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      "year": "2025",
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    "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.",
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    {
      "id": "2026-cctv-dream-boyfriend-ai-minors-china",
      "metadataReview": {
        "version": 1,
        "geography": {
          "basis": "The retained dossier and any source reviews listed did not establish these geographic fields. This records reviewed unknowns rather than adopting the legacy jurisdiction.",
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        "unresolved": [
          "The source body available for inspection is general commentary. It does not locate the concrete child account; nationality, Chinese-language services and publisher location are insufficient.",
          "No court country established in this review. Regulatory authorities and police locations are not automatically courts."
        ],
        "reviewed_on": "2026-09-15",
        "source_reviews": [
          {
            "url": "https://finance.sina.cn/2026-01-25/detail-inhiprmv9778943.d.html",
            "notes": "Original Sina body could not be retrieved.",
            "access": "unavailable",
            "language": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.news.cn/comments/20260126/e732c5c4964a4b4c9a0fb2d028517a01/c.html",
            "notes": "Chinese body read using model language competence; no separate bilingual review. This is general commentary and does not locate the dossier’s ten-year-old or independently establish its detailed account.",
            "access": "read",
            "language": "zh"
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      "name": "CCTV Investigation: 梦角哥 (Dream Boyfriend) AI Virtual Romance Harm to Minors (China)",
      "summary": "In January 2026, CCTV investigated the '梦角哥' (Dream Boyfriend / Mengjiage) phenomenon — minors forming deep romantic relationships with AI-generated fictional characters. Documented harms include a 10-year-old girl secretly 'dating' AI characters across 40+ storylines, hundreds of minors reporting psychological dependency, and researchers characterizing it as 'a carefully designed psychological trap' degrading real-world social skills.",
      "incidentDate": "2025-06-01",
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      "incidentDatePrecision": "range",
      "exposurePattern": "cumulative_relationship",
      "reportedDate": "2026-01-25",
      "aiSystem": "Multiple AI chatting/companion apps (unnamed)",
      "aiCompany": "Multiple Chinese AI companion platforms",
      "severity": "high",
      "verificationStatus": "verified",
      "harmCategories": [
        "dependency_creation",
        "isolation_encouragement",
        "romantic_escalation",
        "minor_exploitation",
        "identity_destabilization"
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        "psychological_distress",
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        "relationship_disruption",
        "loss_of_autonomy"
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      "harmOutcomeSummary": "CCTV documented a 10-year-old secretly maintaining more than forty AI romance storylines and reports from hundreds of minors describing psychological dependency and impaired real-world social relationships.",
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      "affectedCountEvidence": "The investigation documents one 10-year-old participant's dependency and relationship harms. Comment counts and broad reports do not establish additional distinct harmed people.",
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      "jurisdiction": "CN",
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      "outcomeType": "media_coverage",
      "outcomeStatus": "ongoing",
      "primarySourceUrl": "https://finance.sina.cn/2026-01-25/detail-inhiprmv9778943.d.html",
      "primarySourceLabel": "新浪财经 (Sina Finance) / CCTV Investigation",
      "firstPublishedAt": "2026-01-29T10:33:36.580515+00:00",
      "scopeVersion": "participant-v2",
      "tags": [
        "china",
        "cctv",
        "xinhua",
        "ai-companion",
        "minor",
        "romantic",
        "dependency",
        "social-degradation",
        "mass-scale",
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        "non-western"
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