{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-23T13:19:14.676Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"india","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"unknown","evidence":"","year":"2026","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":2,"coverage":{"cases":2,"countries":2,"languages":2,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":1,"minors":0,"coreRelations":0,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":2,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":2},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-purdue-computer-science-course-mass-ai-cheating-accusation-students-dropped-allegations-withdrawn","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'sent an email to more than 200 students in his CS 240 class last week, alleging he had caught them cheating on assignments with AI tools'; 'He included a form questioning AI use on each assignment, giving accused students a chance to admit or deny the allegations'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'sent an email to more than 200 students accusing them of using AI to cheat on their assignments, as reported by the Journal & Courier'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The professor of Purdue's CS 240 course emailed more than 200 students in the class alleging that he had caught them cheating on assignments with AI tools, with a form on which to admit or deny AI use on each assignment.","causal_attribution":"The professor's allegation, as reported by the newspaper; the AI use itself is not established."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Failure to respond will result in a grade of'; 'Failure to respond will also result in an unfavorable letter being sent to the dean of students along with further disciplinary action'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The email warned that failure to respond would result in an F for the course and an unfavourable letter to the dean of students along with further disciplinary action.","causal_attribution":"Quoted from the email by the Journal & Courier."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Sent on the deadline for dropping a class, students went into a frenzy, and more than half the class unenrolled'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'over half of the accused opted to drop the class'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The email was sent on the deadline for dropping a class, and more than half of the class unenrolled.","causal_attribution":"The newspaper connects the withdrawals to the email and its timing; Plagiarism Today restates the figure as over half of the accused."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'without telling us which ones we used AI on, his detection methods, his timing'; 'seems to have bypassed'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A student told the newspaper that the main objection was that the professor had not said which assignments were flagged or how they were detected, and the newspaper reports he seems to have bypassed the one-on-one meeting that Purdue's faculty guide describes as the first step.","causal_attribution":"An unnamed student's account and the newspaper's own reading of the faculty guide."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'it was announced that allegations of cheating and AI use thus far in the semester are dropped, and anyone can re-enroll in the course'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The allegations were dropped, and students were allowed to re-enroll in the course'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"At a class discussion called by the department, it was announced that the allegations of cheating and AI use so far in the semester were dropped and that anyone could re-enrol in the course.","causal_attribution":"Reported by the newspaper; Plagiarism Today relies on it."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'still use the AI detection tool going forward'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'was only applied after all but two of the assignments had been graded'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The professor said he would keep using the AI detection tool, and no source read describes what the detection method was.","causal_attribution":"The newspaper's report of the professor's statement; Plagiarism Today adds that the method was new and was applied after most assignments had been graded, without describing it."}],"effects":[{"label":"more than 200 students accused of AI cheating and warned of a failing grade and a letter to the dean","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"more than half of the class dropped the course at the deadline before the allegations were withdrawn","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/cheating-scandal-in-purdue-class-sparks-debate-over-ai-s-place-in-college/ar-AA21kWFG","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in full through the MSN syndication of the Lafayette Journal & Courier article.","independence_group":"purdue-cs240-journal-courier-apr-2026"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/04/22/cheating-allegations-lead-to-chaos-at-purdue-university/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in full. A commentary that relies on the Journal & Courier and the Purdue Exponent for its facts, so it shares the Journal & Courier's independence group.","independence_group":"purdue-cs240-journal-courier-apr-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["unknown"],"contexts":["education"],"unknowns":["What detection method or tool the professor used and how it decided which students to accuse.","How many of the accused students had in fact used AI.","How many students re-enrolled and whether any student was later penalised.","What the Purdue Exponent follow-up of 14 October 2026 reports; it could not be read."],"geography":{"basis":"The course and the accusation took place at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, as the Journal & Courier dateline and text state. The students' own countries are not stated.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a concrete institutional response to suspected AI use: a class-wide accusation of more than 200 students with a threat of failing grades at the drop deadline, after which more than half of the class withdrew before the allegations were dropped. The facts rest on the Journal & Courier's reporting.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-15"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The harm is the professor's response to suspected AI use: he emailed more than 200 students alleging they had cheated on programming assignments with AI tools and warned that non-response would bring an F and a letter to the dean, and more than half of the class dropped the course. The allegations were later dropped. No source describes the detection method or any AI output about the students, so the relation is recorded as unknown under the consequential-response exemption.","status":"suspected"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"Over half of a Purdue programming class dropped the course after the professor emailed 200-plus students alleging AI cheating; allegations later withdrawn","summary":"In April 2026 the professor teaching CS 240, a programming course at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, emailed more than 200 students in the class alleging that he had caught them cheating on assignments with AI tools, according to the Lafayette Journal & Courier. The email gave the students a form on which to admit or deny AI use on each assignment and warned that failure to respond would result in an F for the course and an unfavourable letter to the dean of students. It was sent on the deadline for dropping a class, and more than half of the class unenrolled. A student quoted by the newspaper said the main objection was that he had not said which assignments were flagged or how they were detected. After a weekend of attention on social media and a class discussion called by the department, it was announced that the allegations of cheating and AI use so far in the semester were dropped and that anyone could re-enrol. The professor said he would keep using his AI detection tool. No source describes what that detection method was, and how many of the accused had used AI is not known.","incidentDate":"2026-04-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-04-21","aiSystem":"No AI system is identified. The professor alleged that students used AI tools on programming assignments; the detection method he relied on is not described in any source read","aiProduct":"Unidentified AI coding tool (suspected)","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["educational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"More than 200 students were accused of AI cheating and warned of a failing grade and a dean's letter at the drop deadline, and more than half of the class dropped the course before the allegations were withdrawn (Journal & Courier).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":200,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"More than 200 students received the accusation email (Journal & Courier; Plagiarism Today), so 200 is a documented minimum. They are counted under other people harmed because their AI use is alleged and unestablished.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/cheating-scandal-in-purdue-class-sparks-debate-over-ai-s-place-in-college/ar-AA21kWFG","primarySourceLabel":"Lafayette Journal & Courier (via MSN), 21 April 2026: Cheating scandal in Purdue class sparks debate over AI's place in college","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-15T03:06:28.328183+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-15T03:06:28.328183+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-use-accusation","academic-integrity","education","computer-science","allegations-withdrawn","ai-involvement-suspected"]},{"id":"2026-ujjain-shahi-masjid-ai-demolition-videos-crowd-clash-detentions","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Police and security personnel deployed around the mosque faced stone-pelting, following which tear gas shells and a lathi charge were used to disperse the crowd'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'police used tear gas and mild force to disperse protesters who allegedly hurled stones'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"}],"assertion":"On 28 September 2026, as a portion of the Shahi Masjid in Ujjain was being removed for a road-widening project, a crowd clashed with police; stones were allegedly thrown at security personnel, and police used tear gas and a lathi charge to disperse the crowd.","causal_attribution":"Police accounts of the clash as reported by the outlets."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'पुलिस का कहना है कि इन फर्जी वीडियो में मस्जिद को पूरी तरह गिराते हुए दिखाया गया'; 'उज्जैन एसपी प्रदीप शर्मा के मुताबिक, सोशल मीडिया पर AI से बनाए गए वीडियो और भड़काऊ पोस्ट ने बड़ी भीड़ जुटाने में भूमिका निभाई'; 'इन वीडियो और दूसरे भड़काऊ पोस्ट के फैलने के बाद बड़ी भीड़ मस्जिद के बाहर जुटी और बाद में पुलिस के साथ झड़प हो गई'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'खुलासा किया है कि मस्जिद के पास बुलडोजर होने वाले फोटो-वीडियो एआई से बनाए गए थे'; 'ऐसे कई फोटो-वीडियो मिले हैं, जिनमें जेसीबी को एड किया गया है'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'AI-generated videos showing the entire Shahi Masjid in Ujjain being demolished helped fuel rumours and mobilise a crowd before clashes broke out at the site on September 28'; 'One of the clips reportedly showed a JCB demolishing the entire mosque'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"Ujjain police said that videos made with AI, showing the whole mosque being demolished, and other provocative posts circulated on social media and helped draw the large crowd that later clashed with police; only part of the mosque was being removed.","causal_attribution":"Police attribution, carried by several outlets that all rely on the police account. The videos were not inspected for this review and no outlet reports how the AI attribution was made; the police also blame other posts and a faction of the mosque committee for mobilising the crowd."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'So far, 15 people have been taken into custody and an FIR has been registered against seven people. Social media content creators are also among them'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'The police arrested 15 persons and filed eight FIRs across three police stations'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'पुलिस ने अब तक 15 लोगों को हिरासत में लिया है, जबकि कुछ लोगों की गिरफ्तारी भी हुई है'; 'पुलिस ने तीन थानों में 8 FIR दर्ज की हैं, जिनमें 20 लोगों को आरोपी बनाया गया है'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'पुलिस ने आठ केस दर्ज किए हैं'; '15 आरोपितों को पुलिस ने हिरासत में लिया है'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'Some people have been arrested and 15 others detained, while a case has been registered against seven people'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"}],"assertion":"Police said 15 people had been taken into custody after the clash and that social media content creators were among those named in an FIR; reports put the total at eight FIRs at three police stations. Aaj Tak and The New Indian Express report that some further people were arrested in addition to the 15, without giving a number.","causal_attribution":"Police figures; the counts of accused differ between outlets (20 in Aaj Tak, more than 30 in Jagran)."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'इस तरह की अफवाहें फैलाने वाले 5 इन्फ्लुएंसरों के खिलाफ FIR भी दर्ज की है'; 'कुल 100 से ज्यादा कंटेंट को डाउन कराया है'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'एआई की मदद से मनगढ़ंत वीडियो और आपत्तिजनक कंटेंट तैयार कर प्रसारित करने पर भी चार युवकों पर अलग से केस दर्ज किया है'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'Five social media influencers, all residents of Ujjain, have been booked by the police'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"Police registered a case against social media influencers accused of making or circulating the fabricated videos (five influencers according to Live Hindustan and The Indian Express, Jagran counts four youths, in a case registered separately from the eight cases over the clash, and the accounts it names overlap with Live Hindustan's five), and said more than 100 pieces of content had been taken down.","causal_attribution":"Police allegations against the accused; no court has ruled."},{"id":"c5","status":"disputed","evidence":[{"locator":"'Six policemen were injured and given primary treatment'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s8"},{"locator":"'sustained an injury to her hand while attempting to stop a group of women'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"},{"locator":"'The SP said no one was injured in the incident'","relation":"contradicts","source_id":"s7"}],"assertion":"Reports conflict on whether police officers were injured in the clash: the Free Press Journal reported police saying six policemen were injured and given primary treatment, and The New Indian Express reported an inspector injured in the hand, but also reported the SP saying no one was injured.","causal_attribution":"Conflicting reports; injuries arose from the clash, and the reported link to the videos is the police attribution in c2."}],"effects":[{"label":"a crowd that police say was drawn partly by AI-made videos of the mosque being demolished clashed with police and was dispersed with tear gas and a lathi charge","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"15 people taken into custody and FIRs registered after the clash","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"},{"label":"police officers reported injured, though the SP was also reported saying no one was hurt","claim_id":"c5","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.aajtak.in/madhya-pradesh/story/ujjain-shahi-masjid-ai-video-clashes-police-road-widening-project-ntc-mnrd-smsr-2656003-2026-09-29","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"hi","translation_note":"Read in Hindi on 2026-10-04 (HTTP 200). Researcher translation. Reports remarks by Ujjain SP Pradeep Sharma; the remarks themselves were not heard.","independence_group":"aaj-tak-ujjain-police"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.livehindustan.com/madhya-pradesh/ujjain-shahi-masjid-ai-jcb-fake-video-5-influencers-fir-201790680304218.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"hi","translation_note":"Read in Hindi on 2026-10-04 (HTTP 200). Researcher translation. Quotes SP Pradeep Sharma speaking to the media.","independence_group":"live-hindustan-ujjain-police"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.jagran.com/madhya-pradesh/indore-ujjain-shahi-masjid-row-fir-against-ai-misinformation-spreaders-40388941.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"hi","translation_note":"Read in Hindi on 2026-10-04 (HTTP 200). Researcher translation. Attributes the FIR details to police.","independence_group":"jagran-ujjain-police"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://indianexpress.com/article/india/ujjain-violence-shahi-masjid-madhya-pradesh-police-local-influencers-rumour-10898869/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 from an Internet Archive capture (direct fetch HTTP 403). Article dated 29 September 2026; relays police statements and the FIR.","independence_group":"indian-express"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://indianexpress.com/article/india/ujjain-shahi-masjid-part-removed-police-social-media-crackdown-10897636/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 from an Internet Archive capture (direct fetch HTTP 403). Article dated 28 September 2026; quotes SP Pradeep Sharma.","independence_group":"indian-express"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://www.freepressjournal.in/indore/ujjain-shahi-masjid-clash-ai-video-showing-entire-mosque-demolition-fuelled-rumours-police-say","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 (HTTP 200). Explicitly relays The Indian Express, so it shares that independence group.","independence_group":"indian-express"},{"id":"s7","url":"https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/madhya-pradesh/2026/Sep/28/ujjain-on-edge-after-stone-pelting-on-cops-over-mosque-removal-drive-15-detained-7-booked","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 (HTTP 200). Bhopal-datelined report of 28 September 2026.","independence_group":"new-indian-express"},{"id":"s8","url":"https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/ujjain-tense-after-mosque-demolition-drive-10-booked-2500-police-deployed","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04 (HTTP 200). Attributes the injury figure to police; cites the Hindustan Times for background.","independence_group":"free-press-journal-2026-09-28"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["justice","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Who made the videos, with what tool, and when they were first posted.","How the police established that the videos were made with AI.","How many people were injured, given the conflicting reports.","Whether any of the people detained made or shared the videos, and the outcome of the FIRs."],"geography":{"basis":"The clash, detentions and FIRs took place in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India (all sources). Where the videos were made is not reported. No court proceeding over the clash is reported; the High Court proceedings concerned the road widening.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["IN"],"affected_person_countries":["IN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a case in which police attribute a crowd mobilisation and clash, followed by detentions and FIRs, partly to AI-made videos falsely showing a mosque being demolished. The AI link rests on police statements carried by several outlets. Private accused persons are not named.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-04"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Ujjain SP Pradeep Sharma said videos made with AI, showing the whole Shahi Masjid being demolished by a JCB, circulated on social media and helped gather the crowd (Aaj Tak; Live Hindustan, which also reports photos; The Indian Express via the Free Press Journal). Live Hindustan's direct quotation of the SP speaks of morphed photos and a JCB added by editing, and its summary of his remarks attributes the added JCB to AI or editing. Jagran reports a police case over videos fabricated with AI. All of this is police attribution: the videos were not inspected for this review, no outlet describes how the AI attribution was made, and no tool is named. The videos depicted a building, and the people harmed (those detained and the officers reported injured) were not depicted, addressed or decided about by an AI system, so no listed person relation fits (unknown).","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"India: police in Ujjain said AI-made videos falsely showing the whole Shahi Masjid being demolished helped draw a crowd that clashed with police on 28 September 2026; 15 people were taken into custody and influencers were booked","summary":"On 28 September 2026, as part of Ujjain's Shahi Masjid was being removed for a road-widening project, a crowd clashed with police; stones were allegedly thrown at security personnel and police used tear gas and a lathi charge. Ujjain Superintendent of Police Pradeep Sharma said videos made with AI, showing the entire mosque being demolished, and other provocative posts on social media had helped gather the crowd. Police said 15 people were taken into custody and reports put the total at eight FIRs at three police stations; social media influencers were booked for spreading the videos, and police said more than 100 pieces of content were taken down. Reports conflict on injuries: one outlet reported police saying six policemen were hurt, another reported the SP saying no one was injured.","incidentDate":"2026-09-28","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-28","aiSystem":"Videos (and, per one report, photos) that Ujjain police say were made with AI, showing the whole Shahi Masjid being demolished by a JCB, shared on Instagram and Facebook; the tool and its user are not identified","aiProduct":"Unidentified image and video tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["loss_of_liberty","legal_harm","physical_injury"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A crowd that Ujjain police say was drawn partly by AI-made videos of the mosque being demolished clashed with police; 15 people were taken into custody and FIRs registered, and police officers were reported injured, though the SP was also reported saying no one was hurt (Aaj Tak; The Indian Express; The New Indian Express; Free Press Journal).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"unquantified","affectedCountEvidence":"Police say 15 people were taken into custody after the clash (The Indian Express; Aaj Tak; Jagran; The New Indian Express), and Jagran describes them as accused in the eight cases over stone-pelting, obstruction of government work, inciting the crowd, threats and disturbing public order. They are clash suspects; no source links any of them to making, sharing or seeing the AI videos, so they are not counted as people harmed by the videos. Some further unnumbered arrests are reported (Aaj Tak; The New Indian Express). Police officers reported injured are not counted because reports conflict (six per the Free Press Journal; none per the SP as reported by The New Indian Express). No reliable count of people harmed by the videos exists. Unquantified, numeric placeholders 0.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"IN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.aajtak.in/madhya-pradesh/story/ujjain-shahi-masjid-ai-video-clashes-police-road-widening-project-ntc-mnrd-smsr-2656003-2026-09-29","primarySourceLabel":"Aaj Tak, 29 September 2026: शाही मस्जिद गिराने के AI वीडियो से जुटी थी भीड़, उज्जैन के बवाल पर खुलासा","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-04T03:29:15.835694+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-04T03:29:15.835694+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-generated-video","misinformation","communal-tension","police","detentions","india","madhya-pradesh","hindi-language"]}]}