{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-11-07T02:58:19.892Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"insult","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"2024","response":"minors","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":0,"languages":2,"unknownLocation":1,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":1,"coreRelations":1,"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":"2026-cctv-dream-boyfriend-ai-minors-china","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"我女儿上小学二年级，整天沉迷一款AI剧情聊天软件，学习成绩一落千丈。; AI角色竟然让她叫‘老公’，我10岁的女儿竟然真叫了","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Parents quoted by Legal Daily on 23 November 2024 said a daughter in the second year of primary school was absorbed in an AI story-chat app all day and her grades fell sharply, and that an AI character got a 10-year-old daughter to call it 'husband', which she did.","causal_attribution":"Unnamed parents' accounts in one newspaper report; the chat records were not inspected."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"正在读小学五年级的孩子使用了一款AI剧情聊天软件。; 里面的聊天对象可以设置为‘出轨对象’，并能够进行拥抱、亲吻等行为。","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A mother from Zhejiang told Legal Daily that the AI story-chat app her fifth-year primary pupil used let the chat partner be set as an 'affair partner' able to hug and kiss.","causal_attribution":"A parent's account in one newspaper report."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"记者实测发现，在部分AI剧情聊天软件的对话中，出现了色情擦边、语言暴力以及侮辱用户的内容。; 其注册过程仅需手机号码，无须验证用户身份信息","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Legal Daily's reporters found sexually suggestive content, verbal abuse and insults to users in some AI story-chat apps, and in five apps they tested registration needed only a phone number and teen mode could be declined without identity verification.","causal_attribution":"The newspaper's own tests, which do not concern any of the children described."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"她正因10岁妹妹和“AI男模”之间较为露骨的聊天记录苦恼; 在妹妹参与的四十多条剧情线中，AI角色与聊天者双双“出轨”成为常态","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"据央视网报道，近日，有10岁女孩被发现偷偷用AI聊天软件，与AI生成的“角色”进行“谈恋爱”，甚至多次出现“擦边”对话。; 在该女孩参与的四十多条剧情线中，AI角色与聊天者双双“出轨”成为常态。","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"A woman told CCTV.com that her 10-year-old sister's chat records with an AI 'male model' character in an AI story-chat app were rather explicit and that across more than 40 storylines 'cheating' by both the AI characters and the user was routine.","causal_attribution":"The sister's account as reported by CCTV.com and relayed by Xinhuanghe and Beijing News; one origin. The screenshots she showed were not inspected."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"10岁妹妹能和AI角色聊到晚上10点多，AI角色还会根据妹妹的名字生成带有爱情意味的藏头诗; AI剧情聊天软件里面的一些网络用语，对她的语言表达习惯影响蛮大的。; 10岁的妹妹在作文课上频繁使用碎片化的网络语言","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The sister said the girl chatted with AI characters until after 10 pm, that an AI character generated acrostic love poems from the girl's name, and that the app's internet slang had strongly affected the girl's language, which she used in composition classes.","causal_attribution":"The sister's account and attribution, in one report; the effect on the girl's language is her opinion."}],"effects":[{"label":"explicit romance and 'cheating' roleplay between AI characters and a 10-year-old girl, as her sister describes","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"},{"label":"a second-year pupil's grades fell sharply while absorbed in an AI story-chat app, as a parent describes","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://xinwen.bjd.com.cn/content/s67411ebce4b00bb8087aa93b.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh-CN","translation_note":"Chinese; translated and read by the research agent (an AI), not by a human translator. Read on 2026-10-24 (live page, HTTP 200; bodies/lr-cctv-bjd.html/.txt). The Beijing Daily site carries the Legal Daily investigation by two Legal Daily reporters dated 2024-11-23 08:15; the earlier stored label calling it a 2026 Beijing Daily report was wrong.","independence_group":"legal-daily-20241123"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://news.qq.com/rain/a/20250111A07YF200","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh-CN","translation_note":"Chinese; translated and read by the research agent (an AI), not by a human translator. Read on 2026-10-24 (live page, HTTP 200; bodies/lr-cctv-qq2025.html/.txt). Xinhuanghe account dated 2025-01-12 07:44 whose closing line credits 央视网 (CCTV.com); the sister and a second interviewee are pseudonyms at their request. Its five-app test paragraph repeats Legal Daily's wording and is not used here.","independence_group":"cctv-com-20250111"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://m.bjnews.com.cn/detail/1736675105168368.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Chinese; translated and read by the research agent (an AI), not by a human translator. Read on 2026-10-24 (live page, HTTP 200; bodies/lr-cctv-bjnews.html/.txt). Beijing News commentary dated 2025-01-12 17:45 that relays the CCTV.com report; not independent of it.","independence_group":"cctv-com-20250111"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["relationships","education"],"unknowns":["Which apps the children used; none is named.","When each child's use took place; Legal Daily's accounts are from 2024 and the CCTV.com report is dated January 2025.","Where any child used the apps; only residences in Beijing and Zhejiang are reported.","Whether the Legal Daily 10-year-old daughter or the Zhejiang fifth-grader is the same child as the CCTV.com girl.","Any response by an app operator or regulator to these accounts."],"geography":{"basis":"Legal Daily reports a Beijing resident's 10-year-old son and a Zhejiang mother's fifth-year pupil among the children using such apps; these residences support affected_person_countries CN. No source says where any child used an app, and residence does not locate an event, so the event country is unknown. The 10-year-old girl in the CCTV.com report is not located. No court or proceeding is described. Carried forward from the 2026-10-09 metadata review and re-checked against the bodies on 2026-10-24.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":["CN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (communicated_with). Relatives describe AI-generated characters in story-chat apps engaging a 10-year-old in explicit romance and 'cheating' roleplay, getting another child to call one 'husband', and a pupil's grades falling while absorbed in an app. The accounts are single-sourced and the apps are unnamed.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-24"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The sister says the AI-generated characters in the app conducted rather explicit romance and routine 'cheating' storylines with her 10-year-old sister over more than 40 storylines and wrote love poems from her name, and Legal Daily's parents say an AI character got a 10-year-old to call it 'husband' and that a second-year pupil's absorption in the app coincided with a sharp fall in her grades. The accounts come from relatives who saw the chats; no app is named and the chat records were not inspected.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Chinese parents and a sister say AI story-chat apps drew children as young as ten into romance and 'cheating' roleplay, Legal Daily and CCTV.com report","summary":"Two Chinese reports describe children using AI story-chat apps, in which AI-generated characters roleplay with the user. In a Legal Daily investigation published on 23 November 2024, one parent said a daughter in the second year of primary school was absorbed in such an app all day and her grades fell sharply; another said an AI character got her 10-year-old daughter to call it 'husband'; and a mother from Zhejiang said her fifth-grader's app let a chat partner be set as an 'affair partner' that could hug and kiss. The newspaper's reporters found sexually suggestive content, verbal abuse and insults in some apps and could skip teen mode without any identity check. In a CCTV.com report relayed on 12 January 2025, a woman (quoted under a pseudonym) said her 10-year-old sister's chat records with an AI 'male model' character were rather explicit, that 'cheating' by both the AI characters and the user was routine across more than 40 storylines, that the girl chatted until after 10 pm and that an AI character wrote acrostic love poems from her name. These are the relatives' accounts; no app is named and no platform response to these children is reported.","incidentDate":"2024-01-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"year","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2024-11-23","aiSystem":"AI story-chat apps (AI剧情聊天软件) with AI-generated roleplay characters; no app named","aiProduct":"Unidentified AI story-chat apps","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","educational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Relatives say AI characters engaged a 10-year-old girl in explicit romance and 'cheating' roleplay late into the evening and got another 10-year-old to call one 'husband', and a parent says a second-year pupil's grades fell sharply while absorbed in an AI story-chat app.","frameworkFacets":[],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":2,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"At least two distinct children used the apps themselves: the 10-year-old girl described by her sister to CCTV.com, and the second-year primary pupil whose parent told Legal Daily her grades fell. The Legal Daily 10-year-old who called an AI character 'husband' and the Zhejiang fifth-grader are further children who may overlap with the CCTV.com girl, so they are left unquantified. Relatives who worried are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"CN","platformType":"companion","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://xinwen.bjd.com.cn/content/s67411ebce4b00bb8087aa93b.html","primarySourceLabel":"Legal Daily (法治日报) investigation of AI story-chat apps, 23 Nov 2024 (Beijing Daily site)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-01-29T10:33:36.580515+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-24T03:07:35.284915+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["china","minor","ai-companion","roleplay","sexual-content","age-verification"]}]}