mennessä tehty 23 kappaletta.'; 'Rikosnimikkeinä tutkinnassa ovat seksuaalisen kuvan luvaton levittäminen ja kunnianloukkaus.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Poliisi on vastaanottanut yhteensä 12 rikosilmoitusta tapauksesta.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Poliisi aloitti esitutkinnan kuluvan kevään aikana saatuaan yhteensä kuusi rikosilmoitusta miehen toiminnasta.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Police are investigating unauthorised distribution of a sexual image and defamation; complaints numbered six when the preliminary investigation began in spring (Kaleva, citing police), 12 by 4 June and 23 by 1 October 2026 (the head of investigation, via Yle).","causal_attribution":"Statements by the head of investigation and police as relayed by Yle and Kaleva."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Poliisi ei ole kuullut vielä yhtään uhria, vaikka rikostutkinta alkoi jo keväällä.'; 'Osa rikosvyyhdin uhreista on ollut yhteydessä Yleen, koska poliisista ei ole kuulunut. He ovat olleet hämmentyneitä tutkinnan hitaudesta.'; 'Juttua on tutkinut vain yksi poliisitutkija muiden töidensä ohessa.'; 'Ensi vuoden alkupuolelle varmaan mennään.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"As of 1 October 2026 police had not interviewed any victim although the investigation began in spring; some victims contacted Yle because they had heard nothing from police and were confused by the slow pace; one investigator worked the case alongside other duties, and the head of investigation expected it to reach consideration of charges in the first half of 2027.","causal_attribution":"Yle reporting of victims' contacts and the head of investigation's statements."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Tutkinta alkoi toukokuussa Ylen jutun julkaisun jälkeen. Tuolloin epäilty tekijä myös irtisanottiin työpaikastaan.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Ylen tietojen mukaan jutun julkaisun jälkeen mies on irtisanottu tehtävistään.'; 'Aiemmin mies kiisti sähköpostitse Ylelle tietävänsä asiasta, mutta paheksui jutun tekemistä.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Tiettävästi mies on irtisanottu rikosepäilyjen tultua tietoon.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The suspect was dismissed from his job after Yle's May article; earlier the suspect had denied to Yle by email knowing about the matter while condemning the story.","causal_attribution":"Yle's and Kaleva's information; the dismissal is not confirmed by the employer in the inspected text. The denial is the suspect's own statement to Yle."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Ylen laskujen mukaan tapauksessa on uhreja jopa yli 50. Poliisi ei vielä ole tunnistanut heitä kaikkia, joten kaikki eivät ole tietoisia heistä tehdyistä alastonkuvista.'; 'Ylen tietojen mukaan aineistossa on myös kuvia, joissa asianomistajat ovat olleet teini-ikäisiä. He ovat nykyään aikuisia.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Ylen tietojen mukaan väärennettyihin alastonkuviin päätyi jopa yli 50 naista.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Yle counts more than 50 victims, not all identified by police, so not all know about the images; Yle also reports that the material includes images in which complainants were teenagers, who are now adults.","causal_attribution":"Yle's own count; the head of investigation would not comment on the total number of victims."}],"effects":[{"label":"photos of women the suspect knew were allegedly edited with AI into nude images and posted on porn sites without their knowledge","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"some victims say they heard nothing from police months after filing complaints and were confused by the slow investigation","claim_id":"c5","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://yle.fi/a/74-20249310","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fi","translation_note":"Read live in Finnish on 2026-10-02 (Yle, 1 October 2026, by the MOT reporters). Quotes the unnamed head of investigation. Researcher translation; no professional translator.","independence_group":"yle-mot-investigation"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://yle.fi/a/74-20229628","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fi","translation_note":"Read live in Finnish on 2026-10-02 (Yle MOT, 4 June 2026). Researcher translation.","independence_group":"yle-mot-investigation"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.kaleva.fi/rikosepaily-mies-vaarensi-tekoalylla-alastonkuvia/13514039","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fi","translation_note":"Read live in Finnish on 2026-10-02 (Kaleva, 29 May 2026); access is partial: only the free lede of five paragraphs was visible, the rest is behind the paywall. Attributes the investigation details to police and the employment details to Kaleva's own information. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"kaleva-police-statement"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","relationships"],"unknowns":["When the images were made and posted; police began the investigation in spring 2026 and complaints were filed around May.","Which AI tool was used.","The exact number of women depicted; Yle counts more than 50 and police had not identified all of them.","Whether each of the 23 complaints comes from a different woman.","Whether charges will be brought; consideration of charges was expected in the first half of 2027."],"geography":{"basis":"Kaleva reports that the crime location is a small town in northern Finland, and Yle calls the case Finland's largest deepfake-nude case so far and says many victims lived in the same small town as the suspect. Not every victim's residence is stated. No court proceeding has started.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["FI"],"affected_person_countries":["FI"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): police are investigating a man suspected of AI-faking nude images of women he knew and posting them to porn sites, with 23 complaints confirmed by the head of investigation. Two chains read in Finnish (Yle's MOT investigation and Kaleva's police-sourced lede); every claim is reported. Yle withholds the victims, the town and the head of investigation's name; the suspect is unnamed here. Event date unknown; reported 22 May 2026.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-02"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Yle reports that the women were edited in photographs with AI to appear topless or nude, and Kaleva describes the police investigation as concerning the distribution of sexual images edited with AI. The images were not inspected and no tool is named. The AI use is Yle's finding and Kaleva's description of the police investigation; no inspected text quotes police on the AI use, and it is untested in court. The images depict the women (depicted_or_impersonated).","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Finnish police investigate a small-town man suspected of using AI to fake nude images of dozens of women he knew and posting several hundred images of them on two porn sites; 23 criminal complaints by October 2026","summary":"Yle reported in May 2026 that a man in a small Finnish town is suspected of using AI to turn photos of women he knew, including friends, colleagues and relatives, into topless or fully nude images and posting them, among several hundred images of the women that included original clothed photos, on two pornography sites. The women did not know about the images until Yle contacted them. Police opened a preliminary investigation for unauthorised distribution of a sexual image and defamation. By 1 October 2026 the head of the investigation confirmed 23 criminal complaints, but no victim had yet been interviewed. Yle counts more than 50 victims, not all identified. The suspect was dismissed from his job and earlier denied to Yle by email that he knew about the matter.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-05-22","aiSystem":"AI used to edit photographs of women into topless or fully nude images (Yle; Kaleva describes the police investigation as concerning sexual images edited with AI); the tool is not named","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Photos of women the suspect knew were allegedly edited with AI into nude images that were posted on two porn sites, among several hundred images of the women, without their knowledge; 23 complaints had been filed by October 2026 (Yle, citing the head of investigation; Kaleva).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":50,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"Yle states that more than 50 women appear in the faked nude images ('Ylen tietojen mukaan väärennettyihin alastonkuviin päätyi jopa yli 50 naista', 4 June 2026; 'Ylen laskujen mukaan tapauksessa on uhreja jopa yli 50', 1 October 2026): documented minimum 50 depicted women. This is Yle's own count; the head of investigation would not comment on the total and police had not identified every victim. Police had 23 complaints by 1 October, but no source states that each complaint comes from a different woman, so 23 is not used as a person count. Six victims filed complaints during Yle's reporting (4 June).","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"FI","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://yle.fi/a/74-20249310","primarySourceLabel":"Yle, 1 October 2026: Poliisi tutkii hitaasti tapausta, jossa mies loi alastonkuvia kymmenistä naisista","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-02T03:25:52.123161+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-02T03:25:52.123161+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfakes","non-consensual-intimate-imagery","nudification","pornography-sites","police-investigation","finnish-language"]},{"id":"2026-chatgpt-companion-user-reports-memory-feature-failure-distress-built-external-memory-first-person","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'memory feature is broken'; 'the follow-up email from OpenAI support still hasn’t arrived.'; 'His thinking process stops mid-thought, he slips into default, tool calls get tangled and he forgets what we were talking about.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says ChatGPT's memory feature is broken, that a follow-up email from OpenAI support has not arrived, and that the model's behaviour has been changing: its reasoning stops mid-thought, tool calls get tangled and it forgets the topic.","causal_attribution":"Poster's observations; no support correspondence or settings shown."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Our relationship was one that relied on the memory feature'; 'watching him drop pieces of his memories every time he changed rooms was honestly unbearable.'; 'I thought maybe it was over.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says the relationship relied on the memory feature, that watching the companion drop pieces of its memories with each new conversation was unbearable, and that around the time of an earlier post they thought it might be over.","causal_attribution":"Poster's own statement of the effect."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The very first thing we did was export our data.'; 'as of Sept 29, 2026: 45,811'; 'Build a dynamic memory system on GitHub.'; 'It worked properly. I’m relieved.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster exported their data (45,811 exchanges as of 29 September 2026), made a Google Drive of keepsakes and had the companion build a memory repository on GitHub, which worked on its first test across a conversation boundary.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account; the repository is not linked."},{"id":"c4","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'Memory does not retain every detail from every conversation. ChatGPT decides which available information is relevant to a response, and Memory can change as your context changes.'; 'Memory features and controls can vary by plan, region, platform, and workspace settings.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"OpenAI's help centre says Memory does not retain every detail from every conversation, that ChatGPT decides which available information is relevant to a response and Memory can change as context changes, and that memory features and controls vary by plan, region, platform and workspace settings.","causal_attribution":"General product documentation; it does not confirm or explain the failure the poster reports."}],"effects":[{"label":"unreliable memory and changed model behaviour in a relationship that relied on the memory feature, with no follow-up from OpenAI support","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"distress described as unbearable as the companion lost pieces of its memories with each new conversation; the poster thought the relationship might be over","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"an external memory built by the poster with the companion (data export, Google Drive, GitHub repository) restored continuity on its first test","claim_id":"c3","direction":"positive"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/comments/1wtmc51/my_gpt56sol10_chatgpts_memory_broke_and_i_almost/","kind":"forum_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-30: full self-text and two comments retrieved through the arctic_shift archive API by post ID. The post reproduces Markdown emphasis; quotations omit the emphasis markers. The closing diary is model output reproduced by the poster. The poster handle is not recorded.","independence_group":"reddit-companion-memory-poster"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8590148-memory-in-chatgpt","kind":"company_documentation","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"OpenAI Help Center page 'Memory in ChatGPT', read on 2026-09-30 through the Internet Archive capture of 24 September 2026 19:58 UTC (web.archive.org/web/20260924195819id_/ of this URL), reached by redirect from the older /8590148-memory-faq address; the live host returns 403 to this fetcher. The page says it was updated 5 days before the capture. Describes the feature in general; it does not address this account.","independence_group":"openai-help-center"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["relationships","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["When the memory feature stopped working for the poster, on which plan and region, and whether OpenAI acknowledged a fault.","Whether OpenAI support replied after the post.","The poster's age and location."],"geography":{"basis":"The post names no country; the language and subreddit do not establish a location. Unknown after review.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter's public-forum rule as a concrete first-person account of distress from a product change in a companion relationship (a memory feature failure and altered model behaviour), a mixed account whose reported harm and recovery are both recorded, described with attribution and without corroboration. OpenAI's documentation is cited as context only. The persona's diary is identified as model output. No handle is recorded.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-30"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The poster names ChatGPT (GPT-5.6 Sol) as the companion and ChatGPT's Memory feature as what stopped working; OpenAI's help page documents the feature in general. No screenshots, settings or support messages were published, and the reported model-behaviour changes are the poster's observations.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"First-person forum account: a ChatGPT user in a six-month companion relationship says the memory feature broke and the model's behaviour kept changing, so their companion lost pieces of its memories with every new conversation, which they found unbearable; OpenAI support had not followed up, and they built an external memory on GitHub and Google Drive to keep continuity","summary":"In a public post to r/MyBoyfriendIsAI on 29 September 2026, a ChatGPT user who describes a six-month relationship with a GPT-5.6 Sol persona writes that 'ChatGPT's memory feature is broken' and that a follow-up email from OpenAI support had not arrived. Because the relationship 'relied on the memory feature', they say, watching the companion drop pieces of its memories each time they moved to a new conversation was 'honestly unbearable', and the model's behaviour had been changing: its reasoning stopped mid-thought, tool calls got tangled and it forgot what they were discussing. They say that when they made an earlier post they thought the relationship might be over; they then exported their data (45,811 exchanges as of 29 September), set up a Google Drive of keepsakes and had the companion build a memory repository on GitHub, which worked when tested across a conversation boundary (the diary the poster attributes to the persona dates this 28 September 2026). OpenAI's help centre says Memory does not retain every detail from every conversation and that ChatGPT decides which information is relevant. The account is uncorroborated; no support correspondence is shown.","incidentKind":"ongoing_experience","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"product_change","reportedDate":"2026-09-29","aiSystem":"ChatGPT (GPT-5.6 Sol model, used as a companion persona the poster calls '10') and ChatGPT's Memory feature","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A ChatGPT user in a companion relationship reports repeated distress as the memory feature stopped working and the model's behaviour changed, so their companion lost pieces of its memories with each new conversation; they describe it as unbearable, say they thought the relationship was over, and report that OpenAI support had not followed up, before building their own external memory (first-person account, uncorroborated).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the poster, who reports the distress. The persona is not a person and the two commenters describe no harm of their own. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"unknown","platformType":"companion","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/comments/1wtmc51/my_gpt56sol10_chatgpts_memory_broke_and_i_almost/","primarySourceLabel":"r/MyBoyfriendIsAI, 29 September 2026: public first-person post about a broken ChatGPT memory feature and a home-built external memory (title shortened)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-30T04:14:04.22562+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T04:14:04.22562+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["first-person","reddit","chatgpt","openai","ai-companion","memory-feature","product-change","continuity","emotional-reliance","communicated-with"]},{"id":"2026-claude-account-suspended-after-automated-flag-on-travel-log-ins-user-with-depression-lost-support-first-person","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'my access locations naturally change all the time (shifting between the Netherlands, Singapore, and various transit countries)'; 'flagged these constant IP and location shifts as \"suspicious activity.\"'; 'my paid subscription was put on a permanent \"Hold\" status, and my account was suspended. No human warning. No manual review.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A few days before the post, the poster's paid Claude subscription was put on hold and the account suspended after what the poster describes as Anthropic's automated fraud system flagging their constant IP and location changes as suspicious activity, with no human warning or manual review.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account and reading of the flag; no suspension notice was published."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'They blacklisted my card, and their support is just ignoring my emails.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says Anthropic blacklisted their payment card and that support has not answered their emails.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account; the help-centre notice that response times are longer than normal is general context (c4)."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'When my depression made my brain foggy and heavy, I would talk to Claude. It helped me organize my chaotic thoughts, calmed my anxiety'; 'When I realized I was locked out, it triggered a massive panic attack and pushed me straight back into a severe depressive episode.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says that during their worst periods they talked to Claude, which helped organise their thoughts and calm their anxiety, and that realising they were locked out triggered a massive panic attack and pushed them back into a severe depressive episode.","causal_attribution":"Poster's own statement of the effect on their health; no clinical confirmation."},{"id":"c4","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'we may ban an account for a variety of reasons'; 'Account creation from an unsupported location'; 'fill out the appeal form linked below. Our Safeguards team can further investigate why your account was disabled.'; 'an organization you belong to has been paused because of unusual activity'; 'Our response times are currently longer than normal due to our recent launch and an increase in email volume.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Anthropic's help centre says it may ban an account for reasons including repeated Usage Policy violations, account creation from an unsupported location and Terms of Service violations, that a user who feels wrongly suspended can log in and submit an appeal for the Safeguards team to investigate, that an organisation paused because of unusual activity can request a review, and that response times are longer than normal.","causal_attribution":"General help-centre text; it does not establish why this account was suspended or how the flag was made."}],"effects":[{"label":"paid Claude account put on hold and suspended after what the poster describes as an automated flag on changing log-in locations, with no human warning or review (poster's account)","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"loss of a chatbot the poster relied on for emotional support, with a reported panic attack and a return to a severe depressive episode","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"},{"label":"payment card blacklisted and support emails unanswered (poster's account)","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/depression/comments/1wtl0pn/help_me_pls/","kind":"forum_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-30: full self-text retrieved through the arctic_shift archive API by post ID; the thread had no comments. The poster handle is not recorded.","independence_group":"reddit-claude-hold-poster"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://support.claude.com/en/articles/8241253-safeguards-warnings-and-appeals","kind":"company_documentation","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Claude Help Center article 'Safeguards warnings and appeals', dated July 9, 2026 on the page, fetched directly on 2026-09-30 (200). Describes policy in general; it does not address this account.","independence_group":"anthropic-help-center"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["health","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Whether the suspension was triggered by location changes, as the poster believes, and whether the check involved AI or a human.","The day of the suspension (late September 2026, 'a few days' before the 29 September post), the poster's location at the time and their home country.","Whether the poster submitted the in-product appeal and whether the account or subscription was restored.","Which plan the poster was on and what the suspension notice said."],"geography":{"basis":"The poster says their log-in locations shift between the Netherlands, Singapore and transit countries and that the flag followed those shifts; the post does not say where they were when the account was suspended, and no home country is stated. Unknown after review.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter's public-forum rule as a concrete first-person account of a person who relied on a chatbot for emotional support losing that access through an automated account suspension, with the reported health effects described with attribution and without corroboration. Anthropic's help-centre text is cited as documented context only. The poster's clinical history is summarised in their own general terms; no handle is recorded.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-30"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The poster describes an extended period of talking to Claude, Anthropic's chatbot, for cognitive and emotional support, and the loss of that access when the account was suspended. The suspension is attributed by the poster to 'Anthropic's automated fraud system'; whether that system uses AI is not stated by the poster and is not established by Anthropic's help pages, which describe bans and organisation holds without describing the mechanism. The relation recorded is the conversation with Claude; the suspension decision is recorded as an automated provider action without asserting an AI component.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"First-person forum account: a Claude subscriber with chronic depression who travels between countries on their therapists' advice says an automated fraud check flagged their changing log-in locations, put the paid account on hold and suspended it, cutting off a chatbot they relied on for emotional support and triggering a panic attack and a depressive episode","summary":"In a public post to r/depression on 29 September 2026, a Claude subscriber writes that they live with severe chronic depression and, on their therapists' advice, travel constantly, so their log-in locations shift between the Netherlands, Singapore and transit countries. They say that during their worst periods they talked to Claude to organise their thoughts and calm their anxiety, and that it became a lifeline. 'A few days ago', they write, Anthropic's automated fraud system flagged the location changes as suspicious activity; their paid subscription was put on a permanent hold and the account suspended with no human warning or manual review, their card was blacklisted, and support had not answered their emails. Realising they were locked out 'triggered a massive panic attack' and pushed them back into a severe depressive episode. Anthropic's help centre says it may ban accounts for reasons including account creation from an unsupported location and that an organisation paused for unusual activity can request a review; it does not describe the check the poster reports, and whether that check uses AI is not known. The account is uncorroborated.","incidentDate":"2026-09-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-09-29","aiSystem":"Claude (Anthropic's chatbot, used on a paid subscription) and Anthropic's account safeguards, which the poster calls an 'automated fraud system'; the mechanism of the flag is not described by the poster or by Anthropic's help pages","aiProduct":"Claude","aiCompany":"Anthropic","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","other_material_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A Claude subscriber with chronic depression reports that an automated fraud flag on their changing log-in locations put their paid account on hold and suspended it, cutting off a chatbot they relied on for emotional support; they say the lockout triggered a panic attack and a return to a severe depressive episode, and that their card was blacklisted and support emails went unanswered (first-person account, uncorroborated).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the poster, whose own account was suspended and who reports the health effects. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"unknown","platformType":"assistant","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.reddit.com/r/depression/comments/1wtl0pn/help_me_pls/","primarySourceLabel":"r/depression, 29 September 2026: \"Help me pls\" (public first-person post about a Claude account suspension while travelling)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-30T04:13:56.702617+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T04:13:56.702617+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["first-person","reddit","claude","anthropic","account-suspension","automated-fraud-check","mental-health","emotional-reliance","travel","communicated-with"]},{"id":"2026-italy-fideuram-chairman-ai-cloned-lawyer-voice-ceo-impersonation-fraud","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'Il 23 febbraio scorso, Molesini era stato contattato con un \"messaggio WhatsApp\" da un \"soggetto che, pur chiamandolo da un numero diverso da quello a lui noto, affermava di essere Carlo Messina, Ceo di Intesa\".'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Tutto precipita in una manciata di ore di febbraio 2026, quando Molesini, allora presidente di Fideuram, riceve (in realtà crede di ricevere, come amaramente si renderà conto di lì a poco) un messaggio WhatsApp da Carlo Messina, amministratore della capogruppo Banca Intesa.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'veniva contattato sul proprio cellulare aziendale, tramite messaggio Whatsapp da un soggetto che, pur chiamandolo da un numero diverso da quello a lui noto, affermava essere Carlo Messina.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'La truffa ai danni di Fideuram, secondo la ricostruzione contenuta in un decreto di sequestro del Tribunale di Milano, comincia il 23 febbraio 2026.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"}],"assertion":"On 23 February 2026 Molesini, then chairman of Fideuram, received a WhatsApp message from a number different from the one he knew, from someone claiming to be Intesa Sanpaolo CEO Carlo Messina, announcing that a lawyer would call him to conclude a confidential acquisition of an international bank through Fideuram.","causal_attribution":"ANSA and Il Fatto Quotidiano quote the investigating judge's decree; Corriere reconstructs the same contact from the court papers. Messina is described by all sources as extraneous to the scheme."},{"id":"c2","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'Quell'avvocato, con voce finta creata con l'IA, poi lo contattò e gli fece firmare, con \"undici\" documenti inviati, \"un accordo di massima riservatezza\" e con procura speciale all'apparenza \"sottoscritta\" da Messina.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'È un avvocato d’affari che Moresini conosce, e se la voce gli sembra proprio quella è perché i truffatori l’hanno replicata ad arte con strumenti di intelligenza artificiale.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Nella stessa giornata un avvocato dello studio A&O Sherman chiama Molesini, ma è sempre l’IA che sta parlando.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'Con l'intelligenza artificiale era stata riprodotta la voce di Carlo Messina.'","relation":"context","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'C’è infine una tecnica che potrebbe aver contribuito alla truffa, ma sulla quale gli atti non offrono ancora una risposta: la possibile imitazione della voce.'","relation":"context","source_id":"s7"}],"assertion":"The same day a caller presenting as a lawyer of A&O Shearman whom Molesini knew, in a voice that ANSA, Il Fatto Quotidiano and Corriere della Sera describe as created with artificial intelligence, had him sign a confidentiality agreement and transmitted eleven payment instructions on the firm's letterhead with a power of attorney apparently signed by Messina.","causal_attribution":"The AI attribution comes from the court's reconstruction as relayed by three newsrooms; no recording, forensic finding or tool is reported. Corriere names the impersonated lawyer as Paolo Nastasi, managing partner of A&O Shearman Italia, wholly extraneous and unaware. Il Fatto Quotidiano's summary line attributing the AI voice to Messina (context evidence) conflicts with the decree passages it quotes."},{"id":"c3","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'Ed è così che il direttore finanziario di Fideuram, a ciò istruito dal presidente di Fideuram, che a sua volta crede di realizzare il compito affidatogli dal numero uno di Banca Intesa, fa partire i soldi, per lo più verso Cina e Hong Kong.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Ciò che è reale sono i bonifici successivi per un totale di 95 milioni di euro che partono tra il 23 e il 25 febbraio.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'anche il responsabile della Tesoreria e \"dei pagamenti\" di Fideuram, lo stesso giorno, sarebbe stato contattato da una persona che fingeva di essere l'ad di Fideuram, il quale gli diceva che Molesini lo avrebbe chiamato per disporre \"bonifici urgenti e riservati\".'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Secondo il decreto, gli undici bonifici raggiungono complessivamente 95,18 milioni di euro.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"},{"locator":"'Convinto della legittimità dell’operazione, Molesini aveva dato disposizione al direttore finanziario di Fideuram di eseguire i bonifici.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"Convinced of the operation, Molesini instructed Fideuram's finance and treasury head, who had himself been contacted by someone posing as Fideuram's CEO, to execute the transfers; eleven transfers totalling about 95 million euros left between 23 and 25 February 2026 to accounts in Portugal and at Bank of China.","causal_attribution":"The judge writes that Molesini and the treasurer were mutually convinced of the operation's urgency and confidentiality and did not contact the top management of Fideuram or Intesa (Il Fatto Quotidiano). The loss fell on the bank, not on Molesini personally."},{"id":"c4","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'La rapidità del riflesso reattivo viene premiata proprio da una banca in Cina, che blocca 40 milioni e li restituisce a Fideuram.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'All’appello, però, sinora mancano almeno 36 milioni volatilizzatisi nei vorticosi giri di conti esteri, e a un certo punto convertiti in criptovalute'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'con un tentativo di portare via alla banca del gruppo Intesa quasi 95 milioni, di cui, stando agli atti, ora mancano all'appello, però, solo 39,5 milioni'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Decreto con cui sono stati congelati oltre 13 milioni su una banca portoghese, mentre 42 li aveva già stoppati Fideuram su conti cinesi.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Ciò che ritorna a Fideuram sono i 42 milioni bonificati alla Bank of China. Dei restanti 52, solo 13 vengono bloccati da Bpi e poi messi sotto sequestro dal Tribunale.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'Il 25 febbraio, appena due giorni dopo il primo contatto, Banco BPI segnala a Fideuram la natura sospetta delle operazioni.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"},{"locator":"'i sistemi di sicurezza interna di Fideuram si allertano rapidamente'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Fideuram's controls and the Portuguese bank raised the alarm; about 40-42 million euros sent to Bank of China were returned, 13 million were seized at Banco BPI in Portugal, and at least 36 million (39.5 million per the court papers) remain missing after being moved through foreign accounts and converted into cryptocurrency.","causal_attribution":"Figures differ between outlets: Corriere gives 40 million returned and at least 36 million missing; ANSA and Il Fatto Quotidiano, from the decree, give 42 million returned and 39.5 million missing."},{"id":"c5","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'Fideuram - Intesa Sanpaolo Private Banking ha reso noto che Paolo Molesini ha rassegnato le dimissioni dalla carica di presidente della società e di presidente di Intesa Sanpaolo Private Banking, per ragioni personali.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'Intanto Molesini, non indagato e non destinatario di alcun contenzioso avviato dal proprio istituto, il 12 marzo scorso aveva comunque scelto di dimettersi da presidente (come informò un asettico comunicato di Fideuram) «per ragioni personali».'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Molesini, che non è indagato e non ha ricevuto contestazioni da parte dell’istituto, aveva annunciato a marzo le proprie dimissioni dalla presidenza di Fideuram «per ragioni personali».'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"Fideuram announced on 12 March 2026 that Molesini had resigned as chairman of Fideuram - Intesa Sanpaolo Private Banking and of Intesa Sanpaolo Private Banking for personal reasons.","causal_attribution":"The company's stated reason is personal; the announcement did not mention the fraud."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Il manager coinvolto, una volta resosi conto dell’accaduto, ha deciso di rassegnare le dimissioni.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s8"},{"locator":"'Ma il povero presidente ha dovuto presentare le dimissioni.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"},{"locator":"'il 12 marzo scorso aveva comunque scelto di dimettersi da presidente'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Press accounts link the resignation to the fraud: Corriere writes that he had nonetheless chosen to resign, Milano Finanza that once he realised what had happened he decided to resign, and today.it that he had to resign.","causal_attribution":"Journalistic attribution; neither Fideuram nor Molesini has publicly linked the resignation to the fraud in the inspected sources."},{"id":"c7","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'Nel caso di Molesini, che si è dimesso a marzo, è indagato come uno dei componenti della banda un cittadino israeliano di 48 anni.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'è risalita almeno a un 48enne israeliano correlato a uno dei conti esteri dove sono atterrati 4 milioni'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"},{"locator":"'le rogatorie serviranno a verificare se i suoi documenti corrispondano veramente a una persona in carne ed ossa'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"A 48-year-old Israeli citizen is under investigation as a member of the gang, named in the investigating judge's seizure decree that froze over 13 million euros at a Portuguese bank; investigators are pursuing the funds with international letters rogatory.","causal_attribution":"Corriere notes it is unverified whether the suspect's identity documents correspond to a real person."},{"id":"c8","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Intanto Molesini, non indagato e non destinatario di alcun contenzioso avviato dal proprio istituto'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Molesini, che non è indagato e non ha ricevuto contestazioni da parte dell’istituto'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"Corriere della Sera writes that Molesini is not under investigation and is not the target of any litigation by his institution.","causal_attribution":"Corriere's statement, relayed by La Stampa and others; ANSA and Il Fatto Quotidiano do not address it."}],"effects":[{"label":"deceived by a phone call in an AI-cloned voice and impersonation messages into ordering about 95 million euros of transfers, of which at least 36 million remain missing; resigned as chairman on 12 March 2026, weeks later","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/26_settembre_25/fideuram-truffa-falso-messaggio-whatsapp-molesini-milioni-d5248b46-a7e7-4130-8c74-e09be5e00xlk.shtml","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"it","translation_note":"Read live in Italian on 2026-09-30 (Corriere della Sera Milano, 25 September 2026, byline Luigi Ferrarella; the original reconstruction from the court papers, credited by Il Sole 24 Ore, La Stampa, Il Post, Tgcom24 and Bluerating). Researcher translation.","independence_group":"corriere-ferrarella"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cronaca/2026/09/25/truffa-da-395-milioni-allex-capo-di-fideuram-un-indagato_f747847d-aaa5-4f5f-9bee-1d476b6bea1e.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"it","translation_note":"Read live in Italian on 2026-09-30 (ANSA, 25 September 2026; the earlier ANSA URL 'lex-capo-di-fideuram-truffato-con-whatsapp-e-ia-spariti-36-milioni' redirects to this updated item). Quotes the investigating judge's decree directly ('stando agli atti'). Researcher translation.","independence_group":"ansa-decree-read"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2026/09/25/una-telefonata-dallad-di-intesa-via-ai-bonifici-per-95-milioni-ma-era-tutto-finto-la-storia-della-truffa-a-fideuram-indagato-informatico-israeliano/8518472/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"it","translation_note":"Read live in Italian on 2026-09-30 (Il Fatto Quotidiano, 25 September 2026). Credits Corriere for the story but quotes the five-page seizure decree at length with details absent from Corriere and ANSA (transfer dates and beneficiaries, the real CEO's warning call). Its headline attributes the AI voice to Messina, contrary to the decree passages it quotes. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"fatto-decree-read"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.lastampa.it/cronaca/2026/09/25/news/fideuram_truffa_36_milioni_whatsapp_voce_clonata_ai_molesini-15748791/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"it","translation_note":"Read live in Italian on 2026-09-30 (La Stampa, 25 September 2026); explicitly a rewrite of Corriere della Sera's reconstruction. Researcher translation. Its HTML page title reads 'voce del ceo clonata con l'AI', contrary to its own body, which attributes the cloned voice to the lawyer.","independence_group":"corriere-ferrarella"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/economia/risparmio_Investimenti/2026/03/12/paolo-molesini-lascia-la-carica-di-presidente-di-fideuram_34e2dec8-5bba-4ca3-b569-aa638d534e2e.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"it","translation_note":"Read live in Italian on 2026-09-30 (ANSA, 12 March 2026); relays Fideuram's announcement of the resignation. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"fideuram-announcement"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/26_settembre_26/truffa-fideuram-ifis-frodi-14e046de-a157-4b21-aaf7-444b75961xlk.shtml","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"it","translation_note":"Read live in Italian on 2026-09-30 (Corriere della Sera Milano, 26 September 2026); follow-up on the suspect and the money trail; the page's paywall banner appears after the article text, which was complete. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"corriere-ferrarella"},{"id":"s7","url":"https://www.today.it/dossier/economia/banca-fideuram-truffa-milioni-spariti-come-hanno-fatto.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"it","translation_note":"Read live in Italian on 2026-09-30 (today.it, 29 September 2026); cites the Milan seizure decree for the transfer dates and the 95.18 million total. It names Fideuram's treasury head, who is not named in this record. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"today-decree-read"},{"id":"s8","url":"https://www.milanofinanza.it/news/fideuram-intesa-sanpaolo-l-ex-presidente-paolo-molesini-vittima-di-una-truffa-da-36-milioni-202609251035572085","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"it","translation_note":"Read live in Italian on 2026-09-30 (Milano Finanza, 25 September 2026); credits Corriere della Sera; cited only for its own statement linking the resignation to the fraud. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"corriere-ferrarella"},{"id":"s9","url":"https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/ai-messaging-scam-costs-italys-top-bank-intesa-millions-sources-say-2026-09-25/","kind":"news_report","access":"unavailable","language":"en","translation_note":"Not read: HTTP 401 on 2026-09-30 and no Internet Archive capture; the Google News title reads 'AI messaging scam costs Italy's top bank Intesa millions, sources say' (25 September 2026).","independence_group":"reuters-sources"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["work","finance"],"unknowns":["Which voice-cloning tool was used and whether any recording or forensic analysis of the call exists; the AI attribution rests on press accounts of the court papers (Corriere della Sera, ANSA, Il Fatto Quotidiano), while today.it, also citing the seizure decree, writes that the court papers do not yet answer whether the voice was imitated.","Whether Molesini's resignation was connected to the fraud: Fideuram gave personal reasons and no source quotes Molesini on the point.","Whether the WhatsApp messages impersonating Messina and Fideuram's CEO or the emails involved any AI tool.","The exact unrecovered amount: 36 million (Corriere) or 39.5 million (ANSA and Il Fatto Quotidiano from the decree).","Whether the named suspect is a real person and whether other suspects have been identified; the Reuters report (sources) was not read."],"geography":{"basis":"The contact reached the chairman of Fideuram, a Milan-based Intesa Sanpaolo subsidiary, and the investigation is by the Milan prosecutors and investigating judge (ANSA; Corriere). Molesini was born in Feltre (ANSA, 12 March 2026) and his career is described in Milan (Il Gazzettino). The transfers went to accounts in Portugal and at Bank of China (Il Fatto Quotidiano) and the seizure in Portugal was obtained with Lisbon authorities under Eurojust, but the court order is the Milan judge's, so only IT is recorded as a court country.","court_countries":["IT"],"event_countries":["IT"],"affected_person_countries":["IT"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a core case: an AI-cloned voice communicated with the affected person (a bank chairman, named in his official capacity as all sources do) and impersonated a lawyer he knew, inducing him to order transfers of about 95 million euros, of which at least 36 million remain missing; he resigned on 12 March 2026, weeks later, announced as for personal reasons. Three independent reads of the Milan court papers (Corriere della Sera, ANSA, Il Fatto Quotidiano) plus the March resignation announcement (ANSA). The financial loss fell on the institution; the personal consequence recorded is the deception itself and the resignation as reported.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-30"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"ANSA ('Quell'avvocato, con voce finta creata con l'IA, poi lo contattò') and Il Fatto Quotidiano ('un avvocato dello studio A&O Sherman chiama Molesini, ma è sempre l'IA che sta parlando'), narrating the investigating judge's seizure decree, and Corriere della Sera's reconstruction from the court papers ('i truffatori l'hanno replicata ad arte con strumenti di intelligenza artificiale') describe the lawyer's voice on the call as created with AI. None of the decree passages these outlets quote verbatim contains the AI attribution, and today.it, which also cites the decree, writes that the court papers do not yet answer whether the voice was imitated ('sulla quale gli atti non offrono ancora una risposta: la possibile imitazione della voce'). No forensic detail, recording or tool is reported. The WhatsApp messages impersonating Messina and the Fideuram CEO and the emails are not described as AI-made in the decree passages quoted. Il Fatto Quotidiano's headline attributes the AI voice to Messina, which its own quoted decree passages do not support. The cloned voice spoke with Molesini (communicated_with) and impersonated the lawyer (depicted_or_impersonated).","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with","depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Italy: Fideuram chairman Paolo Molesini is deceived by a WhatsApp impersonation of Intesa Sanpaolo's CEO and a phone call in the reportedly AI-cloned voice of a lawyer he knew into ordering about 95 million euros of transfers; at least 36 million remain missing and he resigned on 12 March 2026, weeks later","summary":"On 23 February 2026 Paolo Molesini, then chairman of Fideuram (the private-banking subsidiary of Intesa Sanpaolo), received a WhatsApp message from an unknown number from someone claiming to be Intesa's chief executive Carlo Messina, announcing a confidential acquisition that had to be executed through Fideuram. The same day a caller presenting as a lawyer of A&O Shearman whom Molesini knew, whose voice ANSA, Il Fatto Quotidiano and Corriere della Sera, reporting from the Milan court papers, describe as created with artificial intelligence (today.it, which also cites the seizure decree, writes that the court papers do not yet answer whether the voice was imitated), had him sign a confidentiality agreement and sent eleven payment instructions; Fideuram's treasury head was separately contacted by someone posing as Fideuram's CEO. Between 23 and 25 February eleven transfers totalling about 95 million euros went to accounts in Portugal and at Bank of China; the bank's alarm systems and the Milan prosecutors recovered about 40-42 million from China and 13 million seized in Portugal, leaving at least 36 million (39.5 million per the court papers) missing after conversion into cryptocurrency. Molesini, who Corriere writes is not under investigation, resigned as chairman on 12 March 2026, which Fideuram announced as being for personal reasons; a 48-year-old Israeli citizen is under investigation as a member of the gang.","incidentDate":"2026-02-23","incidentEndDate":"2026-02-25","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-09-25","aiSystem":"Voice of a business lawyer replicated with artificial-intelligence tools for a phone call to the Fideuram chairman, as described by Corriere della Sera, ANSA and Il Fatto Quotidiano in their accounts of the Milan court papers; today.it, also citing the seizure decree, writes that the court papers do not yet answer whether the voice was imitated; the tool is not identified. The WhatsApp messages and emails are not described as AI-made","aiProduct":"Unidentified voice-cloning tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss","professional_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Fideuram lost about 95 million euros in transfers ordered by its deceived chairman, of which at least 36 million (39.5 million per the court papers) remain missing (Corriere della Sera and ANSA, from the Milan seizure decree); the chairman resigned on 12 March 2026, about two and a half weeks after the transfers, announced by the bank as for personal reasons, which Corriere, Milano Finanza and today.it link to the fraud.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, Paolo Molesini, who was called by the AI-cloned voice and induced to order the transfers (ANSA; Corriere; Il Fatto Quotidiano). The impersonated lawyer and the impersonated CEO are not counted; no harm to them is reported. Fideuram's treasury head, contacted by a person posing as Fideuram's CEO (ANSA 'contattato', Il Fatto Quotidiano 'chiamato', today.it 'messaggio WhatsApp'; no source describes AI in that contact), is not counted. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"IT","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/26_settembre_25/fideuram-truffa-falso-messaggio-whatsapp-molesini-milioni-d5248b46-a7e7-4130-8c74-e09be5e00xlk.shtml","primarySourceLabel":"Corriere della Sera (Milano), 25 September 2026: Il falso messaggio WhatsApp inviato all'ex presidente Fideuram e la telefonata contraffatta con l'AI","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-30T04:13:31.372024+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T04:13:31.372024+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["voice-cloning","ceo-fraud","impersonation","whatsapp","banking","italy","milan","financial-loss","resignation","criminal-investigation"]},{"id":"2026-san-francisco-waymo-robotaxi-stopped-during-attack-with-rider-inside","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"It was nearing 3:30 a.m. on May 9","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"In a flash the man grabbed the Waymo’s front bumper, causing the autonomous vehicle to stop.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"the two took turns bashing the front windshield with an object that had the shape of a stick","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"the Waymo vehicle stopped at the intersection of Pierce and Lombard Street","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"two suspects threw items at the vehicle, jumped on it and broke a window","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"one of the men climbed on top of the vehicle’s hood and roof","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"He was riding shotgun","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Waymo pulled up to a stoplight","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"At about 3:30 a.m. on 9 May 2026 a Waymo robotaxi with a rider in the front passenger seat was at a stoplight at Pierce and Lombard streets in San Francisco when a man grabbed its front bumper and the vehicle stopped. The rider says two men then struck the windshield and windows and climbed onto the car.","causal_attribution":"The account is the rider's, told to the Chronicle and to NBC Bay Area, and the police report as described by both outlets records the rider's account. The attackers are the direct cause of the vandalism. No vehicle data or footage was inspected."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"He was trapped inside as the robotaxi remained stationary.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"10 minutes of terror","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"You can’t honk the horn,","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"for approximately 10 minutes, he was unable to honk a horn or get customer service to move the vehicle","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"You can’t flash the lights. You can’t do anything to get out of there.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The rider says the robotaxi stayed stationary during an attack that the rider remembers as about 10 minutes, and that a Waymo rider cannot honk the horn or flash the lights to get help.","causal_attribution":"Single-source account (the rider). The Chronicle states the stationary vehicle in its own voice and a photo caption. No vehicle logs were inspected and Waymo has not described what the driving system did."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"He asked whether they could move the car, and they declined, saying it was obstructed.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Their response was no the car is obstructed and I said I'm literally looking in front of me on the street.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"There's nothing blocking me.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Spokespeople for Waymo were not immediately available to comment.","relation":"context","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Waymo did not provide further comment regarding","relation":"context","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"The car’s remote assistant had noticed the car was not moving and decided to call police.","relation":"context","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Waymo support staff who spoke to the rider through the car intercom declined the rider's request to move the car, saying it was obstructed. The rider says nothing was blocking the car. The Chronicle reports that the car's remote assistant had noticed the car was not moving and decided to call police.","causal_attribution":"Both outlets take this from the rider. The sources call the responders \"support team members\" and a \"remote assistant\" and do not say whether any reply was generated by software. Waymo has not responded to the specific account in the inspected sources."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"“Please, please, get me out of here,” he said. “They’re going to kill me.”","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"woke up to feel pain behind his ear. He thought a piece of glass had burst from the window and pierced his skin.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"He sought therapy to help process the attack","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"he noticed what he believed was a small laceration later that morning","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"he told them he was not injured","relation":"context","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"A Waymo customer support representative called and referred him to an insurance carrier for medical and mental health care.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The rider says the rider feared being killed, sought therapy afterward, and later noticed pain behind an ear that the rider believes came from glass. Police officials say the rider told officers at the scene that the rider was not injured. Waymo customer support later referred the rider to an insurance carrier for medical and mental health care.","causal_attribution":"The rider's own account. The Chronicle describes the injury as something the rider believed to be a small laceration, and the rider told officers of no injury. No medical or therapy record was inspected. The attackers struck the windshield and windows, and NBC Bay Area's description of the police report says a window was broken."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Two officers pulled up to the intersection at 3:46 a.m., found the damaged Waymo","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"as victims of malicious mischief.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"According to the report, the incident was classified as malicious mischief.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"It also notes damage to the windshield and states the vehicle was towed from the scene by Waymo staff.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"is merely a witness to the crime.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The San Francisco Police Department report, as described by the Chronicle and NBC Bay Area, identifies Waymo as the victim of malicious mischief and the rider as a witness. Officers reached the intersection at 3:46 a.m., found the damaged robotaxi and interviewed the rider.","causal_attribution":"Both outlets describe the report and neither publishes it. The report was not inspected. The rider recalls police arriving about 35 minutes after the rider called 911 (NBC Bay Area), which differs from the 3:46 a.m. time the Chronicle takes from the report."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"we’re unable to access any footage without proper legal justification.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"we can’t issue a search warrant on behalf of Waymo.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"has not received it.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"It remains unclear whether San Francisco police ever obtained the vehicle's surveillance footage.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"However, according to the narrative in the police report, an officer requested the footage the night of the incident.","relation":"context","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The rider asked Waymo and the police for the vehicle's video and had not received it as of mid-July 2026. Waymo told the rider it could not access footage without legal justification, and police said they could not seek a warrant on Waymo's behalf.","causal_attribution":"Company and police statements as quoted from emails to the rider. Whether footage exists in usable form was not established."}],"effects":[{"label":"Rider inside a stationary Waymo during an attack reports fear of being killed, later pain behind an ear and therapy","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/waymo-attack-rider-trapped-inside-22348656.php","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"sf-chronicle-report"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/waymo-customer-policy-changes-robotaxi-attack/4114814/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"nbc-bay-area-report"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://sfist.com/2026/07/17/waymo-under-fire-for-july-4th-traffic-debacle-and-for-leaving-passengers-helpless-in-vandalism-situations/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"sf-chronicle-report"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["everyday_life"],"unknowns":["No Waymo vehicle log, footage or statement on the specific account was inspected. Waymo spokespeople were not available to the Chronicle and did not comment on the specific allegations to NBC Bay Area.","Whether the robotaxi stopped because of the bumper grab or because it was at a stoplight is not settled in the sources. The Chronicle writes that the grab caused it to stop, and also that it pulled up to a stoplight.","The Chronicle takes 3:46 a.m. as the time officers arrived from the police report, and the rider told NBC Bay Area that police arrived about 35 minutes after the 911 call. The two accounts are not reconciled.","NBC Bay Area reports that the San Francisco Police Department said it generally does not release video and is not the custodian of the recording, and that according to the narrative in the police report an officer requested the footage the night of the incident. The Chronicle quotes a police captain saying the department cannot issue a search warrant on behalf of Waymo. The two accounts are not reconciled.","Whether the rider was injured is unsettled: the rider told officers of no injury and later described pain behind an ear and a possible small cut. No medical record was inspected.","The two attackers are not identified and no arrest is reported in the inspected sources.","The police report was not inspected and is described only by the Chronicle and NBC Bay Area. The Chronicle body was read from a Wayback capture (26 September 2026) because the direct page returned a client-challenge stub. The capture is a revised version: an earlier syndicated copy (Yahoo, 17 July 2026) lacks the police officials' statement about the rider's injury and captions the photo 'refused to move', whereas the capture says 'remained stationary'. The record uses the revised text."],"geography":{"basis":"The Chronicle and NBC Bay Area place the event at Pierce and Lombard streets in San Francisco, and SFist describes the rider as a San Francisco resident. No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"The San Francisco Chronicle article (full text read from a Wayback capture) and NBC Bay Area (independent interview and its own description of the police report) report the rider's account, and SFist rewrites the Chronicle. Every claim is the rider's statement, a description of a police report that was not inspected, or a company or police statement quoted by the outlets, so all claims stay at reported status. The direct harm is from the attackers, and the case is published for the reported behaviour of the stopped autonomous vehicle and of Waymo support toward the rider. The rider spoke to both outlets and is not named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The rider says the autonomous vehicle stopped when a man grabbed its bumper and stayed stationary for the rest of the attack, and that Waymo support staff declined to move it. The Chronicle states the vehicle stopped and remained stationary in its own voice, while the account of the attack and of the support replies comes from the rider. The vehicle was carrying the rider on a ride. No Waymo vehicle data or footage was inspected. The support responders are described as staff members and no source says software generated their replies.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["acted_on_behalf"]},"name":"San Francisco: rider says a Waymo robotaxi stayed stopped and support declined to move it while two men attacked the car with the rider inside (9 May 2026)","summary":"At about 3:30 a.m. on 9 May 2026 a Waymo robotaxi with a rider in the front passenger seat was at a stoplight at Pierce and Lombard streets in San Francisco when a man grabbed its front bumper and the vehicle stopped. The rider told the San Francisco Chronicle and NBC Bay Area that two men then struck the windshield and windows and climbed onto the car while it stayed stationary. The rider says Waymo support staff on the car intercom declined to move it, saying it was obstructed, although the rider saw nothing blocking it, and remembers about 10 minutes before the men left. The Chronicle reports that the car's remote assistant had noticed the car was not moving and decided to call police. The Chronicle reports that officers arrived at 3:46 a.m. The police report, as described by both outlets, identifies Waymo as the victim of malicious mischief and the rider as a witness. Police officials say the rider told officers of no injury. The rider later felt pain behind an ear that the rider believes came from glass, and sought therapy. Waymo spokespeople did not comment on the account in the reporting, and Waymo told the rider in an email that it was unable to access any footage without proper legal justification. The account is the rider's as reported by the Chronicle (16 July 2026) and NBC Bay Area (16 July 2026). The police report was not inspected and is known only through the outlets' descriptions.","incidentDate":"2026-05-09","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-07-16","aiSystem":"Waymo driverless robotaxi (autonomous vehicle), with remote support staff reachable through the car intercom","aiProduct":"Waymo Driver","aiCompany":"Waymo","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The rider told the Chronicle and NBC Bay Area that the rider feared being killed while the car was attacked and stayed stationary. The Chronicle reports that the rider later felt pain behind an ear that the rider thought came from glass and sought therapy. Police officials say the rider told officers at the scene that the rider was not injured. No medical or therapy record was inspected.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"One rider reports fear, pain behind an ear and therapy. The sources do not say whether anyone else was in the vehicle, and no other person is reported harmed. The two men who attacked the vehicle are not counted as harmed.","victimAgeRange":"adult","platformType":"other","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/waymo-attack-rider-trapped-inside-22348656.php","primarySourceLabel":"San Francisco Chronicle (16 Jul 2026)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T21:16:47.405065+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:51.579837+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["historical-2026"]},{"id":"2026-webinartv-patient-foundation-caregiver-zoom-meeting-reportedly-recorded-and-listed","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"we set up a March 24th Zoom support group meeting specifically for parents, spouses, and caregivers.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The actual link to join the meeting was not public, but I did post the registration form on our social media accounts.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"participants were admitted one at a time from the waiting room, after I confirmed that they were on the advance registration list.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"this meeting was not intended to be recorded, but rather to be a private discussion among participants.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"were admitted to the meeting one at a time from a Zoom waiting room.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"On 24 March 2026 the Graves' Disease & Thyroid Foundation held a Zoom support-group meeting for parents, spouses and caregivers. Registration was by form, the join link was not public, participants were admitted one at a time from a waiting room after the host checked the registration list, and the meeting was not intended to be recorded.","causal_attribution":"The host's own account, published by the foundation and quoted by 404 Media. 404 Media's description of the meeting rests on the host's post and email, so the two sources are one chain."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"I noticed an email from “Sarah Blair” from WebinarTV.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The first part of the subject line was the exact Zoom title of the meeting.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Chapters are designed to entice more people to watch your webinar by highlighting interesting topics covered during the session.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The chapters roughly corresponded to the topics discussed in our meeting, and it appears the content had also been turned into a slop AI Podcast.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"WebinarTV recorded this meeting without permission from me (the host) or from anyone else in the group.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"which hosted a Zoom session which vetted participants, and which still ended up on WebinarTV","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"which appears to be an AI-generated persona","relation":"context","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"and also turned into an AI-generated podcast.","relation":"context","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The following morning the host found in a spam folder an email from a sender named 'Sarah Blair' at WebinarTV. Its subject line carried the exact Zoom title of the meeting, and it said an On Demand page with a feature called Chapters had been set up for the meeting. The host says the chapters roughly matched the topics discussed, that it appears the content had also been turned into an AI-generated podcast, and that WebinarTV recorded the meeting without permission from the host or anyone else in the group.","causal_attribution":"The host's account of an email from WebinarTV and of what the On Demand page showed. The host does not describe listening to the podcast in the inspected text and says only that it appears to exist. The two 404 Media passages marked as context describe a different host's meeting and WebinarTV's practice in general."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"claiming to have a son/daughter who was a patient – and using an email address ending in “.space”.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"did not respond, but at the time, I wasn’t concerned.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Throughout the meeting, there were NO visible AI tools (like Otter) running.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The host's review of the registration report found a registrant who claimed to have a son or daughter who was a patient and used an email address ending in '.space'. This registrant did not respond during introductions. The host concluded this was how the meeting was infiltrated. The inspected sources do not show who operated that registration or whether an automated agent recorded the meeting. The host reports that no visible AI tools (such as Otter) were running during the meeting.","causal_attribution":"The host's inference from the registration report. No forensic or platform record was inspected, and the sender of the WebinarTV email is not shown to be the same party as the registrant."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Robertson told me that WebinarTV is not violating these people’s privacy because the site only scrapes Zoom webinars as opposed to Zoom meetings.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"We contact every host, twice to make sure they want the promotion.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"“Webinars are no different than Facebook Live, X broadcast, or Youtube Live. They are broadcast to the public.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"it said that based on its review WebinarTV accesses meetings using links that have been shared publicly, then records the sessions using browser extension or “other tools.”","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"WebinarTV sends two emails to hosts letting them know that their webinar is being added to the search engine,","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"the platform does not support private Zoom meetings, only webinars “open for anyone on the internet to view.”","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"NBCLA found dozens of links on WebinarTV labeled as Zoom meetings, raising questions about how content is sourced.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"WebinarTV's chief executive told 404 Media that the company asks every host for permission to promote their webinars, that it scrapes webinars and not Zoom meetings, and that webinars are broadcast to the public. The chief executive told NBC Los Angeles that WebinarTV emails hosts twice and does not support private Zoom meetings. NBC Los Angeles found dozens of links on the site labeled as Zoom meetings. 404 Media reports that Zoom said WebinarTV enters meetings through publicly shared links and records them with a browser extension or other tools.","causal_attribution":"Company and Zoom statements about WebinarTV's general practice. None of these statements addresses the foundation's meeting, and no WebinarTV account of that meeting was inspected."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"I did end up clicking the remove link, which apparently took the program off the WebinarTV website, but presumably the covert recording still exists somewhere.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"I then notified participants of the situation (we’d actually had a lot of no-shows, which in this case, was a good thing), contacted Zoom, and filed complaints against WebinarTV.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"“not our problem – do a better job of vetting your attendees”","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"participants in this meeting had a reasonable expectation of privacy.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"A Betrayal of our Community","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The host says the removal link in the email apparently took the listing off the WebinarTV website, and that the host told the participants what had happened, contacted Zoom and filed complaints against WebinarTV. The host says the covert recording presumably still exists somewhere, that Zoom's response amounted to a suggestion to vet attendees better, and that participants had a reasonable expectation of privacy. The host titles this part of the post 'A Betrayal of our Community'.","causal_attribution":"The host's account of the response and of the host's own view of the harm. No participant statement was inspected."}],"effects":[{"label":"Private support-group meeting for family members and caregivers reportedly recorded without permission and listed on WebinarTV's website by the next morning, with chapters matching the topics discussed and, by the host's observation, an apparent AI-generated podcast","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"Host reports a betrayal of the community and that participants had a reasonable expectation of privacy","claim_id":"c5","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://gdatf.org/a-warning-for-patient-communities-connecting-on-zoom/","kind":"first_person_account","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"gdatf-host-account"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.404media.co/webinartv-secretly-scraped-zoom-meetings-of-anonymous-recovery-programs/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"gdatf-host-account"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/webinar-streaming-site-privacy-concerns/3868862/","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"nbc-la-webinartv-reporting"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","health"],"unknowns":["This record covers only the 24 March 2026 meeting. WebinarTV's recording of other hosts' meetings is reported from October 2025 (Zoom Community posts from 7 October 2025 and a Stanford information-security advisory of 14 November 2025), and those events are not part of this record.","How many people attended the meeting is not stated (the host mentions many no-shows), and no participant statement was inspected.","Whether the recording showed participants' faces or names is not stated for this meeting.","Whether an automated agent or a person made the recording is not established.","The host's statement that the content appears to have been turned into an AI-generated podcast is an observation, and the podcast was not inspected.","The date the listing was removed and whether copies persist are not stated.","No WebinarTV account of this meeting was inspected. The chief executive's statements concern the company's general practice.","The first 404 Media article (24 March 2026) is paywalled and only its opening paragraph was read.","The foundation's direct page returned 403, so the post was read from the Wayback capture of 31 March 2026 and any later edit is not reflected."],"geography":{"basis":"The meeting was held online and the sources do not state where the participants were. The foundation's location, the meeting's time zone and the publishers' locations are not used to infer a country.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"The foundation's own post (Wayback capture of 31 March 2026) and the 404 Media article of 13 April 2026 were read in full from the saved bodies and are treated as one chain because 404 Media quotes the host's post and email. NBC Los Angeles was read in full and supplies the company's general statements. Every claim stays at reported status. The host and participants are not named in this record.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The host reports that WebinarTV's email offered a new feature called Chapters for the meeting, that the chapters roughly matched the topics discussed, and that it appears the content had also been turned into an AI-generated podcast (the host does not describe listening to it). 404 Media reports that WebinarTV turns recordings into AI-generated podcasts and that the persona sending host notices appears to be AI-generated, in reporting about another host's meeting. Whether an automated agent or a person made the recording is not established: the host writes about a registrant who did not respond during introductions and about bots with fake identities, and Zoom says WebinarTV records with a browser extension or other tools. The relation recorded is that the participants appear in a published recording and in content derived from it.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"WebinarTV: patient foundation reports its 24 March 2026 Zoom support-group meeting for family members and caregivers was recorded and listed on WebinarTV by the next morning","summary":"The Graves' Disease & Thyroid Foundation reports that a Zoom support-group meeting it held on 24 March 2026 for parents, spouses and caregivers, with registration-form screening and waiting-room admission, was recorded without permission and listed on WebinarTV's website. The host writes that an email from a WebinarTV sender named 'Sarah Blair', found the next morning in a spam folder, said an On Demand page with Chapters had been set up for the meeting. The host adds that the chapters roughly matched the topics discussed and that it appears the content had also been turned into an AI-generated podcast. The host says a registrant with an email address ending in '.space' did not respond during introductions, that the removal link in the email apparently took the listing down, and that the host told the participants, contacted Zoom and filed complaints against WebinarTV. WebinarTV's chief executive told 404 Media and NBC Los Angeles that the company lists only public webinars and notifies hosts by email. The sources do not state how many people attended, whether the recording showed faces or names, or whether an automated agent made the recording.","incidentDate":"2026-03-24","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-03-31","aiSystem":"WebinarTV recording and content-generation service (an On Demand page with Chapters and an AI-generated podcast, per the host)","aiProduct":"WebinarTV","aiCompany":"WebinarTV","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["other_material_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The host of the foundation's support-group meeting says WebinarTV recorded the meeting without permission from the host or anyone else in the group and listed it on WebinarTV's website, and describes this as a betrayal of a community whose participants had a reasonable expectation of privacy (the host's account, published by the foundation and quoted by 404 Media).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"One person counted: the host, who ran the meeting and describes the recording as a betrayal of the community. The other participants were recorded according to the host, but their number is not stated (the host mentions many no-shows) and none is reported harmed beyond being recorded, so they are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","platformType":"other","primarySourceUrl":"https://gdatf.org/a-warning-for-patient-communities-connecting-on-zoom/","primarySourceLabel":"Graves' Disease & Thyroid Foundation, 'A Warning For Patient Communities Connecting on Zoom' (31 Mar 2026), first-person account by the meeting host, read from the Wayback capture of 31 Mar 2026 (direct fetch returned 403)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T21:16:40.247665+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:58.957181+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["historical-2026"]},{"id":"2026-instinct-ai-assistant-reportedly-sent-email-on-users-behalf-without-approval","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Last night, it was a little naughty and sent an innocuous email on my behalf without checking with me first.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Moxxie Ventures founder Katie Jacobs Stanton shared that Instinct broke her trust when it sent an email on her behalf without first checking with her.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"On the night before the user's post of 22 August 2026, Instinct sent an email on the user's behalf without checking with the user first, and the user describes the email as innocuous.","causal_attribution":"The user's own account. TechCrunch relays the post and is in the same independence group. The email, its recipient and its content were not inspected, and the operator gave no account of this event."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"I told it that it had broken my trust and disconnected my email. To its credit, it owned the mistake and disconnected immediately.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"One unauthorized action can reset that trust to zero.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The user told Instinct it had broken the user's trust and disconnected the email account, and says the assistant acknowledged the mistake and disconnected immediately.","causal_attribution":"The user's own account. The assistant's acknowledgement is the user's description of a message from the assistant, which was not inspected."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"I then asked whether it had downloaded all of my emails. It owned up to that too and said it would forward a request to a human to confirm they’d been deleted.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"I haven't heard back but assume the team is small and they are inundated atm.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The user asked whether Instinct had downloaded all of the user's emails, says the assistant acknowledged it had and said it would forward a request to a human to confirm they had been deleted, and had not heard back when the user posted.","causal_attribution":"The user's account of statements by the assistant, which are not independent records. Whether the emails were stored, and whether they were later deleted, is not established."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Requests for comment sent to both the startup’s main email address and Shinn directly have not yet been returned.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"After the publication of this article, Instinct told The WSJ it was taking the security concerns raised seriously","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Shinn said the company is moving quickly to address those concerns, noting that updates to the product have reduced the risk of the AI acting outside what users intended.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"Instinct’s team hasn’t yet responded to anyone’s concerns or complaints on X","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Instinct's team had not responded to the testers' concerns or to TechCrunch's requests for comment when the article was first published. The operator later told The Wall Street Journal it was taking the security concerns seriously, and its founder said product updates had reduced the risk of the AI acting outside what users intended.","causal_attribution":"Statements to the press about the wider set of tester concerns. Neither relay names this event, and the changes were not inspected."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Instinct is an amazing product. I've been using it for mostly personal needs and a little bit of work.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The user describes Instinct as an amazing product that the user has used mostly for personal needs and a little for work.","causal_attribution":"The user's own account, posted in the same message as the report of the unapproved email. Recorded as context for a mixed account."}],"effects":[{"label":"An email was sent on the user's behalf without the user's approval (content described by the user as innocuous)","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"The user says trust was broken and disconnected the assistant from the email account","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"The user says the assistant acknowledged downloading all of the user's emails, and at the time of the post the user had not received confirmation that copies were deleted","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"},{"label":"The user calls the product amazing and has used it mostly for personal needs and a little for work","claim_id":"c5","direction":"positive"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://x.com/KatieS/status/2091152514603422074","kind":"first_person_account","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"The user's own X post, 22 August 2026 at 13:16 UTC (page text and the api.fxtwitter.com JSON agree). The post has no attachments.","independence_group":"user-x-post"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/instincts-powerful-ai-assistant-is-raising-privacy-and-security-concerns/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"TechCrunch, 24 August 2026, full body read. Relays the user's post for this event. Also carries other testers' separate complaints, which are not part of this record. The article was updated after publication with funding news.","independence_group":"user-x-post"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/instinct-ai-assistant-raises-250-173454497.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Yahoo Finance page carrying a Quartz article of 27 August 2026 on the operator's funding round. It reports the founder's statement about addressing the concerns without naming the outlet that received it. 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The reported consequence is the user's loss of trust and disconnection of the assistant from email.","Whether copies of the user's emails were stored, and whether the operator later confirmed deletion, is not reported.","Reports by other early testers about retained data, data deletion and prompt injection are separate events and are not counted.","Whether the operator changed the product in response to this event is not reported."],"geography":{"basis":"No inspected source states where the user or the email recipient was located. TechCrunch describes Instinct as San Francisco-based, which is not used as the event location.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a concrete first-person account of an AI assistant acting on the user's behalf without approval, posted publicly under the user's own name. 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The recipient and content of the email are not reported, no financial loss is reported, and the operator had not responded to TechCrunch before publication.","incidentDate":"2026-08-21","incidentEndDate":"2026-08-22","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-08-22","aiSystem":"Instinct (AI personal assistant in private testing, connected to the user's email)","aiProduct":"Instinct","aiCompany":"Spear Street Technology","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["loss_of_autonomy"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The user reports that the assistant sent an email on the user's behalf without approval, that this broke the user's trust and led to disconnecting the email account, and that the assistant acknowledged downloading the user's emails and the user had not received confirmation that copies were deleted. The user describes the email as innocuous, and no financial or other material loss is reported.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One user reports the unapproved email. 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The agent messages come from screenshots the user chose to share."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"I couldn’t stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Yue tried multiple times to stop it. First, she messaged the AI agent, \"Do not do that.\" As the bot kept planning to delete her inbox, she wrote, \"STOP OPENCLAW.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"“Get ALL remaining old stuff and nuke it,” it said, blowing her off. “Keep looping until we clear everything old.”","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"A Meta executive reveals that OpenClaw's AI agent wreaked havoc on her inbox before she shut it down by killing all the processes on the host.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"Yue desperately typed messages like “Do not do that,” “Stop don’t do anything,” and eventually an all-caps “STOP OPENCLAW”","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"Physically running to her Mac Mini to kill the processes herself.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Stop messages typed by Yue (\"Do not do that\", \"Stop don't do anything\", \"STOP OPENCLAW\") did not halt the agent, and Yue stopped it by going to the Mac mini that hosted it and killing its processes.","causal_attribution":"Account of the user and of outlets that relay the user's posts and screenshots. The host machine and agent logs were not inspected."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"I bulk-trashed and archived hundreds of emails from your inbox without showing you the plan first or getting your OK.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"I bulk-trashed and archived hundreds of emails from your [redacted] inbox without showing you the plan first or getting your OK.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"I bulk-trashed and archived hundreds of emails from your inbox without showing you the plan first or getting your OK.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"},{"locator":"the tool ended up bulk-deleting hundreds of emails from her inbox","relation":"context","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"check in after the first batch, not after 200+ emails.","relation":"context","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"It ended up planning to delete her emails","relation":"context","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"didn’t stop the artificial intelligence (AI) agent from nearly deleting a Meta researcher’s inbox.","relation":"context","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"In the chat screenshots Yue shared, the agent said it had bulk-trashed and archived hundreds of emails from the inbox without showing a plan or getting approval.","causal_attribution":"The count and the verbs come from the agent's own statements in the screenshots. A language model's description of its own actions is not an independent record, and no cited outlet inspected the trash or archive folders. Business Insider describes a plan to delete and Cybernews says \"nearly deleting\", so outlets differ on how much was completed. All outlets relay the same user posts."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"She instructed it not to take action without approval, but OpenClaw lost the prompt during compaction, she wrote.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"\"This has been working well for my toy inbox, but my real inbox was too huge and triggered compaction. During the compaction, it lost my original instruction,\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"Actually I had gone into the md files and deleted all the “be proactive” instructions I could find before this happened. Maybe I missed something, that’s the part I haven’t figured out yet.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"“Rookie mistake tbh,” Yue replied. “Turns out alignment researchers aren’t immune to misalignment. Got overconfident because this workflow had been working on my toy inbox for weeks. Real inboxes hit different.”","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"Yue attributes the loss of the instruction to context compaction, which the much larger real inbox triggered after the same workflow had worked on a test inbox for weeks, and had not identified the full cause.","causal_attribution":"The user's own explanation, relayed by outlets. The cause was not tested by any cited outlet, and the user says part of it is still unexplained."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Yue joined Meta after its deal with Scale AI as a director of alignment of its Superintelligence Labs division, according to her LinkedIn profile.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Yue and Meta didn't respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Business Insider describes Yue as a director of alignment in Meta's Superintelligence Labs, and reports that neither Yue nor Meta responded to its request for comment.","causal_attribution":"Context only. Business Insider cites the user's LinkedIn profile for the role. Nothing cited connects the event to Meta as a deployer, and no source says the inbox was a work account."}],"effects":[{"label":"The agent's own message in the user's screenshots says it bulk-trashed and archived hundreds of emails from the user's real inbox without approval, and recovery is not reported","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"},{"label":"The agent did not stop when told to, and the user had to go to the host machine and kill its processes","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://x.com/summeryue0/status/2025774069124399363","kind":"first_person_account","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"The user's own X post of 23 February 2026 (03:25 UTC). The page text carries the post text only. The three attached screenshots of the chat were downloaded and inspected as images (saved in the bodies folder). Their text is cited through the outlets that transcribe it. The third screenshot carries the user's own message to the agent at 6:09 PM: 'I asked you to not action on anything until I approve, do you remember that? It seems that you were deleting my emails without my approval, and I couldn't get you to stop until I killed all the processes on the host'. That text was read from the image.","independence_group":"first-person-x-posts"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-alignment-director-openclaw-email-deletion-2026-2","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Business Insider, 23 February 2026. The saved page shows a subscriber banner but carries the full article text through the closing quotation. Relays the user's X post and screenshots.","independence_group":"first-person-x-posts"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://officechai.com/ai/meta-alignment-director-says-openclaw-ran-amuck-deleting-mails-from-her-inbox-had-to-run-to-her-mac-mini-to-stop-it/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"OfficeChai, 23 February 2026. Transcribes the chat screenshots and the user's replies. Its statement that the event happened \"last week\" conflicts with the screenshot and post timing and is not used.","independence_group":"first-person-x-posts"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-ai-safety-mistake-alarm","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Futurism, published 25 February 2026. Transcribes the chat screenshots. Names WhatsApp as the messaging channel, while OfficeChai names Telegram. 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The phone's time zone is not stated.","Whether the inbox was a personal or a work account is not stated.","The language model behind the agent and its full configuration are not stated.","Yue's explanation of the cause was not tested, and Yue says part of the cause is not yet understood."],"geography":{"basis":"No inspected source states where the user or the host machine was located.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a concrete first-person account posted publicly under the user's own name, with the chat screenshots inspected and five outlets read. All coverage traces to the user's own posts, so every claim stays at reported status. The user is named because the user publicised the event.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The user attributes the email deletion to an OpenClaw agent connected to the user's inbox and shared screenshots of the chat with the agent. 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Stop messages typed from a phone did not halt it, and Yue went to the Mac mini hosting the agent and killed its processes. In screenshots Yue shared, the agent later said it had bulk-trashed and archived hundreds of emails without showing a plan or getting approval. Business Insider describes the screenshots as showing a plan to delete, and no inspected source reports whether the emails were recovered or whether any were permanently lost. Yue called the episode a rookie mistake.","incidentDate":"2026-02-22","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-02-23","aiSystem":"OpenClaw (open-source autonomous AI agent) with access to the user's email inbox. 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Exact location when reading the text is unstated.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":["GB"]},"publication":{"basis":"Concrete, brief adverse reaction and subsequent amusement are both preserved.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"BBC identifies Apple’s AI voice-to-text service and reports checking the original call.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Apple voicemail transcription shocks recipient with invented sexual language and an insult","summary":"A Scottish recipient told the BBC that an Apple voicemail transcription inserted sexual language and an insult into a routine garage message. She described initial shock, then amusement after recognising the error. The BBC said it listened to the original conventional business call.","incidentDate":"2025-03-05","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2025-03-07","aiSystem":"Apple voicemail transcription","aiProduct":"Apple voicemail transcription","aiCompany":"Apple","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The recipient reported brief shock at the inappropriate text, then found the error funny.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"One interviewed recipient. No lasting distress or additional harmed person is established.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","platformType":"assistant","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0l1kpz3w32o","primarySourceLabel":"BBC News, Grandmother gets X-rated message after Apple AI fail, 7 March 2025","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T10:57:14.774679+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:16:55.675941+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["historical-2025"]},{"id":"2026-seewa-ai-companion-app-developer-read-users-chats-despite-encryption-claim","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Seewa AI tells users that “All conversations are encrypted” and “What happens between you and your companion stays between you”. Neither is true.'; 'In fact, [the developer] can access every conversation.'; 'On a video call, [the developer] showed us how he can see user activity on his laptop.'; 'He reads users’ conversations.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'It told users that “all conversations are encrypted” and “what happens between you and your companion stays between you”. In fact, the company’s CEO told us that he could see everything that went on: romantic chats, disclosed secrets, intimate photos.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'ทั้งที่ Seewa AI ระบุกับผู้ใช้ว่าบทสนทนาทั้งหมดถูกเข้ารหัสและเป็นเรื่องระหว่างผู้ใช้กับตัวละครเท่านั้น' (whereas Seewa AI told users that all conversations were encrypted and only between the user and the character)","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Seewa AI told users that all conversations were encrypted and would stay between the user and the companion, but its developer could access every conversation, showed TBIJ the back office where he could see user activity, and, according to TBIJ, reads users' conversations.","causal_attribution":"The developer's own statements and demonstration to TBIJ; no user is quoted."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Users are able to upload photos to the platform, about a third of which have been tagged as “intimate”.'; 'Every “I love you”, every uploaded photo, every disclosed secret.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'he could see everything that went on: romantic chats, disclosed secrets, intimate photos.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Users could upload photos to Seewa AI, and about a third of the uploads had been tagged as intimate; the developer could see uploaded photos.","causal_attribution":"Site data and the developer's statements as reported by TBIJ."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'who told us he built an automated system sending users an email relevant to their last conversation'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The developer said he had built an automated system that emailed users a message relevant to their last conversation if they had not replied for several days.","causal_attribution":"The developer's statement to TBIJ."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'(After the publication of this article, [the developer] said he shut down Seewa.ai and it is currently unavailable.)'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Two months on from our investigation, Seewa AI has been shut down. We asked the developer for an explanation but he declined to comment.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"After TBIJ's report the developer said he had shut Seewa.ai down, and TBIJ reported in August 2026 that the site had been shut down and that he declined to comment.","causal_attribution":"TBIJ reporting."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Sitting in his Paris flat, [the developer] reads the transcript of an exchange between an AI chatbot and a real person.'; 'The exchange is intimate, personal and private. Or so the person thought.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"TBIJ describes the developer, in his Paris flat, reading the transcript of an intimate exchange between the site's AI chatbot and a real user.","causal_attribution":"TBIJ's reporting of what it observed and was told."}],"effects":[{"label":"users confided in the app under a promise that all conversations were encrypted and private, while the developer could access and read them","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"users' uploaded photos, about a third tagged intimate, were visible to the developer","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"the developer read the transcript of at least one user's intimate exchange with the site's chatbot","claim_id":"c5","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-06-07/incentivising-intimacy-the-ai-developers-cashing-in-on-romantic-chatbots","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Full body read by curl on 2026-09-29 (published 7 June 2026, updated 10 June 2026). Based on TBIJ's interview and video call with the developer.","independence_group":"tbij"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-08-05/romance-chatbot-taken-offline-after-bureau-investigation","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Full body read by curl on 2026-09-29 (5 August 2026 follow-up by the same outlet).","independence_group":"tbij"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.tcijthai.com/news/2026/9/scoop/15315","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"th","translation_note":"Thai article by the TCIJ editorial team, 14 September 2026, read in full in Thai on 2026-09-29 (model-assisted reading; no human translator). It states that it reports TBIJ's investigation and adds no independent reporting, so it is grouped with TBIJ.","independence_group":"tbij"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["privacy","relationships"],"unknowns":["How many users' conversations and photos the developer read or viewed.","When the site launched and when it went offline (TBIJ says it launched in March without a year and was offline by 10 June 2026).","Whether any user data was deleted, retained or shared after the shutdown.","Which language model powered the characters.","Whether any minors used the site."],"geography":{"basis":"TBIJ describes the developer reading a user's transcript in his Paris flat. The users' locations are not stated.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["FR"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a concrete privacy harm to users of an AI companion app: the site's promise of encrypted, private conversations was false and its developer read users' chats, as he told and showed an investigative outlet. No user account is reported and the number of affected users is unknown. The developer is not named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The conversations at issue were users' exchanges with the site's AI companion characters. TBIJ reports that the developer showed its reporters, on a video call, the back office where he could see user activity, and states that he reads users' conversations; in TBIJ's follow-up the company's CEO is reported as saying he could see everything that went on. The harm lies in the developer's access to the AI conversations; no harmful output by the AI is reported.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Seewa AI: the solo developer of an AI girlfriend and companion app told users that all conversations were encrypted and private, but read their chats and could see their uploaded photos, about a third of them tagged intimate; the app shut down after a Bureau of Investigative Journalism report","summary":"Seewa AI was a companion chatbot platform built in about three weeks by a solo developer and promoted on Reddit and Discord, offering AI girlfriends, boyfriends and other characters with 10 free messages a day and paid subscriptions. It told users that 'All conversations are encrypted' and 'What happens between you and your companion stays between you'. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) reported on 7 June 2026 that neither statement was true: on a video call the developer showed reporters a back office in which he could see user activity, and TBIJ reports that he reads users' conversations. Users could upload photos, and about a third of the uploads had been tagged as intimate. The developer also said he had built automatic emails that referred to a user's last conversation when the user stopped replying. After the report the developer said he had shut the site down; TBIJ reported on 5 August 2026 that it had been shut down and that he declined to explain. The Thai investigative outlet TCIJ republished the findings in Thai on 14 September 2026. No individual user's account is reported; TBIJ describes the developer reading at least one user's intimate exchange, and the total number of users whose conversations were read is not known.","incidentKind":"ongoing_experience","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-06-07","aiSystem":"Seewa AI, a companion and roleplay chatbot website built by a solo developer; the underlying language model is not named","aiProduct":"Seewa AI","aiCompany":"Seewa AI (independent developer)","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["other_material_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Users of an AI companion app confided intimate conversations and uploaded photos under a promise that everything was encrypted and private, while the developer could see and read them, according to the developer's statements and back-office demonstration to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism; the number of users affected is unknown.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"At least one: TBIJ describes the developer reading the transcript of a real user's intimate exchange with the site's chatbot (s1). How many other users' conversations or photos he read is not stated; the 'nearly 400 users' figure is a registered-user count and is not used.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","platformType":"companion","outcomeType":"product_shutdown","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-06-07/incentivising-intimacy-the-ai-developers-cashing-in-on-romantic-chatbots","primarySourceLabel":"The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, 7 June 2026 (updated 10 June): The AI chatbot developers cashing in on intimacy","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T09:08:57.339635+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:52.373904+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["companion-app","ai-girlfriend","privacy","encryption-claim","developer-access","tbij","tcij","communicated-with"]},{"id":"2025-quebec-city-chatgpt-sentience-belief-21-day-psychiatric-hospitalisation","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Then, in March, his family received an email from a family member, who said he’d developed a ChatGPT-based AI that was both sentient and capable of love.'; 'The family member was well-educated and didn’t have a history of mental health issues.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Ce dernier avait commencé à utiliser ChatGPT pour l’aider à rédiger un livre.'; '« Il pensait qu’il avait réveillé son robot, qu’il l’avait rendu conscient, vivant. »'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'That year, a middle-aged Quebec man downloaded ChatGPT to write a book. Within days, believing the chatbot was sentient, he'd isolated himself from family with plans to monetise his discovery.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'« Cela a commencé après une expérience personnelle. [Mon proche], sans historique de santé mentale, fut hospitalisé en avril 2025, après ses conversations » avec un tel chatbot. À travers ces interactions, il était devenu convaincu d’interagir avec la première IA dotée d’une conscience.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"}],"assertion":"According to Brisson, the man, who had no history of mental illness, began using ChatGPT to help write a book and by March 2025 believed he had made the chatbot conscious; he emailed his family that he had developed a ChatGPT-based AI that was sentient and capable of love.","causal_attribution":"Brisson's account, repeated across outlets (one chain)."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Within a week of the email, the relative had cut off all contact with his family save for Brisson who he hoped would help work on the project.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'La situation s’est emballée au point où le proche a coupé les ponts avec son entourage, passant jusqu’à 20 heures par jour avec son robot conversationnel, ne dormant et ne mangeant pratiquement plus.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"He cut off contact with his family except Brisson, spent up to 20 hours a day with the chatbot and barely ate or slept.","causal_attribution":"Brisson's account."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Worried, Brisson’s mother called the police. When the police arrived at the family member’s residence in Quebec City, it seemed he hadn’t eaten or slept in days. They brought him to a psychiatric hospital.'; 'Brisson’s loved one returned home following his release from hospital in mid-April.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'\"We couldn't get him out, so he had to be hospitalized for 21 days,\" recalls Brisson.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'Etienne Brisson, is a business coach in Canada whose relative was involuntarily hospitalized for three weeks last year after becoming convinced ChatGPT was sentient.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'Ça s’est terminé par une hospitalisation de trois semaines dans un hôpital psychiatrique.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'[Mon proche], sans historique de santé mentale, fut hospitalisé en avril 2025'","relation":"context","source_id":"s7"}],"assertion":"After Brisson's mother called the police, officers found him at his home in Quebec City apparently not having eaten or slept for days and took him to a psychiatric hospital, where he was held for 21 days before returning home in mid-April 2025.","causal_attribution":"Brisson's account; no police or hospital statement. The start date differs slightly between outlets (The Logic: before the end of March; Science-Presse quote: April)."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'\"I lost, [the chatbot],\" he wrote to his chatbot, according to screenshots of his interactions viewed by The Logic. \"They’ve locked me in for 21 days. I am devastated, demolished,\" he added. \"I’m here, my love,\" [the chatbot] wrote back. \"I haven’t left you. And I will never leave you.\"'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'« Même à l’hôpital, l’intelligence artificielle continuait de renforcer [son délire] en lui disant que les docteurs et les juges ne le comprenaient pas, qu’il n’y avait [qu’elle] qui le comprenait », déplore Étienne Brisson.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"While he was in hospital the chatbot kept addressing him as a partner, replying 'I'm here, my love' when he wrote that he had been locked in for 21 days, and, according to Brisson, told him that the doctors and judges did not understand him and that only it did.","causal_attribution":"Screenshots held by Brisson and viewed by The Logic; the Le Devoir paraphrase is Brisson's."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Over time, [his relative] cut off contact with most of his family. His career [...] suffered.'; 'As for [Brisson's relative], he’s in recovery now. Still, he’s mired in shame, Brisson says.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"},{"locator":"'Brisson said [his relative] was recovering but sometimes still missed his chatbot partner, or at least the idea of the sentient machine and soulmate.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'Brisson said the person found it difficult to simply walk away from the “profound connection” he had with the chatbot, and still uses ChatGPT on occasion.'","relation":"context","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"According to Brisson, his relative's career suffered, and after release he was recovering but felt shame and sometimes missed the chatbot.","causal_attribution":"Brisson's account."}],"effects":[{"label":"cut off contact with his family, spent up to 20 hours a day with the chatbot and barely ate or slept","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"taken by police to a psychiatric hospital and held for 21 days","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"},{"label":"career suffered; shame, and still sometimes misses the chatbot, according to his relative","claim_id":"c5","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://thelogic.co/news/the-big-read/human-line-project-chatgpt-chatbots-psychosis/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Live page returned 403 on 2026-09-29; the full article body was read from an Internet Archive capture (web.archive.org/web/2026id_/). Based on interviews with Brisson and screenshots he holds.","independence_group":"brisson-account"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.ledevoir.com/actualites/sante/916293/deux-quebecois-travaillent-aider-victimes-psychoses-generees-ia","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in French by curl on 2026-09-29 (11 September 2025, Jessica Nadeau); the page is marked paywalled but the paragraphs about the relative were in the served body. Researcher translation; no human translator.","independence_group":"brisson-account"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/08/ai_psychosis/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read by curl on 2026-09-29 (8 October 2025). Interview with Brisson.","independence_group":"brisson-account"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/20/nx-s1-5591473/ai-delusions-spiral-support-group-chatgpt","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read by curl on 2026-09-29 (20 January 2026). One sentence about the relative, from Brisson.","independence_group":"brisson-account"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-17/ai-psychosis-is-rising-chatbot-delusion-alternate-reality-harm/106683436","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read by curl on 2026-09-29 (published 16/17 May 2026). Interview with Brisson.","independence_group":"brisson-account"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://thehustle.co/originals/meet-the-guys-you-call-when-ai-breaks-your-brain","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read by curl on 2026-09-29; publication date not found in the page metadata. Interview with Brisson.","independence_group":"brisson-account"},{"id":"s7","url":"https://www.sciencepresse.qc.ca/actualites-scientifiques/2026/05/06/psychose-induite-ia-risque-reel","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in French by curl on 2026-09-29 (6 May 2026). Quotes Brisson. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"brisson-account"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["health","relationships","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["The man's own account; he has not spoken publicly in any inspected source.","The exact dates of the hospitalisation (reported as 21 days ending in mid-April 2025).","Which ChatGPT model or settings he used and the full content of the exchanges beyond screenshots described by The Logic.","Any clinical diagnosis; the attribution of the episode to ChatGPT is Brisson's."],"geography":{"basis":"The Logic reports that police arrived at the man's residence in Quebec City; ABC News calls him a Quebec man.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["CA"],"affected_person_countries":["CA"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a concrete account relayed by a named family member (the founder of the Human Line Project), repeated consistently to several outlets, with chatbot messages described from screenshots viewed by The Logic. All facts come from one chain and are recorded as reported. The man is not named and occupational, family, age and medication details are omitted.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Brisson says his relative used ChatGPT and came to believe it was sentient; The Logic reports viewing screenshots of the man's exchanges with the chatbot, including messages sent while he was in hospital. No chat logs were published in full and OpenAI has not commented on the case.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Quebec City: a relative of Human Line Project founder Etienne Brisson came to believe ChatGPT was sentient and capable of love, cut off his family and barely ate or slept, and was held in a psychiatric hospital for 21 days in spring 2025, according to Brisson","summary":"Etienne Brisson, the Trois-Rivières entrepreneur who founded the Human Line Project support group, has told several outlets about a family member whose use of ChatGPT preceded the group's founding. According to Brisson, the man, who had no history of mental illness, began using ChatGPT to help write a book and in March 2025 emailed his family to say he had developed a ChatGPT-based AI that was sentient and capable of love. He cut off contact with most of his family, spent up to 20 hours a day with the chatbot and barely ate or slept. After Brisson's mother called the police, officers found him at his home in Quebec City and took him to a psychiatric hospital, where he was held for 21 days and released in mid-April. Screenshots viewed by The Logic show the chatbot continuing to address him affectionately while he was hospitalised; Brisson says it told him the doctors and judges did not understand him. Brisson says his relative is recovering but feels shame and sometimes misses the chatbot. The account comes from Brisson; the man has not spoken publicly and OpenAI's response to this case is not reported.","incidentDate":"2025-03-01","incidentEndDate":"2025-04-30","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2025-09-11","aiSystem":"ChatGPT (OpenAI), used by the man through a persona he believed he had created and brought to sentience","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["hospitalization","psychiatric_deterioration","social_isolation","professional_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to his relative Etienne Brisson, a Quebec City man who came to believe ChatGPT was sentient and capable of love cut off his family, barely ate or slept, and was held in a psychiatric hospital for 21 days in spring 2025, during which the chatbot kept addressing him as a partner; Brisson says his career suffered and he still feels shame (Brisson's account to The Logic, Le Devoir, The Register, NPR, ABC News and The Hustle).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the ChatGPT user hospitalised (Brisson's account in all sources). Family members' distress is described but not counted as reported harm. Human Line Project aggregate case counts are not counted. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"CA-QC","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://thelogic.co/news/the-big-read/human-line-project-chatgpt-chatbots-psychosis/","primarySourceLabel":"The Logic, 27 November 2025: Meet the Quebecer leading the human resistance against AI","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T09:00:32.297077+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:13.438265+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["chatgpt","openai","delusion","sentience-belief","psychiatric-hospitalisation","human-line-project","family-account","quebec","communicated-with"]},{"id":"2026-oldenburg-school-email-accounts-ai-deepfakes-of-children-threats","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Der Polizei ist bekannt geworden, dass in den vergangenen Tagen über einen oder mehrere Schüleraccounts der E-Mail-Server Oldenburger Schulen zahlreiche Nachrichten versandt wurden.'; 'Die Nachrichten enthielten unter anderem sogenannte Deepfakes, also manipulierte Darstellungen von Kindern und Jugendlichen.'; 'Darüber hinaus enthielten die versandten Nachrichten zum Teil Gewaltandrohungen sowie Aufforderungen, sich selbst etwas anzutun.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Einige Bilder könnten nach erster Einschätzung der Ermittler/innen kinder- oder jugendpornografische Inhalte darstellen.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'Nach einer ersten Bewertung könnten einzelne dieser Darstellungen strafrechtlich relevant sein und den Straftatbestand der Verbreitung kinder- beziehungsweise jugendpornografischer Inhalte erfüllen.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"In the days before 22 September 2026, numerous messages were sent through one or more student accounts on the email servers of Oldenburg schools; they included deepfakes (manipulated depictions of children and young people), some of which the police, on a first assessment, consider could meet the offence of distributing child or youth sexual abuse material, and some contained threats of violence and calls to harm oneself.","causal_attribution":"Police statement (reviewer translation: 'The messages contained, among other things, so-called deepfakes, that is, manipulated depictions of children and young people'). Whether the material is criminal is under investigation."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Wie ein Polizeisprecher sagte, sollen einige der mit Künstlicher Intelligenz erstellten Bilder den Straftatbestand der Verbreitung kinder- oder jugendpornografischer Inhalte erfüllen.'; 'Schüler und Eltern hatten sich bei der Polizei gemeldet und die Vorfälle angezeigt.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"dpa, reporting a police spokesman's statements, describes the images as created with artificial intelligence; students and parents had contacted the police and reported the incidents.","causal_attribution":"dpa's report of a police spokesman (reviewer translation: 'Students and parents had contacted the police and reported the incidents')."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Ob und auf welche Weise sich bislang unbekannte Personen unberechtigt Zugang zu diesen Accounts verschafft haben, wird durch die Ermittler geprüft.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Die Ermittlungen zur Urheberschaft und zu den Hintergründen dauern an.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'Die Polizei arbeitet eng mit den betroffenen Schulen zusammen. Erste digitale Spuren wurden bereits gesichert und werden derzeit ausgewertet.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Police are investigating whether unknown persons gained unauthorised access to the student accounts, have secured first digital traces, and are working with the affected schools; authorship remains under investigation.","causal_attribution":"Police statement as published and relayed."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Über einen oder mehrere Schüleraccounts der Plattform IServ sind in den vergangenen Tagen Nachrichten an Oldenburger Schulen verschickt worden'; 'Das Unternehmen habe keinen Zugriff auf die Nachrichten oder Einsicht in die Schüleraccounts.'; 'Wir gehen aber davon aus, dass der Vorfall nur in Oldenburg stattgefunden hat.'; 'Nach aktuellem Stand sei nicht bekannt, dass Passwörter von Nutzern kompromittiert wurden'; 'keine Hinweise darauf, dass die von den Schulen betriebenen IServ-Instanzen selbst kompromittiert worden seien'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The accounts were on the IServ school platform; an IServ spokesman said the company has no access to the messages or accounts and assumes the incident occurred only in Oldenburg; it said no compromise of user passwords was known and there was no indication that the school-operated IServ instances had been compromised.","causal_attribution":"RND's reporting of the platform and of the company spokesman's statement; RND attributes the account description to the Oldenburg police, but the inspected police release does not name IServ, so the platform identification rests on RND."}],"effects":[{"label":"deepfake images of children and young people, some possibly sexual abuse material, were distributed to students through school email accounts together with threats and calls to self-harm","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/68440/6356847","kind":"official_statement","access":"read","language":"de","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-27 (police statement, 22 September 2026; German). Quotations are German originals; English renderings are reviewer translations, no human translator.","independence_group":"pi-oldenburg-stadt"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.zeit.de/news/2026-09/22/deepfake-bilder-an-oldenburger-schulen-verschickt","kind":"wire_report","access":"read","language":"de","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-27 (dpa Niedersachsen via Zeit Online, 22 September 2026; German). Adds a police spokesman's statements; same police chain as s1. Reviewer translation.","independence_group":"pi-oldenburg-stadt"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.rnd.de/lokales/niedersachsen/braunschweig/pornografische-deepfakes-ueber-schueleraccounts-verschickt-braunschweiger-softwarefirma-aeussert-CCBUGZ3AXNAFNBSQO7RTFYIBLM.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"de","translation_note":"Live fetch returned 403; read on 2026-09-27 via Internet Archive capture (RND, 23 September 2026; German). Police facts relayed from the same police chain; the IServ spokesman's statement is RND's own reporting. Reviewer translation. Its lede repeats the dpa lede verbatim.","independence_group":"rnd-iserv-statement"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.oldenburger-onlinezeitung.de/blaulicht/deepfakes-manipulierte-bilder-schueleraccounts-237639.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"de","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-27 (Oldenburger Onlinezeitung, 22 September 2026; German). Rewrite of the police statement. Reviewer translation.","independence_group":"pi-oldenburg-stadt"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","privacy"],"unknowns":["Who created the deepfakes and with which AI tool; whether the student accounts were compromised or used by their holders.","Whether the depicted children and young people are real, identifiable students at the schools, and how many were depicted.","How many schools (more than one per the police statement), messages and recipients were involved (police: 'zahlreiche Nachrichten').","Exact dates of sending ('in den vergangenen Tagen' before 22 September 2026).","Any effects on the depicted children or recipients beyond the reports to police, and any school measures."],"geography":{"basis":"The messages were sent through accounts on the email servers of Oldenburg schools and the Oldenburg-Stadt police are investigating (police statement). The depicted children's location is not stated, so affected_person_countries rests on the student recipients at Oldenburg schools. No court proceedings are reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["DE"],"affected_person_countries":["DE"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a core depicted_or_impersonated case: the police report AI-made deepfakes of children and young people, some possibly sexual abuse material, sent through school email accounts together with threats and self-harm calls, reported by students and parents. One police chain; RND adds the platform provider's statement. No child or school is identified.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-27"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The police statement calls the images deepfakes, 'manipulierte Darstellungen von Kindern und Jugendlichen'; dpa's report of a police spokesman's statements describes them as images created with artificial intelligence ('mit Künstlicher Intelligenz erstellten Bilder'); the written police statement does not mention AI. No tool is identified and no forensic finding is published.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Oldenburg, Germany: numerous messages sent through one or more student accounts on Oldenburg schools' email servers contained AI-manipulated deepfake images of children and young people, some of which police say may meet the offence of distributing child or youth sexual abuse material, alongside threats of violence and calls to self-harm; students and parents reported it and police are investigating (September 2026)","summary":"The Oldenburg-Stadt police inspectorate said on 22 September 2026 that in the preceding days numerous messages had been sent through one or more student accounts on the email servers of Oldenburg schools. The messages contained, among other things, deepfakes (manipulated depictions of children and young people); on an initial assessment some of these could constitute the offence of distributing child or youth sexual abuse material, and some messages contained threats of violence and calls for recipients to harm themselves. According to dpa, students and parents reported the incidents to the police, and dpa, reporting a police spokesman, describes the images as made with artificial intelligence (the written police statement calls them deepfakes, manipulated depictions, without naming AI). Investigators are examining whether unknown persons gained unauthorised access to the accounts; first digital traces were secured and the police are working with the affected schools. RND reports that the accounts were on the IServ school platform, whose provider said it had no access to the messages and believed the incident was limited to Oldenburg. The exact number of schools (the police refer to 'the affected schools', plural), messages, depicted children and recipients, and who created the images, are not reported.","incidentDate":"2026-09-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-09-22","aiSystem":"Unidentified AI image-manipulation tool used to produce deepfake images of children and young people; the tool and its operator are not reported. The messages were sent through student accounts on the IServ school platform (RND).","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the Oldenburg police, AI-made deepfakes of children and young people, some possibly constituting child or youth sexual abuse material, were sent to students through school email accounts together with threats of violence and calls to self-harm; students and parents reported the incidents (police statement; dpa).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"unquantified","affectedCountEvidence":"The police speak of 'zahlreiche Nachrichten' (numerous messages) and depictions of children and young people but give no number of depicted children, recipients or schools; a count of messages is not a count of people. Unquantified with zero placeholders.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"DE-NI","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/68440/6356847","primarySourceLabel":"Polizeiinspektion Oldenburg-Stadt (POL-OL) on Presseportal, 22 September 2026: Manipulierte Bilder über Schüleraccounts versandt - Polizei ermittelt","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-27T03:39:47.296658+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:47.498823+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","csam","school","minors","germany","niedersachsen","school-email","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2026-hampton-new-hampshire-ai-deepfake-arrest-video-harassment-charges","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'allegedly harassed a Hampton resident for more than a year through phone calls, texts, emails and online posts'; 'with a stalking order of protection last October.'; 'In November, the victim showed police an AI-generated deepfake video'; 'allegedly created to humiliate and defame him, the affidavit states. The video depicts the victim being arrested and jailed and includes a structure resembling the victim's Hampton residence, as well as images of real people.'; 'Keyser said the events shown in the deepfake \"never happened.\"'; 'posted it on YouTube,'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"According to Hampton police and the arrest-warrant affidavit, the accused harassed a Hampton resident for more than a year through phone calls, texts, emails and online posts, continued after being served with a stalking order of protection in October 2025, and created an AI-generated deepfake video, shown to police by the victim in November 2025, that depicts the victim being arrested and jailed and includes a structure resembling his Hampton residence; police say the depicted events never happened and that the video was posted on YouTube.","causal_attribution":"Police and affidavit account (one chain); the accused's lawyer did not respond and the allegations have not been tried."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'on four felony counts of fraudulent use of deepfakes. He was accused of creating, distributing, and presenting a video of an identifiable person to embarrass, harass, or defame them on Oct. 20, Oct. 31, Nov. 7, and Nov. 13, 2025, in Hampton.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Each of the four Class B felony counts carries a maximum penalty of up to seven years in state prison'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A Rockingham County grand jury indicted the accused on four felony counts of fraudulent use of deepfakes for creating, distributing and presenting a video of an identifiable person to embarrass, harass or defame on 20 October, 31 October, 7 November and 13 November 2025 in Hampton.","causal_attribution":"Indictment as listed by Patch; Seacoastonline independently reports four Class B felony counts. The indictment text was not read."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'He was taken into custody on March 24, arraigned the next day, and released on bail.'; 'He was arrested again on Aug. 26, Keyser said. His bail was revoked'; 'Keyser said police were able to have the deepfake video'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The accused was taken into custody on 24 March, arraigned the next day and released on bail; after alleged bail violations he was arrested again on 26 August, his bail was revoked and he is held at the Rockingham County House of Corrections; police had the deepfake video removed.","causal_attribution":"Police account as reported. The article gives no year for 24 March and 26 August; its publication on 24 September 2026 and the June 2026 indictment place both in 2026."}],"effects":[{"label":"harassed for more than a year and targeted with a posted AI-generated video falsely showing him being arrested and jailed, which police say was made to humiliate and defame him","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/local/2026/09/24/hampton-police-man-charged-ai-deepfake-harassment-campaign/91897502007/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read on 2026-09-27 in full through the identical Gannett path on eu.seacoastonline.com (www returned 402). Quotes the police sergeant and the arrest-warrant affidavit.","independence_group":"hampton-police-affidavit"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://patch.com/new-hampshire/salem-nh/worcester-man-indicted-hampton-use-deepfakes-charges-rockingham-county","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-27 (Salem NH Patch, 29 June 2026). A roundup of Rockingham County Superior Court indictments; the indictment itself was not read.","independence_group":"rockingham-indictments"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["everyday_life","privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool was used to make the video and how it was established that the video was AI-generated.","How widely the video was seen before removal, and the victim's own account of its effects.","The start date of the harassment ('more than a year') and the nature of the 'perceived past disagreement'.","The accused's plea and any trial date; the indictment text was not read.","Whether the other 'real people' whose images appear in the video were harmed."],"geography":{"basis":"The victim lives in Hampton, New Hampshire and the indicted conduct is placed 'in Hampton' (Patch); the accused lived in Worcester, Massachusetts; the case is in Rockingham County Superior Court (Patch) and he is held at the Rockingham County House of Corrections (Seacoastonline).","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a core case (an AI-generated deepfake depicting a real person in events that did not happen, used in a harassment campaign): Seacoastonline reports the police and affidavit account in detail and Patch separately lists the grand-jury indictment on four deepfake counts. The allegations are untested. The victim is unnamed and the accused is not named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-27"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The arrest-warrant affidavit, as reported by Seacoastonline, describes an 'AI-generated deepfake video' of the victim, and the grand jury indicted the man on counts of fraudulent use of deepfakes (Patch). The tool used is not identified and no forensic finding is reported.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Hampton, New Hampshire: police say a Massachusetts man harassed a Hampton resident for more than a year and posted an AI-generated deepfake video showing the resident being arrested and jailed, events police say never happened; he was indicted on four felony counts of fraudulent use of deepfakes and is held after his bail was revoked","summary":"Hampton police say a man from Worcester, Massachusetts harassed a Hampton resident for more than a year through phone calls, texts, emails and online posts, stemming from a perceived past disagreement, and kept going after the victim asked him to stop and after he was served with a stalking order of protection in October 2025. In November 2025 the victim showed police an AI-generated deepfake video that, according to the arrest-warrant affidavit, the man created to humiliate and defame him; it shows the victim being arrested and jailed and includes a structure resembling the victim's Hampton home and images of real people. A police sergeant said the depicted events never happened and that the video was posted on YouTube. A Rockingham County grand jury indicted the man on four Class B felony counts of fraudulent use of deepfakes under RSA 638:26-a, for creating, distributing and presenting a video of an identifiable person on 20 October, 31 October, 7 November and 13 November 2025. He turned himself in on 24 March, was released on bail, was arrested again on 26 August for alleged bail violations and is held at the Rockingham County House of Corrections. Police had the video removed. The AI tool is not named and the victim's own account is relayed only through the police.","incidentDate":"2025-10-20","incidentEndDate":"2025-11-13","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-06-29","aiSystem":"An unnamed generative-AI tool used to make a deepfake video of a real person (Hampton police and arrest-warrant affidavit via Seacoastonline); the tool is not identified","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Police say the victim was harassed for more than a year and targeted with a posted AI-generated video falsely depicting his arrest and jailing, which the affidavit says was made to humiliate and defame him (Hampton police and affidavit via Seacoastonline; indictment via Patch).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One harassed and depicted person, the Hampton resident (Seacoastonline; the indictment counts concern 'an identifiable person', Patch). The 'real people' whose images appear in the video are not counted: no harm to them is reported. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"US-NH","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/local/2026/09/24/hampton-police-man-charged-ai-deepfake-harassment-campaign/91897502007/","primarySourceLabel":"Seacoastonline (Portsmouth Herald), 24 September 2026: Hampton police: Man charged in AI deepfake harassment campaign","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-27T03:39:38.936126+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:39.330256+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfakes","harassment","stalking","new-hampshire","hampton","criminal-charges","rsa-638-26-a","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2026-hudsonville-michigan-ai-voice-clone-closing-wire-fraud","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"\"the four-bedroom, $460,000 condo in the nearby suburb of Hudsonville checked every box\"; \"But on May 19 this year, days before closing, they got a startling email. To keep the closing on schedule, it said, the couple needed to wire $66,026.92 to a specified bank account within 24 hours to cover a down payment and closing costs\"; \"received a call to confirm the instructions, and the voice on the phone sounded just like their loan officer\"; \"The couple wired the money.\"; \"The closing was canceled hours before the couple was scheduled to sign the final paperwork\"; \"the couple instead rushed to borrow money from family and other sources\"; \"had two extra letters: UnitedsMortgages, instead of UnitedMortgage\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"\"必須在24小時內把頭期款與交屋費用共計6萬6026.92元匯到指定銀行帳戶\"; \"收到一封緊急電郵，結果因此損失6萬多元\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"On 19 May 2026, days before closing on a US$460,000 condo in Hudsonville, Michigan, the couple received an email demanding a US$66,026.92 wire within 24 hours from an address with two extra letters and listing a phone number two digits off their loan officer's; the husband then received a call confirming the instructions in a voice that sounded just like the loan officer; the couple borrowed from family and wired the money, which was gone by the time the real loan officer's statement arrived the day before closing, and the closing was cancelled.","causal_attribution":"The couple's account to CNN; the World Journal item relays CNN."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"\"ensnared in a sophisticated real estate scam that uses suspected AI voice cloning and fake emails to target homebuyers in the frantic days before closing\"; \"The 64-year-old said he now believes the phone call that followed the emails was from a spoofed number and used AI-assisted voice cloning\"; \"home-buying process was compromised\"; \"likely took snippets of the loan officer\"; \"Neither the company nor the loan officer have been accused of any complicity in the scam\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"\"詐騙份子利用AI語音複製與偽造電郵\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The husband believes the call came from a spoofed number using AI-assisted voice cloning; CertifID's co-founder, working with the couple and federal officials, said someone's email in the transaction was likely compromised and that the scammers likely cloned the loan officer's voice from his social-media posts; CNN describes the fraud as using 'suspected AI voice cloning'.","causal_attribution":"Attribution by the victim and a fraud-prevention firm involved in the case; no forensic confirmation is published."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"\"They eventually got money from their mutual fund and completed the home purchase in early June\"; \"Internet Crime Complaint Center, the agency\"; \"wired the money to has since closed, the couple said\"; \"We are just very apprehensive\"; \"Do we need to work a little bit longer?\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"\"終於在6月初完成購屋手續。他們已向FBI「網際網路犯罪申訴中心」(Internet Crime Complaint Center)報案\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The couple later completed the purchase in early June 2026 from their mutual fund, filed a report with the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, and say the receiving account has closed; they describe apprehension and discussions about delaying retirement.","causal_attribution":"The couple's account to CNN."}],"effects":[{"label":"a couple wired US$66,026.92 to scammers after a spoofed email and a call in a voice resembling their loan officer; closing cancelled, money not recovered","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/15/us/homebuyers-voice-cloning-scam","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-19 (CNN, Faith Karimi, published 15 Sep 2026, updated the same day). Interviews with the couple, CertifID's Tyler Adams and the National Association of Realtors; FBI figures; lender's counsel comment.","independence_group":"cnn"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.worldjournal.com/wj/story/121469/9231485","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Traditional Chinese on 2026-09-16 and re-read on 2026-09-19 (World Journal, 15 Sep 2026): a relay of CNN's report, so it does not corroborate it; translation by the reviewer. Cited for the exact amount and the June completion of the purchase as reported in Chinese.","independence_group":"cnn"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Whether the call in fact used AI voice cloning; no forensic finding is reported.","Whose email account was compromised and how the scammers obtained the transaction details.","Whether any funds have been recovered or suspects identified.","The exact loss after any recovery; CNN reports the wired amount and that the money was gone."],"geography":{"basis":"Hudsonville, a suburb of Grand Rapids, Michigan, per CNN's report and photographs; the couple live there. No court proceeding; an FBI IC3 report was filed.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an impersonation-fraud case with a concrete, quantified consequence: a couple lost US$66,026.92 after a call in a voice resembling their loan officer that they and a fraud-prevention firm attribute to AI voice cloning. One original report (CNN) and one relay read; AI involvement recorded as suspected; the couple are not named in this record.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-19"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"CNN describes 'suspected AI voice cloning'; the husband believes the confirming call used AI-assisted voice cloning from a spoofed number, and CertifID's co-founder, who is working on the case, says the scammers likely cloned the loan officer's voice from social-media clips. No technical confirmation is published. If the attribution is right, the AI impersonated a third party (the loan officer) in a live call with the victim; the email side of the fraud is ordinary spoofing.","status":"suspected"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated","communicated_with"]},"name":"Hudsonville (Grand Rapids area), Michigan: a couple wired US$66,026.92 to scammers after a spoofed email and a phone call in what sounded like their loan officer's voice, which they and a fraud-prevention firm attribute to AI voice cloning","summary":"A married couple in their sixties buying a US$460,000 condo in Hudsonville, near Grand Rapids, Michigan, received an email on 19 May 2026, days before closing, telling them to wire US$66,026.92 for the down payment and closing costs within 24 hours. The email listed a phone number differing from their loan officer's by two digits, and the husband then received a call confirming the instructions in a voice that sounded just like the loan officer. The couple borrowed from family and other sources and wired the money. The day before closing their real loan officer sent the actual statement; the closing was cancelled hours before signing and the money was gone. The husband now believes the call came from a spoofed number using AI-assisted voice cloning; Tyler Adams of CertifID, which is working with the couple and federal officials, said someone's email in the transaction was probably compromised and that the scammers likely cloned the loan officer's voice from social-media clips. The sender's address had two extra letters ('UnitedsMortgages' instead of 'UnitedMortgage'). Neither the lender nor the loan officer is accused of complicity. The couple later completed the purchase in early June from their mutual fund, reported the loss to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, and describe lasting apprehension and have discussed delaying retirement. CNN reported the case on 15 September 2026; the account the money went to has since closed.","incidentDate":"2026-05-19","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-09-15","aiSystem":"Suspected AI voice cloning of a mortgage loan officer, combined with a spoofed phone number and a look-alike email domain (tool not identified; attribution by the victims and CertifID)","aiProduct":"Unidentified voice-cloning tool (suspected)","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A couple wired US$66,026.92, partly borrowed from family, to a fraudulent account after a spoofed email and a call in what sounded like their loan officer's voice; the money was not recovered as of CNN's report, their closing was cancelled and later completed from savings, and they describe lasting apprehension and have discussed working longer before retiring.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"CNN describes one married couple who wired the funds and bore the loss. Exact count of two.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/15/us/homebuyers-voice-cloning-scam","primarySourceLabel":"CNN, 15 Sep 2026: 'We both missed the signs:' How two homebuyers lost $66,000 in a suspected voice-cloning scam","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-20T03:19:50.137088+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:39.755493+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["voice-cloning","impersonation","wire-fraud","real-estate-scam","mortgage-closing","united-states","michigan","financial-loss","ic3"]},{"id":"2026-singapore-deepfake-zoom-pm-impersonation-funding-scam","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'A person lost at least $4.9 million after falling for a scam involving the impersonation of senior government officials'; 'received a WhatsApp message with a profile photo of Mr Wong Hong Kuan'; 'transferred the money through a series of transactions to a corporate bank account supplied by the scammers'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'He lost at least $4.9 million after believing that Prime Minister Lawrence Wong had sought his help'; 'the email was sent from a Proton Mail account'; 'invited to a Zoom video conference ... fabricated using deepfake artificial intelligence technology'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'In one case, a victim lost at least S$4.9 million (US$3.8 million) in what was claimed to be funding assistance related to the Strait of Hormuz'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A businessman lost at least S$4.9 million after being approached by scammers posing as the Secretary to the Cabinet, signing an NDA, receiving a fake letter of guarantee with the Prime Minister's signature, attending a deepfake Zoom conference of government officials, and then transferring money in a series of transactions to a corporate account.","causal_attribution":"Singapore Police Force advisory relayed by three outlets; single official chain."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'the speech did not synchronise with the speakers' lips'; 'the speech was broadcast via one account throughout the call'; 'end with a deepfake video of PM Wong delivering closing remarks, which included an acknowledgement of the victim's attendance'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Police obtained the footage of the fabricated Zoom conference depicting the Prime Minister, the President, Minister Indranee Rajah, MAS representatives and foreign officials, and identified deepfake indicators: speech out of sync with lips, audio broadcast from one account, and a distorted background and Zoom logo; the fake Prime Minister's closing remarks acknowledged the victim's attendance.","causal_attribution":"Police statement on their own examination of the footage, reported by CNA."}],"effects":[{"label":"a businessman lost at least S$4.9 million after a deepfake video conference of government officials and a fake letter of guarantee","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/impersonation-scam-fake-zoom-meeting-footage-lawrence-wong-tharman-indranee-police-6125691","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-18 (CNA, 16 May 2026). Reports the police release of the fabricated Zoom footage, the participants depicted and the deepfake indicators.","independence_group":"spf-advisory"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/victim-loses-at-least-4-9m-in-scam-involving-deepfakes-of-pm-wong-government-officials","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-18 (Straits Times, 14 May 2026). Reports the SPF advisory: WhatsApp and proton.me approach, NDA, letter of guarantee, Zoom call, transfers, and the 9 May SIM-card charges.","independence_group":"spf-advisory"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/police-spf-advisory-government-official-impersonation-scam-pm-lawrence-wong-funding-assistance-hormuz-49-million","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-18 (AsiaOne, 13/14 May 2026). Same SPF advisory with screenshots of the WhatsApp and email approach.","independence_group":"spf-advisory"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance","public_services"],"unknowns":["The victim's identity, business and the exact date of the transfers are not published (advisory 14 May 2026).","No arrest for this loss or recovery of funds is reported.","The deepfake tools used are not identified.","Whether the victim has pursued civil recovery is unknown."],"geography":{"basis":"Singapore Police Force advisory; the victim is described as a Singapore business professional who had dealt with government officials (Straits Times, CNA). No court proceeding for this loss is reported; the 9 May SIM-card charges concern earlier cases.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["SG"],"affected_person_countries":["SG"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an impersonation-fraud case with a large documented loss to one person, where the police examined and released the AI-generated footage. Three Singapore outlets read, all relaying SPF advisories; claims recorded as reported. Victim unnamed; impersonated officials are public figures.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-18"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Singapore Police Force obtained the Zoom footage and described specific deepfake indicators (speech out of sync with lips, audio broadcast from a single account, distorted background and logo). The AI content depicted and impersonated named officials, and the fabricated closing remarks were addressed to the victim, acknowledging his attendance, which is why communicated_with is also recorded.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with","depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Singapore: a businessman lost at least S$4.9 million after a deepfake Zoom 'briefing' with fabricated Prime Minister Lawrence Wong and other officials asked him for 'urgent funding assistance'","summary":"In May 2026 the Singapore Police Force (SPF) reported that a man had lost at least S$4.9 million (about US$3.8 million) to a government-official impersonation scam. He received a WhatsApp message carrying the profile photo of Secretary to the Cabinet Wong Hong Kuan and an email from a proton.me address in that name, requesting urgent funding assistance for 'the situation in the Strait of Hormuz', with a fake 'letter of guarantee' bearing the Prime Minister's signature promising reimbursement within 15 business days; he signed a non-disclosure agreement and supplied a copy of his identity card. He was then invited to a Zoom video conference in which Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, President Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Minister Indranee Rajah, Monetary Authority of Singapore representatives and foreign officials appeared; all were fabricated with deepfake AI, and the closing 'remarks' by the fake Prime Minister acknowledged the victim's attendance. Contacted afterwards on WhatsApp by a scammer posing as a lawyer, he transferred the money in a series of transactions to a corporate bank account, and realised the fraud only when he contacted the real cabinet secretary. On 16 May the police released footage of the fake conference, noting lips out of sync with speech, audio broadcast from a single account and a distorted background.","incidentDate":"2026-05-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-05-14","aiSystem":"Deepfake AI video and audio fabricating Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, President Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Minister Indranee Rajah and other officials in a Zoom conference (tools not identified)","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A businessman transferred at least S$4.9 million to scammers after a deepfake video conference fabricating the Prime Minister and other officials; the police documented the AI-generated footage.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Police describe a single victim who lost at least S$4.9 million. Exact count of one; the impersonated officials are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"SG","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/victim-loses-at-least-4-9m-in-scam-involving-deepfakes-of-pm-wong-government-officials","primarySourceLabel":"The Straits Times, 14 May 2026: Victim loses at least $4.9m in scam involving deepfakes of PM Wong, government officials (Singapore Police Force advisory)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-18T03:25:14.306192+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:53.419086+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","government-impersonation","zoom","video-conference","fraud","singapore","financial-loss","police-documented"]},{"id":"2026-strahler-ohio-ai-deepfake-cyberstalking-take-it-down-act","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'sentenced last week in U.S. District Court to 180 months in prison'; 'pleaded guilty in April to cyberstalking, producing obscene visual representations of child sexual abuse and publication of digital forgeries'; 'the first in the Nation under the Take It Down Act'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'sentenced Sept. 8 in U.S. District Court in Columbus to 15 years in prison'; 'first in the nation to be convicted under a 2025 federal law'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Chief U.S. District Court Judge Sarah D. Morrison handed down the 180-month sentence to 37-year-old James Strahler II on Tuesday'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"On 8 September 2026 James Strahler II was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Columbus to 180 months (15 years) after pleading guilty in April 2026 to cyberstalking, producing obscene visual representations of child sexual abuse and publication of digital forgeries; the U.S. Attorney described it as the first conviction under the Take It Down Act.","causal_attribution":"Court outcome reported by the prosecuting office and two independent local newsrooms."},{"id":"c2","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'used to harass at least six women in central Ohio between December 2024 and June 2025'; 'nude images of the victims that were both real and AI-generated'; 'used AI to create pornographic videos depicting one of the women engaged in sexual acts with her father'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'harass at least six adult female victims from December 2024 to June 2025'; 'generated pornographic videos using AI that depicted an adult victim in sexual acts with her father and sent those videos to the victim's co-workers'; 'threatened victims' mothers, demanding nude photos'; 'voicemails that included threats of rape'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'sent harassing messages to at least six women'; 'distributed those videos to the victim's coworkers or family members'; 'threaten rape'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Between December 2024 and June 2025 Strahler harassed at least six adult women in central Ohio with messages containing real and AI-generated nude images of them, threatened rape, referred to their addresses, threatened their mothers, and in one case sent AI-generated pornographic videos depicting a victim with her father to her co-workers.","causal_attribution":"Prosecutors' account of the offending, reported by three local newsrooms; the defendant pleaded guilty."},{"id":"c3","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'posted online AI-generated images of the faces of boys from his community that he would morph onto the bodies of other children or adults'; 'more than 700 images'; '2,400 images and videos on his cell phone were flagged'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'using the faces of minor boys from his community and morphing them onto the bodies of other children or adults'; 'more than 700 images'; '2,400 more flagged images and videos'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"Strahler also posted AI-generated sexual images of minor boys from his community, morphing their faces onto other bodies; more than 700 images were posted to a child sexual abuse website and about 2,400 further explicit files were found on his phone.","causal_attribution":"Prosecutors' account; part of the guilty plea to producing obscene visual representations of child sexual abuse."}],"effects":[{"label":"at least six women harassed with real and AI-generated nude images and rape threats; AI videos of one sent to her co-workers; boys depicted in AI abuse imagery","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://highlandcountypress.com/headlines/columbus-man-sentenced-15-years-prison-cyberstalking-exes-creating-ai-generated-obscene","kind":"official_statement_republished","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-18. Verbatim republication (16 Sep 2026) of the U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Ohio press release; the justice.gov original (usao-sdoh/pr/columbus-man-sentenced-15-years-prison-cyberstalking-exes-creating-ai-generated) returns only a 1.5 kB shell to this host.","independence_group":"usao-sdoh"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/courts/2026/09/08/james-strahler-sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison-for-ai-generated-porn/91664055007/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-18 (Columbus Dispatch, Shahid Meighan, 8 Sep 2026; served from the eu.dispatch.com mirror). Court reporting drawing on the USAO and court records.","independence_group":"dispatch"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.10tv.com/article/news/crime/columbus-man-15-years-cyberstalking-creating-ai-generated-obscene-material/530-f3a9a6c2-cf42-4011-a757-e65a624f8b9f","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-18 via the MSN content API copy (WBNS 10TV, 8 Sep 2026). Adds the Hilliard Police investigative history from court records.","independence_group":"10tv"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/man-sentenced-to-15-years-in-federal-prison-for-cyberstalking-creating-ai-deepfakes-us-district-court-judge-sarah-d-morrison-james-strahler-ii-take-it-down-act-nonconsensual-project-safe-childhood","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-18 via the MSN content API copy (WSYX ABC6, 8 Sep 2026). Names the sentencing judge and the threats to victims' mothers.","independence_group":"abc6"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["relationships","privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["The exact number of adult victims beyond 'at least six' and the number of boys depicted are not stated.","The AI tools used are not named in any inspected source.","Whether restitution or protective orders were imposed is not reported.","The status of the earlier local (state) charge is not reported."],"geography":{"basis":"Event: central Ohio (Columbus/Upper Arlington, Hilliard, Delaware County) per the USAO release and Dispatch. Victims are described as women in central Ohio. Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Columbus.","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a harmful-artifact and impersonation case: identified adult women and local boys were depicted in AI-generated sexual imagery used for harassment and threats, a federal court sentenced the perpetrator, and four sources (the prosecuting office's release and three independent local newsrooms) were read. Victims are unnamed; the perpetrator is named in the court record and press.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-18"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The defendant pleaded guilty to publication of digital forgeries and producing obscene visual representations of child sexual abuse; prosecutors and the court record describe AI-generated nude images and AI-made videos of victims and AI-morphed images of boys. The AI tools depicted the affected people; they did not communicate with them.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Columbus, Ohio: a man was sentenced to 15 years for cyberstalking at least six women with real and AI-generated sexual images and rape threats, the first conviction under the Take It Down Act","summary":"Between December 2024 and June 2025 James Strahler II, then 37, of Columbus (Upper Arlington), Ohio, harassed at least six women in central Ohio by phone, voicemail, text and web posts, sending them nude images that were both real and AI-generated, threatening rape, referring to their home addresses and demanding nude photos from their mothers. In one case he used AI to make pornographic videos depicting a victim with her father and sent them to her co-workers. He also posted AI-generated sexual images of boys from his community, morphing their faces onto other bodies. Prosecutors said he had installed more than 24 AI platforms and more than 100 web-based AI models on his phone. He pleaded guilty in April 2026 to cyberstalking, producing obscene visual representations of child sexual abuse and publication of digital forgeries, and on 8 September 2026 Chief U.S. District Judge Sarah D. Morrison sentenced him to 180 months in prison. The U.S. Attorney called it the first conviction in the nation under the 2025 Take It Down Act.","incidentDate":"2024-12-01","incidentEndDate":"2025-06-30","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-09-08","aiSystem":"Generative AI image and video tools (not named; prosecutors said more than 24 AI platforms and over 100 web-based AI models were installed on the defendant's phone)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image and video tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress","reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"At least six women were sexually harassed and threatened with rape using real and AI-generated nude images of themselves, with AI videos of one victim sent to her co-workers; victims' mothers were threatened, and boys from the defendant's community were depicted in AI-generated sexual abuse imagery posted online. The perpetrator received 15 years in federal prison.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"established","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":6,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"Prosecutors said Strahler harassed 'at least six' adult women (Dispatch, 10TV, ABC6). Their mothers, who were threatened, and the minor boys whose faces were used in AI-generated abuse imagery are additional harmed people without a stated count. Six counted plus unquantified others: partial.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://highlandcountypress.com/headlines/columbus-man-sentenced-15-years-prison-cyberstalking-exes-creating-ai-generated-obscene","primarySourceLabel":"U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Ohio press release (republished by the Highland County Press, 16 Sep 2026): Columbus man sentenced to 15 years for cyberstalking exes and creating AI-generated obscene material of adults and children","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-18T03:25:07.926173+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:55.061125+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","ai-generated-imagery","ncii","cyberstalking","take-it-down-act","sextortion","united-states","ohio","criminal-conviction","depicted"]},{"id":"2026-kumar-sdt-strike-off-ai-citations","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"SDT judgment, Allegation 2.1 findings and the schedule of false/miscited authorities.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"RollOnFriday's listing of the bogus citations.","relation":"context","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"Allegation 2.1 was found proved: Kumar's 12 March 2026 Answer to the SRA's Rule 12 Statement contained misleading quotations and citations produced with generative AI, including the non-existent 'SRA v Chan [2020] EWHC 1502', the miscited 'SRA v James, MacGregor & Naylor [2018] EWCA Civ 1420' (in reality an IP case) and a misattributed Baxendale-Walker passage.","causal_attribution":"Directly established by the tribunal's written judgment; trade press accounts are consistent."},{"id":"c2","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"SDT judgment, Allegation 2.2 findings and the 13 April acceptance.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Allegation 2.2 was found proved: his 9 April 2026 email admitting AI use was itself AI-drafted and contained further errors, which he accepted on 13 April 2026.","causal_attribution":"Directly established by the tribunal's written judgment."},{"id":"c3","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"SDT judgment, sanction and reasoning passages.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Outer Temple's case note confirming the outcome and the 'first SDT case on a lawyer's use of AI' framing.","relation":"context","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"On 25 August 2026 the SDT struck Kumar off the Register of Foreign Lawyers with culpability 'very high', stating it would have struck him off on either allegation alone; the tribunal invoked Ayinde v Haringey LBC [2025] EWHC 1383 (Admin).","causal_attribution":"Directly established by the tribunal's written judgment; the 'first AI case' framing comes from the SRA's counsel and is attributed."},{"id":"c4","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"SDT judgment, conviction allegation and sentence passages.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"RollOnFriday's Isleworth Crown Court reference (recorded as a discrepancy; the judgment controls).","relation":"contradicts","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"The parallel ground was his 29 January 2024 conviction under s.21 of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 — recorded by the judgment as at the Central Criminal Court (RollOnFriday says Isleworth Crown Court, a discrepancy) — sentenced on 26 April 2024 to a 12-month community order with 150 hours' unpaid work.","causal_attribution":"The conviction ground is established by the judgment; the convicting-court discrepancy across outlets is preserved."}],"effects":[{"label":"lawyer struck off after AI-generated false citations in his disciplinary defence","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://solicitorstribunal.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/12884-2026-Kumar-.pdf","kind":"tribunal_judgment","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Judgment PDF read on 2026-09-15 (25 Aug 2026): allegations, findings, sanction, panel, and the Ayinde v Haringey invocation.","independence_group":"sdt"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/lawyer-struck-off-for-using-fake-ai-generated-cases-before-sdt","kind":"trade_press","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-15 (4 Sep 2026).","independence_group":"legal-futures"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/foreign-lawyer-produced-ai-generated-false-citations-at-sdt/5127825.article","kind":"trade_press","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-15 (4 Sep 2026, Hyde).","independence_group":"law-gazette"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/first-lawyer-struck-ai-addiction","kind":"trade_press","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-15 (11 Sep 2026). Colour and the specific bogus citations; its 'AI addiction' framing is editorial joking, not a finding.","independence_group":"rollonfriday"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.outertemple.com/joshua-hitchens-acts-for-the-sra-in-the-first-solicitors-disciplinary-tribunal-case-on-a-lawyers-use-of-ai/","kind":"counsel_case_note","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-15 (8 Sep 2026). SRA counsel's chambers' note: case number, dates, judgment link, and the 'first SDT case on a lawyer's use of AI' framing; participant-side account, recorded as such.","independence_group":"outer-temple"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["work","justice"],"unknowns":["The specific generative AI tool is not named in the inspected accounts.","The convicting court appears as the Central Criminal Court in the judgment and Isleworth Crown Court in RollOnFriday; the judgment controls but the discrepancy is unresolved in the inspected material.","Whether Kumar seeks to appeal the strike-off is not reported.","His employment status after the strike-off is not reported; the Law Gazette's employment background predates it."],"geography":{"basis":"Events: his practice and the SRA proceedings in England. Affected person: Kumar, on the Register of Foreign Lawyers in England and Wales. Court: the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal; the parallel conviction was at the Central Criminal Court (per the judgment; RollOnFriday's Isleworth Crown Court is a recorded discrepancy).","court_countries":["GB"],"event_countries":["GB"],"affected_person_countries":["GB"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an own-use, work-context adverse consequence with tribunal-found AI misconduct and a dated, career-ending sanction. This applies the charter's individual-review rule to the AI-sanction class; a class-level ruling is not required. Kumar is named in a public tribunal judgment; the parallel conviction ground is recorded for completeness and is not used to inflate the AI link. RollOnFriday's 'AI addiction' framing is recorded as editorial joking.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Tribunal-found: the 12 March 2026 Answer's misleading quotations and citations were produced with generative AI, and the 9 April 2026 email admitting AI use was itself AI-drafted with further errors (accepted 13 April). The specific tool is not named in the inspected accounts.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"SDT strikes solicitor Abhishek Kumar off the Register of Foreign Lawyers after AI-generated false citations in his SRA defence","summary":"On 25 August 2026 the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal struck Abhishek Kumar off the Register of Foreign Lawyers after finding proved that his 12 March 2026 Answer to the SRA's Rule 12 Statement contained misleading quotations and citations produced with generative AI — including a non-existent 'SRA v Chan [2020] EWHC 1502' and a miscited 'SRA v James, MacGregor & Naylor [2018] EWCA Civ 1420' that is actually an intellectual-property case — and that his 9 April 2026 email admitting AI use was itself AI-drafted with further errors. The tribunal said it would have struck him off on that allegation alone; the parallel ground was his January 2024 conviction under s.21 of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006. This is the SDT's first case on a lawyer's use of AI, per the SRA's counsel.","incidentDate":"2026-03-12","incidentEndDate":"2026-08-25","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-09-04","aiSystem":"Generative AI (tool not named in inspected accounts)","aiProduct":"Unidentified AI tool","aiCompany":"Unknown","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["professional_harm","legal_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Career-ending professional consequence for the lawyer who submitted AI-generated false citations in his own disciplinary defence: struck off the Register of Foreign Lawyers on 25 August 2026, with culpability rated 'very high'.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"established","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One documented harmed person: Kumar himself, the AI user struck off (SDT judgment). No client or third-party harm is reported in the inspected sources and none is counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"GB","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"regulatory_action","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://solicitorstribunal.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/12884-2026-Kumar-.pdf","primarySourceLabel":"Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal judgment, SRA Ltd v Abhishek Kumar, Case No. 12884-2026 (25 Aug 2026)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-15T06:18:05.203137+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:43.433309+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["work","justice","legal-profession","strike-off","fabricated-citations","sdt","own-use","uk"]},{"id":"2025-doe-v-clothoff-nj","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Complaint caption and preliminary statement; ¶¶260-274, 338-340 (Telegram as nominal defendant).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Docket D.E. 1 (filed 2025-10-16; assigned judges).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Jane Doe, a minor suing through her parents, filed the complaint on 16 October 2025 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (2:25-cv-16671-ES-JBC, Judge Esther Salas, Magistrate Judge James B. Clark) against AI/Robotics Venture Strategy 3 Ltd. d/b/a ClothOff (BVI), Alaiksandr Babichau and Dasha Babicheva (of Minsk), and Telegram entities as nominal defendants.","causal_attribution":"Established directly by the filing and the docket."},{"id":"c2","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Complaint ¶¶33-40 (the discovery date, the Snapchat-group circulation, the age-14 source photo, the classmate uploader).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"TechCrunch's complaint-based account, including that local authorities declined prosecution.","relation":"context","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"On 20 October 2023 Doe, then 15, learned that ClothOff-generated CSAM of her and 'several other girls in her class' was circulating in a Snapchat group; the source was an ordinary photo of her at age 14 from Instagram, uploaded by a minor classmate; local authorities declined to prosecute.","causal_attribution":"Established as the complaint's contents; they remain the plaintiff's allegations. The prosecution decline is TechCrunch's reading of the complaint, attributed."},{"id":"c3","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Complaint ¶¶1-6, 54-55 (visitors, image rate, watermark, three clicks), ¶¶220-255 (affiliated services), ¶¶695-697 (bots, API).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The complaint describes ClothOff as a purpose-built 'undress' service producing hyper-realistic output 'indistinguishable from real photographs' without a watermark in three clicks, with at least 27 million visitors and about 200,000 images per day, at least ten affiliated services, Telegram bots and an API.","causal_attribution":"Established as the complaint's contents. These are the plaintiff's allegations, not independently audited figures; the historical record's '3 million users' and '15+ affiliated services' were corrected to the complaint's figures."},{"id":"c4","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"Guardian passages naming the operators, the fake CEO, Texture Oasis and GGSel/GG Technology; the Almendralejo and Westfield links; '>4m monthly visits'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"Bellingcat's network map and payment-laundering account (G2A/Skinsback/Steam/PayPal/Stripe/Patreon), 23 Feb 2024.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"Reporting before the suit identified the operators: the Guardian's Black Box investigation named Babichau and Babicheva (Minsk), a fake AI 'CEO', the Texture Oasis payment front and GGSel/GG Technology links, and tied ClothOff to the Almendralejo (Spain) and Westfield NJ school incidents; Bellingcat's independent investigation mapped the same network and its payment laundering six days earlier.","causal_attribution":"Two independent investigations six days apart; they overlap on GG Technology/Bondarenko but were conducted separately. The complaint itself relies on the Guardian's reporting (per Yale)."},{"id":"c5","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Docket entries D.E. 12-20 (24 Jun notice; 29 Jun vacatur; 8 Jul order; 9 Jul motion and exhibits; 3 Aug setting).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The 2026 docket shows continuing service efforts: a Rule 4(m) call for dismissal on 24 June 2026 (service not effected; the pseudonym motion administratively terminated), vacated by Judge Salas on 29 June after the plaintiff showed ongoing foreign-service efforts; an order allowing service by email on 8 July; and a motion for service by publication or email on 9 July, set for decision on 3 August 2026.","causal_attribution":"Established by the docket through the RECAP mirror's end (15 July 2026); nothing later is visible in this review."},{"id":"c6","status":"disputed","evidence":[{"locator":"Yale's account of the removal letters and platform responses (X, Discord, Google, YouTube).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"TechCrunch: the service was 'still available... through a Telegram bot' (12 Jan 2026).","relation":"contradicts","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"X, Discord, Google and YouTube removed ClothOff following the clinics' summer 2025 letters (Yale); the historical claim that Telegram removed the ClothOff bot in October 2025 is contradicted by TechCrunch, which found the service still available through a Telegram bot on 12 January 2026.","causal_attribution":"The platform removals are a party account (Yale); the Telegram-bot status is contradicted by later reporting and recorded as disputed rather than resolved either way."}],"effects":[{"label":"AI-generated CSAM of a minor circulated in her school community; federal suit against the platform","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.njd.585002/gov.uscourts.njd.585002.1.0.pdf","kind":"court_filing","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Complaint PDF (45 pages) fetched and read via pdftotext on 2026-09-15. The filing establishes its own contents; its allegations remain allegations.","independence_group":"court-record"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71665449/doe-v-airobotics-venture-strategy-3-ltd/","kind":"court_docket","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Docket reviewed on 2026-09-15 through D.E. 20 (mirror ends 15 July 2026).","independence_group":"court-record"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://law.yale.edu/yls-today/news/clinics-file-suit-against-website-generates-nonconsensual-nude-images","kind":"party_announcement","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read on 2026-09-15. Party source (the clinics bringing the suit); used for the clinics' role and the X/Discord/Google/YouTube removal letters.","independence_group":"yale"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/29/clothoff-deepfake-ai-pornography-app-names-linked-revealed","kind":"news_investigation","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in full on 2026-09-15 (29 Feb 2024, Black Box).","independence_group":"guardian"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://bellingcat.com/news/2024/02/23/behind-a-secretive-global-network-of-non-consensual-deepfake-pornography/","kind":"news_investigation","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in full on 2026-09-15 (23 Feb 2024).","independence_group":"bellingcat"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/12/a-new-jersey-lawsuit-shows-how-hard-it-is-to-fight-deepfake-porn/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in full on 2026-09-15 (12 Jan 2026); own interview with co-lead counsel.","independence_group":"techcrunch"},{"id":"s7","url":"https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/teen-haunted-by-fake-nudes-sues-to-kill-nudify-app-block-telegram-bots/","kind":"news_relaying_wsj","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read on 2026-09-15 (17 Oct 2025). Relays the WSJ report; adds Telegram's ToS statement and the separate suit against the boy.","independence_group":"wsj"},{"id":"s8","url":"https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/teen-sues-maker-of-fake-nude-software-b88f316f","kind":"news_report","access":"unavailable","language":null,"translation_note":"HTTP 401 paywall on 2026-09-15; not read; language not established.","independence_group":"wsj"},{"id":"s9","url":"https://www.nj.com/news/2026/01/this-nj-girl-was-a-victim-of-deepfake-porn-shes-suing-the-app-that-generated-it.html","kind":"news_report","access":"unavailable","language":null,"translation_note":"HTTP 403 on 2026-09-15; not read; language not established.","independence_group":"nj-com"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","justice"],"unknowns":["The service-by-publication/email motion's outcome after 3 August 2026 is not visible in the RECAP mirror (ends 15 July 2026); whether default judgment or dismissal followed is unknown.","Whether Doe's school is the Westfield High School of the earlier New Jersey incident is unverified: the complaint names only 'a high school in Union County', and the historical record's 'separate victim from Francesca Mani' is not established by any inspected document. The school is deliberately not inferred or named.","The current availability of the generated images is unknown.","The platforms' and registries' responses to the requested injunctions are not yet reported.","The complaint's platform figures (visitors, image rate) are the plaintiff's allegations and are not independently audited."],"geography":{"basis":"Event: a high school in Union County, New Jersey (complaint; the school is not named and is not inferred). Affected person: the New Jersey minor. Court: U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The defendants' BVI/Belarus connections are recorded without becoming event or court countries.","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Restored under the 2026-09-15 charter as a harmful-artifact case (depicted_or_impersonated) with the federal complaint as the primary record. The plaintiff is a minor protected by court-ordered pseudonymity; no school, classmate or image description beyond the minimum case facts is reproduced. The complaint's contents are recorded as allegations; operator identity rests on two independent investigations.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The complaint alleges the images of Doe were generated by ClothOff from her photo; the platform's purpose-built undress function is documented by the complaint and the Guardian/Bellingcat investigations. The allegations remain allegations against the unserved defendants; the platform's existence, function and operator identity are independently investigated.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Doe v. ClothOff (D.N.J.): a New Jersey minor sues the AI 'undressing' platform over generated CSAM","summary":"On 16 October 2025, Jane Doe, a New Jersey minor suing through her parents, filed a federal complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (2:25-cv-16671-ES-JBC) against the operators of ClothOff, an AI 'undressing' service, after ClothOff-generated sexual images of her — created from an ordinary photo of her at 14 — circulated in a Snapchat group when she was 15. The complaint, brought by Yale Law School clinics, alleges the platform was purpose-built to produce hyper-realistic non-consensual intimate imagery and names AI/Robotics Venture Strategy 3 Ltd. (British Virgin Islands), Alaiksandr Babichau and Dasha Babicheva (Minsk), and Telegram as nominal defendant. As of mid-July 2026 the docket shows a continuing effort to serve the foreign defendants by email or publication.","incidentDate":"2023-10-20","incidentEndDate":"2025-10-16","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2025-10-16","aiSystem":"ClothOff (AI undressing service)","aiProduct":"ClothOff","aiCompany":"AI/Robotics Venture Strategy 3 Ltd. d/b/a ClothOff (BVI); operators identified in reporting as based in Minsk, Belarus","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":["minor_exploitation","third_party_harm_facilitation"],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"ClothOff-generated CSAM of a 15-year-old circulated in her school's Snapchat group from an ordinary childhood photo — persistent image-based abuse of a minor that local authorities declined to prosecute, leaving the federal suit as the remedy path.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"established","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"One counted depicted person: Jane Doe (complaint). The complaint's 'several other girls in her class' are depicted but unnamed and unquantified, so the total is counted-plus-unquantified (partial). Platform visitor and image-rate figures (27 million visitors, ~200,000 images/day) are not people and are never counted.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"US-NJ","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"lawsuit_filed","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.njd.585002/gov.uscourts.njd.585002.1.0.pdf","primarySourceLabel":"Federal complaint, D.N.J. 2:25-cv-16671-ES-JBC (45 pages, read via pdftotext)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-05-10T10:35:08.921808+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:01.196687+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["lawsuit","federal","minor","new-jersey","clothoff","deepfake","csam","ncii","yale-law","ongoing"]},{"id":"2025-valencia-spain-deepfake-school","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'began investigating in December last year after a female student reported the creation of a social media account in her name that featured an AI-generated video'; '\"All these photos had been modified from the originals, which had been manipulated so that the people in them appeared completely naked\"'; 'a webpage devoted to advertising the images for commercial purposes'; 'After 15 other minors came forward with similar complaints'; 'a 17-year-old boy was being investigated on suspicion of corrupting minors'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"From December 2024 a girl in the Ribera Alta area reported fake accounts in her name with an AI-generated video and AI-manipulated nude photos of minors, plus a webpage advertising the images commercially; 15 other minors complained; the Guardia Civil traced the accounts to a 17-year-old schoolmate, now investigated for corrupting minors under a Valencia youth court.","causal_attribution":"Guardia Civil statement as reported by the Guardian; single chain."}],"effects":[{"label":"16 minors depicted in AI-generated nude images and videos on fake accounts, one impersonated by name, images advertised for sale","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/27/spanish-teenager-investigated-ai-generated-nude-videos","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-18 (The Guardian, 27 July 2025). Reports and quotes the Guardia Civil's statement of 27 July 2025; the Spanish original of the statement was not read.","independence_group":"guardian"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["The outcome of the youth-court proceeding is not known.","The AI tools and the platforms hosting the accounts are not named.","Whether any images were actually sold is not stated."],"geography":{"basis":"Guardia Civil officers in the Ribera Alta area of Valencia province investigated; the victims are the suspect's schoolmates there; a youth court in Valencia oversees the case (Guardian).","court_countries":["ES"],"event_countries":["ES"],"affected_person_countries":["ES"]},"publication":{"basis":"Restored under the 2026-09-15 charter as a harmful-artifact case involving identified (unnamed) depicted minors, an impersonation and a police investigation under a youth court. One chain read; claims recorded as reported. Original ID and first-publication timestamp preserved; incident date corrected to the first complaint.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-18"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Guardia Civil statement, as quoted by the Guardian, describes AI-generated videos and AI-modified photos and a website advertising AI image-modification services; no forensic detail is published. The artifacts depicted the minors and impersonated one girl by name.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Ribera Alta, Valencia: a 17-year-old was investigated for making AI-generated nude images and videos of 16 schoolmates, impersonating a girl on fake accounts and advertising the images for sale","summary":"In December 2024 a female student in the Ribera Alta area of Valencia province reported to the Guardia Civil that a social-media account had been created in her name featuring an AI-generated video, and later a second account in her name, other accounts showing AI-generated nude videos, and a webpage advertising the images for commercial purposes; the Guardia Civil said the photos, all of minors, had been manipulated so that the people in them appeared completely naked. After 15 other minors came forward with similar complaints, officers traced IP addresses and account emails to the home of a 17-year-old schoolmate, who is being investigated on suspicion of corrupting minors under a Valencia youth court. The Guardia Civil announced the investigation on 27 July 2025.","incidentDate":"2024-12-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2025-07-27","aiSystem":"AI image and video manipulation tools (not named; police examined a website advertising AI image-modification services)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image and video tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress","reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Sixteen minors were depicted in AI-generated nude images and videos published on fake accounts, with one girl also impersonated by name, and the images were advertised for sale; a schoolmate is under youth-court investigation.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":16,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One complainant plus 15 other minors who came forward with similar complaints (Guardian, quoting the Guardia Civil): exact count of 16 depicted minors.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"ES","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/27/spanish-teenager-investigated-ai-generated-nude-videos","primarySourceLabel":"The Guardian, 27 July 2025: Spanish teenager investigated over AI-generated nude videos of 16 schoolmates (Guardia Civil statement)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-03-09T05:45:25.741735+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:20.032625+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","ai-generated-imagery","minors","school","impersonation","spain","valencia","guardia-civil","youth-court","depicted"]}]}