{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-22T10:15:49.587Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"hangzhou","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":3,"coverage":{"cases":3,"countries":1,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":1,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":3,"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":"2022-hangzhou-man-sold-ai-face-swap-obscene-videos-of-public-figures-and-private-people-jailed-and-ordered-to-pay-public-interest-damages","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'2022年8月，杭州市萧山警方在网上巡查中获取一条线索，辖区内有人利用AI技术制作淫秽视频在网上进行大量传播，警方依法对此立案侦查，并迅速抓获了犯罪嫌疑人'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Xiaoshan police opened a case in August 2022 after an online patrol found someone in the district making obscene videos with AI technology and spreading them widely online, and arrested the man.","causal_attribution":"Police and procuratorate account via CCTV."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'利用“AI换脸”软件生成大量淫秽视频进行传播'; '还将“AI换脸”软件分为初级、中级和高级三个等级进行销售并传授使用教程，同时还提供网上非法收集的他人人脸素材'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'根据顾客的需要，还可以使用不同的女明星的形象，进行“私人定制”'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Prosecutors said he used AI face-swap software to make obscene videos, spread them in paid groups, took custom face-swap orders and sold the software with tutorials and face material.","causal_attribution":"Procuratorate account."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'被“AI换脸”侵害人脸敏感信息的受害者，不仅包括多位知名公众人物，还有很多不特定的普通人'; '其中就有人提出想要定制自己暗恋女生的换脸视频'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'“私人定制”换脸的对象，不仅包括明星，也有生活中的普通人'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Prosecutors said the victims whose faces were swapped included several well-known public figures and many unspecified private people, and that one customer asked for the face of a woman he had a crush on.","causal_attribution":"Procuratorate account; no individual victim is described."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'删除非法获取的个人信息，公开赔礼道歉、消除影响并赔偿损失共60000元'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'删除非法获取的个人信息，公开赔礼道歉、消除影响并赔偿损失共60000元'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The Hangzhou Internet Court granted the prosecutors' public-interest claims, ordering deletion of the personal information, a public apology and 60,000 yuan for personal-information protection.","causal_attribution":"Court outcome as relayed; the judgment was not inspected."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'2023年11月，杭州市萧山区人民法院判决被告人'; '犯制作、传播淫秽物品牟利罪，判处有期徒刑七年三个月，并处罚金6万元'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'有期徒刑七年三个月'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"In November 2023 the Xiaoshan District People's Court sentenced him to seven years and three months in prison and a 60,000-yuan fine for making and spreading obscene material for profit.","causal_attribution":"Court outcome as relayed; the judgment was not inspected."}],"effects":[{"label":"faces of public figures and private people swapped into obscene videos with AI and spread and sold without consent, per prosecutors","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://app.xinhuanet.com/news/article.html?articleId=50a79df8-e37c-4837-86dd-2b0deef66ca0","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in the original Chinese on 2026-10-22 (HTTP 200). English renderings in this record are the research agent's (an AI's) own translations; no human translator reviewed them. Xinhua app relay of CCTV's report quoting Xiaoshan prosecutors and Hangzhou Internet Court judges; no judgment inspected.","independence_group":"xiaoshan-procuratorate-and-courts-via-cctv"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.jinantimes.com.cn/news-216-4931256.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in the original Chinese on 2026-10-22 (HTTP 200). English renderings in this record are the research agent's (an AI's) own translations; no human translator reviewed them. New Yellow River roundup (via Jinan Times) restating the same procuratorate and court account; it also covers a separate Beijing case not used here.","independence_group":"xiaoshan-procuratorate-and-courts-via-cctv"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["When the obscene face-swap videos were first made and spread; the reports give 2020 for his first use of the software and August 2022 for the police case.","How many people were depicted and who they were.","Which face-swap software was used.","The date of the Hangzhou Internet Court judgment.","Whether either judgment was appealed."],"geography":{"basis":"Xiaoshan police in Hangzhou found the videos being spread from their district and arrested the man there, and the Xiaoshan court and Hangzhou Internet Court decided the case, so the event is placed in China. Where the depicted people live is not reported.","court_countries":["CN"],"event_countries":["CN"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): Hangzhou prosecutors said a man used AI face-swap software to put public figures' and private people's faces into obscene videos that he spread and sold, and he was jailed and ordered to pay public-interest damages. One reporting chain (procuratorate and courts via CCTV), read in two Chinese sources.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-22"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Prosecutors, an examining party, said the man used AI face-swap software to generate the obscene videos, and the courts convicted him and granted the public-interest claims on that account. The generated videos depicted the faces of public figures and private people (depicted_or_impersonated). The technical basis of the identification beyond the seized material is not described in the reports.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Hangzhou: man who sold AI face-swap obscene videos, including custom swaps of private people's faces, jailed 7 years 3 months; court orders 60,000 yuan","summary":"According to Hangzhou prosecutors and courts as reported by CCTV and relayed by Xinhua in March 2024, police in Xiaoshan district opened a case in August 2022 after finding that a local man was spreading large numbers of obscene videos made with AI technology. Prosecutors said he used AI face-swap software to put faces onto obscene videos, spread them in paid social-media groups to attract customers, sold the software and tutorials, and took custom orders, swapping in the faces of public figures and of private people; one customer asked for the face of a woman he had a crush on. Victims included several well-known public figures and many unspecified private people. In a civil public-interest suit brought by prosecutors, the Hangzhou Internet Court ordered him to delete the personal information he had obtained, apologise publicly and pay 60,000 yuan for personal-information protection. In November 2023 the Xiaoshan District People's Court sentenced him to seven years and three months in prison and a 60,000-yuan fine for making and spreading obscene material for profit.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2024-03-21","aiSystem":"AI face-swap software, not named in the reports, that the man used to replace faces in obscene videos and sold to others with tutorials and face material","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to Hangzhou prosecutors, the man swapped the faces of public figures and of many private people into obscene videos without consent and spread and sold them; the courts imposed a prison term and ordered public-interest damages for the infringement of personal information.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"established","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"unquantified","affectedCountEvidence":"Prosecutors describe several well-known public figures and many unspecified private people as victims; no count is given. Group sizes (95 to 2,053 members), 1,200-plus videos and 1,600-plus images are audiences and material, not harmed people.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"CN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://app.xinhuanet.com/news/article.html?articleId=50a79df8-e37c-4837-86dd-2b0deef66ca0","primarySourceLabel":"Xinhua app (CCTV report), 21 March 2024: AI face-swap obscene videos of actresses, court rules","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-22T03:12:22.743729+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-22T03:12:22.743729+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["face-swap","sexual-deepfakes","criminal-conviction","public-interest-litigation","hangzhou","china","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2026-hangzhou-man-followed-ai-dosing-advice-in-tablets-took-triple-antiviral-dose-acute-kidney-injury","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'自行上网用AI搜索治疗建议，购买了“伐昔洛韦”口服。'; '而AI的用药建议只给了每次服用的“粒数”而不是“克”'; '超过标准剂量3倍，再加上服用了一次消炎止痛药，两种药物在超剂量使用时可出现急性肾小管坏死、过敏性间质性肾炎等急性肾衰表现。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'而AI建议中仅注明粒数而非具体克数。'; '便上网用AI搜索用药建议自行服用抗病毒药物，没想到几天后出现乏力恶心等症状被家人紧急送医。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"According to the hospital, the patient used AI online to look up treatment for a cold sore and bought valaciclovir; the AI's advice gave the number of tablets per dose rather than the amount in grams, and because the imported tablets were three times the usual domestic strength he took more than three times the standard dose, plus an anti-inflammatory painkiller once.","causal_attribution":"The hospital's account as reported by Red Star News; the AI tool and its full answer are not published, and the hospital names the painkiller as a second drug in the overdose."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'近日，一名患者使用AI问诊后误服用大剂量药物，导致血肌酐飙升至10倍，出现急性药物性肾损伤，后经治疗已出院。'; '同时腹部CT平扫发现输尿管、膀胱均存在不规则的水肿，立刻由急诊收入肾病科病房。'; '血肌酐在5天内就降到了正常范围，目前已出院。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The patient was taken to the emergency department with a blood creatinine of about 800 umol/L, about ten times his earlier level, was admitted to the nephrology ward with acute drug-induced kidney injury, and after treatment his creatinine returned to normal within five days and he was discharged.","causal_attribution":"The hospital's clinical account relayed by the press; no medical record or case report is published."}],"effects":[{"label":"acute drug-induced kidney injury and hospital admission after an overdose (hospital account)","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.chinanews.com.cn/sh/2026/01-26/10558901.shtml","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-16; no human reviewer inspected the text. China News Service page of 26 January 2026 carrying a Red Star News report based on information from Zhejiang Provincial Tongde Hospital.","independence_group":"tongde-hospital-account-2026-01"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.sohu.com/a/981400955_211762","kind":"social_media_post","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-16; no human reviewer inspected the text. Sohu account post of 29 January 2026 retelling the same hospital account; it adds no independent origin, so it shares s1's group.","independence_group":"tongde-hospital-account-2026-01"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["health"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool the patient used, what he asked and the full text of its advice.","The exact date of the overdose; the 26 January 2026 report describes it as recent.","How much the cold remedy and the painkiller contributed relative to the antiviral overdose."],"geography":{"basis":"The patient was treated at Zhejiang Provincial Tongde Hospital in Hangzhou (China News Service; Sohu calls it a Hangzhou case), so CN is the event country. No source states his residence or nationality, so the affected-person country is left unknown. No court.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["CN"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case: Zhejiang Provincial Tongde Hospital, reported by Red Star News via China News Service, describes a patient who followed AI dosing advice given in tablets rather than grams, took more than three times the standard valaciclovir dose and was admitted with acute drug-induced kidney injury, recovering within five days. The AI's role is attributed to the hospital's account; the tool is unidentified.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-16"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Zhejiang Provincial Tongde Hospital, as reported by Red Star News via China News Service, says the patient used AI online for treatment advice and that the AI's medication advice gave the number of tablets per dose but not the amount in grams; because the imported valaciclovir he bought was three times the usual strength, he took more than three times the standard dose. The described contribution is the AI's dosing answer to the patient (communicated_with), which the hospital connects to the overdose and the kidney injury. The tool and its exact output are not published, and the hospital also names a painkiller taken once, so the status is reported.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Hangzhou hospital says a man took three times the standard antiviral dose after AI advice gave tablet counts, not grams, and developed acute kidney injury","summary":"Zhejiang Provincial Tongde Hospital in Hangzhou told Red Star News (relayed by China News Service on 26 January 2026) that a patient with a cold sore had recently used AI online to look up treatment, bought valaciclovir and took it as advised. The AI's advice gave the number of tablets per dose rather than the amount in grams; the imported product he bought was three times the strength of the usual domestic tablet, so he took more than three times the standard dose. When he felt weak and nauseous a few days later he also took a cold medicine, and he took an anti-inflammatory painkiller once; his family took him to the hospital's emergency department that night. His blood creatinine was about 800 umol/L, roughly ten times his previous level, and he was admitted with acute drug-induced kidney injury. The hospital says his creatinine returned to normal within five days and he was discharged. The AI tool and its exact wording are not identified.","incidentDate":"2026-01-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-01-26","aiSystem":"An AI tool the patient used online to search for treatment advice (not named); the hospital says its dosing advice gave the number of tablets per dose but not the amount in grams","aiProduct":"Unidentified AI search tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["hospitalization","medical_deterioration"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the hospital, the patient developed acute drug-induced kidney injury, with creatinine about ten times his earlier level, and was admitted from the emergency department; the hospital links this to taking more than three times the standard antiviral dose after AI advice that gave tablet counts without the strength, plus a painkiller. He recovered within five days.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One patient, described by the hospital as having used the AI advice himself; no one else is reported harmed.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"CN","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.chinanews.com.cn/sh/2026/01-26/10558901.shtml","primarySourceLabel":"China News Service (Red Star News), 26 January 2026: man took three times the dose after AI consultation, acute drug-induced kidney injury","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-16T03:09:44.700687+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-16T03:09:44.700687+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-medical-advice","medication-dosing","acute-kidney-injury","zhejiang","communicated-with"]},{"id":"2026-hangzhou-linan-man-followed-ai-app-mountain-route-fell-stranded-rescued","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'8月12日晚上，杭州市临安区狼行公益应急救援队接到紧急警情通知：有人被困在海拔1300多米的浙西三尖之一的大山上！'; '小伙脚部和膝盖多处擦伤'; '可是，当爬上童公尖上的无人开发区后，因为山高陡峭，小伙不慎摔倒受伤，结果被困在了海拔1300多米的地方。'; '小伙说他是苏州人，从苏州赶到杭州临安，一个人爬上了童公尖。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'一男子独自攀登浙西三尖之一的童公尖'; '一个多小时后'; '消防员终于在山间沟壑处发现被困男子'; '他身上多处擦伤，但并无大碍'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'于是，当日16时他独自攀登海拔1558米的童公尖。行至约海拔1300米时，周围天色渐暗，想抄近路却因路线不熟，且未带照明设备，不慎摔伤，迷路被困，只好报警求助。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"On the evening of 12 August 2026 a man who had climbed Tonggongjian alone fell and was stranded at about 1,300 metres in an undeveloped area of Lin'an district, Hangzhou; rescuers found him after more than an hour of searching, with abrasions, and escorted him down.","causal_attribution":"The rescue facts come from two rescuers' accounts: the volunteer rescue team quoted by Dushi Kuaibao, and the Zhejiang fire service's own narrative and photos in the China Fire post, which also credits Dushi Kuaibao among its sources. The fall, the 1,300-metre point and the 12 August date are stated by Dushi Kuaibao and by China National Radio, whose account uses China Fire's images and may draw on the same reports."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'他和老婆因为琐事吵了一场架'; '可到哪里玩合适呢？一时没有目标，迷茫时，他想起了手机经常用的AI软件，于是向AI发起求助。'; 'AI详细问了他的心理、性格、身高和体能后，郑重其事地给小伙推荐了一个户外线路：杭州临安浙西三尖的童公尖。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'该男子与妻子吵架后心情郁闷'; '但一时没有目标，于是向AI求助'; 'AI详细问了他的心理、性格、身高和体能'; '推荐他去童公尖观赏流星雨'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"According to the man's account as relayed in Dushi Kuaibao's report of the rescue and in the fire service's account, after an argument with his wife he asked an AI app he often used where to go; it asked about his state of mind, personality, height and fitness and recommended Tonggongjian, and in the fire service's version it suggested the peak for watching a meteor shower.","causal_attribution":"Both accounts relay what the man told rescuers; neither says a rescuer saw the exchange, and the app is not named. The AI's contribution to the fall and stranding is reported, not established."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'问了小伙自身的情况，他说自己平常很少登山，也不户外运动。'; '结果小伙子来了，几乎什么装备都没带，只带了一把折叠小椅子，脚上竟然只穿了一双板鞋。'; '这种让 AI推荐户外线路的，救援人员均表示还是第一次遇到。'; '只推荐了路线，也没提醒他在户外运动前，要准备哪些装备。'; '这种靠AI指引户外线路的游客，在这么多年的救援任务中，我们还是第一次碰到。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The rescue team relays the man's statement that he rarely hiked or did outdoor sport, says he arrived with almost no equipment (flat skate shoes and a folding stool) and that the AI recommended only the route without saying what equipment he would need; it called this the first rescue in many years of a visitor guided by an AI route.","causal_attribution":"The rescue team's statements to Dushi Kuaibao; its remark about what the AI did not say rests on the man's account, not on an inspected exchange."}],"effects":[{"label":"fall with abrasions, night stranding at about 1,300 m and a rescue lasting several hours (rescue team and fire service accounts)","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://finance.sina.com.cn/roll/2026-08-16/doc-ininpfmm7694317.shtml","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-16; no human reviewer inspected the text. Sina Finance carry, 16 August 2026, of a Chengshi Hudong (Dushi Kuaibao) report ('来源：橙柿互动·都市快报') quoting the Lin'an volunteer rescue team's leaders.","independence_group":"dushikuaibao-rescue-team-2026-08-16"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://news.qq.com/rain/a/20260819A05JBW00","kind":"official_statement","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-16; no human reviewer inspected the text. China Fire (national fire and rescue administration) official account post of 19 August 2026 on Tencent News; it credits China Fire, Zhejiang Fire and Dushi Kuaibao, and its narrative and photographs come from the Zhejiang fire service.","independence_group":"zhejiang-fire-account-2026-08"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://news.cnr.cn/native/gd/20260823/t20260823_527787671.shtml","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-16; no human reviewer inspected the text. China National Radio page of 23 August 2026 credited to the national emergency broadcasting service; it repeats the fire service's narrative (meteor shower, shortcut, no light, firefighters' search), so it is grouped with s2. The page is GB18030-encoded and was converted to UTF-8 for reading.","independence_group":"zhejiang-fire-account-2026-08"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Which AI app the man used, what he asked and what it answered; the exchange is not published.","Whether the AI suggested the peak for a meteor shower (fire service) or as an outing to clear his head (rescue team), and whether it gave any safety advice.","The man's age and the extent of his injuries beyond the abrasions both accounts describe."],"geography":{"basis":"Tonggongjian is in Lin'an district, Hangzhou, Zhejiang (Dushi Kuaibao, China National Radio), where the rescue took place, so CN is the event country. The rescue team quotes the man as saying he came from Suzhou, so CN is recorded for the affected person on that statement; China National Radio calls him a man in Hangzhou. No court.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["CN"],"affected_person_countries":["CN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case: the volunteer rescue team (via Dushi Kuaibao) and the Zhejiang fire service (via China Fire and China National Radio) each describe the fall, the night stranding and the rescue on 12 August 2026, and the man's account that an AI app recommended the route after asking about his condition and fitness is relayed by Dushi Kuaibao and repeated by the China Fire post, which credits Dushi Kuaibao among its sources. The AI claim is attributed to his account as relayed by rescuers, and the app is recorded as unidentified.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-16"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Dushi Kuaibao's report of the rescue, built on the rescue team's account, relays the man's account that an AI app he used asked about his state of mind, personality, height and fitness and then recommended the Tonggongjian route; the China Fire post, which credits Dushi Kuaibao among its sources and repeats its wording, adds that the app suggested the peak for watching a meteor shower, as does China National Radio, which uses China Fire's images. The described contribution is the app's recommendation to the man (communicated_with), which both accounts connect to his solo climb into undeveloped terrain, the fall and the stranding. The app is not named, the exchange is not published and both accounts rest on what the man told rescuers, so the status is reported.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Rescuers say a man who followed an AI app's suggested route up an undeveloped peak near Hangzhou fell, was stranded at night and had to be rescued","summary":"On the evening of 12 August 2026 rescuers were called to Tonggongjian, a peak of about 1,558 metres in the undeveloped mountains of Lin'an district, Hangzhou, where a man who had climbed alone had fallen and was stranded at about 1,300 metres. A volunteer rescue team with police and firefighters, and in the fire service's account its firefighters, found him after more than an hour, with abrasions, and escorted him down. Dushi Kuaibao's report of the rescue says the man had argued with his wife, asked an AI app on his phone where to go, and that the app asked about his state of mind, personality, height and fitness before recommending Tonggongjian; the fire service's account says it suggested he go there to watch a meteor shower. The rescue team said he rarely hiked, wore flat skate shoes and carried only a folding stool, and that the recommendation gave no advice on equipment. The app is not named and the exchange is not published.","incidentDate":"2026-08-12","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-08-16","aiSystem":"An AI app on the man's phone that he regularly used (not named), which according to his account to rescuers asked about his state of mind, personality, height and fitness and recommended the Tonggongjian route","aiProduct":"Unidentified chatbot","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["physical_injury","other_material_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Rescuers report that the man fell on an undeveloped mountain as it grew dark, suffered abrasions to his foot and knees and was stranded at about 1,300 metres until a rescue lasting several hours; rescuers relay his account that an AI app had recommended the route.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One man: both rescue accounts describe a single climber who was injured and rescued and who said he had used the AI app; no one else is reported harmed.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"CN","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://finance.sina.com.cn/roll/2026-08-16/doc-ininpfmm7694317.shtml","primarySourceLabel":"Dushi Kuaibao (Chengshi Hudong) via Sina Finance, 16 August 2026: man stranded on a Hangzhou peak after an AI-recommended route","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-16T03:07:52.535237+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-16T03:07:52.535237+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-route-advice","hiking","mountain-rescue","zhejiang","communicated-with"]}]}