{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-01T08:15:26.238Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"fact-check","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":0,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":1,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":1,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":1,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-honduras-surgeon-emec-cherenfant-ai-altered-facebook-videos-prostate-remedy","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'El Mirón, la sección de verificación de Criterio.hn, encontró tres videos alterados en imagen y audio, posteados en un perfil de Facebook, en el cual utilizan la imagen del doctor Cherenfant.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'En los videos, la imagen artificial de Cherenfant señala que ayudó a sus amigos, los futbolistas Guevara y caballero, a vencer la prostatitis, sin necesidad de cirugía, con un remedio, el cual se puede consumir en casa, sin visitar hospitales.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"El Mirón found three videos on a Facebook profile, altered in image and audio, that use Cherenfant's image to give advice on prostatitis and related conditions.","causal_attribution":"The outlet's verification; the researcher did not view the videos."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'ZeroGPT detectó las inconsistencias en el video en el cual aparecen Emec Cherenfant y Amado Guevara y detectó se creó con inteligencia artificial.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'ZeroGPT confirmó también que este video es producto de la IA.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"El Mirón reports that ZeroGPT detected the video with Amado Guevara as created with artificial intelligence and confirmed the third video as an AI product.","causal_attribution":"Detector output as reported by the outlet; the method is not described."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'En el chat, nos respondieron que la publicidad es engañosa y que es un urólogo quien debe atender enfermedades relacionadas con la próstata.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Hospital San Jorge, where Cherenfant offers his services, told El Mirón by WhatsApp that the advertising is deceptive.","causal_attribution":"The hospital's reply as reported by the outlet."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'No tengo nada que ver con las articulaciones, nada que ver con la próstata, nada que ver con la visión, con los ojos, no tengo nada que ver con la impotencia sexual'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'señaló que hace dos años presentó una denuncia ante el Ministerio Público, para evitar ser asociado con las consecuencias que puedan pasar personas que caigan en la red de estafas.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'No quiero que alguien algún día se muera por un medicamento de estos y que asocien al doctor Cherenfant a esa muerte. Conozca a su cirujano. Son estafadores. No se dejen engañar, es pura inteligencia artificial'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'hay un grupo de estafadores que no se cansan de utilizar su nombre e imagen para vender productos que ni siquiera conoce.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Cherenfant said he has nothing to do with prostate treatment, that scammers repeatedly use his name and image, and that he filed a complaint with the Ministerio Público two years ago.","causal_attribution":"His own account; the earlier complaint concerns the recurring scams in general and the source does not say when these three videos were first posted."}],"effects":[{"label":"AI-altered videos show him promoting a prostatitis remedy outside his specialty","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://criterio.hn/emec-cherenfant-advierte-estafas-con-videos-de-ia-que-utilizan-su-imagen/","kind":"fact_check","access":"read","language":"es","translation_note":"Read live in Spanish on 2026-10-01 (Criterio.hn, El Mirón verification section, 30 September 2026), including the outlet's interview with Cherenfant. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"criterio-el-miron"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["work","health"],"unknowns":["When the three videos were posted and how widely they circulated.","Whether anyone bought the remedy or was harmed by it.","Whether a takedown or new complaint followed for these videos.","Which tool generated the videos, and how ZeroGPT was applied to video."],"geography":{"basis":"Criterio.hn describes him as naturalised Honduran ('nacionalizado hondureño'), known in Honduras for his TV programme, and offering his services at Hospital San Jorge. The videos were posted on a Facebook profile whose location is not stated, so no event country is recorded.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":["HN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a core case: videos that a fact-check desk describes as AI-altered depicted the surgeon promoting a remedy outside his specialty, and he describes the misuse in his own words. He is a public figure and is named as the source does. One source, a fact-check that includes his interview; the videos were not inspected by the researcher.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-01"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Criterio.hn's El Mirón concludes that the three videos are false because they were created with AI by scammers ('fueron creados con IA por estafadores'), describes his 'imagen artificial' and a false voice, and reports that ZeroGPT flagged the first and third videos as AI-made and said the second 'genera poca confianza, por su contenido amañado creado con IA'. ZeroGPT is mainly known as a text detector and the outlet does not explain how it was applied to video, so the detector result is recorded as the outlet's report. Cherenfant calls the content 'pura inteligencia artificial'. The researcher did not inspect the videos and no generation tool is named. The videos depicted him (depicted_or_impersonated).","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Honduras: Criterio.hn's fact-check desk finds three Facebook videos altered with AI in which plastic surgeon Emec Cherenfant appears to promote a home remedy for prostatitis; he says scammers keep using his name and image","summary":"El Mirón, the verification section of Criterio.hn, reported on 30 September 2026 that it found three videos on a Facebook profile, altered in image and audio, that use the image of the plastic and reconstructive surgeon Emec Cherenfant to offer a remedy for prostatitis and related problems. In the videos his artificial image says he helped former footballers beat prostatitis without surgery and invites viewers to write to him on WhatsApp. El Mirón says the manipulation is evident from the vocabulary, voice and body movements and that the detector ZeroGPT flagged the videos as AI-made. The hospital where he offers his services told El Mirón the advertising is deceptive. Cherenfant said he has nothing to do with prostate treatment, that scammers repeatedly use his name and image, and that he filed a complaint with the Ministerio Público two years ago. 'Son estafadores. No se dejen engañar, es pura inteligencia artificial', he said. No buyer losses are reported.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-30","aiSystem":"Three Facebook videos 'manipulados con IA' showing the surgeon's altered image and a false voice promoting a prostatitis remedy (Criterio.hn El Mirón, which ran them through ZeroGPT); the generation tool and the profile's operators are not identified","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"AI-altered videos showed the surgeon promoting a prostatitis remedy outside his specialty; he says scammers repeatedly misuse his name and image and fears being associated with harm to people who buy such products (his interview with Criterio.hn El Mirón).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, Emec Cherenfant (Criterio.hn). The former footballers shown on the video covers are not counted because no harm to them is reported, and no viewer is reported deceived. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://criterio.hn/emec-cherenfant-advierte-estafas-con-videos-de-ia-que-utilizan-su-imagen/","primarySourceLabel":"Criterio.hn (El Mirón), 30 September 2026: Emec Cherenfant advierte estafas con videos de IA que utilizan su imagen","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-01T03:18:11.893375+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-01T03:18:11.893375+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfakes","fake-advertisement","health-product-scam","doctor-impersonation","fact-check","honduras","spanish-language"]}]}