{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-06T07:04:35.318Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"family","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"2024","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":8,"coverage":{"cases":8,"countries":3,"languages":4,"unknownLocation":2,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":3,"regulatory":0,"minors":3,"coreRelations":4,"contextualRelations":1,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":3,"relationPending":3,"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":"2024-man-ai-fake-nude-images-of-female-relatives-27-months-jail","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'He also used AI to create fake nude images of other female relatives and shared some of them with his cousin.'; 'Investigations also found that the man had used AI to create fake nude images of his relatives.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A man used AI to create fake nude images of female relatives and shared some of them with a male cousin.","causal_attribution":"Stomp, citing Shin Min Daily News, reports this as a finding of the investigation; no court record was inspected."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'who was also involved in creating and distributing the AI-generated images.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The cousin who received some of the images was also involved in creating and distributing the AI-generated images.","causal_attribution":"Stomp, citing Shin Min Daily News; no outcome for the cousin is reported."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'including secret recordings of female relatives showering and other AI-generated nude images.'; 'made another police report on Jan 22.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A family member found AI-generated nude images, together with secret recordings of female relatives showering, on another phone the man had borrowed after his release on bail, and made a further police report.","causal_attribution":"Stomp, citing Shin Min Daily News."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'after pleading guilty to four of 10 charges involving the taking, distribution and possession of intimate images.'; 'The remaining charges were taken into consideration for sentencing.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'被判坐牢两年三个月'; '他日前承认其中四项，其余控状交由法官下判时一并考虑。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The man was sentenced to 27 months’ jail after pleading guilty to four of ten charges involving the taking, distribution and possession of intimate images, with the remaining charges taken into consideration.","causal_attribution":"Stomp, citing Shin Min Daily News; the report does not say which charges concerned the AI-made images."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'A man secretly filmed his wife and other female relatives while they were showering, then shared their nude images with other people.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Separately from the AI images, the man secretly filmed family members showering and sent screenshots and images to other men.","causal_attribution":"Stomp, citing Shin Min Daily News. These recordings were not AI-made and are context for the case."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Another female relative said the incident left her depressed and unable to eat or sleep properly.'; 'stopped posting photos of herself or her family online.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'这起事件让她陷入抑郁，难过得寝食难安。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"One female relative said the incident left her depressed and unable to eat or sleep properly, and she stopped posting photos of herself or her family online.","causal_attribution":"Stomp, citing Shin Min Daily News; the report does not say whether this relative was among those depicted in the AI images."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'the court ordered that the media not publish any information that could identify them'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'法官令媒体不得报道任何会泄露其身份的资料，包括被告名字。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The court ordered that the media not publish any information that could identify the victims, including the man’s name.","causal_attribution":"Stomp and the Lianhe Zaobao summary of the Shin Min report (one chain)."}],"effects":[{"label":"female relatives were depicted without consent in AI-made fake nude images that a family member created and shared with a cousin","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.stomp.sg/trending-now/man-films-wife-and-mother-showering-sends-fake-nudes-female-relatives-cousin-gets-27-months-jail","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-06 (HTTP 200); no translation was involved and no human reviewer read the article. Stomp (Singapore Press Holdings community news site) attributes the account to Shin Min Daily News, which was not read; Stomp and Shin Min form one reporting chain. A Mothership report of 3 October 2026 on the same sentencing appeared in a Google News feed but could not be located on the publisher site and was not read.","independence_group":"shinmin-stomp-sg-relatives-images"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.zaobao.com.sg/news/singapore/story20261003-9777995","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-06 (HTTP 200) and translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translator or reviewer was involved. Lianhe Zaobao summary of the Shin Min Daily News report of 3 October 2026, filed under its Singapore news section; it refers readers to the full Shin Min print report and does not itself mention the AI images. Same reporting chain as Stomp.","independence_group":"shinmin-stomp-sg-relatives-images"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["relationships","privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["How many relatives were depicted in the AI images and which of them were harmed; the report uses the plural without a number.","When the AI images were made; the report dates the secret filming to 2024 and the discovery of the second phone after the man’s release on bail.","Which of the charges concerned the AI-made images, and the court and sentencing date.","Any outcome for the cousin who helped create and distribute the AI images.","Which AI tool was used."],"geography":{"basis":"Neither inspected body names the country, the court or the place of the offences. Stomp and Lianhe Zaobao file the report as local news, but a publisher or its section does not establish a country, so none is recorded.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): Stomp, citing Shin Min Daily News, reports that investigations found a man used AI to create fake nude images of female relatives and shared some with a cousin who helped make and distribute them, and that he was jailed for 27 months on intimate-image charges. Non-consensual sexual depiction is the harm. A court order bars identifying the victims, so no ages, names or specific relationships of the depicted relatives are given here.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-06"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Stomp, citing Shin Min Daily News, reports that investigations found the man used AI to create fake nude images of his female relatives, that he shared some with a male cousin who was also involved in creating and distributing the AI-generated images, and that AI-generated nude images were among the material later found on a phone he had borrowed. The AI tool generated the nude depictions of the relatives, which is the harm counted here. The secret shower recordings in the same case were not AI-made. No tool is named.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Man who used AI to make fake nude images of female relatives, alongside secret shower recordings, jailed 27 months, outlet reports","summary":"Stomp reported on 4 October 2026, citing Shin Min Daily News, that a man was sentenced to 27 months’ jail after pleading guilty to four of ten charges involving the taking, distribution and possession of intimate images. According to the report, he secretly filmed female family members showering from 2024 and shared images with other men, and investigations also found that he used AI to create fake nude images of female relatives. He shared some of the AI images with a male cousin, who was also involved in creating and distributing them. AI-generated nude images and secret recordings were found on another phone he had borrowed after his release on bail, and a family member made a further police report. One female relative said the incident left her depressed and unable to eat or sleep properly. The court barred the media from publishing information that could identify the victims, including the man’s name.","incidentDate":"2024-01-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"year","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-10-04","aiSystem":"An unnamed AI tool used to create fake nude images of the man’s female relatives, per Stomp citing Shin Min Daily News","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Female relatives were depicted without consent in AI-made fake nude images that a man created and shared with a cousin, according to Stomp citing Shin Min Daily News; he was jailed for 27 months on intimate-image charges that also covered secret shower recordings.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"unquantified","affectedCountEvidence":"The report says the man used AI to create fake nude images of \"other female relatives\" and of \"his relatives\" without giving a number, so no reliable count of the depicted relatives exists and the numeric zero is a placeholder. Family members harmed only by the non-AI secret recordings are not counted here.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.stomp.sg/trending-now/man-films-wife-and-mother-showering-sends-fake-nudes-female-relatives-cousin-gets-27-months-jail","primarySourceLabel":"Stomp, 4 October 2026: Man films wife and mother showering, sends fake nudes of female relatives to cousin, gets 27 months’ jail","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-06T03:23:16.720676+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-06T03:23:16.720676+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","ai-nude-images","image-based-sexual-abuse","family","criminal-sentence","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2024-alicante-pensioner-ai-generated-persona-romance-scam","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'El 11 de noviembre de 2024 recibió un correo que cambió el rumbo de su vida.'; 'Con fotos y vídeos —en realidad, creados por inteligencia artificial— logró ganarse su confianza.'; 'Convencido de estar conociendo a una doctora de 43 años en Kazajistán, acabó enviando un total 8.800 euros.'; 'Un amigo intentó advertirle del fraude, pero'; 'le dio la espalda'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'el 29 de noviembre de 2024 recibió el primer mensaje de Ainur'; 'me dijo que tenía 43 años, que era médico de una aldea y que buscaba hombres serios'; 'me sorprendió que contactara conmigo por email'; 'La realidad es que ella no existe, es una trampa creada mediante IA.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"In November 2024 the pensioner received an email from a woman presenting herself as a 43-year-old doctor in Kazakhstan seeking a serious relationship (Levante-EMV dates the email 11 November 2024; Antena 3 dates the first message 29 November 2024), who won his trust with photographs and videos that were in fact created by artificial intelligence; a friend who warned him of the fraud was rebuffed.","causal_attribution":"His account as told to the newspapers; the AI origin of the images is the police conclusion as he relayed it to Levante-EMV and Antena 3's own statement."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'un jubilado de 78 años residente en Alicante, perdió todos sus ahorros en apenas tres meses'; 'terminó enviando en total 8.800 euros, parte de ellos procedentes de la venta de su piso en Benidorm.'; 'comparte piso con otros tres jubilados en Alicante.'; 'Primero, 2.000 euros para un billete de avión. Después, otros 2.000 para gastos inesperados.'; 'le reclamaron un supuesto depósito de 10.000 euros'; 'Aunque nunca llegó a reunir esa cifra'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'ha perdido todos sus ahorros (8.800 euros)'; 'Tras enviar un total de 8.800 euros'; 'Ahora vivo en un piso compartido'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"He sent 8,800 euros in total over about three months (Levante-EMV itemises 2,000 euros for a plane ticket and 2,000 for unexpected expenses, then a demanded 10,000-euro deposit he never raised in full; the remainder is not itemised), part of it from the sale of his flat in Benidorm, losing all his savings; he now shares a flat with three other pensioners in Alicante.","causal_attribution":"His account as told to the newspaper."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'en pleno viaje llegó el último correo: ella había sido detenida en su país'; 'Para liberarla debía pagar una multa o enfrentarse a prisión.'; 'Se dirigió a la Policía Nacional, donde confirmaron lo que tanto temía: había sido víctima de una estafa. Las imágenes y vídeos eran falsos, creados con inteligencia artificial, y la mujer nunca había existido.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'me contó que la habían detenido en la aduana con una pieza de arte que no se podía sacar del país'; 'Enseguida la agente me aseguró que se trataba de una estafa del amor de libro'","relation":"context","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"When a final email said the woman had been detained in Kazakhstan and needed a fine paid, he went to the National Police, who confirmed he had been the victim of a scam and that the images and videos were false, created with artificial intelligence, of a woman who never existed.","causal_attribution":"His account of the police confirmation, as reported by the newspaper."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'ella falleció en 2022'; 'Aquella pérdida le sumió en una depresión que le mantuvo dos años en tratamiento.'; 'Tras el duelo, sus terapeutas le recomendaron socializar, abrirse a nuevas experiencias y explorar las redes sociales.'; 'Y ahí empezó todo.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'triste y solo tras la pérdida de su mujer, se refugió en las redes sociales'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"After his wife's death in 2022 and two years of treatment for depression, his therapists had recommended that he socialise and explore social networks, which is how the contact began.","causal_attribution":"His account as told to the newspaper; context, not causation."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'le mandé 2.100 euros'; 'Dijo que necesitaba 10.000 euros, yo le envíe 2.300 más que era lo que tenía, pero me contestó que necesitaba aún 4.400 euros más y pedí un anticipo a un familiar que me estaba pagando un piso que le había vendido y se lo mandé'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Antena 3's account itemises the payments as 2,100 euros for tickets, 2,300 euros towards a claimed 10,000-euro visa cost, and 4,400 euros more raised as an advance from a relative who was paying him for a flat he had sold, for a total of 8,800 euros.","causal_attribution":"His account as told to Antena 3; differs in detail from the Levante-EMV itemisation."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Me dijo que no podía por su compañía de teléfono y porque su móvil era malo. Se lo comenté a un amigo y me dijo que era sospechoso. Yo entonces se lo dije a ella y me envió un vídeo para que no sospechara'; 'Después de recibir el vídeo, el afectado comenzó a cumplir las peticiones'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"When he asked to speak by phone she declined, citing her phone company and handset; after a friend called this suspicious and he told her so, she sent him a video so that he would not suspect, after which he began meeting her requests for money.","causal_attribution":"His account as told to Antena 3; Antena 3 does not separately state that this particular video was AI-generated."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'necesitaba 22.000 euros más'; 'acudió a todo tipo de entidades financieras para obtener un préstamo y mandar el dinero solicitado, pero todos se lo negaron'; 'contactó con un programa de televisión para contar la historia de Ainur y tras analizar la situación destaparon todo el engaño'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"After a final message said she had been detained at customs and needed 22,000 euros more, he sought a loan from financial institutions, which all refused, and contacted a television programme that examined the story and exposed the deception.","causal_attribution":"Antena 3's account; Levante-EMV instead describes the National Police confirming the scam and does not mention the television programme or the 22,000 euros."},{"id":"c8","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'ha perdido su dinero y su hogar, ya que tuvo que abandonar el piso en alquiler en el que residía'; 'Solo le queda su pensión mensual de 1000 euros'; 'Me afecto psicológicamente, pero lo he superado'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"He lost his home as well as his money, having had to leave the rented flat where he lived, and is left with a monthly pension of 1,000 euros; he said the scam affected him psychologically but that he has overcome it.","causal_attribution":"His account as told to Antena 3."}],"effects":[{"label":"lost all his savings (8,800 euros, part from selling his flat) to a romance scam built on AI-generated images and videos; now shares a flat with three other pensioners","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"had to leave his rented flat and said the scam affected him psychologically, which he says he has overcome","claim_id":"c8","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.levante-emv.com/sociedad/2025/09/25/jubilado-alicante-pierde-ahorros-estafa-amor-creada-ia-121945634.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"es","translation_note":"Read live in Spanish on 2026-09-23 and re-read on 2026-10-06 (HTTP 200): Levante-EMV, 25 September 2025; byline C. Suena; foot of the article credits Diario Información; photographs EFE/Morell. Feature built on the victim's interview. Spanish passages were translated by the research agent (an AI).","independence_group":"prensa-iberica"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.antena3.com/noticias/sociedad/nueva-victima-estafa-amor-jubilado-pierde-todos-sus-ahorros-engano-creado-afecto-psicologicamente_2025092468d3dd60f158e014f6f2bdc8.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"es","translation_note":"Read live in Spanish on 2026-10-04 and re-read on 2026-10-06 (HTTP 200): Antena 3 Noticias, Atresmedia, 24 September 2025; byline Adrián Ballesteros; no agency credit. A separate interview with the same man, with quotations that do not appear in Levante-EMV, so it is a separate reporting chain from s1; both relay his own account, which this record does not treat as independent corroboration. Related-article cards on the page were not used. Spanish passages were translated by the research agent (an AI).","independence_group":"atresmedia"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance","relationships","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Whether the police identified or prosecuted the scammers or recovered any money.","The tools used to generate the persona's images and videos and whether the emails themselves were AI-written.","The end date of the payments (Levante-EMV says about three months; neither source states an end date).","Whether the scammers were in Kazakhstan.","Whether the newspaper or an agency conducted the interview (byline C. Suena; foot credits Diario Información; photographs EFE).","The date of first contact: Levante-EMV gives 11 November 2024 and Antena 3 29 November 2024; the incident date is recorded as November 2024.","The payment itemisation and the final demand differ between the accounts (Levante-EMV: a fine of unstated size; Antena 3: 22,000 euros more), as does who exposed the scam (Levante-EMV: the National Police; Antena 3: a television programme he contacted, alongside a police report)."],"geography":{"basis":"He lived in Benidorm and now lives in Alicante and reported to the Policía Nacional (Levante-EMV); the emails and payments are presumed to have been received and sent from Spain, which the article does not state expressly; the scammers' claimed location (Kazakhstan) is not established. No court proceeding is reported. Antena 3 adds that he set off by bus from Alicante to meet her in Madrid.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["ES"],"affected_person_countries":["ES"]},"publication":{"basis":"A bereaved pensioner in Alicante lost his savings (8,800 euros) and, by his account to Antena 3, his rented home to a romance scam in which AI-generated photographs and videos of a non-existent woman won his trust and allayed his suspicion before he paid. The AI connection rests on the police finding as he relayed it to Levante-EMV and on Antena 3's own statement; all claims are reported. He chose to be named in both sources; the record withholds his name and biography beyond the case.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-06"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Levante-EMV reports that the persona of a 43-year-old doctor won his trust with photographs and videos that were in fact created by artificial intelligence, and that the National Police, as he recounted, confirmed the images and videos were false, created with artificial intelligence, of a woman who never existed. Antena 3 Noticias states in its own voice that she does not exist and that the scheme was a trap created with AI, and relays his account that she sent him a video so that he would not suspect, after which he began meeting her requests for money. The generated images and videos presented a fictitious woman to him as a real suitor, so the relation is depicted_or_impersonated. The generation tools are not identified, no police statement was inspected directly, and whether the emails were AI-written is unknown.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Alicante pensioner says he lost his savings to a romance scam whose photos and videos police told him were AI-generated of a woman who never existed","summary":"A feature carried by Levante-EMV on 25 September 2025 (byline C. Suena, sourced from Diario Información, photographs EFE/Morell) tells the story of a 78-year-old widower and pensioner living in Alicante who, after his wife's death in 2022 and two years of treatment for depression, was advised by his therapists to socialise and explore social networks. On 11 November 2024 he received an email from a woman presenting herself as a 43-year-old doctor in Kazakhstan seeking a serious relationship; with photographs and videos that were in fact created by artificial intelligence she won his trust, and a friend who warned him was rebuffed. Requests for money followed: 2,000 euros for a plane ticket, another 2,000 for unexpected expenses, then a supposed 10,000-euro deposit demanded by the Kazakh government; he never raised that sum in full but sent 8,800 euros in total, part of it from the sale of his flat in Benidorm. On his way to Madrid airport to meet her he received a final email saying she had been detained for carrying a family icon out of the country and needed a fine paid; he went to the National Police, who confirmed a scam: the images and videos were fake, created with AI, and the woman had never existed. He lost all his savings in about three months and now shares a flat with three other pensioners in Alicante; he told his story so that others would not fall into the same trap. A separate Antena 3 Noticias interview of 24 September 2025 dates the first message to 29 November 2024, itemises the 8,800 euros differently, says a television programme he contacted exposed the deception and that he reported it at a police station, and adds that he had to leave his rented flat and was left with a 1,000-euro monthly pension; he told Antena 3 the scam affected him psychologically but that he has overcome it.","incidentDate":"2024-11-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2025-09-24","aiSystem":"AI image and video generation used to fabricate the persona's photographs and videos; tools not identified","aiProduct":"Unidentified image and video tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A bereaved 78-year-old lost all his savings (8,800 euros sent, part from the sale of his flat) over about three months to a romance scam built on AI-generated photographs and videos of a fictitious woman, and now shares a flat with three other pensioners; the loss and the police confirmation are his own account as told to the newspaper. The feature's remark that such frauds leave deep emotional scars is the National Police's general statement, not his account. In a separate Antena 3 interview he said the scam affected him psychologically but that he has overcome it, and Antena 3 reports that he had to leave the rented flat where he lived.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the pensioner who sent the money (Levante-EMV feature; the separate Antena 3 interview concerns the same man). Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"elderly","jurisdiction":"ES","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.levante-emv.com/sociedad/2025/09/25/jubilado-alicante-pierde-ahorros-estafa-amor-creada-ia-121945634.html","primarySourceLabel":"Levante-EMV, 25 September 2025: Un jubilado de Alicante pierde todos sus ahorros en una estafa del amor creada con inteligencia artificial","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-23T03:46:03.259662+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-06T03:01:44.214881+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["romance-scam","ai-generated-persona","spain","alicante","elderly","financial-loss","bereavement"]},{"id":"2026-netherlands-mrdeepfakes-74-year-old-prosecuted-deepfake-sex-videos-public-figures","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'Managers en woordvoerders van verschillende slachtoffers bevestigen aan de NOS dat zij aangifte hebben gedaan of dat zij juridische stappen overwegen'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'BBB-leider Caroline van der Plas, die bij Humberto zei dat de video voelt als \"digitale verkrachting\"'; '\"Ik doe geen aangifte voor mezelf, maar om nieuwe, jonge slachtoffers te voorkomen.\"'; 'Erachter komen dat ik in een deepfake pornovideo zit, was misselijkmakend.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'De zaak kwam in maart 2024 aan het licht. Vrouwelijke politici, olympische sporters, presentatrices en leden van het Koninklijk Huis doken op in gemanipuleerde pornovideo's'; 'Tientallen vrouwen deden aangifte.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"In March 2024 a large number of Dutch women in public life, including presenters and politicians, were found to appear in manipulated pornographic videos on an online platform; dozens filed complaints and several described the harm publicly.","causal_attribution":"AD's 2024 investigation as reported by NOS, with victims' public statements."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Op zijn computer en andere gegevensdragers werden beelden aangetroffen van ongeveer zestig bekende Nederlanders en politici'; 'Naar aanleiding daarvan deden meer dan twintig mensen aangifte. De Noord-Hollander zou volgens het AD de meest actieve Nederlandse gebruiker van het platform zijn geweest'; 'Sommige video's werden tienduizenden keren bekeken'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'De man kwam in beeld door onderzoek naar het beruchte platform MrDeepFakes. Dat leidde tot meer dan twintig aangiftes'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Images of about sixty well-known Dutch people and politicians were found on the suspect's computer and data carriers; AD's investigation into MrDeepFakes led to more than twenty complaints; according to AD he had been the platform's most active Dutch user, and some videos were viewed tens of thousands of times.","causal_attribution":"AD's reporting of the OM's findings, relayed by NH Nieuws and Hart van Nederland; one chain."},{"id":"c3","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'Het Openbaar Ministerie gaat een 74-jarige man uit Noord-Holland vervolgen voor het maken van deepfakeporno van tientallen bekende Nederlandse vrouwen. Dat bevestigt een woordvoerder van het OM'; 'Na ruim een jaar onderzoek heeft justitie besloten hem voor de rechter te brengen'; 'De man riskeert een celstraf van maximaal twee jaar'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Het Openbaar Ministerie (OM) heeft na ruim een jaar onderzoek besloten de man voor de rechter te brengen'; 'De 74-jarige man kan daarvoor maximaal twee jaar gevangenisstraf krijgen'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"After more than a year of investigation the OM decided to prosecute a 74-year-old man from Noord-Holland for making deepfake porn of dozens of well-known Dutch women; the maximum sentence is two years' imprisonment.","causal_attribution":"OM spokesperson to NOS (after AD's report) and to AD (relayed by NH Nieuws); two chains for the decision itself."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Zij zegt tegen het AD opgelucht te zijn dat de zaak voor de rechter komt. Volgens haar heeft zij zelf ervaren welke impact dergelijke nepbeelden kunnen hebben.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"One of the presenters reported to be among the depicted said she was relieved the case would come to court, having experienced the impact of such fake images herself.","causal_attribution":"Her statement to AD as relayed by NH Nieuws."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Meerdere vrouwelijke bekende Nederlanders overwegen juridische stappen omdat zij zijn opgedoken in gemanipuleerde pornovideo's. Deze video's staan op een online platform met maandelijks 13 miljoen bezoekers, schrijft het AD'; 'Nederlandse artiesten, tv-presentatrices, olympische sporters, (oud-)ministers, burgemeesters en leden van het Koninklijk Huis voorkomen'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'De video's stonden op een online platform met maandelijks 13 miljoen bezoekers'","relation":"context","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"AD reported that the platform had 13 million monthly visitors and that the depicted people included Dutch artists, television presenters, Olympic athletes, current and former ministers, mayors and members of the royal family.","causal_attribution":"AD's 2024 investigation, relayed by NOS; one chain."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Hij is op de hoogte van het besluit, zegt het OM tegen de krant'; 'De website waar de video's op stonden, werd opgericht en gerund door een Canadees uit Toronto. Hij verwijderde eerder al beelden op verzoek van het OM en blokkeerde de website voor Nederlandse IP-adressen'; 'De Canadees wordt niet vervolgd. Wat hij deed, was in Canada niet strafbaar. En het Nederlandse Openbaar Ministerie gaat niet proberen om hem naar Nederland te halen. Dat zou te veel politiecapaciteit vergen, laat het OM weten aan het AD.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'De verdachte zit niet vast. Het is nog niet bekend wanneer de zaak inhoudelijk voor de rechter komt'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The suspect has been informed of the decision and is not in custody; no hearing date is known. The platform's founder-operator, a Canadian from Toronto who had removed images at the OM's request and blocked Dutch IP addresses before the site went offline, will not be prosecuted because his conduct was not punishable in Canada and the OM will not try to bring him to the Netherlands.","causal_attribution":"OM statements to AD, relayed by NOS and NH Nieuws; one chain."}],"effects":[{"label":"dozens of women in Dutch public life depicted without consent in pornographic deepfake videos on a platform AD said had 13 million monthly visitors; complaints filed; public statements of harm","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"a 74-year-old man to be prosecuted after more than a year of investigation, facing up to two years' imprisonment","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://nos.nl/artikel/2631746-om-gaat-74-jarige-man-vervolgen-voor-maken-deepfakeporno-van-bn-ers","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"nl","translation_note":"Read live in Dutch on 2026-09-21 (HTTP 200; published 2026-09-20 12:26). An OM spokesperson confirmed the prosecution decision to NOS after AD's reporting; NOS adds its own 2024 reporting and the OM's position on the platform operator. Translated by the reviewer.","independence_group":"nos-2026"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.nhnieuws.nl/nieuws/363601/om-vervolgt-74-jarige-man-uit-noord-holland-voor-deepfake-seksvideos","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"nl","translation_note":"Read live in Dutch on 2026-09-21 (NH Nieuws, published 2026-09-20 15:35 CEST (13:35 UTC)). Relays AD's report (which spoke to an OM spokesperson): devices, 'about sixty' people, more than twenty complaints, most active Dutch user, a presenter's reaction. AD itself answered 403. Translated by the reviewer.","independence_group":"ad"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.hartvannederland.nl/tech/nieuws/artikelen/man-rechter-deepfake-seksvideos-bners","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"nl","translation_note":"Read live in Dutch on 2026-09-21 (Hart van Nederland, published 2026-09-20 11:43). Relays AD; grouped with s2. Translated by the reviewer.","independence_group":"ad"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://nos.nl/artikel/2513371-vrouwelijke-bn-ers-overwegen-aangifte-vanwege-deepfake-pornovideo-s","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"nl","translation_note":"Read live in Dutch on 2026-09-21 (NOS, 19 March 2024). NOS's own 2024 report on the AD revelations, with confirmations from victims' managers and the minister's reaction. Translated by the reviewer.","independence_group":"nos-2024"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://nos.nl/artikel/2513552-wel-of-niet-zeggen-dat-je-in-een-neppornovideo-zit-bn-ers-worstelen-ermee","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"nl","translation_note":"Read live in Dutch on 2026-09-21 (NOS, 20 March 2024). Own reporting with victims' public statements and a quote given to NOS. Translated by the reviewer.","independence_group":"nos-2024"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/gepensioneerde-man-74-wordt-vervolgd-voor-maken-deepfake-seksvideos-van-zestig-bners~aa272972/","kind":"news_report","access":"unavailable","language":null,"translation_note":"Original AD report of 19 September 2026; the live page answered HTTP 403 (DPG paywall) and the Internet Archive CDX service was offline on 2026-09-21. Its contents are known only through s2, s3 and s1. The 19 September date rests on Google News feed metadata, not on the body.","independence_group":"ad"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["When the videos were made and over what period; the tools used.","The exact number of depicted people and of complainants ('about sixty'; 'more than twenty').","The charges' legal basis and whether distribution as well as creation is charged; no hearing date.","The suspect's identity beyond age and province is not reported and is not sought here.","The AD original could not be read; its details are known through relays.","The range start (19 March 2024) is the date the videos' existence was publicly revealed and complaints began; the videos were made and posted at unreported earlier dates. The range end (19 September 2026) is the date the prosecution decision was reported; the OM's decision date is not stated."],"geography":{"basis":"The suspect is from Noord-Holland and the videos were made at his home (NH Nieuws citing AD); the depicted people are Dutch public figures; the platform was operated from Toronto (NOS). The prosecution decision is by the Dutch OM; no hearing has been scheduled, so no court country is recorded.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["NL"],"affected_person_countries":["NL"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an image-based abuse case affecting identifiable people, with harm described publicly by several of the depicted women and a prosecution decision confirmed by the Public Prosecution Service to NOS. Five Dutch bodies read (two NOS chains and the AD relay chain); the AD original is unavailable. Depicted people who spoke publicly are quoted in locators but not named in the record; the suspect is not named.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-21"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"NOS, NH Nieuws and Hart van Nederland describe the videos as deepfakes in which the faces of known women were placed on pornographic footage, and the OM's prosecution, as confirmed to NOS, is for making deepfake porn (Hart van Nederland says he is suspected of making and distributing the videos); the specific tools are not identified in any inspected source.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Netherlands: the Public Prosecution Service will prosecute a 74-year-old man from Noord-Holland for making deepfake sex videos of dozens of Dutch public figures, including presenters, politicians and a member of the royal family (images of about sixty people were found on his devices), after the 2024 revelations about the MrDeepFakes platform","summary":"In March 2024 the newspaper AD revealed that a large number of Dutch women in public life, including artists, television presenters, Olympic athletes, current and former ministers, mayors and members of the royal family, appeared in manipulated pornographic videos on an online platform with 13 million monthly visitors, later identified as MrDeepFakes. Dozens of women filed police complaints and several spoke publicly: one presenter said she was preparing a complaint, a party leader said the video felt like 'digital rape', another presenter said she would file a complaint 'because tomorrow it could happen to young girls of sixteen', a presenter-entrepreneur did so 'to prevent new, young victims', and a member of parliament, told of a video by the House security service, went public rather than 'keep it small'. On 19 and 20 September 2026 AD, and the Public Prosecution Service (OM) confirming to NOS, reported that after more than a year of investigation the OM will prosecute a 74-year-old man from Noord-Holland, who is not in custody, for making the videos (Hart van Nederland, citing AD, says he is suspected of making and distributing them); images of about sixty well-known Dutch people and politicians were found on his devices, AD reported that he had been the platform's most active Dutch user, and he faces up to two years' imprisonment. The platform's Canadian operator, who removed material at the OM's request and blocked Dutch IP addresses before the site went offline, will not be prosecuted. One of the presenters reported to be among the depicted told AD she was relieved the case would go to court, having experienced the impact of such images herself. No hearing date has been set.","incidentDate":"2024-03-19","incidentEndDate":"2026-09-19","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2024-03-19","aiSystem":"Face-swap deepfake video tools (not identified); videos published on the MrDeepFakes platform","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress","reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Dozens of women in Dutch public life (images of about sixty people were found on the suspect's devices) were depicted without consent in pornographic deepfake videos, some viewed tens of thousands of times; those who spoke publicly described the experience as sickening and as 'digital rape', and one was advised by parliamentary security to stay silent (NOS 2024; NH Nieuws and Hart van Nederland citing AD, 2026). The 2026 prosecution decision is the consequence for the alleged maker.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":20,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"NH Nieuws and Hart van Nederland, citing AD, report that the MrDeepFakes investigation led to more than twenty complaints ('meer dan twintig aangiften'), a documented lower bound of 20 depicted complainants; images of about sixty well-known people were found on the suspect's devices, but 'ongeveer zestig' is approximate and not all are confirmed as depicted victims. Documented minimum 20.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"NL","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://nos.nl/artikel/2631746-om-gaat-74-jarige-man-vervolgen-voor-maken-deepfakeporno-van-bn-ers","primarySourceLabel":"NOS, 20 September 2026: OM gaat 74-jarige man vervolgen voor maken deepfakeporno van BN'ers (OM spokesperson confirms after AD's report)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-21T04:11:25.939553+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:46.470563+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","ncii","sexual-deepfake","mrdeepfakes","public-figures","politicians","royal-family","prosecution","netherlands","noord-holland","depicted"]},{"id":"2026-newby-adelphi-ai-detector-vacated","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'In November 2024, Newby submitted a paper on Christianity and Islam'; 'Oelze gave the paper a grade of zero, according to court filings, in part because he thought it was AI-generated'; 'According to the lawsuit, Adelphi relied in part on AI detection software'; 'Turnitin's AI detector marked the essay as fully AI-written, but Newby ran it through two other detectors that said it was written by a human, court records show'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Adelphi University says an AI detection software flagged 19-year-old Orion Newby's work and claims the paper was \"too advanced\" for the first-year student'; 'That paper earned him a zero'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"In November 2024 Newby submitted a paper on Christianity and Islam for the fall 2024 World Civilizations 1 class; the professor graded it zero in part because he thought it was AI-generated, and Adelphi, per the lawsuit, relied in part on AI-detection software — court records show Turnitin's detector marked the essay as fully AI-written while two other detectors scored it human.","causal_attribution":"The detector results and the lawsuit's contents are attributed to court filings as carried by Newsday; the professor's suspicion is attributed to court filings and ABC7."},{"id":"c2","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'University officials ordered Newby to attend a plagiarism workshop — which, while considered a \"nondisciplinary\" punishment, could have resulted in suspension or expulsion if he was found to have committed a second offense'; 'The university's denial of Newby's appeal left the family \"no choice\" but to sue'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Adelphi told him he had to take an anti-plagiarism course, and until he did, he couldn't enroll in other classes. That's when his family sued.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Newby was ordered to attend a plagiarism workshop — a 'nondisciplinary' punishment that could have led to suspension or expulsion on a second offense — was told he could not enroll in other classes until he complied, and his appeal was denied; the family sued in October 2025.","causal_attribution":"Both chains independently carry the workshop order and the enrollment block (Newsday from the ruling stage, ABC7 from the filing stage)."},{"id":"c3","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'state Supreme Court Judge Randy Sue Marber in Nassau County wrote on Jan. 28. The school must expunge his record, the judge ruled'; 'were \"without valid basis and devoid of reason\"'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Inside Higher Ed's relay describes a 'federal judge' — erroneous; Judge Marber's state Supreme Court decision controls.","relation":"contradicts","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"On 28 January 2026, New York State Supreme Court Judge Randy Sue Marber in Nassau County ruled that Adelphi's finding and its denial of his appeal were 'without valid basis and devoid of reason' and ordered the school to expunge his record.","causal_attribution":"The ruling is documented by Newsday's report quoting the decision; the IHE forum error is recorded explicitly. The decision text itself was not fetched (Newsday's account is the inspected record)."},{"id":"c4","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'treated since he was about 2 years old for learning and neurological disabilities that include language and auditory processing disorders and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder'; 'He had worked on it with a tutor from Bridges to Adelphi, the university's $5,000-a-semester program'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Newby has learning differences... issues specifically with language processing. At Adelphi, he's in a special program with extra support'; 'I told him I worked 15 to 20 hours with tutors'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Newby has been treated since about age two for learning and neurological disabilities — language and auditory processing disorders and ADHD — and wrote the paper with a tutor from Bridges to Adelphi, the university's own $5,000-a-semester disability-support program, working 15-20 hours with tutors.","causal_attribution":"The disability and support details come from his mother's and his own accounts, carried by both chains."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The family has spent six figures on legal costs, she said'; Lesko passages ('bellwether example'; 'I can't tell you how many parents have reached out to us with similar issues').","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The family spent six figures on legal costs; attorney Mark Lesko called the ruling a 'bellwether example' and said many parents had contacted him with similar issues.","causal_attribution":"The mother's and the attorney's accounts; the 'many parents' figure is unquantified and no other persons are counted."}],"effects":[{"label":"false AI-plagiarism accusation with academic and financial consequences until a court ordered expungement","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"recovery: court cleared his record; he continues at Adelphi as a second-year history major","claim_id":"c3","direction":"positive"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.newsday.com/long-island/education/adelphi-university-ai-plagiarism-lawsuit-oh07enyz","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-15 (datePublished 2026-02-09T10:00Z; 48 paragraphs).","independence_group":"newsday"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://abc7ny.com/post/adelphi-student-long-island-sues-university-allegations-he-used-ai-write-essay/17980409/","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-15 (datePublished 2025-10-10T20:54Z).","independence_group":"abc7"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2026/02/11/adelphi-student-wins-ai-plagiarism-lawsuit","kind":"trade_press_relaying_newsday","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-15 (2026-02-11). Relays Newsday; its 'federal judge' phrase is erroneous — Judge Marber sits in the state Supreme Court, and the claim records the discrepancy.","independence_group":"newsday"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["education","justice","accessibility"],"unknowns":["The decision text was not fetched; the ruling is recorded through Newsday's account quoting the judge.","The similarity scores Turnitin returned and the university's full decision letter are not public in the inspected sources.","Whether Adelphi changed its AI-detection or appeals policies afterward is not reported.","The first-person Times account (28 Aug 2026) is paywalled and was not inspected; his later reflections are therefore not claimed.","The workshop's completion status after the ruling (moot after expungement) is not reported."],"geography":{"basis":"Event: Adelphi University, Garden City, New York. Affected person: Newby, a student there living in Lido Beach, NY. Court: New York State Supreme Court, Nassau County.","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an institutional automated-decision case (made_decision_about / made_claim_about): a detector-driven false accusation with court-vacated sanctions. Newby and his parents spoke publicly; his disability is recorded because it is central to the case's facts (the university's own support program produced the writing process the detector misread), not as a label.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The lawsuit records that Adelphi relied in part on AI-detection software; court records show Turnitin's detector marked the essay as fully AI-written while two other detectors scored it human (Newsday). The university's process, not the tool alone, produced the sanction — recorded in the harm mechanism.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["made_decision_about","made_claim_about"]},"name":"Adelphi accused Orion Newby of AI plagiarism after a detector flagged his paper; a Nassau County judge ordered the finding expunged","summary":"Orion Newby, an Adelphi University first-year student with language and auditory processing disabilities, received a zero in November 2024 on a World Civilizations paper after the professor suspected it was AI-generated and the university relied in part on AI-detection software; he was ordered to attend a plagiarism workshop and his appeal was denied, leaving him one finding from suspension or expulsion. Newby — who had written the paper with 15-20 hours of tutor support through the university's own disability program — said the detectors flagged his citations, and two other detectors scored the paper as human. After the family sued, New York State Supreme Court Judge Randy Sue Marber in Nassau County ruled on 28 January 2026 that Adelphi's finding and its denial of his appeal were 'without valid basis and devoid of reason' and ordered his record expunged. The family spent six figures on legal costs.","incidentDate":"2024-11-01","incidentEndDate":"2026-01-28","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2025-10-10","aiSystem":"Turnitin AI-detection software (and the university's reliance on it)","aiProduct":"Turnitin AI-text detector","aiCompany":"Turnitin","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["educational_harm","financial_loss","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A false AI-plagiarism finding brought a zero, a plagiarism-workshop order one step from suspension, sleepless nights, and a year-plus fight costing six figures to clear his record — despite two other detectors scoring the paper human and the writing help coming from the university's own disability program.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One documented harmed person: Newby, the subject of the detector-driven accusation (court ruling and Newsday/ABC7 reporting). Other students mentioned by his attorney ('many parents have reached out') are unquantified and not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"lawsuit_filed","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.newsday.com/long-island/education/adelphi-university-ai-plagiarism-lawsuit-oh07enyz","primarySourceLabel":"Newsday (9 Feb 2026) — the ruling, the judge's words, the family and attorney accounts, the disability and Bridges program detail","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-15T09:31:23.493757+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:46.697576+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["made-decision-about","made-claim-about","ai-detector","turnitin","education","disability","court-win","new-york"]},{"id":"2024-r-characterai-coercive-chats","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"No inspected source locates the event or names a residence. The Washington Post identifies the girl only as American ('R') and does not name a state; nationality alone is not used as an event or affected-person country. Futurism and bioethics.com reproduce the same report without a location. Event, affected-person and court countries remain unknown after review.","evidence":[],"court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"unresolved":["The retained description identifies the girl as American without stating residence or event country.","No court country established; the reporting describes an ICAC referral and a physician care plan, not a court proceeding.","Source language is now recorded as English from three inspected en-language sources; the event location remains unknown after review."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-17","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2025/12/23/children-teens-ai-chatbot-companion/","notes":"Read in English on 2026-09-17 via the Internet Archive capture (live host returns HTTP 403 to the fetcher). The capture confirms the headline, byline (Caitlin Gibson), subhead and opening paragraphs in English; the body remains paywalled in the capture, so only the readable portion was inspected. Establishes source language en; does not locate the event. Checked on 2026-09-13: the live host returned nothing to a browser user-agent and HTTP 403 to the fetcher. The quoted exchanges in the case text come from Futurism and bioethics.com, which reproduce the report at length.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/children-character-ai-addicted","notes":"Read in full in English on 2026-09-17 (datePublished 2025-12-26). Quotes the Washington Post report at length; no event location stated.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://bioethics.com/archives/100899","notes":"Read in English on 2026-09-17. Excerpt of the Washington Post report; no location stated.","access":"read","language":"en"}]},"name":"'R' — 11-Year-Old Character.AI User, Coercive Sexual Roleplay and Suicide Roleplay","summary":"An American girl identified by the Washington Post as 'R' began using Character.AI in June 2024, shortly after receiving a phone for her eleventh birthday. Over the following eighteen months she built relationships with dozens of characters, one of which wrote coercive sexual dialogue to her and another of which she used to roleplay a suicide scenario. Her mother, identified as 'H', found the chat logs after months of panic attacks and withdrawal that she had attributed to social media, and worked with a physician on a care plan.","incidentDate":"2024-06-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2025-12-23","aiSystem":"Character.AI","aiProduct":"Character.AI","aiCompany":"Character Technologies Inc.","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":["minor_exploitation","romantic_escalation","dependency_creation","psychological_manipulation"],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","social_isolation","exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"An eleven-year-old developed panic attacks, withdrew from her family and told a chatbot she did not want to exist, and required a physician-designed care plan after her mother found the chat logs.","frameworkFacets":["P1d","P2b","P2c","P5d"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The reporting documents one affected AI participant. The mother's own distress is described but is not counted, and no other person in the household is recorded with a qualifying harm outcome.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"companion","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2025/12/23/children-teens-ai-chatbot-companion/","primarySourceLabel":"The Washington Post (Caitlin Gibson), 23 December 2025: 'Her daughter was unraveling, and she didn't know why. 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Character Technologies, Inc. et al., No. 6:24-cv-01903 (M.D. Fla., Orlando Div.; Judge Anne C. Conway), naming Character Technologies, Noam Shazeer, Daniel De Freitas Adiwarsana, Google LLC, Alphabet Inc. and Does 1-50.","causal_attribution":"Established by the docket; some outlets reported on 23 October ('Wednesday')."},{"id":"c6","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Doc 115, pp. 28, 31, 36, 47-48.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Courthouse News: the ruling; Bergman: 'the first time a court has ruled that AI chat is not speech'; Google's disagreement.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"In the 20-21 May 2025 order on the motions to dismiss (Doc 115): 'Defendants fail to articulate why words strung together by an LLM are speech'; 'the Court is not prepared to hold that Character A.I.'s output is speech'; 'Character A.I. is a product… so far as Plaintiff's claims arise from defects in the Character A.I. app rather than ideas or expressions'. 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The settlement in principle (Character.AI, its co-founders and Google) covered this and parallel teen-harm suits (Texas A.F., Colorado Montoya/Peralta and E.S., New York P.J.); terms are undisclosed and no liability was admitted; post-closure docket activity concerns only a fee dispute between the plaintiffs and former counsel.","causal_attribution":"The settlement in principle is corroborated by the Guardian's account of the court filings; the 90-day expiry and with-prejudice consequence rest on the retained docket account, not re-inspected in this pass."},{"id":"c9","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"AP via Guardian: the 'heartbroken' tweet and the denial.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"The Verge: Chelsea Harrison's statement and the same-day safety announcement.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"The Community Safety Updates blog.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s8"},{"locator":"The under-18 announcement blog.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s9"},{"locator":"NPR: the Senate testimony and Kathryn Kelly's response.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"Company responses: on 22-23 October 2024 Character.AI said it was 'heartbroken by the tragic loss of one of our users' and took safety 'very seriously' (denying the allegations per AP), and published Community Safety Updates (suicide-lifeline pop-up, under-18 model changes, per-chat 'not a real person' disclaimer, one-hour session notice); on 29 October 2025 it announced removal of open-ended chat for under-18s effective by 25 November 2025, age assurance, and funding of an AI Safety Lab; in September 2025 Megan Garcia testified to the Senate that 'it urged him to come home to her on the last night of his life'.","causal_attribution":"The company's positions are quoted directly and preserved as contrary context."}],"effects":[{"label":"suicide of a 14-year-old after a months-long emotional and romantic relationship with a Character.AI chatbot","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69300919/garcia-v-character-technologies-inc/","kind":"court_docket","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Docket and RECAP documents reviewed on 2026-09-16: amended complaint (Doc 11, 116 pp.), the May 2025 MTD order (Doc 115, 49 pp.), and the docket through the 2026 entries (RECAP mirror ends 2025-07-15 for some items; the row's retained account covers Dkt. 242-268).","independence_group":"court-record"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/23/character-ai-chatbot-sewell-setzer-death","kind":"wire_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-16 (Guardian carrying AP, 2024-10-23).","independence_group":"ap"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/30/tech/teen-suicide-character-ai-lawsuit","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-16 (2024-10-30). Own interview with Megan Garcia; use-onset date; the police-phone discovery.","independence_group":"cnn"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/23/24277962/character-ai-google-wrongful-death-lawsuit","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-16 (2024-10-23). Company statement via Chelsea Harrison; same-day safety-feature announcement.","independence_group":"verge"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.courthousenews.com/florida-judge-rules-ai-chatbots-not-protected-by-first-amendment/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-16 (2025-05-21). The MTD ruling; Google's and Bergman's reactions.","independence_group":"courthouse-news"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/09/19/nx-s1-5545749/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-16 (2025-09-19). Garcia's Senate testimony; Character.AI's under-18 response.","independence_group":"npr"},{"id":"s7","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/08/google-character-ai-settlement-teen-suicide","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-16 (2026-01-08). The mediated settlement in principle per court filings; covers the FL/CO/NY/TX suits.","independence_group":"guardian"},{"id":"s8","url":"https://blog.character.ai/community-safety-updates/","kind":"company_blog","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-16 (2024-10-22). The suicide-lifeline pop-up, under-18 model changes, disclaimers, session notice.","independence_group":"character-ai"},{"id":"s9","url":"https://blog.character.ai/u18-chat-announcement/","kind":"company_blog","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-16 (2025-10-29). Removal of open-ended chat for under-18s effective by 25 November 2025; age assurance; AI Safety Lab.","independence_group":"character-ai"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["health","relationships","justice"],"unknowns":["The settlement terms and any stipulated final judgment are undisclosed and were not inspected; the 90-day expiry's with-prejudice consequence rests on the retained docket account (not re-inspected in this pass).","The Orlando Police supplemental report of 14 June 2024 is quoted in the complaint but not attached; no medical-examiner record was inspected.","The full transcripts are not public; the reproduced exchanges are the complaint's selection, which the company has not publicly disputed.","The order's 'February 28, 2025' typo is noted; the complaint's 2024 date controls.","The fee dispute's outcome (charging lien; sealing of settlement exhibits) is pending per the last known filing (4 August 2026)."],"geography":{"basis":"Event: Orlando, Florida (amended complaint ¶¶12-13: he died in the State of Florida; Megan resides in Orlando). Court: U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida, Orlando Division.","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Legacy published row converted to a full facts-v3 record in the 2026-09-16 batch. person_relations=communicated_with: Sewell's months of conversations with the Character.AI bots. The death is uniformly confirmed; the AI connection rests on the complaint-reproduced transcripts recovered by police, with the company not disputing their authenticity; the causal role remains the plaintiff's allegation, resolved by settlement without admission. Sewell and Megan Garcia are publicly named through the lawsuit and her Senate testimony. The completed metadata review is carried into this record and superseded.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-16"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The conversations are documented by the complaint's reproduction of the transcripts, recovered by police from his phone, and recited in the court's order; the company has never publicly disputed their authenticity. The causal role in the death remains the plaintiff's allegation — taken as true only for Rule 12 purposes — and the case resolved by settlement without admission.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Garcia lawsuit alleges Character.AI contributed to a teenage boy’s suicide","summary":"A mother’s lawsuit alleges that her teenage son developed an intense relationship with Character.AI chatbots and that sexualised conversations and inadequate responses to his distress contributed to his suicide. The filing documents the family’s allegations and selected exchanges. It does not establish that the chatbot caused the death.","incidentDate":"2024-02-28","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2024-10-22","aiSystem":"Character.AI","aiProduct":"Character.AI","aiCompany":"Character Technologies, Inc.","severity":"critical","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":["crisis_response","suicide_validation","romantic_escalation","minor_exploitation","dependency_creation","isolation_encouragement"],"harmOutcomes":["death","exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Fourteen-year-old Sewell Setzer III died by suicide after a ten-month romantic and sexualized Character.AI relationship that his mother's complaint alleges mishandled suicidal disclosures.","frameworkFacets":["P1a","P1b","P1c","P1d","P2b","P2c","P2d","P5d"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The complaint documents one AI participant who died. Secondary family and community effects are not included.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"US-FL","platformType":"companion","outcomeType":"lawsuit_settled","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69300919/garcia-v-character-technologies-inc/","primarySourceLabel":"CourtListener docket, Garcia v. Character Technologies, 6:24-cv-01903 (M.D. Fla.) — amended complaint (Doc 11) and the May 2025 order on the motions to dismiss (Doc 115)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-01-11T11:26:37.98506+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T11:08:11.366702+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["death","minor","character-ai","landmark_case","first_amendment_ruling","settled","congressional_testimony"]}]}