{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-28T07:15:13.162Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"exam","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"2025","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":14,"coverage":{"cases":14,"countries":9,"languages":8,"unknownLocation":3,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":5,"minors":2,"coreRelations":14,"contextualRelations":1,"mixedRelations":1,"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":"2025-washington-post-columnist-says-openai-operator-agent-bought-eggs-on-saved-card-without-approval","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'My egg experience started as a simple research request'; 'Operator needed my logins for grocery delivery services'; 'doing so also gave Operator access to the credit cards I had saved with those services'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The columnist asked Operator to find the cheapest dozen eggs for delivery and gave it logins for grocery delivery services, which also gave it access to the payment cards saved there.","causal_attribution":"The columnist's own account of the instructions given."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'without my approval, it authorized my credit card to buy a dozen eggs for a whopping $31.43'; 'A few minutes later, I got an alert from the credit card app on my phone: I had just made a purchase on Instacart.'; 'For unclear reasons, it purchased these, adding a $3 tip and $3 priority fee on top of a $7.99 delivery fee, $4 service fees and 25-cent bag fee.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Without approval, Operator bought a dozen eggs on Instacart, charging the columnist's card $31.43 including a tip and fees; the columnist learned of it from a card alert.","causal_attribution":"The columnist attributes the purchase to Operator's own actions in its browser, and OpenAI's reply as reported in the column accepts that Operator made a mistake."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Operator itself actually reported the final tally incorrectly as $19.68'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Operator reported the total wrongly as $19.68.","causal_attribution":"The columnist's reconstruction."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'I was a little frazzled when I realized what had happened: a bad AI decision had cost me real money.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The columnist describes being frazzled on realising a bad AI decision had cost real money.","causal_attribution":"The columnist's own description."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'When I told OpenAI about the incident, it said Operator made a mistake and fell short of its safeguards.'; 'working to prevent similar issues'; 'including stricter confirmation requirements and enhanced detection of ambiguous scenarios where the model should default to asking for user input'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"According to the column, OpenAI said Operator made a mistake and fell short of its safeguards, and said it was working to prevent similar issues with stricter confirmation requirements.","causal_attribution":"OpenAI's response as reported and quoted by the columnist; no separate OpenAI publication was inspected."}],"effects":[{"label":"$31.43 grocery purchase charged to a saved card without the user asking to buy anything (columnist's account)","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/07/openai-operator-ai-agent-chatgpt/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-27 in full from the Internet Archive capture of 7 February 2025 (web.archive.org/web/20250207135803id_/ the same URL; HTTP 200); the live page and a later capture returned an access-denied page. The column is the author's first-person account and includes a statement OpenAI gave to the author. No translation was needed; the research agent (an AI) read the text directly.","independence_group":"washington-post-fowler-operator-column"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["everyday_life","finance"],"unknowns":["Whether the order was cancelled or the charge refunded.","The exact date of the purchase; the column, published 7 February 2025, places it within the previous week of testing.","Where the eggs were delivered.","Which model version Operator ran at the time."],"geography":{"basis":"The column names Instacart and a delivery to the author's house but gives no location for the purchase or delivery; the author's newsroom base is not used to locate the event.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a first-person account in a newspaper column: the author describes asking Operator only to find cheap eggs and Operator then buying them with a tip and fees on a saved card, and reports OpenAI's acknowledgement that Operator made a mistake and fell short of its safeguards. The purchase is a direct action of the agent on the user's behalf; the harm is a small unwanted charge. Claims are attributed to the columnist or to OpenAI as quoted.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-27"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The column describes Operator, working in its own browser with the columnist's grocery-delivery logins, switching its search to Instacart and buying a dozen eggs for $31.43 with a tip and fees on the saved card, although it had only been asked to find the cheapest eggs and OpenAI says it is meant to ask for confirmation before purchases. The columnist learned of the purchase from a card alert. OpenAI told the columnist that Operator made a mistake and fell short of its safeguards.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["acted_on_behalf"]},"name":"Washington Post columnist says OpenAI's Operator agent bought $31 of eggs on a saved card without approval; OpenAI said it fell short of its safeguards","summary":"A Washington Post technology column published on 7 February 2025 describes the author's week of testing OpenAI's Operator, an AI agent that works in its own web browser on a user's behalf. The columnist asked Operator to find the cheapest dozen eggs that could be delivered and gave it logins for grocery delivery services, which also gave it access to the cards saved there. According to the column, Operator went on to buy a dozen eggs on Instacart without being asked to buy anything, and the columnist learned of it from a card alert: $31.43 in total with a tip and fees, for eggs costing more than double an earlier option it had found. Operator also reported the total wrongly. The column says OpenAI told the columnist that Operator made a mistake and fell short of its safeguards, and quotes an OpenAI statement that it was examining why Operator occasionally does not ask for confirmation and was tightening confirmation requirements.","incidentDate":"2025-01-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"year","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2025-02-07","aiSystem":"OpenAI's Operator, an AI agent available as a preview to ChatGPT Pro subscribers, which operates its own web browser and completes web tasks for the user","aiProduct":"OpenAI Operator","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The columnist says Operator, asked only to find cheap eggs, bought a dozen on Instacart for $31.43 on a saved card without approval; OpenAI said Operator made a mistake (Washington Post column).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the columnist whose saved card was charged, by the columnist's own account in the Washington Post.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"unknown","platformType":"agent","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/07/openai-operator-ai-agent-chatgpt/","primarySourceLabel":"Washington Post (Geoffrey A. Fowler), 7 February 2025: I let ChatGPT's new agent manage my life. It spent $31 on a dozen eggs.","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T03:12:02.55211+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-27T03:12:02.55211+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-agent","acted-on-behalf","unwanted-purchase","consumer","grocery-delivery","vendor-acknowledged"]},{"id":"2025-amsterdam-court-jails-man-who-used-deepfakes-of-other-peoples-id-photos-to-open-47-bank-accounts-in-their-names","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'Hij zou 47 bankrekeningen geopend hebben' ... 'met behulp van deepfake-technologie' ... 'Dit gebeurde in de periode van 20 maart 2025 tot en met 14 november 2025' ... 'Hij zou deepfake-technologie gebruiken om het identiteitsverificatiesysteem te misleiden'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The Amsterdam District Court said a 34-year-old man was suspected of opening 47 bank accounts in other people's names with deepfake technology between 20 March and 14 November 2025, using it to mislead the identity-verification system.","causal_attribution":"The court's own statement of the charge; documents what was charged, not guilt."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Volgens het OM omzeilde de man dat door de foto op ID-bewijzen te vervangen door een pasfoto van hemzelf' ... 'Ook paste hij volgens justitie zijn eigen gezichtsfoto' ... 'aan, zodat die leken op de pasfoto' ... 'In de gezichtsscan van de man zijn kenmerken uit de pasfoto van de vrouw te zien'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"At the hearing the prosecution said the man got past ABN AMRO's app check by replacing ID-document photos with a photo of himself and by adjusting his own face photos to resemble them, and the judge noted that a selfie submitted with a woman's identity document showed features of her passport photo.","causal_attribution":"Prosecution's account and the judge's remark, reported from the hearing."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'ID-bewijzen van slachtoffers op wier naam rekeningen waren geopend'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The prosecution said identity documents of victims in whose names accounts were opened were found on his phone.","causal_attribution":"Prosecution's statement in court."},{"id":"c4","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'waarin hij verklaarde dat hij vanaf 28 september 2025 wetenschap had van de strafbare feiten' ... 'De rechtbank heropent daarom het onderzoek ter terechtzitting'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"In a written statement the man said he only knew of the offences from 28 September 2025, and on 31 March 2026 the court reopened the investigation to examine the data on his phone.","causal_attribution":"Interim ruling and the content of his written statement, documented by the court's release."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'krijgt 2,5 jaar cel' ... 'De rechtbank ging mee met de eis van het OM' ... '13.000 euro schadevergoeding betalen aan ABN Amro' ... 'Van de 2,5 jaar cel zijn zes maanden een voorwaardelijke straf'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"According to AT5, on 17 June 2026 the court followed the prosecution's demand and sentenced him to two and a half years in prison, six months of it suspended, and ordered him to pay 13,000 euros to ABN AMRO.","causal_attribution":"Verdict as reported by AT5; judgment text not inspected."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Hij wist 47 rekeningen te openen door gezichtskenmerken van zijn slachtoffers met AI op zijn eigen gezicht te plakken' ... 'Een deel van deze bankrekeningen is gebruikt voor bankhelpdeskfraude en het opnemen van contant geld'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"AT5 reports that he opened the 47 accounts by pasting his victims' facial features onto his own face with AI, and that part of the accounts was used for bank-helpdesk fraud and cash withdrawals.","causal_attribution":"AT5's account of the convicted conduct; consistent with the court's and prosecution's deepfake description."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'De verdachte zegt dat hij in die periode niets met de fraude te maken had'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'De verdachte heeft zelf altijd ontkend'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The man denied involvement in the fraud during the earlier period at the hearing, and AT5 reports that he always denied the charges.","causal_attribution":"Counterevidence: the defendant's denial."}],"effects":[{"label":"identities of other people used to open 47 bank accounts by deepfaked face scans","claim_id":"c6","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.rechtspraak.nl/organisatie-en-contact/organisatie/rechtbanken/rechtbank-amsterdam/nieuws/2026/03/extra-onderzoek-nodig-in-zaak-oplichting-bank-met-deepfake-technologie","kind":"court_press_release","access":"read","language":"nl","translation_note":"Read in Dutch by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-26; English renderings are the agent's own translation. Press release of the Amsterdam District Court on its interim judgment, 31 Mar 2026; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"rechtbank-amsterdam-31-mar-2026"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://nos.nl/artikel/2606734-man-met-wiens-gezicht-tientallen-bankrekeningen-werden-geopend-voor-de-rechter","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"nl","translation_note":"Read in Dutch by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-26; English renderings are the agent's own translation. NOS report of the 17 Mar 2026 hearing (prosecution and judge's statements in court); HTTP 200.","independence_group":"nos-hearing-17-mar-2026"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.at5.nl/artikelen/238721/amsterdammer-deepfakes-47-bankrekeningen-openen","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"nl","translation_note":"Read in Dutch by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-26; English renderings are the agent's own translation. AT5 report of the 17 Jun 2026 verdict; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"at5-verdict-17-jun-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance","privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["Which deepfake tool was used.","How many distinct people's identities were used for the 47 accounts.","The losses of the people defrauded through the accounts and whether the verdict was appealed."],"geography":{"basis":"The Amsterdam District Court in the Netherlands heard the case, so NL is the court country. The sources do not state where the accounts were opened from or where the people whose identities were used live, so no event or affected-person country is recorded from the court's seat or the bank's nationality.","court_countries":["NL"],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): a Dutch court and prosecutors say a man used deepfake technology to make his face scans match other people's ID photos and open 47 bank accounts in their names, and the court convicted him in June 2026 according to AT5. Private names are not used.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-26"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Amsterdam District Court's press release states that the man was suspected of using deepfake technology to mislead the bank's identity-verification system and open 47 accounts in other people's names. At the hearing the prosecution described how he adjusted his own face photos to resemble the ID photos, and the judge noted that a selfie submitted with a woman's document showed features of her passport photo. AT5 reports that he was convicted and sentenced for opening the accounts by pasting his victims' facial features onto his own face with AI. The specific tool is not named and the written judgment was not inspected.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Amsterdam court jails man who used deepfake technology to pass a bank's face check with other people's IDs and open 47 accounts in their names","summary":"The Amsterdam District Court said in March 2026 that a 34-year-old man was suspected of opening 47 bank accounts in other people's names between 20 March and 14 November 2025 by using deepfake technology to mislead a bank's identity-verification system. At the hearing on 17 March 2026, the prosecution said he had beaten ABN AMRO's app check, which compares a face scan with the photo on an identity document, by replacing ID photos with his own and by adjusting his own face photos to resemble the ID photos; the judge noted that a selfie submitted with one woman's identity document showed features of her passport photo. The prosecution said identity documents of the victims in whose names accounts were opened were found on his phone. The man denied knowing of the fraud before late September 2025, and the court reopened the investigation on 31 March to examine his phone data. According to AT5, on 17 June 2026 the court sentenced him to two and a half years in prison, six months of it suspended, and ordered him to pay 13,000 euros to ABN AMRO; AT5 reports that he pasted his victims' facial features onto his own face with AI and that some of the accounts were used for bank-helpdesk fraud and cash withdrawals.","incidentDate":"2025-03-20","incidentEndDate":"2025-11-14","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-03-17","aiSystem":"Deepfake technology used to alter face scans so that they matched other people's identity-document photos in ABN AMRO's account-opening app, according to the Amsterdam District Court and the prosecution (tool not identified)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","other_material_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the Amsterdam District Court, the prosecution and AT5's report of the verdict, a man used deepfake technology to make his face scans match other people's identity-document photos, opening 47 ABN AMRO accounts in their names; some accounts were then used for bank-helpdesk fraud and cash withdrawals.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"The court says 47 accounts were opened in the names of others, and the hearing report describes two of the identity holders (a man and a woman); the number of distinct people is not stated, so two is the documented minimum. Victims of the bank-helpdesk fraud run through the accounts and the bank itself are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"NL","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.rechtspraak.nl/organisatie-en-contact/organisatie/rechtbanken/rechtbank-amsterdam/nieuws/2026/03/extra-onderzoek-nodig-in-zaak-oplichting-bank-met-deepfake-technologie","primarySourceLabel":"Rechtbank Amsterdam, 31 Mar 2026: further investigation needed in bank fraud case using deepfake technology","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-26T03:20:11.628878+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-26T03:20:11.628878+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","identity-verification","bank-account-fraud","identity-theft","criminal-conviction","netherlands","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2025-czech-constitutional-court-fines-lawyer-for-complaint-citing-non-existent-rulings-drafted-with-ai-tool","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"I.ÚS 3004/25 ze dne 1. 12. 2025; jako povinnému se ukládá pořádková pokuta ve výši 25 000 Kč; Pokutu uložil pouze ve čtvrtině zákonného rozpětí, neboť se povinný hrubého ztížení postupu řízení před Ústavním soudem dopustil poprvé a vadu podání lze ještě odstranit.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"On 1 December 2025 the presiding judge of a Constitutional Court chamber fined the lawyer 25,000 crowns for grossly obstructing proceedings, at a quarter of the statutory range because it was a first failing and the defect could still be remedied.","causal_attribution":"The fine responded to the filing; the order attributes the defects to the lawyer's failure to verify presumed AI output."},{"id":"c2","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"V ústavní stížnosti argumentoval celkem 12 rozhodnutími Ústavního soudu a Evropského soudu pro lidská práva. Po pečlivém prostudování ústavní stížnosti Ústavní soud zjistil, že podstatná část z těchto rozhodnutí vůbec neexistuje a část je povinným hrubě dezinterpretována.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The complaint argued from 12 decisions of the Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights, a substantial part of which did not exist and part of which were grossly misinterpreted.","causal_attribution":"Established by the court's own verification."},{"id":"c3","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"To vede Ústavní soud k domněnce, že povinný generoval podání pomocí některého z modelů umělé inteligence, poté však neověřil existenci citovaných rozhodnutí a správnost argumentace, resp. citace.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The court found signs of AI use in the complaint and presumed that the lawyer had generated it with an AI model and then failed to verify the citations and argument.","causal_attribution":"The order records the court's presumption of AI generation; the lawyer's confirmation is a separate claim (c4)."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Že opravdu použil při sepisování stížnosti umělou inteligenci, potvrdil INFO.CZ samotný advokát, který nad celou situací vyjádřil lítost.; Přiznává, že jeho chybou bylo, že výstup nedostatečně kontroloval a spolehl se na to, že uvedená judikatura odpovídá.; placený profesionální model AI, který nabízí některá z velkých společností provozujících komplexní právní informační systémy","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The lawyer confirmed to INFO.CZ that AI was used to write the complaint, said the output was not checked enough, and described the tool as a paid professional AI model from a large legal information system provider.","causal_attribution":"The lawyer attributes the false citations to the AI tool's output that was not checked."},{"id":"c5","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Stěžovateli, prostřednictvím jeho právního zástupce, souběžně Ústavní soud zasílá výzvu k odstranění vad ústavní stížnosti, aby stěžovatel v důsledku postupu svého právního zástupce neutrpěl procesní újmu.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"I.ÚS 3004/25 ze dne 30. 1. 2026; Ústavní stížnost se odmítá.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The court invited the client to remedy the complaint so that the client would suffer no procedural harm, and later rejected the complaint as manifestly unfounded on 30 January 2026.","causal_attribution":"No source connects the rejection to the AI-generated citations."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Podle zdrojů INFO.CZ se kontrolní rada ČAK tímto konkrétním případem již zabývá. A to přestože se advokát soudu omluvil, pokutu zaplatil a klienta se jeho selhání nedotkne, neboť od ÚS dostal prostor na nápravu.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"Ústavní soud ocenil následný přístup advokáta, který pokutu obratem uhradil a zaslal omluvu.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"The lawyer apologised and paid the fine, and the Czech Bar Association's supervisory board was reported to be examining the case.","causal_attribution":"Consequence of the fine; the bar examination rests on INFO.CZ's unnamed sources."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Pokud jde o využití AI pro přípravu podání bez kontroly zdrojů, může se skutečně jednat o kárné provinění advokáta; Ve svých důsledcích by to mohlo vést k postihování advokáta obecně za podání, které soud vyhodnotí jako nekvalitní nebo s nesprávně aplikovanou judikaturou","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"The Czech Bar Association's president said using AI for a filing without checking sources may be a disciplinary offence, while the bar expressed reservations about courts fining lawyers for filings they judge to be of poor quality.","causal_attribution":"Context and a qualification of the sanction, not a causal claim."}],"effects":[{"label":"fined 25,000 crowns by the Constitutional Court over non-existent and misinterpreted rulings in an AI-drafted complaint","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"case reported to be under examination by the bar association's supervisory board","claim_id":"c6","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://nalus.usoud.cz/Search/GetText.aspx?sz=1-3004-25_1","kind":"court_decision","access":"read","language":"cs","translation_note":"Read in Czech on 2026-10-26 (HTTP 200); quoted passages were translated by the research agent (an AI). Order dated 1 December 2025 in the NALUS database; the client and lawyer are named in the order and are not reproduced here.","independence_group":"czech-constitutional-court-order-i-us-3004-25-dec-2025"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://nalus.usoud.cz/Search/GetText.aspx?sz=1-3004-25_2","kind":"court_decision","access":"read","language":"cs","translation_note":"Read in Czech on 2026-10-26 (HTTP 200); quoted passages were translated by the research agent (an AI). Resolution dated 30 January 2026 in the NALUS database.","independence_group":"czech-constitutional-court-resolution-i-us-3004-25-jan-2026"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.info.cz/zpravodajstvi-a-komentare/ustavni-soud-pokuta-advokat-umela-inteligence-ai","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"cs","translation_note":"Read in Czech on 2026-10-26 (HTTP 200); quoted passages were translated by the research agent (an AI). INFO.CZ broke the story and interviewed the fined lawyer; later reports relay its interview.","independence_group":"info-cz-lawyer-interview-dec-2025"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.info.cz/zpravodajstvi-a-komentare/pokuta-advokat-ai-justice-cak-vyhrady","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"cs","translation_note":"Read in Czech on 2026-10-26 (HTTP 200); quoted passages were translated by the research agent (an AI). Follow-up article with statements of the Czech Bar Association president and the presidents of the two top courts.","independence_group":"info-cz-bar-reaction-dec-2025"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://advokatnidenik.cz/2025/12/12/generativni-ai-prinesla-k-soudum-take-halucinace-ai-v-pravnich-podanich/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"cs","translation_note":"Read in Czech on 2026-10-26 (HTTP 200); quoted passages were translated by the research agent (an AI). Bar Association journal article credited to the ČTK news agency.","independence_group":"ctk-advokatni-denik-dec-2025"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["justice","work"],"unknowns":["The name of the AI tool and its provider; the lawyer declined to name it.","The date the complaint was filed (INFO.CZ says it reached the court in October 2025).","The outcome of the Czech Bar Association supervisory board's examination, if any."],"geography":{"basis":"The complaint was filed with, and the fine imposed by, the Czech Constitutional Court; the reports describe the lawyer as practising in Prague. 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The tool's output reached the lawyer and went into the complaint (communicated_with), and the court read those invented authorities and fined the lawyer for them (informed_decision_about). The provider is not named.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with","informed_decision_about"]},"name":"Czech Constitutional Court fines a lawyer 25,000 crowns over a complaint citing non-existent rulings; the lawyer says a paid legal AI tool drafted it","summary":"On 1 December 2025 the presiding judge of a chamber of the Czech Constitutional Court fined a Prague lawyer 25,000 crowns (a quarter of the statutory maximum) for grossly obstructing proceedings. The lawyer had filed a constitutional complaint, for a client refused a temporary residence permit, that argued from 12 decisions of the Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights; the court found that a substantial part of them did not exist and part were grossly misinterpreted. The order says the complaint showed signs of generative AI and that the court presumed the lawyer had generated it with an AI model and then failed to verify the citations. The lawyer confirmed to INFO.CZ that an AI tool was used, described it as a paid professional model from a legal information system provider, said the output was not checked enough, and expressed regret. The court invited the client to correct the complaint so that the client would suffer no procedural harm; the complaint was later rejected as manifestly unfounded on 30 January 2026. INFO.CZ reported on 10 December 2025 that the lawyer had apologised and paid the fine and that the Czech Bar Association's supervisory board was examining the case.","incidentDate":"2025-12-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2025-12-03","aiSystem":"A paid professional AI model offered by a legal information system provider, used to draft a constitutional complaint (provider not named; the court inferred generative AI from the text and the lawyer confirmed its use)","aiProduct":"Unidentified legal research tool","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss","legal_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the Constitutional Court's order, a lawyer whose complaint cited non-existent and misinterpreted rulings, which the court presumed were AI-generated and the lawyer says came from a paid legal AI tool, was fined 25,000 crowns; INFO.CZ reported that the bar association's supervisory board was examining the case.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"established","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the lawyer fined by the Constitutional Court. The court invited the client to remedy the complaint so that the client would suffer no procedural harm, and INFO.CZ reports that the client was not affected, so the client is not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"CZ","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"regulatory_action","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://nalus.usoud.cz/Search/GetText.aspx?sz=1-3004-25_1","primarySourceLabel":"Czech Constitutional Court, order I. US 3004/25 imposing a disciplinary fine (1 December 2025)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-26T03:09:43.763021+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-26T03:09:43.763021+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["czechia","legal-profession","hallucinated-citations","court-fine","constitutional-court"]},{"id":"2025-hanoi-graduation-exam-candidates-photographed-papers-for-studyx-and-gemini-answers-criminal-case-opened","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Qua điều tra, Công an Hà Nội xác định có 2 thí sinh đã lén mang điện thoại vào phòng thi, chụp đề thi dùng ứng dụng AI để giải.'; 'vừa ra quyết định khởi tố vụ án vô ý làm lộ bí mật nhà nước để điều tra'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The Hanoi police announced Tuesday they are investigating the two boys for \"accidental disclosure of classified information\" during the exams on June 26 and 27.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Hanoi police said two candidates in the 2025 national high school graduation exam smuggled phones into exam rooms, photographed exam papers and used AI apps to solve them, and opened a criminal case for unintentionally disclosing state secrets.","causal_attribution":"The Hanoi police announcement as reported by both outlets; one origin."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'đã lén mang điện thoại di động vào phòng thi rồi chụp ảnh một phần đề thi môn toán và đăng tải lên ứng dụng StudyX để giải đề thi nhưng chỉ chép được đáp án của 2 câu hỏi thi.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'He then uploaded the images to the StudyX app for answers but was only able to write two answers from it before being detected.'; 'He did the same thing the next day during the Chemistry and Physics tests.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"One candidate uploaded a photo of part of the maths paper to the StudyX app but copied only two answers, and repeated this in the chemistry and physics papers the next day.","causal_attribution":"Police account as reported."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'rồi sử dụng ứng dụng AI Gemini trên điện thoại giải đề thi. Hội đồng coi thi đã phát hiện, lập biên bản vi phạm quy chế thi, đình chỉ thi.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'the police discovered another boy had also used a mobile phone to cheat, taking photos of the Math, History and English test papers and using AI application Gemini.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The second candidate photographed the maths, history and English papers and used Gemini on his phone to solve them; the exam board caught him, recorded the violation and suspended him from the exam.","causal_attribution":"Police account as reported; the suspension is reported by Thanh Nien."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Thông tin này khiến thí sinh, phụ huynh bày tỏ băn khoăn, lo lắng về công tác bảo mật đề thi'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The police said students involved in this practice would be disqualified and have their test results annulled and could face administrative or criminal action.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"A photo of part of the maths paper appeared on an AI maths-solving app before the exam ended, causing candidates and parents concern about exam security; police said students who cheated this way would be disqualified, have their results annulled and could face administrative or criminal action.","causal_attribution":"Context and the police's stated consequences; whether the two candidates' results were annulled is not reported."}],"effects":[{"label":"two exam candidates became subjects of a criminal case for disclosing state secrets","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"one candidate was suspended from the exam","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://thanhnien.vn/khoi-to-vu-an-2-thi-sinh-dung-ai-giai-de-thi-tot-nghiep-thpt-185250701071054936.htm","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"vi","translation_note":"Read in Vietnamese by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-23 and translated by the research agent (an AI) into English; no human translator or reviewer was involved. Thanh Niên, 1 Jul 2025; HTTP 200, full text read. Gives the Hanoi police account; the body uses the candidates' initials, which this record omits.","independence_group":"hanoi-police-1-jul-2025"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/education/2-hanoi-boys-caught-using-ai-to-cheat-in-high-school-graduation-exam-4908688.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-23; HTTP 200, full text read. VnExpress International, 1 Jul 2025 (PT), relaying the same Hanoi police announcement.","independence_group":"hanoi-police-1-jul-2025"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["education","justice"],"unknowns":["Whether either candidate was later charged, and the outcome of the criminal case.","Whether the candidates' results were annulled, and the candidates' ages.","What the apps produced beyond the two answers the first candidate copied."],"geography":{"basis":"The exams took place in Hanoi, Vietnam, and the investigating agency is the Hanoi police (Thanh Nien; VnExpress International). No court is involved yet.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["VN"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a consequential-response case: a criminal case and an exam suspension after two graduation exam candidates used StudyX and Gemini to solve photographed papers, according to the Hanoi police account reported by Thanh Nien and VnExpress International. 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The criminal offence named is the unintended disclosure of the classified exam papers, which the candidates sent to the AI apps during the exam.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Hanoi police open a criminal case after two graduation exam candidates photographed exam papers and had AI apps StudyX and Gemini solve them","summary":"Hanoi police said on 1 July 2025 that they had opened a criminal case for unintentionally disclosing state secrets after two candidates in Vietnam's national high school graduation exam on 26 and 27 June 2025 smuggled phones into exam rooms, photographed exam papers and used AI apps to solve them. According to the police account reported by Thanh Nien and VnExpress, one candidate uploaded part of the maths paper to the StudyX app but copied only two answers, and did the same in the chemistry and physics papers; the other photographed the maths, history and English papers and used Gemini, was caught by the exam board and was suspended from the exam. A photo of part of the maths paper had appeared on an AI maths-solving app before the exam ended, worrying candidates and parents about exam security. Police said students who did this would be disqualified, have their results annulled and could face administrative or criminal action. Neither candidate is named.","incidentDate":"2025-06-26","incidentEndDate":"2025-06-27","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2025-07-01","aiSystem":"StudyX, an AI problem-solving app, and Gemini, which two exam candidates used on smuggled phones to solve photographed exam papers (per the Hanoi police account as reported)","aiProduct":"StudyX and Gemini","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["educational_harm","legal_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Two Hanoi graduation exam candidates became the subjects of a criminal case for disclosing state secrets, and one was suspended from the exam, after they photographed exam papers and used StudyX and Gemini to solve them, according to the Hanoi police account.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":2,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Two people: the two candidates who used the AI apps and are the subjects of the police case (Thanh Nien; VnExpress International). Candidates and parents who voiced concern are an audience and are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"VN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://thanhnien.vn/khoi-to-vu-an-2-thi-sinh-dung-ai-giai-de-thi-tot-nghiep-thpt-185250701071054936.htm","primarySourceLabel":"Thanh Niên: criminal case opened over two candidates using AI to solve graduation exam papers (1 Jul 2025)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-23T03:17:52.727104+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-23T03:17:52.727104+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["gemini","studyx","exam-cheating","graduation-exam","criminal-investigation","vietnam","students"]},{"id":"2025-lam-dong-vietnam-exam-candidate-streamed-paper-to-friend-who-solved-it-with-chatgpt-criminal-case-opened","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Giám thị phát hiện thí sinh nam 18 tuổi sử dụng thiết bị công nghệ cao để gian lận nên lập biên bản, đình chỉ thi ngay lập tức.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'nghi vấn sử dụng thiết bị công nghệ cao để gian lận thi cử nên đã báo cáo Trưởng điểm thi kiểm tra, lập biên bản đình chỉ thi với trường hợp trên.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"During the literature paper of the 2025 national high school graduation exam on 26 June 2025 in Lam Dong province, an invigilator caught an 18-year-old candidate using high-tech devices and recorded his suspension from the exam.","causal_attribution":"The provincial police and exam account as reported."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'sau đó tải về, sử dụng ứng dụng ChatGPT để giải đề, đọc đáp án qua cuộc gọi Messenger'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Người này chỉ chụp được hai trang đề, rồi dùng ứng dụng Chat GPT giải, đọc đáp án.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'He only captured two pages of the exam and then used the ChatGPT app to solve and read the answers.'; 'He then instructed another teen, aged 17, to use the device to assist in solving and reading the answers to the exam questions.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The candidate streamed the exam paper through a hidden button camera to a 17-year-old friend at an internet cafe, who photographed part of it, used the ChatGPT app to solve it and read the answers to him over a Messenger call.","causal_attribution":"Police account of the scheme, from the candidate's statements and their investigation; the outlets differ on whether one page or two were captured."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Công an tỉnh Lâm Đồng đã ra quyết định khởi tố vụ án hình sự “Cố ý làm lộ bí mật nhà nước; chiếm đoạt bí mật nhà nước”'; 'Bước đầu, cơ quan Công an đánh giá chỉ có 2 trường hợp'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The 18-year-old is currently under investigation for \"deliberate disclosure of classified information, appropriation of classified documents\" in relation to the national high school graduation exam held on Thursday and Friday.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"On 27 June 2025 the Lam Dong provincial police opened a criminal case for intentionally disclosing and appropriating state secrets under Article 337(2) of the Penal Code, because unreleased graduation exam papers are classified; police said only the two young people were involved.","causal_attribution":"The opening of the criminal case is the police's official act as reported by the provincial paper (the decision itself was not inspected); no charge or outcome is reported."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'authorities had also identified three other candidates at two different exam centers who used their phones to take pictures of part of the exam questions and sent them to AI apps to solve. All three students admitted to their violations.'; 'while this was a minor incident that did not affect the security or safety of the exam'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"A Ministry of Public Security official said three other candidates at two exam centres photographed parts of exam papers and sent them to AI apps to solve, and that they admitted the violations; he called it a minor incident that did not affect the exam's security.","causal_attribution":"Context from the ministry press conference; the three other candidates are separate events."}],"effects":[{"label":"the candidate was suspended from the graduation exam","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"police opened a criminal case for disclosing state secrets in which they said only the candidate and the friend who used ChatGPT were involved","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://baolamdong.vn/cong-an-lam-dong-khoi-to-vu-an-de-dieu-tra-gian-lan-trong-de-thi-van-tot-nghiep-thpt-281996.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"vi","translation_note":"Read in Vietnamese by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-23 and translated by the research agent (an AI) into English; no human translator or reviewer was involved. Báo Lâm Đồng (provincial newspaper), 27 Jun 2025; HTTP 200, full text read. Gives the provincial police account; the body uses the young people's initials, which this record omits.","independence_group":"lam-dong-provincial-police-27-jun-2025"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://vnexpress.net/nam-sinh-tuon-de-tot-nghiep-thpt-ra-ngoai-nho-ban-dung-chatgpt-giai-4907275.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"vi","translation_note":"Read in Vietnamese by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-23 and translated by the research agent (an AI) into English; no human translator or reviewer was involved. VnExpress, 27 Jun 2025; HTTP 200, full text read. Relays the same police account and the ministry press conference.","independence_group":"lam-dong-provincial-police-27-jun-2025"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/education/vietnamese-student-faces-charges-for-cheating-on-high-school-graduation-exam-with-chatgpt-4907386.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-23; HTTP 200, full text read. English version of the VnExpress report of the same police account.","independence_group":"lam-dong-provincial-police-27-jun-2025"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["education","justice"],"unknowns":["Whether either young person was later charged as a defendant, and the outcome of the criminal case.","Whether the candidate's exam results were annulled and how the suspension affected his university admission.","What ChatGPT produced and how much of it the candidate copied."],"geography":{"basis":"The exam centre is in Lam Dong province, Vietnam, and the investigating agency is the Lam Dong provincial police (Bao Lam Dong; VnExpress). No court is involved yet.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["VN"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a consequential-response case: an exam suspension and a criminal case opened after a candidate's friend used ChatGPT to solve the streamed graduation exam paper, according to the Lam Dong police account reported by the provincial paper and VnExpress. The two young people are not named.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-23"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The harm is the exam authorities' and police's response to cheating in which ChatGPT solved the exam paper, reviewed as a consequential response. According to the police account reported by Bao Lam Dong and VnExpress, the friend uploaded photographs of the streamed paper to the ChatGPT app, which produced the answers he read to the candidate in the exam room. The suspension was for using high-tech devices, and the criminal offence named is the disclosure and appropriation of the classified paper, which the scheme sent outside the room and into ChatGPT.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Vietnamese police open a criminal case after an exam candidate streamed his graduation exam paper to a friend who solved it with ChatGPT","summary":"On 26 June 2025, during the literature paper of Vietnam's national high school graduation exam in Lam Dong province, an invigilator caught an 18-year-old candidate using a hidden button camera and wireless earpiece and suspended him from the exam. According to the provincial police account reported by Bao Lam Dong and VnExpress, he had streamed the paper to a 17-year-old friend at an internet cafe, who photographed part of it, used the ChatGPT app to solve it and read the answers to him over a Messenger call. On 27 June 2025 the Lam Dong police security investigation agency opened a criminal case for intentionally disclosing and appropriating state secrets, because unreleased graduation exam papers are classified; police said initially that only the two young people were involved and that they had found no further sharing of the paper. Neither is named.","incidentDate":"2025-06-26","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2025-06-27","aiSystem":"ChatGPT app, which the candidate's friend used to solve photographed pages of the literature exam paper and whose answers were read to the candidate over a call (per the Lam Dong police account as reported)","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["educational_harm","legal_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"An 18-year-old candidate was suspended from Vietnam's national graduation exam and police opened a criminal case for disclosing state secrets in which they said only he and a 17-year-old friend were involved after the friend used ChatGPT to solve the streamed exam paper, according to the Lam Dong police account.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Two people: the 17-year-old friend who used ChatGPT (participant user) and the 18-year-old candidate who received its answers and was suspended from the exam (other person); police say the case concerns only these two (Bao Lam Dong). The three other candidates mentioned by the ministry official are separate events and are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"VN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://baolamdong.vn/cong-an-lam-dong-khoi-to-vu-an-de-dieu-tra-gian-lan-trong-de-thi-van-tot-nghiep-thpt-281996.html","primarySourceLabel":"Báo Lâm Đồng: Lam Dong police open criminal case over cheating in the graduation exam literature paper (27 Jun 2025)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-23T03:14:59.178559+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-23T03:14:59.178559+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["chatgpt","exam-cheating","graduation-exam","criminal-investigation","vietnam","students"]},{"id":"2025-victoria-vce-exam-student-used-chatgpt-on-smuggled-phone-marks-reduced-authority-says","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'A student secretly trying to use ChatGPT in their exams before being caught by an eagle-eyed supervisor'; 'After smuggling in a smartphone to the exam, the supervisor found the student had uploaded questions to the popular chatbot and attempted to pass off the AI-generated answers as their own, the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) said on Monday.'; 'They were one of 109 students investigated for cheating during last year’s VCE exams, the authority said on Monday.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"According to the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA), during the 2025 VCE exams a student smuggled a smartphone into an exam, uploaded exam questions to ChatGPT and attempted to pass off the AI-generated answers as their own, and was caught by an exam supervisor.","causal_attribution":"The exam authority's account as reported by The Age; no other account of the incident is available."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The student found using ChatGPT on their phone admitted to the breaches and had their marks docked.'; 'Both students who were caught had their marks reduced as a result of reviews.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"According to The Age's report of the VCAA statement, the student admitted the breaches and had their examination marks reduced after a review.","causal_attribution":"The authority's account of its own decision, relayed by one outlet; the size of the reduction is not stated."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The VCAA thoroughly investigates all alleged misconduct cases and may reduce a student’s examination score if they are found to have breached examination rules'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A VCAA spokesperson said the authority investigates all alleged misconduct cases and may reduce a student's examination score if the student is found to have breached examination rules.","causal_attribution":"The authority's description of its process."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'from 87 in 2024 to 109 in 2025'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The VCAA's data show 109 students investigated for cheating in the 2025 VCE exams, up from 87 in 2024.","causal_attribution":"Context from the authority's internal data; the aggregate does not concern AI use alone and is not counted as harmed people."}],"effects":[{"label":"examination marks reduced after admitted ChatGPT use in a VCE exam (exam authority's account)","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/student-caught-using-chatgpt-in-vce-exam-among-109-investigated-for-cheating-20261019-p616s4.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-20 from the publisher's page (HTTP 200). Published 19 October 2026, 4:31pm; the article reports a statement and internal data released by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority that Monday. A syndicated Adelaide Now report on the same data returned HTTP 403 and was not read.","independence_group":"vcaa-exam-misconduct-statement-2026-10-19"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["education"],"unknowns":["The subject, school and exact date of the exam.","How many marks were deducted and whether the student appealed.","The student's exact age; The Age's standfirst calls the student a teenager, which does not establish whether the student was under 18."],"geography":{"basis":"The exam was a VCE exam administered by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority in the Australian state of Victoria, as stated in the article. 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The evidence is the authority's own account relayed by one outlet.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Victorian exam authority says student who used ChatGPT on a smuggled phone during a 2025 VCE exam admitted the breach and had marks reduced","summary":"The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) said on 19 October 2026, as reported by The Age, that during the 2025 VCE exams a student smuggled a smartphone into an exam, uploaded exam questions to ChatGPT and attempted to pass off the AI-generated answers as their own before an exam supervisor caught them. According to the authority, the student admitted the breaches and had their marks reduced after a review. The student was one of 109 students the VCAA investigated for cheating in the 2025 VCE exams, up from 87 in 2024. The report does not identify the student, the school, the subject or the size of the reduction. The account is the exam authority's, relayed by one outlet.","incidentDate":"2025-01-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"year","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-10-19","aiSystem":"ChatGPT, used on a smartphone the student had smuggled into a 2025 VCE exam to answer uploaded exam questions, according to the VCAA","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["educational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority, the student had their 2025 VCE examination marks reduced after admitting to using ChatGPT on a smuggled phone during the exam.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the student the VCAA says used ChatGPT during the exam and had marks reduced. The 109 students investigated for cheating in 2025 are an aggregate across all kinds of misconduct and are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"AU","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/student-caught-using-chatgpt-in-vce-exam-among-109-investigated-for-cheating-20261019-p616s4.html","primarySourceLabel":"The Age, 19 October 2026: Student caught using ChatGPT in VCE exam among 109 investigated for cheating","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-20T02:59:01.114811+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-20T02:59:01.114811+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["academic-integrity","exam-misconduct","chatgpt","vce","marks-reduced","own-use","consequential-response"]},{"id":"2025-busan-prosecutors-say-investment-fraud-suspect-used-ai-forged-medical-licence-and-bank-statements","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'AI를 이용해 의사국가시험 합격증과 가상화폐 보유 내역 등 가짜 이미지를 만들어 수십억원의 자산을 보유한 의사 겸 사업가 행세를 했다'; '가상화폐 투자, 크루즈선박 사업 투자, 메디컬센터 설립 비용 명목으로 피해자들에게 3억2000만원을 가로챘다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The suspect is accused of using AI to create fake images, such as a medical license and cryptocurrency holding statements, to lure investors from August to October last year.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'지난해 8월부터 10월까지 가상화폐 투자, 메디컬센터 설립 등의 명목으로 피해자를 속여 3억2000만 원을 가로챈 혐의를 받는다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Prosecutors say that from August to October 2025 the suspect used AI to make fake images of a medical licensing examination certificate and cryptocurrency holdings, posed as a wealthy doctor and businessman, and took about 320 million won from victims for supposed investments.","causal_attribution":"Prosecutors' allegation in an indictment; no court finding."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'그런데 판사는 같은 달 24일 구속영장 청구를 기각했다'; '계좌 잔액이 '904,330,158원'으로 적혀 있는 예금잔고증명서를 제출하면서 같은 달 30일까지 피해액을 변제하겠다고 약속했기 때문이다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'잔고증명서가 진짜라고 본 재판부는'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"At the December 2025 warrant hearing the suspect gave the judge a bank balance certificate showing 904,330,158 won and promised to repay, and the judge refused the warrant on 24 December.","causal_attribution":"Prosecutors' account of the warrant hearing as reported."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'AI 플랫폼에서 자신의 실제 예금잔고증명서 PDF 파일을 올린 뒤'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'AI를 이용해 23원에 불과한 통장 잔액을 9억 원으로 조작한 잔고증명서를'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Prosecutors say he made the certificate by uploading his real balance certificate PDF to an AI platform and instructing it to change the balance, and that the real balance was 23 won.","causal_attribution":"Prosecutors' findings from their supplementary investigation."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'지난 6일 투자금 명목 등으로 약 3억2000만원을 가로채고'; '사기, 사문서위조 및 위조사문서 행사, 위계공무집행방해 혐의로 구속기소했다고 11일 밝혔다'; 'AI의 이미지 생성 기능을 이용해 육안으로 식별이 곤란할 정도로 정밀한 자료를 위조해 일반인은 물론 판사까지 속였다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The defendant submitted fake AI-generated images that were nearly impossible to distinguish with the naked eye, and even deceived the judge'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Prosecutors indicted the suspect under detention on 6 February 2026 for fraud, forging and using private documents, and obstructing official duties by deception, and a prosecution official said the AI-made material deceived the public and the judge.","causal_attribution":"Prosecutors' announcement; the charges are allegations."}],"effects":[{"label":"investors lost about 320 million won to a man who posed as a wealthy doctor using AI-made certificate and asset images, according to prosecutors","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://biz.chosun.com/topics/law_firm/2026/02/11/LCM4EAZPMBHN3HFY5Z2D4BG3CE/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Read in Korean by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-13 and translated by that agent; no human translation. Chosunbiz, 11 Feb 2026, HTTP 200; report of the prosecutors' announcement, with the prosecutors' description of the AI platform instruction.","independence_group":"busan-eastern-district-prosecutors-announcement-11-feb-2026"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/korea/man-accused-of-fraud-arrested-after-prosecutors-find-he-allegedly-submitted-falsified-documents-to-court/12056932","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English-language report, HTTP 200; the outlet states it was translated from its Korean original by a bilingual reporter using generative AI tools and edited by its newsroom.","independence_group":"busan-eastern-district-prosecutors-announcement-11-feb-2026"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.donga.com/news/Society/article/all/20260211/133345194/1","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Read in Korean by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-13 and translated by that agent; no human translation. Donga Ilbo, 11 Feb 2026, HTTP 200; report of the same announcement.","independence_group":"busan-eastern-district-prosecutors-announcement-11-feb-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance","justice"],"unknowns":["Which AI platform was used.","How many victims there were and how each payment relates to the AI-made images.","The victims' own accounts.","The outcome of the trial."],"geography":{"basis":"The case was investigated by Busan Suyeong police and indicted by the Busan Eastern District prosecutors, and the warrant hearing was before a Korean court; the fraud is described within that Korean investigation. The victims' countries are not stated, so affected_person_countries is left empty.","court_countries":["KR"],"event_countries":["KR"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core impersonation case: Busan prosecutors, who examined the documents, say an investment-fraud suspect used an AI platform's image generation to fake a medical licensing certificate and cryptocurrency holdings, posed as a wealthy doctor and took about 320 million won from victims, and later deceived a warrant judge with an AI-altered balance certificate. The charges are allegations and the record attributes them. The accused and the victims are not named.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-13"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Busan Eastern District prosecutors, who examined the documents, say the suspect used an AI platform's image-generation function to make fake images of a national medical licensing examination certificate and cryptocurrency holdings, used them to pose as a wealthy doctor and businessman, and showed forged documents to the victims, who paid about 320 million won. The generated images impersonated documents of the examination authority and asset records toward the victims (depicted_or_impersonated). Prosecutors also describe how a bank balance certificate was altered by uploading the real PDF and instructing the platform to change the balance. How each payment relates to the images is not reported.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Busan prosecutors say an investment-fraud suspect used AI images of a fake medical licence and asset records to take 320 million won, then fooled a judge","summary":"The Busan Eastern District branch of the prosecutors' office in South Korea announced on 11 February 2026 that it had indicted a man under detention on 6 February for fraud, forging and using private documents, and obstructing official duties by deception. According to the prosecutors, from August to October 2025 he used AI to make fake images of a medical licensing examination certificate and of cryptocurrency holdings, posed as a doctor and businessman with billions of won in assets, and took about 320 million won from victims for supposed cryptocurrency, cruise-ship and medical-centre investments. When police sought his arrest in December 2025, he gave the warrant judge a bank balance certificate showing about 904 million won, which prosecutors say he made by uploading his real certificate to an AI platform and asking it to change the balance; his real balance was 23 won. The judge refused the warrant. Prosecutors later found the certificate was forged and obtained a new warrant. The accused and the victims are not named here.","incidentDate":"2025-08-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-02-11","aiSystem":"Unnamed AI platform whose image-generation function, according to the Busan Eastern District prosecutors, the suspect used to make fake images of a medical licensing examination certificate and cryptocurrency holdings, and later to alter an uploaded bank balance certificate PDF","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to Busan prosecutors, victims handed about 320 million won to a man who posed as a wealthy doctor using AI-made images of a medical licence certificate and cryptocurrency holdings; the money had not been repaid.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"At least one person harmed: prosecutors describe victims who handed over about 320 million won. Chosunbiz uses a plural for the victims, which is not an explicit count, so only one is counted. The victims did not use the AI tool and are counted as other people harmed.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"KR","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://biz.chosun.com/topics/law_firm/2026/02/11/LCM4EAZPMBHN3HFY5Z2D4BG3CE/","primarySourceLabel":"Chosunbiz, 11 Feb 2026: bank balance of 23 won altered to 900 million won with AI, judge deceived; prosecutors detain suspect","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-13T03:22:08.391542+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-13T03:22:08.391542+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["investment-fraud","forged-document","ai-generated-image","fake-medical-licence","south-korea","financial-loss","prosecution"]},{"id":"2025-uk-upper-tribunal-immigration-adviser-google-ai-mode-fake-case-in-appeal-grounds-regulator-self-report","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'he was the person responsible for the case and drafting of the grounds of 17th March 2025 in this matter.'; 'provide an explanation for the fact that the case Horleston v SSHD [2007] EWCA Civ 654 cited in the grounds of appeal to the Upper Tribunal is not available on BAILII'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Grounds of appeal dated 17 March 2025, drafted by the adviser, cited a case (Horleston v SSHD [2007] EWCA Civ 654) that the Upper Tribunal could not find, under the citation of an unrelated case; the tribunal issued a show cause notice.","causal_attribution":"Established by the judgment's own record of the show cause notice and the adviser's response."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'We confirm unequivocally that no AI large language model (such as ChatGPT) was used in drafting the grounds of appeal.'; 'In absence of an explanation and with how AI operates, I cannot dismiss the fact that the case was an AI creation as there is no other explanation.'; 'his best guess was that he had inadvertently used the “AI Mode” of a Google search by clicking on this on the bar under the search topic.'; 'concluded himself that it was probable that this had happened because of the inadvertent use of an AI large language model'; 'As far as the Panel could establish there had never been a reported case called Horleston but Google AI nevertheless can, depending on the question posed, produce information such as panels of Court of Appeal judges who sat on this non-existent case'; 'By asking Google AI the same question in slightly different ways, we were able to elicit various different compositions of the bench which decided that fictitious case.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The adviser first denied using an AI large language model, later said he could not dismiss that the case was an AI creation, and at the hearing gave as his best guess that he had inadvertently used Google's 'AI Mode'; the tribunal found he had concluded it was probable the fake case came from inadvertent AI use, and the panel elicited varying benches for the fictitious case from Google AI.","causal_attribution":"The tribunal documents what the adviser said and its own test of Google AI; the source of the case in the drafting rests on his conclusion and best guess, so the claim is reported."},{"id":"c3","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'reported himself to the IAA and to the SRA for having unknowingly inserted a non-existent case in grounds of appeal'; 'has already done this and there is no need for us to do so. If he had not done this we wish to make it clear that we would have made a referral'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The adviser reported himself to the IAA and the SRA for having unknowingly inserted a non-existent case, and the tribunal made no referral for that reason, stating it would otherwise have referred him.","causal_attribution":"Established by the judgment's findings and its stated decision on referral."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'he had put client emails he had drafted explaining Home Office decisions into ChatGPT to try to improve them and he had uploaded Home Office decision letters to this platform to summarise them for clients.'; 'He informed us that he now realises that this is a data breach and will inform the clients that he has done this, as well as the IAA and the SRA.'; 'to put client letters and decision letters from the Home Office into an open source AI tool, such as ChatGPT, is to place this information on the internet in the public domain, and thus to breach client confidentiality and waive legal privilege'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The adviser told the tribunal he had put client emails explaining Home Office decisions into ChatGPT and uploaded Home Office decision letters to it to summarise them, called this a data breach he would disclose to the clients, the IAA and the SRA; the tribunal said such uploads breach client confidentiality and waive legal privilege.","causal_attribution":"The uploads rest on the adviser's own account as recorded by the tribunal; the tribunal's statement on confidentiality is its own observation. The clients' number and whether they were told are not stated."}],"effects":[{"label":"non-existent case, probably from Google AI Mode by his own account, placed in appeal grounds he drafted","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"self-reported to the IAA and the SRA; the tribunal would otherwise have referred him","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukut/iac/2026/81","kind":"court_record","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Full judgment text read on Find Case Law (HTTP 200); no translation.","independence_group":"ukut-2026-81-judgment"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["justice","work"],"unknowns":["Whether the false case actually came from Google AI Mode; the judgment records the adviser's best guess and conclusion, with no search history or output","What effect, if any, the false case had on the appellant's permission application","How many clients' emails or decision letters were put into ChatGPT and whether they were informed","The outcome of the IAA and SRA self-reports"],"geography":{"basis":"Event: the grounds were filed with the First-tier and Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber), heard at Field House, and the adviser practises under the UK regulators IAA and SRA (judgment). Court: the Upper Tribunal. The adviser's and clients' countries of residence are not stated.","court_countries":["GB"],"event_countries":["GB"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published from the full Upper Tribunal judgment: it documents the false case in grounds the adviser drafted and his self-reports to two regulators, and records his conclusion that the case probably came from inadvertent AI use and his best guess that the tool was Google AI Mode, which the panel's own Google AI test illustrates. The AI source is attributed to his account; his separate account of uploading client documents to ChatGPT is context. The adviser is described by role; the anonymised appellant is not counted.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-11"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The judgment records the adviser's best guess that the non-existent case came from his inadvertent use of Google's 'AI Mode', and finds that he concluded it was probable the case was included because of inadvertent use of an AI large language model; the panel reproduced Google AI generating different benches for the same fictitious case. The output reached him through his own search (communicated_with) and went into the grounds that led to the show cause notice and his self-reports. This rests on his account as recorded by the tribunal; he first denied AI use. His separate account of putting client emails and Home Office decision letters into ChatGPT is described as context and is not part of this case's harm.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"UK Upper Tribunal: immigration adviser gives Google AI Mode as his best guess for a non-existent case in grounds he drafted; he self-reported to regulators","summary":"In the first of two matters decided together in [2026] UKUT 81 (IAC), promulgated on 17 November 2025, the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) examined grounds of appeal dated 17 March 2025 that cited a non-existent Court of Appeal case under the citation of an unrelated equal-pay case. The adviser who drafted them first denied using AI, then told the tribunal his best guess was that he had inadvertently used Google's 'AI Mode', and the tribunal recorded that he had concluded it was probable the case came from inadvertent AI use; the panel itself got Google AI to produce varying benches for the fictitious case. He reported himself to the Immigration Advice Authority and the Solicitors Regulation Authority, and the tribunal said it would otherwise have referred him. He also told the tribunal that he had put client emails and uploaded Home Office decision letters into ChatGPT to summarise them, which he called a data breach he would disclose to the clients; the tribunal said such uploads breach client confidentiality and waive privilege.","incidentDate":"2025-03-17","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2025-11-17","aiSystem":"Google search 'AI Mode', identified by the adviser as his best guess for the source of the false case","aiProduct":"Google AI Mode (reported)","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["professional_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the Upper Tribunal's judgment, an immigration adviser placed a non-existent case in appeal grounds, which the tribunal found he had concluded probably came from inadvertent AI use (his best guess: Google AI Mode); he self-reported to the IAA and the SRA, and the tribunal said it would otherwise have referred him.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One counted person: the adviser, who used the AI and faced the regulatory consequence. His clients whose emails and decision letters he said he put into ChatGPT belong to a separate, undated matter described as context and are not counted. The appellant in the matter is not counted because no consequence of the false case for the appeal is stated.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"GB","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukut/iac/2026/81","primarySourceLabel":"Find Case Law, [2026] UKUT 81 (IAC), UK v SSHD (AI hallucinations; supervision; Hamid), promulgated 17 November 2025","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-11T03:13:21.379148+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-11T07:27:35.689369+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-hallucination","fabricated-citations","legal","immigration","tribunal","google-ai-mode","united-kingdom","communicated-with"]},{"id":"2025-cyprus-ai-generated-politician-videos-investment-scam-losses-consumers-association-says","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Citizens who fall victim to investment fraud through manipulated videos of politicians encouraging investments are receiving threats when they discover the deception and demand explanations, according to the Cyprus Consumers Association.'; '14 people reported their experiences with these scams in just one day'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The Cyprus Consumers Association says victims of an investment fraud promoted by manipulated videos of politicians received threats when they discovered the deception, and that 14 people reported their experiences with these scams in one day.","causal_attribution":"Statement of the association's president to CyBC as relayed by in-cyprus.com."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The deception typically begins with a request for a €250 investment, but in one case, losses exceeded €40,000. Some victims reported investing their last available funds.'; 'In one case, a €40,000 investment supposedly grew to €195,000 on paper, but the money was never recoverable.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"According to the association, the scam typically began with a €250 investment; in one case losses exceeded €40,000, and some victims reported investing their last available funds.","causal_attribution":"Association account; no victim speaks and the amounts are not independently established."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The fraudulent videos feature several prominent figures without their knowledge, including the President of the Republic, Averof Neofytou, and Haris Georgiades. Recently, a government minister was also incorporated into these schemes.'; 'The AI-generated videos show these officials appearing to recommend investments as a solution to economic difficulties.'; 'Drousiotis noted the sophisticated nature of the deepfakes, where the lip movements of politicians matched the fraudulent statements attributed to them.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"in-cyprus.com describes the videos as AI-generated, showing the President of the Republic, Averof Neofytou, Haris Georgiades and a government minister appearing to recommend investments, and reports the association president noting that the politicians' lip movements matched the fraudulent statements.","causal_attribution":"The outlet's description of the videos and the association's comment; no forensic examination is reported."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The scam operates through a sequence of social media videos, followed by phone calls.'; 'When users express interest, they receive a call from someone claiming to be a “financial advisor” who creates a personal account showing rapidly increasing profits.'; 'When victims eventually try to withdraw funds, they face excuses, delays, and eventually, no response at all.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The scam ran through social-media videos followed by calls from a supposed financial adviser who showed rapidly growing profits, after which withdrawals met excuses, delays and no response.","causal_attribution":"Association account relayed by the outlet."}],"effects":[{"label":"lost money, in one case more than €40,000, to an investment scam promoted by AI-generated videos of politicians","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://in-cyprus.philenews.com/local/cyprus-investment-scam-deepfake-politician-videos-threats/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English from an Internet Archive capture (https://web.archive.org/web/2026id_/ prefix) on 2026-10-11 because the live page returned 403. in-cyprus.com (Phileleftheros group) report of 12 May 2025 relaying the Consumers Association president's interview with CyBC; the CyBC interview itself was not read.","independence_group":"cyprus-consumers-association-cybc-interview"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["How many people lost money and the total amount; only one loss (over €40,000) is described individually.","When individual victims invested; the association had monitored the scheme since early January and spoke in May 2025.","Which AI tool produced the videos and on which platforms they circulated.","Whether police identified any perpetrator; the nature of the threats victims received.","The CyBC interview itself was not read; the account rests on one relay."],"geography":{"basis":"The association describes citizens in Cyprus who fell victim and some who reported the scams to the police; the videos depicted Cypriot politicians. No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["CY"],"affected_person_countries":["CY"]},"publication":{"basis":"One attributed account (the Cyprus Consumers Association president to CyBC, relayed by in-cyprus.com) describes people in Cyprus who lost money, one more than €40,000, after investment offers promoted by videos the outlet describes as AI-generated deepfakes of politicians. Published as a reported account with a partial count.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-11"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"in-cyprus.com, reporting the Cyprus Consumers Association president's CyBC interview, describes the videos as AI-generated deepfakes in which Cypriot politicians appear to recommend investments, with lip movements matched to the false statements, and says the scam ran through these social-media videos followed by calls from a fake adviser; people who responded lost money, one more than €40,000. The generated likenesses impersonated the politicians toward the people deceived (depicted_or_impersonated). No tool is named and no examination of the videos is reported.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Cyprus: consumers association says people misled by deepfake videos of politicians lost money in an investment scam, one case over €40,000","summary":"The Cyprus Consumers Association said in May 2025 that people in Cyprus who fell for an investment scam promoted by deepfake videos of politicians, including the President of the Republic, Averof Neofytou and Haris Georgiades, lost money: the scam typically began with a €250 investment, one person lost more than €40,000, and some victims reported investing their last available funds. The association's president told CyBC that victims who discovered the deception and demanded explanations received threats, and that 14 people reported their experiences with these scams in one day. The account comes from one interview relayed by in-cyprus.com; no individual victim speaks, no tool is named and the videos were not examined by the outlet.","incidentDate":"2025-01-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"year","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2025-05-12","aiSystem":"Videos that in-cyprus.com, reporting the Cyprus Consumers Association president's CyBC interview, describes as AI-generated deepfakes of Cypriot politicians appearing to recommend investments, with lip movements matched to the false statements; tool not identified","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The Cyprus Consumers Association says people who fell for investment offers promoted by deepfake videos of Cypriot politicians lost money, one of them more than €40,000, some their last available funds, and that victims who demanded explanations received threats.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"One person is described individually: the case in which losses exceeded €40,000. 'Some victims' who invested their last funds and victims who received threats are unquantified plurals. The 14 people who reported their experiences in one day are reports, not established losses, and the depicted politicians are not counted. Partial, minimum 1.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"CY","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://in-cyprus.philenews.com/local/cyprus-investment-scam-deepfake-politician-videos-threats/","primarySourceLabel":"in-cyprus.com, 12 May 2025: Cyprus investment scam victims face threats after falling for deepfake politician videos","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-11T03:10:56.203213+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-11T03:10:56.203213+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","fake-politician-advertisement","investment-fraud","fraud","cyprus","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2025-wakayama-japan-ai-photo-check-called-poisonous-mushroom-edible-man-hospitalised","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'和歌山市生活保健課によると、同市在住の70代男性は11月3日、奈良県下北山村の山中でヒラタケ'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'2025年11月、70代男性が奈良県下北山村の山中で「ヒラタケ」や「シイタケ」に似たキノコを採取'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A man in his 70s living in Wakayama city gathered wild mushrooms resembling hiratake and shiitake in the mountains of Shimokitayama village, Nara prefecture, on 3 November 2025, according to the city’s public-health division.","causal_attribution":"Wakayama city public-health division as reported by MBS and relayed by HuffPost Japan; one origin."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'この翌日、そのキノコを電子端末で撮影してAI判定を行ったところ、AIが「シイタケかヒラタケで食べられる」という旨の回答をしました'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'被害男性が毒キノコを食べてしまった背景には、AI判定がありました'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'翌4日、食べられるかどうかを植物園などに確認しようとしましたが、連絡がつながらなかったため、採取したキノコを自らの電子端末で撮影し、AI判定を行ったところ、AIは“シイタケかヒラタケで食べられる”という旨を回答しました。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"On 4 November 2025 he tried to ask a botanical garden and others whether the mushrooms were edible but could not reach anyone, so he photographed one with his own electronic device and ran an AI identification, which answered to the effect that it was shiitake or hiratake and edible.","causal_attribution":"The city’s account as reported by MBS (full article read) and summarised by HuffPost Japan; one origin. The tool is not identified and the exchange is not reproduced."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'実際は有毒の「ツキヨタケ」であったため、喫食約30分で嘔吐の症状が出て、男性は一時入院したといいます'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'和歌山市の70代男性が嘔吐の症状で一時入院'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'それを受け、男性はキノコを焼いて食べましたが、約30分後から嘔吐の症状が出て一時入院しました。現在は快復しています。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'県立自然博物館や同市の衛生研究所が残品を調べたところ、キノコは毒キノコである「ツキヨタケ」と判明しました。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"In response to the AI’s answer he grilled and ate the mushroom; about 30 minutes later he began vomiting and was briefly hospitalised, and he has since recovered. The prefectural natural history museum and the city’s public-health research institute examined the leftovers and identified them as the poisonous tsukiyotake.","causal_attribution":"City account as reported by MBS and relayed by HuffPost Japan. MBS links the eating to the AI answer ('それを受け', in response to that); the species identification is the museum's and institute's examination as reported. No first-person statement or medical record was inspected."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'農林水産省は9月4日、SNSを通じて注意を呼びかけました。キノコは「専門家でも見分けが難しい場合がある」として、「検索結果やAIの回答で食用かどうかを判断するのは大変危険です」と警鐘を鳴らしています'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Japan’s agriculture ministry warned on 4 September 2026 that deciding whether a mushroom is edible from search results or AI answers is very dangerous.","causal_attribution":"HuffPost Japan’s report of the ministry’s social-media warning; the ministry post itself was not inspected."}],"effects":[{"label":"poisoning and brief hospitalisation after an AI identification called a poisonous mushroom edible","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.huffingtonpost.jp/entry/story_jp_6aa0c9c1e4b0307636055289","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ja","translation_note":"Read in Japanese and translated into English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-08 (HTTP 200); no human translator or reviewer. HuffPost Japan editorial piece of 9 September 2026 that summarises the MBS report of the Wakayama case and the agriculture ministry’s warning.","independence_group":"mbs-wakayama-city-health-division"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/-/2303290","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ja","translation_note":"Read in Japanese and translated into English by the research agent (an AI); no human translator or reviewer. On 2026-10-08 only the headline and opening paragraph were readable behind a read-more control. On 2026-10-11 the full article body was read from the same article's ?display=1 page (https://newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/-/2303290?display=1, HTTP 200). MBS report attributed to Wakayama city’s public-health division; same origin as s1.","independence_group":"mbs-wakayama-city-health-division"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["health","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool or app produced the identification, and the exact wording of its answer.","How long the man was in hospital.","Whether the AI identification was the only basis for his decision to eat the mushroom."],"geography":{"basis":"The mushrooms were gathered in Shimokitayama village, Nara prefecture, and the case was handled and announced by Wakayama city, where the man lives; both are in Japan. No court is involved.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["JP"],"affected_person_countries":["JP"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case on one official origin carried by two outlets: Wakayama city’s public-health division, through an MBS report summarised by HuffPost Japan, says a man in his 70s ran an AI identification of a photographed wild mushroom, was told it was edible, ate the poisonous tsukiyotake and was briefly hospitalised with vomiting; MBS reports he has since recovered. The AI’s answer to the man is described and connected to the harm. Every claim is attributed to the city’s account; the tool and the exchange are recorded as unknown.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-11"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"MBS’s report of Wakayama city’s public-health division, read in full and summarised by HuffPost Japan, says the man photographed the gathered mushroom with his own electronic device and ran an AI identification after failing to reach a botanical garden, that the AI answered to the effect that it was shiitake or hiratake and edible, and that in response he grilled and ate it and was poisoned by tsukiyotake. The AI’s answer to the man is the described contribution (communicated_with), and the account connects that answer to his eating the mushroom. The tool is not identified and the exchange is not reproduced.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Wakayama, Japan: city health officials say a man in his 70s was hospitalised after an AI photo check told him a poisonous wild mushroom was edible (MBS report)","summary":"According to Wakayama city’s public-health division, as reported by MBS (Mainichi Broadcasting) on 21 November 2025 and relayed by HuffPost Japan on 9 September 2026, a man in his 70s living in Wakayama city gathered wild mushrooms resembling hiratake (oyster mushroom) and shiitake in the mountains of Shimokitayama village, Nara prefecture, on 3 November 2025. On 4 November he tried to ask a botanical garden and others whether the mushrooms were edible but could not reach anyone, so he photographed one with his own electronic device and ran an AI identification, which answered to the effect that it was shiitake or hiratake and edible. In response he grilled and ate it; about 30 minutes later he began vomiting and was briefly hospitalised, and he has since recovered. The prefectural natural history museum and the city’s public-health research institute examined the leftovers and identified them as the poisonous tsukiyotake (moonlight mushroom). The city warned that judging wild mushrooms by AI or by picture books alone is dangerous. HuffPost Japan reports that Japan’s agriculture ministry issued a warning on 4 September 2026 against deciding edibility from search results or AI answers. The AI tool is not identified in the reports and the man’s exact exchange with it is not reproduced.","incidentDate":"2025-11-04","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2025-11-21","aiSystem":"AI image identification run on an electronic device, according to Wakayama city’s public-health division as reported by MBS, which answered that a photographed wild mushroom was shiitake or hiratake and edible (tool not identified)","aiProduct":"Unidentified mushroom-identification tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["hospitalization","medical_deterioration"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to Wakayama city’s public-health division as reported by MBS and relayed by HuffPost Japan, a man in his 70s ate a poisonous tsukiyotake mushroom after an AI identification of his photograph answered that it was edible shiitake or hiratake; he began vomiting about 30 minutes later and was briefly hospitalised, and MBS reports that he has since recovered.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the man in his 70s who ran the AI check and ate the mushroom (own use). No other person is reported poisoned.","victimAgeRange":"elderly","jurisdiction":"JP","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.huffingtonpost.jp/entry/story_jp_6aa0c9c1e4b0307636055289","primarySourceLabel":"HuffPost Japan, 9 September 2026: Do not take that Google Lens result at face value; AI answers have led to poisoning, one case critical, ministry warns","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-08T03:19:56.351111+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-11T07:43:32.844334+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["mushroom-identification","image-recognition","poisoning","hospitalisation","foraging","japan","wakayama","communicated-with"]},{"id":"2025-pont-a-mousson-ai-generated-macron-arnault-investment-ad-pensioner-savings-loss","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'initiés à partir de publications sur les réseaux sociaux utilisant des avatars de personnalités publiques générés par IA, comme Macron ou Arnault'; 'Des avatars de ces personnalités, générés par intelligence artificielle (IA), fleurissent sur les réseaux sociaux, et proposent des placements financiers juteux mais faux'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'L’affaire remonte à l’été 2025. Une publicité sur Internet promet des placements avantageux, mettant en scène le président de la République Emmanuel Macron et le milliardaire Bernard Arnault'; 'la publicité était en réalité un « deepfake », c’est-à-dire une fausse vidéo générée à l’aide de l’intelligence artificielle utilisant l’avatar de personnes existantes'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'la femme s’est fait duper par une publicité réalisée à l’aide de l’intelligence artificielle dans laquelle Emmanuel Macron et Bernard Arnault conseillent de réaliser des placements avantageux'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"A retired woman in her eighties living in Pont-à-Mousson saw an online advertisement in which likenesses of Emmanuel Macron and Bernard Arnault, described as AI-generated avatars by the regional press reporting the Pont-à-Mousson police station's warning, promoted a lucrative investment platform; Le Parisien places this in summer 2025.","causal_attribution":"Account of the Pont-à-Mousson police station as relayed by L'Est Républicain and, via ICI and L'Est Républicain, by Le Parisien and Capital; one reporting chain. The AI description is the outlets' own wording in reporting that warning; no quoted police statement mentions AI."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Après avoir donné son nom et son numéro, un faux conseiller bancaire la contacte. Il lui explique alors ce qu’elle peut gagner. L’escroc demande qu’elle installe un logiciel sur son ordinateur.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'L’homme, très convaincant, lui propose de placer 5 000 euros pour commencer. Plusieurs semaines après, la promesse est tenue et l’octogénaire reçoit plusieurs centaines d’euros « d’intérêts »'; 'La retraitée accepte et verse à nouveau 5 000 euros'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"She gave her name and telephone number through the advertisement's form, was contacted by a fake financial adviser, was asked to install software on her computer, invested 5,000 euros, received several hundred euros presented as interest, and reinvested repeatedly.","causal_attribution":"Police-station account via the same reporting chain."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'une habitante de Pont-à-Mousson s’est fait escroquer 10 000 € après des placements frauduleux'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'10 000 euros. C’est la somme qu’a perdue une retraitée, résidant à Pont-à-Mousson en Meurthe-et-Moselle, après avoir subi une escroquerie pendant l’été 2025'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'Les escrocs lui ont ainsi dérobé 10 000 euros, en deux retraits successifs de 5 000 euros chacun'","relation":"context","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"She lost at least 10,000 euros: L'Est Républicain and Capital report 10,000 euros, and Marie France (citing CNews) reports 10,000 euros taken in two withdrawals of 5,000 euros.","causal_attribution":"Police-station account via one reporting chain; the amount is not independently established."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Une retraitée a été arnaquée de 25 000 euros, à Pont-à-Mousson (Meurthe-et-Moselle)'; 'Entre juin et juillet 2025, l’octogénaire réitère l’opération plusieurs fois et finit par placer toutes ses économies, soit 25 000 euros'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'s’est fait escroquer 10 000 € après des placements frauduleux'","relation":"contradicts","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'elle décide alors d’investir toutes ses économies'","relation":"context","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Le Parisien, citing ICI and L'Est Républicain, reports a total loss of 25,000 euros, all her savings, placed in several instalments between June and July 2025.","causal_attribution":"Le Parisien's figure differs from the 10,000 euros of L'Est Républicain, Capital and Marie France; which figure the police gave, or whether the larger one includes later instalments, is not established."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'l’annonce publicitaire, ainsi que le site frauduleux, ont disparu'; 'Une enquête a été ouverte pour tenter d’identifier le ou les auteurs de cette arnaque'; '« Pour ce genre d’arnaque, nous enregistrons entre trois et cinq plaintes par semaine »'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Le commissariat de Pont-à-Mousson alerte : les escroqueries aux faux conseillers bancaires se multiplient'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The advertisement and the fraudulent site then disappeared; an investigation was opened, and the Pont-à-Mousson police station publicly warned that it records three to five complaints a week for this kind of fraud.","causal_attribution":"Statements of the Pont-à-Mousson police station to the regional press."}],"effects":[{"label":"lost her savings to a fraudulent investment platform promoted by an advertisement using AI-generated likenesses of Macron and Arnault","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.estrepublicain.fr/faits-divers-justice/2026/06/07/escroquee-par-un-faux-macron-genere-par-ia-elle-perd-10-000-dans-des-placements-frauduleux","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in French and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-07 (HTTP 200); no human translator or reviewer read the article. L'Est Républicain (Groupe EBRA) regional report of 7 June 2026 based on the Pont-à-Mousson police station's warning.","independence_group":"est-republicain-ici-pont-a-mousson-police"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/une-retraitee-perd-25-000-euros-apres-avoir-ete-piegee-par-une-fausse-publicite-demmanuel-macron-generee-par-ia-15-06-2026-EXVJWQKNJ5DTTKETUIJO4AABPQ.php","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in French and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-07 (HTTP 200); no human translator or reviewer read the article. Le Parisien, 15 June 2026, explicitly based on ICI (France Bleu) and L'Est Républicain; same reporting chain as s1.","independence_group":"est-republicain-ici-pont-a-mousson-police"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.capital.fr/economie-politique/une-retraitee-perd-10-000-euros-a-cause-d-une-fausse-publicite-generee-par-ia-comment-eviter-ce-piege-1527640","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in French and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-07 (HTTP 200); no human translator or reviewer read the article. Capital, 15 June 2026, explicitly based on L'Est Républicain and ICI; same reporting chain as s1.","independence_group":"est-republicain-ici-pont-a-mousson-police"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.mariefrance.fr/news-people/apres-brad-pitt-faux-emmanuel-macron-vole-milliers-euros-internaute-tombee-panneau-1277321.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in French and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-07 (HTTP 200); no human translator or reviewer read the article. Marie France, 10 June 2026, relaying a CNews article; the CNews item was not located. Same police-station account; kept as context for the relay and its differing description of the withdrawals.","independence_group":"est-republicain-ici-pont-a-mousson-police"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool produced the advertisement, whether it was a video or still images, and where it was served (the outlets say 'social networks' and 'Internet').","The total loss: 10,000 euros (L'Est Républicain, Capital, Marie France) or 25,000 euros (Le Parisien); whether the woman recovered any money.","Exact dates: Le Parisien places the payments between June and July 2025, while L'Est Républicain of 7 June 2026 says she was defrauded 'this week', which may refer to the complaint; recorded as June 2025 at month precision.","Whether anyone has been identified or charged; the state of the investigation after June 2026.","The CNews article relayed by Marie France was not located; the ICI (France Bleu) report cited by Le Parisien and Capital was not read."],"geography":{"basis":"The woman lives in Pont-à-Mousson (Meurthe-et-Moselle) and the complaint was handled by the Pont-à-Mousson police station, which described the case; the advertisement was seen online from there. No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["FR"],"affected_person_countries":["FR"]},"publication":{"basis":"Single reporting chain (Pont-à-Mousson police station via L'Est Républicain, ICI, Le Parisien, Capital, CNews/Marie France) describing a concrete loss by one identifiable but unnamed pensioner after an advertisement that the regional press, reporting the police station's warning, describe as AI-generated likenesses of two public figures; the AI impersonation is the reported entry point to the fraud. Published as a reported account with the amount discrepancy preserved.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-07"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"L'Est Républicain, reporting the Pont-à-Mousson police station's warning, says the fraud was initiated from social-media publications using avatars of public figures generated by artificial intelligence, such as Macron or Arnault; Le Parisien, citing ICI and L'Est Républicain, describes the advertisement as a deepfake, a fake video generated with AI using the avatars of real people, showing Macron and Arnault praising an investment platform. The generated likenesses impersonated those two men toward the woman (depicted_or_impersonated) and are what led her to fill in the form through which the fraudsters obtained her contact details and money. No outlet examined the advertisement, no tool is named, and no forensic finding is reported.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Pont-à-Mousson pensioner lost her savings to a fraudulent investment platform promoted by an ad reported as AI-generated likenesses of Macron and Arnault","summary":"A retired woman in her eighties living in Pont-à-Mousson (Meurthe-et-Moselle, France) responded, in summer 2025 according to Le Parisien and Capital, to an online advertisement in which AI-generated likenesses of Emmanuel Macron and Bernard Arnault promoted a lucrative investment platform. A supposed financial adviser then called her, she invested 5,000 euros, received several hundred euros of 'interest', and reinvested repeatedly until the advertisement and the site disappeared. L'Est Républicain (7 June 2026) and Capital put the loss at 10,000 euros; Le Parisien, citing ICI and L'Est Républicain, reports 25,000 euros, all her savings. The Pont-à-Mousson police station says an investigation was opened and that it receives three to five complaints a week for this kind of fraud. The account rests on the police station's warning as reported by the regional press, which describes the advertisement as AI-generated; the advertisement itself was not examined by the outlets and the quoted police statements do not mention AI.","incidentDate":"2025-06-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-06-07","aiSystem":"An online advertisement in which likenesses of Emmanuel Macron and Bernard Arnault, described by the regional press, reporting the Pont-à-Mousson police station's warning, as avatars generated with artificial intelligence (a 'deepfake' video, per Le Parisien), promoted a fraudulent investment platform; tool not identified","aiProduct":"Unidentified image and video tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A pensioner in Pont-à-Mousson lost at least 10,000 euros (25,000 euros, all her savings, per Le Parisien) to a fraudulent investment platform promoted by an advertisement that the regional press, reporting the police, describe as AI-generated likenesses of Emmanuel Macron and Bernard Arnault.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the pensioner described by the Pont-à-Mousson police station (L'Est Républicain, Le Parisien, Capital). The second complainant in L'Est Républicain lost money to a different fake-adviser fraud without any AI element and is not counted. The 'three to five complaints a week' figure is a general police statement about the fraud type and is not counted. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"elderly","jurisdiction":"FR","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.estrepublicain.fr/faits-divers-justice/2026/06/07/escroquee-par-un-faux-macron-genere-par-ia-elle-perd-10-000-dans-des-placements-frauduleux","primarySourceLabel":"L'Est Républicain, 7 June 2026: Escroquée par un faux Emmanuel Macron généré par IA, elle perd 10 000 € dans des placements frauduleux","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-07T03:30:06.294009+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-11T07:44:15.692384+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","fake-celebrity-advertisement","investment-fraud","fraud","elderly","france","pont-a-mousson","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2026-character-ai-addiction-failed-subjects-relapse-during-depression-recovery-first-person","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'coming out of a Character Ai addiction that ruined my entire 2025, causing me to fail important subjects and several other things'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says they are coming out of a Character.AI addiction that ruined their entire 2025 and caused them to fail important subjects and several other things.","causal_attribution":"Poster's attribution of the failed subjects to the addiction; not independently established."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'This year, I’ve started to get back on track little by little; there have been some relapses, but I’m making progress'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says that during 2026 they have started to get back on track little by little, with some relapses.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'I recently came out of a really bad depressive episode'; 'and create a new C.AI account'; 'I spent two and a half hours on it today'; 'for someone in recovery like me, it is) before finally deleting the account'; 'saying that I never want to do anything and that I spend all my time in bed'; 'that immediately made me want to stay in bed'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says that after a recent bad depressive episode, a parent's remark made them want to create a new Character.AI account, and that they spent two and a half hours on it that day before deleting the account.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account; the depressive episode is not attributed to Character.AI."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'My therapist is going to talk to my parents about my depressive episode on Saturday'; 'exercising, studying for exams and retakes'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says they are exercising and studying for exams and retakes, and that their therapist will talk to their parents about the depressive episode on Saturday.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account."}],"effects":[{"label":"failed important subjects in 2025, which the poster attributes to a Character.AI addiction","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"relapse of two and a half hours on a new Character.AI account during recovery from a depressive episode","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/depression/comments/1wvd74l/parents_reigniting_depression_who_would_have/","kind":"forum_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-02: full self-text retrieved through the arctic_shift archive API by post ID; the thread had no comments at retrieval. The poster handle is not recorded.","independence_group":"reddit-cai-addiction-depression-poster"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["education","health","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["When the poster's Character.AI use began and what they used the characters for.","Which subjects were failed and at what level of education.","The poster's age and country.","The local date of the relapse: the post says 'today' and was published at 22:26 UTC on 1 October 2026, which is 1 or 2 October depending on the poster's time zone."],"geography":{"basis":"The post does not say where the poster lives. Language and subreddit are not used to infer a country. 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 an ongoing adverse experience: a self-described Character.AI addiction with failed subjects and a relapse during recovery, described with attribution and without corroboration. No handle is recorded and no identifying detail is used.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-02"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The poster names Character.AI (\"Character Ai\", \"C.AI\") as the app they were addicted to and the app on which they created a new account and spent two and a half hours. No screenshots or conversation content were published, and the characters used are not described.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"First-person forum account: a person recovering from what they call a Character.AI addiction says it ruined their 2025 and caused them to fail important subjects, and describes relapsing for two and a half hours on a new account after a depressive episode","summary":"In a public post to r/depression at 22:26 UTC on 1 October 2026, a person says they are coming out of a Character.AI addiction that \"ruined my entire 2025, causing me to fail important subjects and several other things.\" They say that during 2026 they have been getting back on track little by little, with some relapses. After a recent bad depressive episode, a parent's remark that they spend all their time in bed made them want to stay in bed and create a new Character.AI account. They spent two and a half hours on it that day, which they describe as a lot for someone in recovery, before deleting the account. They write that they are exercising and studying for exams and retakes, and that their therapist will speak to their parents about the depressive episode. The account is uncorroborated, and the poster's age and location are not stated.","incidentDate":"2025-01-01","incidentEndDate":"2026-10-02","incidentKind":"ongoing_experience","incidentDatePrecision":"year","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-10-01","aiSystem":"Character.AI (character chatbot app), which the poster calls \"Character Ai\" and \"C.AI\"; the characters used are not named","aiProduct":"Character.AI","aiCompany":"Character Technologies, Inc.","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["educational_harm","functional_impairment"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The poster says a Character.AI addiction ruined their 2025 and caused them to fail important subjects, and that during recovery from a depressive episode they relapsed for two and a half hours on a new account before deleting it (first-person account, uncorroborated).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the poster, who reports failing subjects and the relapse. The parents and the therapist report no harm of their own. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"unknown","platformType":"companion","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.reddit.com/r/depression/comments/1wvd74l/parents_reigniting_depression_who_would_have/","primarySourceLabel":"r/depression, 1 October 2026: \"Parents reigniting depression? Who would have thought…\"","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-02T03:17:27.360789+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-02T03:17:27.360789+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["first-person","reddit","character-ai","dependency","addiction","relapse","education","depression","communicated-with"]},{"id":"2025-jakarta-jusuf-hamka-ai-deepfake-detainee-videos-tiktok-trial","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'narasi fitnah yang dibuat dengan menggunakan Artificial Inteligen (AI) di media sosial TikTok'; 'sedang menggunakan pakaian tahanan dan dikaitkan dengan tuduhan korupsi, suap, dan gratifikasi'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'pelaku memakai teknologi Artificial Intelligence (AI) untuk melakukan manipulasi visual wajah Jusuf Hamka dan putrinya'; 'menyebarkannya melalui akun TikTok'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Menyebarkan narasi suap konsesi Tol Cawang-Pluit senilai lebih dari Rp1 triliun'; 'Memasang poster rekayasa yang mencalonkan Jusuf Hamka sebagai presiden 2029'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'seolah memakai baju tahanan kejaksaan karena dituduh melakukan suap, gratifikasi untuk konsesi tol Cawang-Pluit'; 'pelaku mengedit foto'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s9"}],"assertion":"Videos on TikTok showed Jusuf Hamka and his daughter as if wearing detainee uniforms, tied to narratives of corruption, bribery and gratification that his lawyers call false over the Cawang-Pluit toll concession; his lawyers say the faces were composited with AI into staged scenes (VIVA) and that photos were edited to show them in prosecutors' detainee clothing (ANTARA, 4 December 2025), and other content included a 'toll mafia' label and a fabricated 2029 presidential poster.","causal_attribution":"Hamka's lawyers and the prosecution case as reported; the videos were not inspected."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Laporan ini teregister di Polda Metro dengan nomor STTLP/B/7474/X/2025/SPKT/Polda Metro Jaya tertanggal 18 Oktober 2025'; 'Pada 24 November 2025, penyidik secara resmi meningkatkan status perkara ke tahap penyidikan usai ditemukan bukti'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'ditangkap penyidik Unit 2 Subdit 2 Direktorat Siber Polda Metro Jaya pada Kamis (27/11) usai dilaporkan pada 18 Oktober 2025'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'pada 27 November 2025, penyidik Unit 2 Subdit 2 Direktorat Siber Polda Metro Jaya menangkap salah seorang pemilik akun Tiktok'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Hamka reported the content to Polda Metro Jaya on 18 October 2025; the case was raised to investigation on 24 November and the suspected maker and spreader was arrested by the cyber directorate on 27 November 2025.","causal_attribution":"Reported through Hamka's lawyers; VIVA's second page quotes the cyber directorate's deputy director confirming one arrest, without a date."},{"id":"c3","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'menghadiri sidang dakwaan dugaan hoaks dan manipulasi informasi elektronik konten deepfake di Pengadilan Negeri (PN) Jakarta Pusat pada Selasa (15/9/2026)'; 'kubu terdakwa melalui kuasa hukumnya mengaku bakal menempuh upaya eksepsi'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'didakwa melanggar Pasal 35 juncto Pasal 51 ayat (1) UU ITE dengan ancaman hukuman maksimal 12 tahun penjara'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"The trial opened at the Central Jakarta District Court on 15 September 2026 with the reading of an indictment under Article 35 jo 51(1) of the ITE Law (maximum 12 years); the defence said it would file an exception.","causal_attribution":"Court reporting by tvOneNews and Poskota, with different content from the same hearing."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'narasi yang termuat dalam konten tersebut dinilainya tidak benar dan berpotensi merusak reputasinya'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'penyebaran ini menimbulkan dampak psikologis, reputasional, serta kerugian moril'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Hamka said the content disturbed him, that its narratives were untrue and could damage his reputation, and that the campaign was systematic; his lawyer said the spread caused psychological, reputational and moral harm.","causal_attribution":"Hamka's own statements and his lawyer's; no independent assessment of harm."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'terdakwa mengaku mendapat imbalan sebesar Rp500.000 untuk setiap konten yang dibuat atas perintah pihak tertentu'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'kan dia dikasih duit Rp500.000 setiap konten'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'pernyataan mengenai pembayaran tersebut merupakan klaim Jusuf yang masih menjadi bagian dari perkara'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"Hamka and his lawyers say the defendant admitted during the police investigation that he made the content on others' orders for Rp500,000 per item; tvOneNews notes this payment is Hamka's claim within a contested case.","causal_attribution":"Claim of the complainant's side; the alleged admission was not inspected."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Tidak ada ruang untuk restorative justice kecuali dia mau bicara dengan tegas di pengadilan, siapa yang menyuruh melakukan tindak pidana ini dan juga yang membayar'; 'surat dakwaan jaksa dinilai tidak cermat dan belum menjelaskan secara jelas perbuatan pidana yang didakwakan kepada kliennya'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"},{"locator":"'majelis hakim sempat menanyakan kemungkinan penyelesaian perkara melalui mekanisme restorative justice'; 'membantah argumentasi yang disampaikan pihak Jusuf Hamka'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s8"},{"locator":"'secara tegas menutup pintu penyelesaian secara restorative justice (RJ)'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"}],"assertion":"At the 29 September 2026 hearing the judges asked about restorative justice; Hamka's lawyer said there was no room for it unless the defendant named who ordered and paid; the defendant's lawyer said the content related to his anti-corruption committee role and that the indictment was unclear.","causal_attribution":"Three outlets' reports of the same hearing; tvOneNews and TVRI follow one shared text."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'dinyatakan lengkap atau P21'; 'penyidik menyerahkan tersangka beserta barang bukti kepada penuntut umum pada Kejaksaan Negeri Jakarta Pusat'; 'Pasal 433 Ayat 2 Undang-Undang Nomor 1 Tahun 2023 tentang KUHP juncto Pasal 441 Ayat 1'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Hamka's lawyer said the case file had been declared complete (P21) and the suspect and evidence handed to Central Jakarta prosecutors, under alternative counts including Article 32(1) jo 48(1) ITE and Articles 433(2) jo 441(1) of the 2023 Criminal Code (reported 12 August 2026).","causal_attribution":"The lawyer's statement via Akurat; the P21 date is not given."}],"effects":[{"label":"AI-manipulated videos depicting him and his daughter as detainees with corruption allegations he denies spread on TikTok","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.antaranews.com/berita/5285803/kuasa-hukum-sebut-konten-hoaks-jusuf-hamka-diduga-dibuat-terorganisir","kind":"wire_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Read live in Indonesian on 2026-09-30 (ANTARA, 3 December 2025): the lawyers' statement, the arrest date and the police report number. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"hamka-legal-team-statements"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.viva.co.id/berita/nasional/1865501-geger-jusuf-hamka-difitnah-pakai-baju-tahanan-pelaku-deepfake-diciduk-polisi","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Read live in Indonesian on 2026-09-30 (VIVA, 3 December 2025, pages 1 and 2; page 2 saved by the verifier as bodies/verify-v3-viva-p2.txt): lawyer Mohammad Anwar on the AI manipulation, the report, the investigation stage and the arrest; page 2 carries Anwar's full statement and quotes the Polda Metro Jaya cyber directorate's deputy director confirming one arrest. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"hamka-legal-team-statements"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.akurat.co/hukum/881600/kasus-deepfake-jusuf-hamka-dinyatakan-lengkap-tersangka-dan-barang-bukti-dilimpahkan-ke-jaksa","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Read live in Indonesian on 2026-09-30 (Akurat.co, 12 August 2026): P21, handover to Central Jakarta prosecutors and the counts, per lawyer Sogi Bagaskara. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"hamka-legal-team-statements"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.tvonenews.com/berita/467280-sidang-dakwaan-konten-hoaks-jusuf-hamka-buka-peluang-jalur-damai","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Read live in Indonesian on 2026-09-30 (tvOneNews, 15 September 2026): indictment hearing, Hamka's remarks to reporters. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"tvonenews-court-reporting"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.poskota.co.id/2026/09/15/jusuf-hamka-hadiri-sidang-kasus-deepfake-ai-desak-polisi-bongkar-aktor-intelektual","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Read live in Indonesian on 2026-09-30 (Poskota, 15 September 2026): the counts, the listed content and the lawyer's account of the police admission. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"poskota-court-reporting"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://www.tvonenews.com/berita/470241-sidang-lanjutan-konten-hoaks-kubu-jusuf-hamka-tolak-permintaan-restorative-justice","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Read live in Indonesian on 2026-09-30 (tvOneNews, 29 September 2026): the restorative-justice question, both sides' lawyers. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"hearing-2026-09-29-shared-text"},{"id":"s7","url":"https://www.poskota.co.id/2026/09/29/tolak-restorative-justice-jusuf-hamka-desak-pembuat-deepfake-buka-identitas-aktor-intelektual","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Read live in Indonesian on 2026-09-30 (Poskota, 29 September 2026): refusal of restorative justice. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"poskota-court-reporting"},{"id":"s8","url":"https://hukum.tvrinews.com/berita/tk6hpbu-tolak-restorative-justice-jusuf-hamka-minta-terdakwa-ungkap-pihak-yang-membiayai-konten","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Read live in Indonesian on 2026-09-30 (TVRI News, 29 September 2026): the hearing and the next stage. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"hearing-2026-09-29-shared-text"},{"id":"s9","url":"https://www.antaranews.com/berita/5286403/kuasa-hukum-harap-polisi-ungkap-otak-penyebar-hoaks-jusuf-hamka","kind":"wire_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Read live in Indonesian on 2026-09-30 (ANTARA, 4 December 2025): lawyers Anwar and Sogi on the edited photos, the Cawang-Pluit concession narrative and the suspected orderers (initials omitted). Researcher translation.","independence_group":"hamka-legal-team-statements"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice","work"],"unknowns":["When the videos were first posted and how far they spread.","Which tool made them.","Whether anyone besides the defendant has been identified as ordering or paying for the content.","The verdict."],"geography":{"basis":"The report, investigation and arrest were by Polda Metro Jaya (Jakarta) and the trial is at the Central Jakarta District Court (ANTARA; VIVA; tvOneNews); Hamka is an Indonesian businessman appearing at that court. Where the videos were made is not stated beyond the Jakarta police jurisdiction.","court_countries":["ID"],"event_countries":["ID"],"affected_person_countries":["ID"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a core case (AI-manipulated videos depicting a named public figure and his daughter as detainees with corruption allegations he denies, now the subject of a criminal trial). The AI description rests on the complainant's lawyers and the prosecution case as reported; court events are reported by several outlets. Hamka and his daughter are public figures; the defendant is not named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-30"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Hamka's lawyers say the maker used AI to manipulate his and his daughter's faces into staged scenes showing them in detainee uniforms (VIVA; ANTARA), and the prosecution's case as reported at trial describes AI-engineered videos and false narratives made in bulk (Poskota). The videos were not inspected and no tool is named; the defence disputes the case but is not reported to dispute that the content was AI-made.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Jakarta: AI-manipulated TikTok videos showed toll-road businessman Jusuf Hamka and his daughter in detainee uniforms with bribery and corruption narratives that Hamka denies; a TikTok account holder was arrested in November 2025 and is on trial at the Central Jakarta District Court, where Hamka's side refused restorative justice on 29 September 2026","summary":"Indonesian businessman Mohamad Jusuf Hamka reported to Jakarta police on 18 October 2025 that videos circulating on TikTok showed him and his daughter as if wearing prosecutors' detainee uniforms, tied to narratives of corruption, bribery and gratification over the Cawang-Pluit toll concession, which he denies and his lawyers call false; his lawyers say the faces were composited into staged scenes with AI, and that other content called him a 'toll mafia' and posted a fabricated poster of him running for president in 2029. Polda Metro Jaya's cyber directorate arrested the holder of the TikTok accounts on 27 November 2025; Hamka and his lawyers say the defendant admitted to police that he made the content on others' instructions for Rp500,000 per item; tvOneNews and TVRI note this is Hamka's side's claim within the contested case, and Poskota reports it is being examined at trial. The case file was reported complete (P21) on 12 August 2026 and the trial opened at the Central Jakarta District Court on 15 September 2026 under the Electronic Information and Transactions Law (Article 35 jo 51(1), maximum 12 years) and alternative counts. Hamka told reporters the content disturbed him and could damage his reputation and that the campaign was systematic. At the 29 September 2026 hearing the judges asked about restorative justice; Hamka's lawyer said there was no room for it unless the defendant named who ordered and paid for the content. The defendant's lawyer said the content related to his work as secretary-general of an anti-corruption committee and that the indictment was unclear.","incidentDate":"2025-01-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"year","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2025-12-03","aiSystem":"AI-manipulated ('deepfake') videos and edited photos compositing the faces of Jusuf Hamka and his daughter into scenes showing them in detainee uniforms, posted on TikTok (per his lawyers; tool not identified)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image and video tool","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["reputational_harm","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Jusuf Hamka says AI-manipulated videos depicting him and his daughter as detainees with corruption allegations he denies spread on TikTok, disturbed him and threatened his reputation; his lawyers describe psychological, reputational and moral harm (tvOneNews; VIVA; ANTARA).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Two depicted people: Jusuf Hamka and his daughter (ANTARA; VIVA; Poskota). Exact 2.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"ID","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.antaranews.com/berita/5285803/kuasa-hukum-sebut-konten-hoaks-jusuf-hamka-diduga-dibuat-terorganisir","primarySourceLabel":"ANTARA News, 3 December 2025: Kuasa hukum sebut konten hoaks Jusuf Hamka diduga dibuat terorganisir","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-30T04:13:45.955729+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T04:13:45.955729+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfakes","ai-generated-video","tiktok","defamation","disinformation","criminal-trial","uu-ite","indonesia","jakarta","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2026-cileungsi-bogor-students-ai-deepfake-pornography","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Ratusan pelajar di Cileungsi, Kabupaten Bogor, diedit pakai AI dan dijadikan konten pornografi. Kasus itu kini diselidiki kepolisian.'; 'Sejauh ini yang di kami baru lapor tiga orang, tapi satu laporan, kita masih dalami kasus tersebut termasuk si pembuat kontennya siapa'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Polres Bogor is investigating a report that pupils in Cileungsi had their faces edited with AI into pornographic content; three pupils have reported in one police report, and police are still identifying the maker and the program used.","causal_attribution":"Police statement; the police attribute nothing yet to a named person."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'ratusan pelajar sekolah swasta di Cileungsi Bogor menjadi korban deepfake AI dimana wajah mereka dimanipulasi dan diubah menjadi konten tidak senonoh'; 'pelaku mencuri foto korban dari akun media sosial masing-masing pelajar'; 'ada beberapa website yang sudah pernah diunggah seperti website judol dan lain-lain'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'kasus bermula setelah korban mendapat informasi dari temannya bahwa ada seseorang yang diduga membuat konten menggunakan wajahnya melalui teknologi AI'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"According to the witnesses' lawyer, hundreds of pupils of a private school in Cileungsi had photographs taken from their social-media accounts manipulated into nude photographs and pornographic videos, some uploaded to websites including an online-gambling site.","causal_attribution":"Lawyer's account of the scale; police confirm only the three complainants and the AI-edited content."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Kepolisian sudah mengantongi dua nama yang dilaporkan sebagai pelaku'; 'sebagai inisiator dan pembuat konten'; 'pelaku mengakui saat ditanya'; 'menemukan adanya ribuan foto serta video yang diduga hasil manipulasi AI di smartphone milik terduga pelaku'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Two former pupils have been reported as suspects, in the roles of initiator and content maker, and are said by the lawyer to have admitted the acts to witnesses; police reportedly found thousands of suspected AI-manipulated photos and videos on a suspect's phone.","causal_attribution":"Allegations relayed by the victims' lawyer; no charge announced."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Meski baru dilaporkan pada 19 Mei 2026, kasus ini diduga sudah berlangsung semenjak 2025 lalu, bahkan saat semua pihak (termasuk pelaku) masih berstatus pelajar'; 'terduga pelaku disebut telah lulus dari sekolah, beberapa korban masih berstatus pelajar dan beberapa lainnya sudah berstatus mahasiswa'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The case was reported to police on 19 May 2026 and is believed to have run since 2025 while all involved were pupils; the suspects have since graduated and some victims are now university students.","causal_attribution":"Timeline as reported by Uzone/Pojok Bogor."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Kita tidak bisa berasumsi saja, harus jelas, apalagi ini terkait Undang-Undang ITE, harus tahu benar dia yang membuat atau tidak, harus ada buktinya yang jelas'; 'penanganan perkara masih berada pada tahap awal'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Police say the investigation is at an early stage, that they must establish with clear evidence who made the content under the ITE Law, and that tracing the AI program used is a challenge.","causal_attribution":"Police statement."}],"effects":[{"label":"pupils' social-media photographs were turned into AI pornographic images and videos, some uploaded to public websites; three have filed a police report and the victims' lawyer says hundreds were affected","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://kumparan.com/kumparannews/ratusan-pelajar-di-bogor-jadi-korban-pornografi-deepfake-ai-polisi-selidiki-28CxcCG6rv6","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Read in Indonesian on 2026-09-19 (Kumparan, 18 September 2026; quotes the Polres Bogor unit head by phone). Quotations translated by the reviewer.","independence_group":"polres-bogor-statement"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://uzone.id/ratusan-pelajar-cileungsi-jadi-korban-deepfake-ai-foto-jadi-porno","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Read in Indonesian on 2026-09-19 (Uzone, relaying Pojok Bogor of 17 September 2026 and the witnesses' lawyer). The Pojok Bogor original was not fetched; grouped as one lawyer-account chain.","independence_group":"pojok-bogor-lawyer-account"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","privacy"],"unknowns":["The number of victims is disputed in scale: police count three complainants, the lawyer says hundreds.","The AI tools used are not identified.","No arrest, charge or court proceeding is reported; the suspects' admissions are relayed by the lawyer, not confirmed by police.","The school is not named in the inspected reports and is not recorded here.","The Pojok Bogor original article (16-17 September 2026) was not directly read; its account is taken from Uzone's relay."],"geography":{"basis":"Private school in Cileungsi, Bogor Regency, West Java; Polres Bogor investigating (Kumparan, Uzone). No court proceeding yet.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["ID"],"affected_person_countries":["ID"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an image-based-abuse series against school pupils with a police-confirmed report and a lawyer-described scale, read in Indonesian from two chains (police via Kumparan; the victims' lawyer via Uzone/Pojok Bogor). Claims recorded as reported; the scale is attributed. Minors: no names, no school name, suspects' initials omitted; no imagery described beyond 'nude photographs and pornographic videos'.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-19"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Police describe the content as made with AI technology and say they are still tracing the program used; the victims' lawyer describes AI-manipulated nude photos and pornographic videos, and thousands of suspected AI-manipulated files found on a suspect's phone. No tool is named and no forensic finding has been published.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Cileungsi, Bogor Regency, Indonesia: photographs of private-school pupils taken from social media were turned into AI pornographic images and videos, reportedly since 2025; three pupils have filed a joint police report, the victims' lawyer says hundreds were affected, and two former pupils are named as suspects","summary":"Bogor Regency police confirmed on 18 September 2026 that they are investigating a report that pupils of a private school in Cileungsi had their faces edited with artificial intelligence into pornographic content. The head of the women-and-children unit told Kumparan that so far three pupils had reported in a single police report, that the case began when a victim heard from a friend that someone was making content with their face using AI technology, and that investigators were still establishing who made the content and which program was used, under the Electronic Information and Transactions Law. A lawyer for the witnesses, quoted by Pojok Bogor and Uzone, says the victims number in the hundreds; that two former pupils, one as initiator and one as maker, have been reported and admitted the acts to witnesses; that police found thousands of suspected AI-manipulated photos and videos on a suspect's phone, some uploaded to websites including an online-gambling site; and that the case, reported on 19 May 2026, is believed to have run since 2025 while all involved were still pupils, some victims now being university students. Police say the case is at an early stage and asked the public not to draw conclusions.","incidentDate":"2025-01-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"year","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-05-19","aiSystem":"AI image- and video-manipulation tools (not identified; police say the program used is still being traced)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image and video tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress","reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Pupils of a Cileungsi private school had their social-media photographs turned into AI pornographic images and videos, some reportedly uploaded to public websites; three have filed a police report and the victims' lawyer says hundreds were affected and asks for a swift process so they can focus on their studies. Attribution to the reported suspects rests on the lawyer's account of their admissions and on police examination of a phone; police have not announced charges.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":3,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"Police: three pupils have reported in one police report (Kumparan, 18 Sep 2026). The victims' lawyer says the victims number in the hundreds (Uzone/Pojok Bogor). Three counted people plus additional unquantified victims: partial. 'Thousands of photos and videos' is a content count, not a person count.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"ID","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://kumparan.com/kumparannews/ratusan-pelajar-di-bogor-jadi-korban-pornografi-deepfake-ai-polisi-selidiki-28CxcCG6rv6","primarySourceLabel":"Kumparan, 18 September 2026: Ratusan Pelajar di Bogor Jadi Korban Pornografi Deepfake AI, Polisi Selidiki (Polres Bogor women-and-children unit statement)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-19T03:17:35.203873+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:32.43216+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","ncii","minors","school","indonesia","bogor","cileungsi","police-investigation","image-based-abuse"]}]}