{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-23T07:25:40.837Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"graduation-exam","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"2025","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":2,"coverage":{"cases":2,"countries":1,"languages":2,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":2,"minors":1,"coreRelations":2,"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":"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. The candidates are not named.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-23"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The harm is the exam board's and police's response to cheating with AI apps, reviewed as a consequential response. According to the Hanoi police account reported by Thanh Nien and VnExpress International, one candidate uploaded photos of exam papers to StudyX and copied two of its answers, and the other used Gemini on his phone to solve photographed papers. 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. 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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"]}]}