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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-inc-columnist-says-meta-muse-agent-read-and-synced-mac-messages-without-permission-meta-disputes","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"disputed","evidence":[{"locator":"'I got a push notification from Muse suggesting that the conversation we were having would make for a good column'; 'I never gave it permission to read my messages'; 'I remember explicitly choosing not to let it have access to my messages, calendar, and other personal information'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The Messages integration in the Muse app for Mac is entirely opt-in'","relation":"contradicts","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The columnist writes that Muse sent him a push notification proposing a column based on a private conversation with his podcast co-host and flagged a message from his editor, although he had chosen not to give it access to his messages.","causal_attribution":"Columnist's account; Meta disputes that access could occur without the user enabling it."},{"id":"c2","status":"disputed","evidence":[{"locator":"'Muse does sync your messages from the local Messages database and uploads that information as a data source'; 'On my device, it had been activated and synced to row 187,462 of my Messages database'; 'The settings pane in the Muse Mac app shows that Full Disk Access is not enabled'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'report claimed that when Muse read his messages, Full Disk Access was off'","relation":"context","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'the company’s response is essentially that what Aten said happened did not and could not have happened'","relation":"contradicts","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The columnist writes that he found Muse had synced his local Messages database, to row 187,462 on his device, while the Muse Mac app showed Full Disk Access as not enabled.","causal_attribution":"Columnist's account of his own inspection; not independently examined."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'It told me it didn’t have access to my message history at all'; 'the text of that notification gets relayed to me'; 'Except that wasn’t true'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'saying that the AI was confused and gave an incorrect explanation of what happened'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The columnist writes that Muse told him it had no access to his message history and was only relaying incoming notification banners, which he says was untrue; a Meta executive said the agent's explanation was incorrect.","causal_attribution":"Columnist's account; Meta's executive, per TechCrunch, also describes the agent's explanation as incorrect."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'You have to enable both Full Disk Access and the Messages connector for Muse to be able to read your Messages content'; 'can’t be circumvented even if the Muse application had a bug'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Meta's communications vice-president said the Messages integration is opt-in and that Muse cannot read Messages unless the user enables both Full Disk Access and the Messages connector; a Meta executive said the permission steps cannot be circumvented even by a bug.","causal_attribution":"Meta's position as reported by TechCrunch."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'I reached out to Meta twice, but did not immediately receive a response to my questions'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The columnist writes that he contacted Meta twice and did not immediately receive a response to his questions.","causal_attribution":"Columnist's account."}],"effects":[{"label":"private messages on his Mac read and synced by an AI agent after he says he declined that access (columnist's account; disputed by Meta)","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"inaccurate explanation from the agent of how it obtained the message content (columnist's account; Meta agrees the explanation was incorrect)","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/metas-new-muse-ai-agent-read-my-private-messages-i-never-asked-it-to/91408202","kind":"first_person_account","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-05 in the Internet Archive capture of 3 October 2026 (article body from the page's structured data); the live page returned HTTP 403 to the fetcher. Screenshots were not retrieved.","independence_group":"aten-inc-muse-account"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/meta-disputes-claim-that-muse-read-a-users-private-messages-without-permission/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-05 in full. Carries Meta's statements, which were not read in the original posts; its description of the columnist's claims derives from s1.","independence_group":"techcrunch-muse-meta-response"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["privacy","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Whether the Messages access was enabled by the columnist, by a defect or in another way; the two accounts conflict and no independent examination is reported.","How many messages were synced and whether Meta retained or deleted them.","The exact date of the notification; the column says it came the day before he wrote, in the week Muse launched.","Where the columnist was."],"geography":{"basis":"Neither source states where the columnist was or lives; no country is recorded.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a concrete first-person account by a named columnist of an AI agent reading private messages he says he had not shared with it, recorded together with Meta's reported denial. The central claim is marked disputed.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-05"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The columnist describes a Muse push notification built on his private messages and his own inspection of the Muse sync state. Meta does not deny that Muse can read Messages when enabled; it disputes that this can happen without the user granting access.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with","acted_on_behalf"]},"name":"Inc. columnist Jason Aten says Meta's Muse agent read and synced the Messages database on his Mac after he chose not to grant access, then gave him an inaccurate explanation; Meta says the integration is opt-in and cannot run without the user enabling it","summary":"In a column for Inc., technology columnist Jason Aten writes that after he installed Meta's Muse agent on his iPhone and a Mac mini, it sent him a push notification proposing a column based on a conversation he was having with his podcast co-host and flagged a message from his editor. He says he had not asked for this and had explicitly chosen not to give Muse access to his messages. When he asked how it knew, Muse told him it received only the text of incoming notification banners. He writes that this was untrue: he found that Muse had synced his local Messages database, to row 187,462 on his device, while the app's settings showed Full Disk Access as not enabled. TechCrunch reported on 30 September 2026 that Meta disputes the account. Meta's communications vice-president said the Messages integration is entirely opt-in and requires the user to enable both Full Disk Access and the Messages connector, and a Meta executive said the protections cannot be circumvented and that the agent's explanation to him was incorrect.","incidentDate":"2026-09-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-09-19","aiSystem":"Meta Muse personal AI agent (iPhone and Mac apps) with a Messages data-source integration on macOS","aiProduct":"Meta Muse agent","aiCompany":"Meta","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"disputed","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["loss_of_autonomy","other_material_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"By the columnist's account, Meta's Muse agent read and uploaded private messages from his Mac, including exchanges with a co-host and his editor, after he had chosen not to grant that access, and then misdescribed what it had done; Meta disputes that this could happen without the user enabling it.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"disputed","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the columnist whose messages he says were read and synced. The people he was messaging are not counted because no source reports harm to them. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"unknown","platformType":"agent","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/metas-new-muse-ai-agent-read-my-private-messages-i-never-asked-it-to/91408202","primarySourceLabel":"Inc., Jason Aten, 19 September 2026: Meta's New Muse AI Agent Read My Private Messages. I Never Asked It To","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-05T03:20:03.301312+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T03:20:03.301312+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["meta","muse","ai-agent","privacy","messages","permissions","macos","disputed","first-person","journalist","acted-on-behalf","communicated-with"]},{"id":"2026-garut-ai-fake-nude-photo-extortion-young-man-rp200-thousand","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Seorang pemuda Asal Karangpawitan di Kabupaten Garut diperas oleh akun tak dikenal yang mengancam akan menyebarkan foto bugil palsu hasil rekayasa AI'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A young man from Karangpawitan in Garut Regency was extorted by an unknown account that threatened to spread a fake nude photo produced with AI.","causal_attribution":"One local outlet; the account holder is unidentified."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Pelaku meminta korban mentransfer sejumlah uang sebagai biaya penghapusan foto tersebut'; 'korban sempat mentransfer uang sebesar Rp200 ribu'; 'akun tak dikenal tersebut kembali meminta transfer uang kedua dengan alasan biaya penghapusan permanen'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The young man transferred Rp200,000 after the account demanded money to delete the photo, and the account then asked for a second transfer for permanent deletion.","causal_attribution":"One local outlet."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'dipastikan foto tersebut adalah hasil editan AI'; 'Itu foto tempelan AI, bukan foto asli'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The outlet says the photo was confirmed after a check to be an AI edit, and its journalist told the family it was an AI paste-up and not a real photo.","causal_attribution":"The outlet and its journalist; the method of checking is not described."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'keluarga akhirnya memblokir akun pelaku dan tidak lagi menanggapi ancaman'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The family blocked the account and stopped responding to the threats.","causal_attribution":"One local outlet."}],"effects":[{"label":"threatened with the spread of an AI-made fake nude photo and paid Rp200,000","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://kilasgarutnews.id/waspada-foto-bugil-buatan-ai-pemuda-di-garut-jadi-korban-pemerasan-akun-tak-dikenal-minta-transfer-uang-untuk-hapus-foto/amp/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"AMP page read in the original Indonesian on 2026-10-05 (HTTP 200). English renderings in this record are the research agent's (an AI's) own translations; no human translator reviewed them. The outlet reports its own journalist's help to the family; no outside source is quoted.","independence_group":"kilas-garut-news"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","finance","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["When the threats and the transfer happened.","How the photo was checked and which tool made it.","Which platform the account used and who operated it.","Whether the photo was spread and whether a police report was made.","The young man's age."],"geography":{"basis":"The report describes a young man from Karangpawitan in Garut Regency, West Java, Indonesia. Where the account holder is located is not reported. No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["ID"],"affected_person_countries":["ID"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): a local outlet gives a concrete account of a young man threatened with an AI-made fake nude photo who paid Rp200,000. One source, whose journalist took part; the young man is not identified.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-05"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Kilas Garut News says the photo was confirmed after a check to be an AI edit and quotes its journalist calling it an AI paste-up and not a real photo. The young man was depicted in the fake image (depicted_or_impersonated). The method of checking and the tool are not reported.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Garut, West Java: a local outlet reports that a young man paid Rp200,000 to an unknown account that threatened to spread an AI-made fake nude photo","summary":"Kilas Garut News reported on 3 October 2026 that a young man from Karangpawitan in Garut Regency, West Java, was extorted by an unknown account that threatened to spread a fake nude photo made with AI. According to the report, the account demanded money to delete the photo and the young man, frightened, transferred Rp200,000; the account then asked for a second payment for permanent deletion. The young man told family members, who consulted a journalist of the outlet. The journalist is quoted as saying the photo was an AI paste-up and as advising the family to stop paying and block the account, which they did. No police report is mentioned. The account comes from the outlet and its own journalist, who helped the family.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-10-03","aiSystem":"An AI tool used to make a fake nude photo of the victim, which Kilas Garut News calls an AI edit and its journalist an AI paste-up (tool not identified)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss","exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A young man in Garut paid Rp200,000 to an unknown account that threatened to spread an AI-made fake nude photo, according to Kilas Garut News.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the young man who was threatened and transferred Rp200,000 (Kilas Garut News). Family members are not counted. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"ID","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://kilasgarutnews.id/waspada-foto-bugil-buatan-ai-pemuda-di-garut-jadi-korban-pemerasan-akun-tak-dikenal-minta-transfer-uang-untuk-hapus-foto/amp/","primarySourceLabel":"Kilas Garut News, 3 October 2026: young man in Garut extorted by an unknown account over an AI-made fake nude photo","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-05T03:16:31.449717+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T03:16:31.449717+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","sextortion","non-consensual-imagery","extortion","garut","west-java","indonesia","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2026-plymouth-minnesota-flock-alpr-partial-plate-stolen-alert-journalist-couple-boxed-in-detained","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'On an otherwise normal Sunday afternoon in late June'; 'four cop cars came flying out of nowhere and boxed us in'; 'He patted me down'; 'The plates on this car are stolen'; 'Eventually, after a tense hour, I did.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'after about an hour he too was let go'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"On a Sunday afternoon in late June, four police cars boxed in a loaned Range Rover in a Kohl's parking lot in Plymouth, Minnesota. Officers ordered the journalist driving it and the journalist's wife out, patted the journalist down, questioned both, said the plates were stolen, and released them after about an hour.","causal_attribution":"First-person account by the journalist; no police record was read."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'they’d actually been tracking me around town for days via Flock cameras'; 'opened the Flock app, and showed me two photos'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Officers told the journalist that they had tracked the vehicle around town for days through Flock cameras, set up the stop after a camera alert that morning, and showed two Flock photographs of the vehicle and its plate on a phone.","causal_attribution":"The journalist's account of what officers said and showed."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'entered into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database missing the middle two digits'; 'It was asked, can you find this? And it did find that.'; 'does not equal probable cause'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"A similar manufacturer plate reported stolen in California had been entered in the national crime database without its two middle digits, and Flock's system alerted on the loaned vehicle's plate as a match. Flock's chief communications officer said the system read what it was asked to find and that an alert does not equal probable cause.","causal_attribution":"The journalist's reconstruction from the officers, the vehicle's manufacturer and Flock; Flock attributes the outcome to incomplete data entry and missing human verification."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'he acknowledged his officers didn’t get it right'; 'to open a conversation about the use of Flock cameras within the city'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The Plymouth police chief acknowledged to the journalist that the officers did not get it right, and the city council opened a discussion of the city's use of Flock cameras.","causal_attribution":"The journalist's paraphrase of the chief's interview and of the council's response."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'was pulled over by two officers in Scotts Bluff, Nebraska while driving his 14-year-old kid'; 'after about an hour he too was let go'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"A second automotive journalist driving another loaned vehicle with a plate in the same sequence was pulled over in Scotts Bluff, Nebraska, with a 14-year-old child in the car, and was let go after about an hour.","causal_attribution":"Reported by the first journalist from the second journalist's account; a separate stop, not counted in this case."}],"effects":[{"label":"boxed in by four police cars, ordered out of a loaned press vehicle, patted down and held for about an hour after a license-plate camera alert reported the plate as stolen","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.thedrive.com/news/how-flock-cameras-wrongly-tracked-me-for-days-over-stolen-plates-and-sent-police-after-me","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live in English on 2026-10-05 (The Drive, first-person account by the journalist who was stopped, published 8 July 2026). The account of what officers said is the author's.","independence_group":"thedrive-first-person-plymouth"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.thedrive.com/news/inside-the-flock-dragnet-how-systemic-errors-led-to-police-ambushing-me-for-no-reason","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live in English on 2026-10-05 (The Drive, follow-up by the same author, published 17 July 2026). Carries the author's interviews with Flock Safety's chief communications officer and the Plymouth police chief. Same author and outlet as s1, so one independence group.","independence_group":"thedrive-first-person-plymouth"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["justice","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["The exact date of the stop.","Whether the incomplete stolen-plate entry has been corrected in the national database and in Flock's system.","Whether the Plymouth Police Department changed its verification practice or took any internal action.","Which agency's alert led to the Nebraska stop and whether a Flock camera was involved there."],"geography":{"basis":"The stop took place in a store parking lot in Plymouth, Minnesota, where the journalist says they live (The Drive). The stolen-plate report originated in California.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an institutional-use case consistent with the held Flock rows. A journalist gives a concrete first-person account of being boxed in, patted down and held for about an hour with a spouse after a Flock camera alert matched a loaned vehicle's plate to an incomplete stolen-plate entry, and Flock's spokesperson confirms how the match occurred. Both sources are by the same author, so every claim is reported.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-05"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The journalist reports that officers said they had tracked the vehicle for days through Flock cameras and showed the Flock app with the photographs of the plate. Flock Safety's chief communications officer, interviewed for the follow-up, confirmed that the system matched the plate to an incomplete stolen-plate entry and described the matching as machine learning. The Drive describes the cameras as AI-powered.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Plymouth, Minnesota: police boxed in and detained an automotive journalist and the journalist's wife for about an hour in June 2026 after Flock cameras matched a loaned Range Rover's plate to an incomplete stolen-plate entry","summary":"An automotive journalist for The Drive wrote that on a Sunday afternoon in late June four Plymouth police cars boxed in the Range Rover press vehicle the journalist was testing, in a Kohl's parking lot. Officers ordered the journalist and the journalist's wife out, patted the journalist down, questioned both and said the plates were stolen. According to the account, officers said they had tracked the vehicle for days through Flock license-plate cameras and acted on a camera alert that morning. The couple were released after about an hour, once the manufacturer explained that a similar plate had been reported stolen in California. In a follow-up, Flock's chief communications officer said the stolen plate had been entered without its two middle digits and that the system matched what it was asked to find. The spokesperson said an alert does not equal probable cause. The police chief acknowledged that officers did not get it right. A second journalist with a similar plate was later stopped in Nebraska.","incidentDate":"2026-06-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-07-08","aiSystem":"Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader cameras used by the Plymouth Police Department, described by The Drive as AI-powered and by Flock's spokesperson as machine learning, which matched the vehicle's plate to an incomplete stolen-plate entry and alerted police","aiProduct":"Flock Safety license plate readers","aiCompany":"Flock Safety","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["loss_of_liberty"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The journalist reports that the couple were boxed in by four police cars, ordered out, questioned and held for about an hour, and that the journalist was patted down (The Drive, first-person account).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Two people, the journalist and the journalist's wife, were ordered out and held at the scene (The Drive). The second journalist and a child stopped in Nebraska belong to a separate event and are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-MN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.thedrive.com/news/how-flock-cameras-wrongly-tracked-me-for-days-over-stolen-plates-and-sent-police-after-me","primarySourceLabel":"The Drive, 8 July 2026: How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me for Days Over 'Stolen' Plates and Sent Police After Me","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-05T03:12:31.048274+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T03:12:31.048274+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["flock","alpr","license-plate-reader","partial-plate-match","stale-hotlist","wrongful-stop","minnesota","plymouth","justice","made-claim-about","first-person"]},{"id":"2026-uk-trades-college-staff-member-reported-manipulated-undressing-video","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'works for a UK college that trains students aged 16 to 19 in trades like construction.'; 'This winter, she says, school administrators told her that a student filed a report claiming two videos were circulating among his classmates.'; 'One appeared to be real, and it showed her having a conversation with a student.'; 'The other one, they said, appeared to be a manipulated version of the first. But instead of talking to the student, it showed her taking her clothes off and dancing around in what was either underwear or a bikini.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'WIRED spoke with three other teachers who allege that their students made sexualized photos and videos of them, likely using AI.'","relation":"context","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A staff member at a UK college that trains 16-to-19-year-olds in trades says administrators told her this winter that a student had reported two videos circulating among classmates: one apparently real video of her talking with a student, and a second that appeared to be a manipulated version showing her taking her clothes off and dancing in underwear or a bikini.","causal_attribution":"Her account of what administrators told her; the AI attribution is not established in the reporting."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'She says she had several of those conversations with the student she suspected had created the video. The student denied it when questioned by administrators and soon dropped out of the school.'; '(The college did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment.)'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The student she suspected of creating the video denied it when questioned by administrators and soon dropped out; the college did not respond to WIRED.","causal_attribution":"Who made the video is unresolved: she suspected a student, who denied it."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Afterward, the college gave her permission to step away from the class for a few weeks and took steps to educate students about the danger of creating or distributing deepfakes. But when she returned, she says, the atmosphere had chilled.'; 'It makes me reflect as well on those conversations'; 'It makes you question everything'; 'definitely made me a bit more cautious, a bit more vigilant when it comes to folks.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The college gave her permission to step away from the class for a few weeks and educated students about creating or distributing deepfakes; she says the episode made her question her earlier conversations with the student, that the atmosphere had chilled when she returned, and that it has made her more cautious and vigilant.","causal_attribution":"Her own description of the effect on her; the college's actions are known through her."}],"effects":[{"label":"a manipulated video showing her taking her clothes off was reported to be circulating among students","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"she stepped away from the class for a few weeks and says the atmosphere had chilled on her return and she is now more cautious","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.wired.com/story/teachers-deepfake-ai-students-content/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-10-02 (HTTP 200; WIRED, Caroline Haskins, 24 August 2026); visible text and the page JSON-LD articleBody saved and compared with the 2026-09-30 fetch (article text unchanged). Her account is given in her own words and in WIRED's paraphrase; WIRED identifies her by first name only; the college did not respond to WIRED.","independence_group":"wired-haskins-teachers-deepfakes-2026-08-24"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["work","education","privacy"],"unknowns":["Which college, and where in the UK.","The date, beyond this winter in an August 2026 report.","Who made the manipulated video and with what tool.","How widely the video circulated and whether it was removed.","The college's position; it did not respond to WIRED."],"geography":{"basis":"WIRED says she works for a UK college and that administrators told her a student had reported the videos circulating among his classmates. No nation within the UK, town or college is named. 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She says administrators told her this winter that a student had reported two videos circulating among classmates: one apparently real, showing her talking with a student, and one that appeared to be a manipulated version showing her taking her clothes off and dancing in underwear or a bikini. The student she suspected denied making it when questioned and soon dropped out. The college let her step away from the class for a few weeks and educated students about deepfakes; she says the atmosphere had chilled when she returned and that the episode has made her more cautious. 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The student shown in the original conversation video is not described as harmed and is not counted. Exact count 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"GB","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.wired.com/story/teachers-deepfake-ai-students-content/","primarySourceLabel":"WIRED, 24 August 2026: They Dedicated Their Lives to Teaching. 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It looked AI-generated—her face had the characteristic smoothness of AI-generated content, her mouth was moving unnaturally while speaking, and the sound of her voice didn’t match her own.'; 'Some of the videos showed her doing things like skydiving or backflips. But others depicted her talking about sexual acts she performed and enjoyed.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'WIRED spoke with three other teachers who allege that their students made sexualized photos and videos of them, likely using AI.'","relation":"context","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"An anonymous middle-school teacher in her mid-twenties says that a few months before WIRED's report she learned from a student of a TikTok account impersonating her whose videos looked AI-generated (a smooth face, unnatural mouth movement and a voice unlike hers); some showed her skydiving or doing backflips and others depicted her talking about sexual acts.","causal_attribution":"The teacher's account; the AI attribution is her inference from the videos' appearance and voice."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'She says she told her principal about the account and that they assured her that they would “see what we can do.”'; 'Throughout the day, students continued to warn her about the account.'; 'She says that some told her that they knew who made the account—one of their classmates.'; 'I know a lot of the kids that reported it to me genuinely believed that was my account, and that I was saying those things'; 'She asked them to report it to TikTok, and she says the account was quickly taken down.'; 'Still unnerved by the incident, she mentioned the TikTok account during the next monthly teacher meeting.'; 'worried about this happening again'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"She told her principal; some of the students who warned her said a classmate had made the account, and she says many of the students who reported it to her believed it was her own account; after she asked students to report it to TikTok, she says the account was quickly taken down; she was still unnerved when she raised it at the next monthly teacher meeting and says she is worried about it happening again.","causal_attribution":"The teacher's account; the maker's identity rests on what students told her."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'she became the target of escalating, in-person harassment from this same student'; 'She says the principal removed the student from her class and tried to limit his access to her. 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The in-person harassment was not AI-generated; it is recorded as a reported consequence involving the same student."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'A colleague said he had seen a seemingly AI-generated fake video of himself getting arrested, which he believed was generated by the same student.'; 'the assistant principal said that the same student was calling and texting them in the middle of the night and posting apparent AI-generated photos of them to TikTok.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"At staff meetings a colleague said he had seen a seemingly AI-generated fake video of himself being arrested that he believed the same student made, and the assistant principal said the same student had been calling and texting at night and posting apparent AI-generated photos to TikTok.","causal_attribution":"Secondhand statements relayed by the teacher; WIRED does not make clear whom the assistant principal's 'them' refers to."}],"effects":[{"label":"a TikTok account that looked AI-generated impersonated her, including videos of her talking about sexual acts, and students believed it was her","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"she was harassed in person by the student said to have made the account until the student left the district","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.wired.com/story/teachers-deepfake-ai-students-content/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-10-02 (HTTP 200; WIRED, Caroline Haskins, 24 August 2026); visible text and the page JSON-LD articleBody saved and compared with the 2026-09-30 fetch (article text unchanged). The teacher spoke anonymously; her account is given in her own words and in WIRED's paraphrase. WIRED gives no location and no school statement.","independence_group":"wired-haskins-teachers-deepfakes-2026-08-24"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["work","education","privacy"],"unknowns":["Where the school is; WIRED gives no place or country.","When exactly the account appeared, beyond a few months before the August 2026 report.","Which tool, if any, generated the videos.","Whether the school or district disciplined the student for the account itself.","Whether the colleague and the assistant principal were harmed."],"geography":{"basis":"WIRED does not say where the teacher works or lives; it reports only that she lacked permission from her school district to speak. 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She says many of the students who warned her believed it was her account. She told her principal and says she was still unnerved by it; some students told her a classmate had made it, and after she asked students to report it the account was quickly taken down. She says the same student then harassed her in person with escalating insults; the principal removed the student from her class, and the harassment continued until the student left the district. WIRED gives no location for her school.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-08-24","aiSystem":"Unidentified tool suspected of generating the impersonation videos: the teacher says they looked AI-generated (smooth face, unnatural mouth movement, a voice that did not match hers); the tool is not named","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool (suspected)","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A TikTok account that looked AI-generated impersonated her, including videos of her talking about sexual acts that students believed were real, she was unnerved, and the student said to be behind it then harassed her in person until leaving the district (the teacher's account to WIRED).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"One teacher describes the harm to herself. A colleague's account of a seemingly AI-generated arrest video and the assistant principal's account of night-time calls and apparent AI photos are reported secondhand without stated harm, so they are not counted; the count is a lower bound of 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"unknown","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.wired.com/story/teachers-deepfake-ai-students-content/","primarySourceLabel":"WIRED, 24 August 2026: They Dedicated Their Lives to Teaching. 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The image depicted him and another male teacher kissing each other.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'WIRED spoke with three other teachers who allege that their students made sexualized photos and videos of them, likely using AI.'","relation":"context","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The Arizona-based sixth-grade teacher says his students circulated an AI-generated photo of him in the comments of his public TikTok account, showing him and another male teacher kissing each other.","causal_attribution":"The teacher's account to WIRED; the tool is not established in the reporting."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'reported the accounts to TikTok—not for content violations but for being under the minimum age of 13—but says TikTok didn’t remove the accounts.'; 'He says that the school immediately launched an investigation and quickly identified the student, who admitted to creating and sharing the image.'; 'The student received a three-day suspension—the most severe punishment kids their age can receive for a first-time sexual harassment offense, according to the school district handbook.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"He reported the accounts to TikTok for being under the minimum age of 13 and says TikTok did not remove them; he says the school immediately investigated and identified a student who admitted creating and sharing the image, and the student received a three-day suspension, which WIRED says the district handbook sets as the most severe punishment at that age for a first-time sexual harassment offense.","causal_attribution":"The school's actions are known through the teacher; the district did not respond to WIRED."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'tells WIRED that reflecting on the experience “has kind of sent me into a spiral.” His concerns, he says, are not necessarily about what happened to him.'; 'They’re more focused on the enthusiastic, permissive culture surrounding AI use among his students.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"He told WIRED that reflecting on the experience had sent him into a spiral, and that his concerns were less about what happened to him than about the permissive culture around AI use among his students.","causal_attribution":"The teacher's own description of the effect on him."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'according to the school district handbook. The district did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The district did not respond to WIRED's request for comment.","causal_attribution":"Reporting-chain note: the account rests on the teacher's interview with WIRED."}],"effects":[{"label":"students posted an AI-generated image of him kissing another male teacher in the comments of his public TikTok account","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"he says reflecting on the experience sent him into a spiral","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.wired.com/story/teachers-deepfake-ai-students-content/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-10-02 (HTTP 200; WIRED, Caroline Haskins, 24 August 2026); visible text and the page JSON-LD articleBody saved and compared with the 2026-09-30 fetch (article text unchanged). The teacher's account is given in his own words and in WIRED's paraphrase; the district did not respond to WIRED.","independence_group":"wired-haskins-teachers-deepfakes-2026-08-24"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["work","education","privacy"],"unknowns":["When the image was posted.","Which AI tool produced the image.","Which school and district were involved.","Whether the other teacher shown in the image was affected or consulted.","Whether TikTok later removed the accounts or the image."],"geography":{"basis":"WIRED describes him as an Arizona-based sixth-grade teacher whose own students circulated the image; he says his school investigated and identified the student, who received a three-day suspension. 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He says the school immediately investigated and identified a student, who admitted creating and sharing the image and received a three-day suspension; WIRED says the district handbook makes that the most severe punishment children of that age can receive for a first-time sexual harassment offense. He told WIRED that reflecting on the experience had sent him into a spiral, and said his concern was mainly the permissive culture around AI among his students. The district did not respond to WIRED. WIRED gives no date for the episode and does not name the school, district or AI tool.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-08-24","aiSystem":"Unidentified AI image tool; the teacher describes the image of him kissing another male teacher as AI-generated, and WIRED says the teachers it interviewed allege their students made the content, likely using AI; the tool is not named","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Students posted an AI-generated image of him kissing another male teacher in the comments of his public TikTok account, and he says reflecting on the experience sent him into a spiral (the teacher's account to WIRED).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"One teacher describes the harm to himself. WIRED reports no account from the other male teacher shown kissing him in the image and no harm to him, so he is not counted; the count is a lower bound of 1. WIRED's other teacher accounts are separate cases.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.wired.com/story/teachers-deepfake-ai-students-content/","primarySourceLabel":"WIRED, 24 August 2026: They Dedicated Their Lives to Teaching. Then the Deepfakes Started (Caroline Haskins)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-02T03:16:33.997566+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-02T03:16:33.997566+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","sexualised-imagery","teacher","school","tiktok","harassment","arizona","depicted-or-impersonated","first-person-via-journalist"]},{"id":"2026-los-banos-substitute-teacher-ai-lingerie-image-student-impersonation-account","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'On March 12, as he was working his other part-time job at a coffee shop, his phone lit up. A fellow barista said there was an AI photo circulating on social media.'; 'But instead of his work uniform, he was wearing lingerie. And instead of standing normally, as he had been in the original photo, he was posing suggestively.'; 'knew from the local middle school, where he regularly filled in.'; 'He discovered that a different student had created an account impersonating him—it used his name, slightly mispelled, and had the same photo as their profile picture.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The article describes the image as incorporating elements of an older photograph of him that had been manipulated to depict him in lingerie and in a suggestive pose.'","relation":"context","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"On 12 March 2026 the teacher learned that an AI-generated image resembling him, made from an old mirror selfie but showing him in lingerie and posing suggestively, was circulating on social media; one TikTok account sharing it belonged to a student at the middle school where he substituted, and a different student had created an account impersonating him with the image as its profile picture.","causal_attribution":"The teacher's account to WIRED; the students' identities and the tool are not established in the reporting."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'he went back and forth with school administrators, the parents of the students, and even the police.'; 'One student, who admitted to creating the image, was disciplined with in-school suspension.'; 'was later told that the image was also shared on Snapchat.'; 'He says he also received several crude, sexual comments on his TikTok account.'; 'During one class, he received an AirDropped photo of the same AI-generated image before it was quickly revoked.'; 'He tells WIRED that, at least right now, he doesn’t feel safe doing so.'; 'reported the incident to the assistant principal'; 'the image continued to proliferate, and other students began posting it.'; 'he didn’t want to take assignments at the middle school “until this matter is fully addressed.”'; 'he probably won’t return to the district this year.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'said he eventually stopped accepting assignments at the middle school and told the publication he did not feel safe returning to the district at the time of the interview.'","relation":"context","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"He reported the image to the assistant principal and dealt with administrators, parents and police over the following weeks; a student who admitted creating it received an in-school suspension; the image was also shared on Snapchat and continued to spread, he received crude sexual comments on TikTok, he declined further middle-school assignments, the same image was AirDropped to him during a class at the local high school, and he told WIRED he does not feel safe returning to the district.","causal_attribution":"The teacher's account and WIRED's reporting; the school's discipline decision is known through him. The district did not respond to WIRED."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The district did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'described the incidents in an Aug. 24 WIRED investigation examining educators who have been targeted with AI-generated sexualized content.'; 'The middle school, high school and school district were not identified by name in the WIRED report.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The district did not respond to WIRED's request for comment. The Los Banos Enterprise, summarising the WIRED report on 25 August 2026, states that WIRED did not identify the middle school, high school or district by name, and adds no reporting of its own.","causal_attribution":"Reporting-chain note: the local paper's item is derived from WIRED and does not corroborate the account independently."}],"effects":[{"label":"a sexualised AI image made from an old selfie circulated among students on TikTok and Snapchat and was used by a student account impersonating him","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"he received crude sexual comments, stopped taking assignments at the middle school and says he does not feel safe returning to the district","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.wired.com/story/teachers-deepfake-ai-students-content/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-30 (WIRED, Caroline Haskins, 24 August 2026); full visible text and the page's JSON-LD articleBody saved. The teacher's account is given in his own words and in WIRED's paraphrase; the district did not respond to WIRED.","independence_group":"wired-haskins-teachers-deepfakes-2026-08-24"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://losbanosenterprise.com/business/technology/2026/los-banos-substitute-teacher-says-sexualized-ai-image-of-him-circulated-among-students/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Live page returned Cloudflare HTTP 403 on 2026-09-30; read from the Internet Archive capture of 27 August 2026 (web.archive.org/web/20260827032911id_/). Los Banos Enterprise staff report, 25 August 2026, which summarises the WIRED investigation and adds no independent reporting; same chain as s1.","independence_group":"wired-haskins-teachers-deepfakes-2026-08-24"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["work","education","privacy"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool produced the image.","How many students shared the image and how widely it spread beyond the two schools.","Whether the police took any action after his reports.","Whether the impersonation account was removed and whether he reported the content to TikTok or Snapchat.","The district's position; it did not respond to WIRED."],"geography":{"basis":"The teacher is a substitute in Los Banos, California, and the image circulated among students at the local middle school and high school (WIRED). 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He traced an account sharing it on TikTok to a student at the middle school where he regularly substituted and reported it to the assistant principal; that evening he found a second account, created by a different student, impersonating him under a misspelled version of his name with the image as its profile picture. Over the following weeks he dealt with administrators, parents and the police; one student who admitted creating the image received an in-school suspension. He says the image was also shared on Snapchat, kept spreading among students and drew crude sexual comments on his TikTok account. He told administrators he would not take assignments at the middle school until the matter was addressed; at the local high school the same image was AirDropped to him during a class. WIRED says the district did not respond to its request for comment. He said he does not feel safe returning to the district. The Los Banos Enterprise (25 August 2026) summarised the WIRED account; no independent local reporting was found.","incidentDate":"2026-03-12","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-08-24","aiSystem":"Unidentified AI image tool used, according to WIRED and the teacher's account, to turn an old mirror selfie into a sexualised image of him in lingerie; the app is not named","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","professional_harm","reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A sexualised AI image made from his old selfie circulated among students on TikTok and Snapchat, a student account impersonated him with it, he received crude sexual comments, and he stopped taking assignments at the middle school and says he does not feel safe returning to the district (the teacher's account to WIRED).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One teacher describes being depicted; WIRED's three other teacher accounts are separate incidents in other places and are not counted here. 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Then the Deepfakes Started (Caroline Haskins)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-01T03:11:26.386118+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-01T03:11:26.386118+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","sexualised-imagery","teacher","substitute-teacher","school","tiktok","snapchat","impersonation","harassment","california","los-banos","depicted-or-impersonated","first-person-via-journalist"]},{"id":"2025-taiwan-cline-chatbot-translation-oversight-letter-wrong-reading-first-person","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Across four years of proceedings, no document was ever translated for me.'; 'Every summons, ruling, and prosecutor’s letter went into a chatbot, and what came back was the only version I had.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Across four years of criminal proceedings in Taiwan, no document was translated for him and some hearings had no interpreter; he read every summons, ruling and prosecutor's letter through a consumer chatbot, the only version he had.","causal_attribution":"His account; he says the court file records interpreters sworn at two early interrogations and an evening hearing held after he was asked in Chinese whether he understood Chinese."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'They disagreed, not on nuance but on the central holding. I believed the one that told me what I had spent four years wanting to hear.'; 'I published that reading, cited it to journalists, and began building a legal submission on it.'; 'In October 2025 the agency confirmed in writing that its letter did not say what I had understood it to say.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Both statements were wrong and are withdrawn. No authority has found me innocent; I was convicted and the conviction is final.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"In 2025 two chatbots gave opposite readings of a Taiwanese oversight body's letter; he believed the favourable one, published it, cited it to journalists and began a legal submission on it, and in October 2025 the agency confirmed in writing that the letter did not say that, after which he withdrew the claim, dropped the submission before filing and published a correction.","causal_attribution":"His account; the letter, the chatbot outputs and the agency's confirmation were not inspected. He attributes the error to relying on a fluent but wrong translation."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'I was sentenced to six months in prison; the conviction became final at the Supreme Court on Oct. 16 2024'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"He was sentenced to six months' imprisonment under Taiwan's Personal Data Protection Act and the conviction became final at the Supreme Court on 16 October 2024; he does not attribute the conviction to the chatbot.","causal_attribution":"Context from his account with case numbers; recorded so the chatbot's role is not overstated."}],"effects":[{"label":"published and cited to journalists a wrong chatbot reading of an official letter and drafted a legal submission on it before retracting","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"read four years of court documents only through a chatbot, with no translation provided","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2026/09/when-court-interpretation-failed-in-taiwan-i-turned-to-a-chatbot/","kind":"first_person_commentary","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live in English on 2026-09-30 (JURIST Commentary, 29 September 2026, edited by JURIST staff, with the author's disclosure).","independence_group":"ross-cline-account"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://rosscline.com/blogs/scam/media-brief","kind":"author_website","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live in English on 2026-09-30: the author's media-brief page (version 2.0, updated 2 August 2026), reached from the JURIST disclosure link; carries the correction notice.","independence_group":"ross-cline-account"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["justice","accessibility"],"unknowns":["Which chatbots he used.","What the Control Yuan's letter held and what each chatbot output said; neither the letter nor the outputs were inspected.","Whether any legal decision in his case turned on a chatbot translation."],"geography":{"basis":"The proceedings were in Taiwan's Taichung District Court, the Taiwan High Court Taichung Branch and the Supreme Court (JURIST, with case numbers). The piece does not say where he was when he used the chatbots in 2025; he lived in Taichung for 15 years, his media-brief page (August 2026) gives New Brunswick, Canada, and JURIST says he now lives in Phnom Penh. He is Canadian, which does not establish a country of residence at the time, so the person country is unknown.","court_countries":["TW"],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a first-person adverse experience of ordinary assistance (a chatbot used as the only translator of legal documents produced a wrong reading that the author acted on publicly). Uncorroborated, self-disclosed account by a named author in an edited commentary, with his own published correction; the conviction is recorded as context and not attributed to AI.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-30"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The author says he put every summons, ruling and prosecutor's letter into a consumer chatbot and that two systems gave conflicting readings of an oversight body's letter in 2025 (JURIST). The systems are not named and their outputs were not inspected; his media-brief page documents the resulting correction.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"First-person account (JURIST commentary): a Canadian convicted in Taiwan who read his court documents only through consumer chatbots says two systems gave opposite readings of an oversight body's letter in 2025; he published the favourable reading, cited it to journalists and drafted a legal submission on it before the agency confirmed in writing that it was wrong","summary":"In a commentary published by JURIST on 29 September 2026, Ross Cline, a Canadian who lived in Taichung for 15 years and was convicted there under Taiwan's Personal Data Protection Act (six months' imprisonment; final at the Supreme Court on 16 October 2024), writes that across four years of proceedings no document was translated for him, some hearings had no interpreter, and he read every summons, ruling and prosecutor's letter through a consumer chatbot, 'the only version I had'. In 2025 he ran a letter from a Taiwanese oversight body (the Control Yuan, per his media-brief page) through two systems; they disagreed on its central holding. He believed the one that told him what he wanted to hear, published that reading, cited it to journalists and began building a legal submission on it. In October 2025 the agency confirmed in writing that its letter did not say that; he withdrew the claim, killed the submission before filing and rewrote his public materials so that the correction leads. His own media-brief page carries a correction notice withdrawing two earlier statements. He argues that machine translation has become the interpreter of record by default for unrepresented non-citizens, that a fluent wrong translation reads as authoritative, and that courts should enforce the existing right to an interpreter. His conviction itself is not attributed to the chatbot.","incidentDate":"2025-01-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"year","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-09-29","aiSystem":"Consumer AI chatbots used to translate Chinese-language court and agency documents (two unnamed systems)","aiProduct":"Unidentified chatbot","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["impaired_judgment","reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A defendant relying on chatbot translation says a wrong but fluent rendering of an official letter led him to publish a false claim about his case, cite it to journalists and draft a legal submission on it, which he then had to retract and correct publicly (his own account in JURIST and on his media-brief page).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the author, who used the chatbots himself (JURIST). Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"TW","platformType":"chatbot","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2026/09/when-court-interpretation-failed-in-taiwan-i-turned-to-a-chatbot/","primarySourceLabel":"JURIST Commentary, 29 September 2026: When Court Interpretation Failed in Taiwan, I Turned to a Chatbot (Ross Cline)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-30T04:13:53.222314+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T04:13:53.222314+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["first-person","chatbot","machine-translation","court-interpretation","legal-documents","taiwan","canadian-abroad","access-to-justice","communicated-with"]},{"id":"2026-kenya-sama-meta-ai-annotation-contract-ended-over-1000-redundancies-announced","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"announced on Thursday that the workers were being laid off after Meta terminated a contract.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"More than 1,000 low-paid workers in Kenya have been abruptly sacked by an outsourcing company contracted by Meta","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The sacked workers, many involved in AI training, have been given six days’ notice, according to the Oversight Lab","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"In a press release on the 16th April, Sama states it recently received a formal notice by Meta, a key client, that was ending its contract with the annotation firm","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Less than two months later, Meta ended its contract with Sama, which Sama said would result in 1,108 workers being made redundant.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"Sama claims that Meta’s cancellation of the contract affected 1,108 workers.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"On April 16, that routine came to an end.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"Sama’s April 16 press release announcing the mass layoffs spoke of compliance with Section 40 of Kenya’s Employment Act","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"On 16 April 2026 Sama, an outsourcing company with operations in Nairobi that did AI-training and data-annotation work for Meta, announced that Meta had given formal notice ending its contract and that a redundancy process would affect more than 1,000 employees. Sama put the number at 1,108 workers. The Oversight Lab, an organisation that advocates for fair technology regulation in Africa, said the workers had six days' notice.","causal_attribution":"The announcement and the 'more than 1 000' figure trace to Sama's 16 April press release as reported by SvD, and 1,108 is Sama's figure as reported by BBC and Ars Technica, so they are one chain. The Guardian states 'more than 1,000' in its own voice without a stated source and attributes only the six days' notice to the Oversight Lab. No press release or redundancy notice was inspected directly, and the final number made redundant is not reported."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Last month, we paused our work with Sama while we looked into these claims.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"We’ve also decided to end our work with Sama because they don’t meet our standards.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Meta says it's because Sama did not meet its standards, a criticism Sama rejects.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"At no point were we notified of any failure to meet those standards","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"After the investigation was published at the end of February, all projects at the subcontractor Sama in Kenya linked to Meta’s smart glasses were halted.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Meta said in a statement reported on 17 April 2026 that 'last month' it paused its work with Sama while it looked into the claims, and that it decided to end its work with Sama because Sama does not meet its standards. Sama says it was never notified of any failure to meet those standards. SvD reports that after the investigation was published all Sama projects linked to Meta's smart glasses were halted.","causal_attribution":"Meta's and Sama's own statements to the outlets, each attributed. SvD says Meta declined to answer follow-up questions, and no source shows Meta's internal reasoning."},{"id":"c3","status":"disputed","evidence":[{"locator":"A Kenyan workers' organisation alleges Meta's decision was caused by the staff speaking out.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"Meta has not addressed that allegation","relation":"context","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"the company has tried to identify who spoke with journalists","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"“After the exposé, they started looking for people who could have leaked the information,”","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"“From what they told us, they said it was because of the exposé from the Swedish journalists,”","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"Meta had pulled a major contract citing only compliance with Kenyan employment law.","relation":"context","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"we do not monitor or track employees for the purpose of identifying individuals who may have spoken to the media","relation":"contradicts","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"we reject any suggestion of retaliatory behavior.","relation":"contradicts","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"A Kenyan workers' organisation alleges Meta's decision was caused by the staff speaking out, and, when the BBC reported it on 30 April 2026, Meta had not addressed that allegation. Employees told SvD that Sama tightened security and tried to identify who had spoken to journalists. A worker quoted by TechPolicy.Press says the workers were told the termination was because of the Swedish investigation, without saying who told them. Sama says it does not monitor or track employees to identify who spoke to the media and rejects any suggestion of retaliatory behaviour.","causal_attribution":"Allegations by a workers' organisation and by unnamed employees, denied or unaddressed by the companies. The TechPolicy.Press worker also says Meta cited only compliance with Kenyan employment law, which differs from Meta's public statement about standards. No document showing the reason for the termination was inspected."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"data annotation work, including working with video, image, and speech annotation for Meta’s AI systems for Ray-Ban Metas.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"The workers the Swedish newspapers spoke to were data annotators, teaching Meta's AI to interpret images by manually labelling content.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"The sacked workers, many involved in AI training, have been given six days’ notice, according to the Oversight Lab","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Last month Meta paused its work with Sama after allegations about the workers viewing private scenes filmed using the company’s Ray-Ban smart glasses","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Sama's Meta work included video, image and speech annotation for Meta's AI systems for Ray-Ban Meta glasses. The Sama annotators who told the Swedish newspapers about viewing private footage from the glasses were data annotators of this kind, and the Guardian reports that many of the workers made redundant were involved in AI training. Meta paused its work with Sama after allegations about the workers viewing private scenes filmed with the glasses.","causal_attribution":"Outlet descriptions of the work. Which of the redundant workers worked on the glasses projects is not reported, and no source states that the workers made redundant were the same people who spoke to the newspapers."}],"effects":[{"label":"More than 1,000 Sama workers in Kenya, many involved in AI training, were given notice of redundancy after Meta ended its contract, on six days' notice according to the Oversight Lab","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"Employees report tightened security and efforts to identify who spoke to journalists after the investigation (Sama denies tracking employees to identify sources)","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/17/kenyan-outsourcing-company-for-meta-sacks-workers","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"guardian-sama-oversight-lab"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.svd.se/a/zOlP6K/meta-halts-ai-training-after-svd-gp-investigation","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"SvD's own English edition of the article, read in English. The Swedish investigation of 25 February 2026 (not cited) was read in Swedish by a language model with no human review.","independence_group":"svd-gp-follow-up"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y7yvgy0w6o","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"bbc-sama-meta-statements"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/meta-cuts-contractors-who-reported-seeing-ray-ban-meta-users-have-sex/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"bbc-sama-meta-statements"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.techpolicy.press/how-ais-labor-supply-chains-fail-workers/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"techpolicy-worker-interviews"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["work","privacy"],"unknowns":["Sama's press release and Meta's notice of termination were not inspected. The announcement is known through outlets and company statements.","The final number of workers made redundant and how many of them worked on the glasses projects are not reported. The Guardian says 'many' were involved in AI training.","The reason for the termination is disputed and no inspected source shows Meta's internal reasoning. Meta declined follow-up questions from SvD.","The retaliation account rests on a workers' organisation, unnamed employees and one worker quoted by TechPolicy.Press. That worker also says Meta cited only compliance with Kenyan employment law, which differs from Meta's public statement about standards.","No source states that the workers made redundant were the same people who spoke to the newspapers, and the annotators' accounts of the footage are anonymous interview accounts.","SvD's 19 April 2026 article was paywalled (two paragraphs read), The Standard's article on the Kenyan regulator was paywalled, and the SvD article in this record was read in its English edition.","Outlets differ on where Sama is headquartered (the Guardian says based in Nairobi, the BBC says US headquartered, TechPolicy.Press says San Francisco-based with offices in Nairobi, Ars Technica says Kenya-headquartered). This record uses only the location of the workers.","This record covers the April 2026 redundancies. The annotators' reported viewing of glasses users' footage started before 2026 and is not part of this record."],"geography":{"basis":"The Guardian describes the workers as 'in Kenya' and SvD refers to Sama's projects in Kenya and its Nairobi operations. Outlets differ on where Sama is headquartered and that is not used. Where Meta took the decision is not stated and is not used.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["KE"],"affected_person_countries":["KE"]},"publication":{"basis":"The Guardian (17 April), SvD and GP (17 April), BBC (30 April), Ars Technica and TechPolicy.Press (12 June 2026) were read in full from the saved bodies. The redundancy fact and figure trace to Sama's announcement and are left at reported. Meta's stated reasons and Sama's replies are attributed, and the retaliation allegation is recorded as disputed. The workers are described by role and are not named.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The workers were data annotators whose work trained Meta's AI systems for its Ray-Ban Meta glasses (c4), and Meta says it paused the Sama work while it looked into claims about annotators viewing private footage from the glasses (c2). No AI system decided anything about the workers: Meta ended the contract and Sama announced the redundancies. The AI link is that the redundancies followed, and are alleged by a workers' organisation to result from, annotators' accounts of a workplace AI practice. Meta gives a different reason and Sama says it was not told of any failure (c3). No relation between an AI system and the workers is established, so the relation recorded is unknown.","status":"disputed"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"Kenya: Sama announces more than 1,000 redundancies (1,108 by its own figure) after Meta ends its AI data-annotation contract, less than two months after annotators described intimate footage from Meta's AI glasses, and whether the two are linked is disputed","summary":"On 16 April 2026 Sama, an outsourcing company with operations in Nairobi that did AI data-annotation work for Meta, announced that Meta had given formal notice ending its contract and that a redundancy process would affect more than 1,000 employees. Sama put the figure at 1,108 workers, and the Oversight Lab said the workers had six days' notice. The decision came less than two months after the SvD and GP investigation in which Sama annotators said they had seen intimate footage from users of Meta's AI glasses. Meta said it paused its work with Sama the month before while it looked into those claims and then decided to end the work because Sama does not meet its standards. Sama says it was never notified of any failure to meet those standards. A Kenyan workers' organisation alleges Meta's decision was caused by staff speaking out, which Meta had not addressed when the BBC reported it on 30 April 2026. Employees told SvD that Sama tightened security and tried to identify who had spoken to journalists, which Sama denies. The workers are described by role and are not named.","incidentDate":"2026-04-16","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-04-17","aiSystem":"Human review of Meta AI assistant data from Ray-Ban Meta glasses by Sama annotators (AI training and data-annotation work), as reported","aiProduct":"Meta AI (reported)","aiCompany":"Meta","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["professional_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Sama announced that more than 1,000 employees in Kenya, many involved in AI training for Meta, would be made redundant (1,108 by Sama's figure, on six days' notice according to the Oversight Lab) after Meta ended its contract. Whether the termination responded to annotators speaking about footage from Meta's AI glasses is disputed: a Kenyan workers' organisation alleges it did, Meta says Sama does not meet its standards, and Sama says it was never notified of a failure.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"disputed","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1000,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"The Guardian states 'more than 1,000' workers were sacked without saying where the figure comes from, and SvD's 17 April article says Sama's press release announced a redundancy process that 'will affect more than 1 000 employees'. BBC and Ars Technica give Sama's own figure of 1,108. The lower bound of 1,000 is counted and the 1,108 figure is attributed to Sama. The Guardian says many of the workers were involved in AI training and does not say how many. Dependants are not counted. The final number made redundant is not reported.","victimAgeRange":"adult","platformType":"other","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/17/kenyan-outsourcing-company-for-meta-sacks-workers","primarySourceLabel":"The Guardian (17 Apr 2026): Kenyan firm sacks more than 1,000 workers after losing Meta contract","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T21:16:44.033365+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:42.812683+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["historical-2026"]},{"id":"2025-taylor-lorenz-reports-stalker-making-sora-ai-videos-of-her","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"an invite to Sora and he’s already making AI videos of me","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"was already using OpenAI’s tool to make AI videos of her","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"her “stalker” is using the latest version of Open AI’s Sora to generate videos of her","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"On 2 October 2025 the journalist posted that her stalker had been given an invite to Sora and was already making AI videos of her.","causal_attribution":"The account is the journalist's own public post. Futurism and The Canary relay it. Nobody outside her has inspected the videos or confirmed which account produced them."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"runs hundreds (yes hundreds) of accounts dedicated to me.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"This is a man who has hired photographers to surveil me, shows up at events I am at, impersonates my friends and family members online to gather info","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The journalist says the man runs hundreds of accounts dedicated to her, has hired photographers to surveil her, shows up at events she attends and impersonates her friends and family members online to gather information.","causal_attribution":"These conduct claims are the journalist's own and are not corroborated by any inspected record. They describe the wider stalking that predates the AI use."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Thankful that Sora has the option to block and delete unapproved content with my image.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"allowed Lorenz to block and delete unapproved videos with her image from the app","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"the stalker may have already downloaded the AI creations","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The journalist says Sora offered an option to block and delete unapproved content showing her image, and Futurism reports she was able to block and delete such videos, although the man may already have downloaded them.","causal_attribution":"The block-and-delete account is the journalist's. The possibility of earlier downloads is Futurism's inference and is not established."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"It is scary to think what AI is doing to feed my stalker’s delusions.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"This is a dangerous man","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The journalist wrote that it is scary to think what AI is doing to feed her stalker's delusions and called him a dangerous man.","causal_attribution":"These are the journalist's own characterisations. Her posts do not describe the content of the videos."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"It’s unclear how Lorenz’s stalker was able to allegedly use Sora to deepfake her.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"OpenAI claims that the app blocks users from uploading photos with faces.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Futurism reports that it is unclear how the stalker was able to use Sora to depict the journalist, and that OpenAI says the app blocks uploads of photos with faces.","causal_attribution":"This is Futurism's observation. It marks the mechanism of the alleged use as unresolved."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Open AI launched Sora 2 on 1 October.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"5:50 PM · Oct 2, 2025","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"5:53 PM · Oct 2, 2025","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Barely a day after Sora 2 launched","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"OpenAI launched Sora 2 on 1 October 2025, and the journalist's two posts are dated 2 October 2025.","causal_attribution":"The launch date is The Canary's statement. The post dates are the platform timestamps on the journalist's own posts."}],"effects":[{"label":"A journalist reports that her stalker is making AI videos of her with Sora, which she calls scary and dangerous","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://x.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1973807926948352008","kind":"social_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"lorenz-own-posts-2025-10-02"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://x.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1973808606798885209","kind":"social_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"lorenz-own-posts-2025-10-02"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/stalkers-using-openai-sora-2","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Reports the two posts. Futurism did not verify the videos.","independence_group":"lorenz-own-posts-2025-10-02"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/10/03/stalkers-are-already-depicting-their-victims-in-open-ais-sora-2-video-generator/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read via an Internet Archive capture. Reports the second post. The Canary did not verify the videos.","independence_group":"lorenz-own-posts-2025-10-02"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","relationships"],"unknowns":["The content of the AI videos is not described in any inspected source and the reviewer did not see them.","Whether the videos were shared, and with whom, is not reported in the inspected sources.","When the stalking began is not stated. Only the AI use is dated, between the Sora 2 launch and 2 October 2025.","How the stalker made videos of the journalist in Sora is unclear according to Futurism.","No police report, platform enforcement action or OpenAI statement about this case is reported in the inspected sources.","The stalker has not been identified in any inspected source and the man's own account is absent."],"geography":{"basis":"The inspected sources do not state where the stalker or the journalist was located when the videos were made. The archive lists USA, which no inspected source supports as an event location. No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"The journalist's own posts on X (2 October 2025) are the primary source. Futurism and The Canary relay those posts and are in the same independence group. All claims are reported. The journalist is named because she posted publicly under her own name about this event. The stalker is not named or identified. No imagery is described beyond the kind of content (AI videos). The event month is October 2025, established by the Sora 2 launch and the posts.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Lorenz states that the stalker is making AI videos of her with Sora and that Sora let her block and delete unapproved content showing her image. Futurism says it is unclear how the stalker used Sora to depict her. The videos were not inspected by the reviewer or, as far as the sources say, by the outlets.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Technology journalist Taylor Lorenz says her stalker is using Sora to make AI videos of her","summary":"On 2 October 2025, shortly after OpenAI's Sora 2 video app launched, journalist Taylor Lorenz posted on X that someone gave her stalker an invite to Sora and that he was already making AI videos of her. She wrote that he runs hundreds of accounts dedicated to her, has hired photographers to surveil her, appears at events she attends and impersonates her friends and family online to gather information. She said Sora let her block and delete unapproved content showing her image. Futurism and The Canary reported her posts. The videos were not inspected, no police or platform action beyond her use of the block-and-delete option is reported, and how the videos were made is unclear.","incidentDate":"2025-10-01","incidentKind":"ongoing_experience","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2025-10-02","aiSystem":"Sora 2","aiProduct":"Sora","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Lorenz wrote that it is scary to think what AI is doing to feed her stalker's delusions and called the man dangerous. She reports that he already makes AI videos of her, alongside a longer pattern of surveillance and online impersonation. These are her own public statements. Whether the videos were distributed is not reported.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the journalist, reports being targeted. Her friends and family members are described as impersonated online but no harm to them is reported, so they are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","platformType":"other","primarySourceUrl":"https://x.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1973807926948352008","primarySourceLabel":"Taylor Lorenz on X, 2 October 2025, post about her stalker and Sora","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T14:02:38.607332+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:17.986169+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["historical-2025"]},{"id":"2026-argentina-jorge-martinez-ai-messi-milei-video-investment-scam","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'La primera estafa comenzó cuando Martínez se interesó por una supuesta plataforma de inversión que utilizaba videos falsos de Lionel Messi y Javier Milei, creados con Inteligencia Artificial, como parte de una estrategia para atraer a posibles víctimas.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'La primera estafa comenzó en una plataforma digital que usaba videos falsos de Lionel Messi y Javier Milei creados con Inteligencia Artificial para captar víctimas.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Fue estafado por una plataforma promocionada con IA en la que utilizaban un video de Messi y otro de Milei para captar gente'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'La segunda maniobra ocurrió mediante una plataforma que, según relató, utilizaba videos falsos elaborados con inteligencia artificial y referencias a Lionel Messi para captar posibles inversores.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'después de realizar el primer pago comenzó a recibir mensajes que mostraban acreditaciones de dinero'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'Es esta plataforma que tenía como titular a Messi, después veo que es una inteligencia artificial'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'la propuesta era promocionada con imágenes generadas mediante inteligencia artificial de Lionel Messi y Javier Milei'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"The 79-year-old actor Jorge Martínez was drawn into a supposed investment platform that used AI-generated fake videos of Lionel Messi (and, in several reports, Javier Milei), and paid money into it.","causal_attribution":"La Criti's post and the outlets relaying it say the platform used AI-made videos of Messi and Milei to attract people. In the televised account he says the platform had Messi as its figurehead and that he later saw it was an artificial intelligence; Infobae, Crónica and TN mention only Messi, while La Nación also names Milei. No body says the videos were inspected, and none says the videos were what persuaded him to pay."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'“Cuando llegaron a los $19.300 de intereses me preguntaron a dónde me los mandaban y les dije que a mi cuenta. Les di mi cuenta, como un bol…, y cuando fui al banco a la tarde me habían dejado en cero mis cuatro cuentas”, relató Martínez.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'“Me dijeron que había una suma de 19 mil dólares. Después me cambiaron el número de cuenta, la clave y me retiraron lo último que tenía, que eran USD 1.400”, relató Martínez.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"He lost money through the AI-promoted platform; his tellings give different amounts.","causal_attribution":"Both tellings are his own account. In the La Criti account the platform's payout request preceded the emptying of his four accounts; in the televised account the platform took a 149,600-peso deposit and the last 1,400 dollars. The total lost to the platform is not stated."},{"id":"c3","status":"disputed","evidence":[{"locator":"'“Cuando llegaron a los $19.300 de intereses me preguntaron a dónde me los mandaban y les dije que a mi cuenta. Les di mi cuenta, como un bol…, y cuando fui al banco a la tarde me habían dejado en cero mis cuatro cuentas”, relató Martínez.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Martínez afirmó que los delincuentes no solo tramitaron préstamos a su nombre, sino que también retiraron los fondos que tenía depositados.'","relation":"contradicts","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"After about two weeks of calls showing fictitious interest, the platform's callers asked for his bank details to pay out the gains, and his four bank accounts were emptied the same day.","causal_attribution":"His account as relayed by La Criti, La Opinión Austral and Pronto. In his televised account the withdrawal of his deposited savings follows the Temu-bonus call and the loans requested in his name, so his tellings conflict on which scam emptied the accounts. The amount is not stated."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Mandé a comprar unos artículos y me llamaron diciendo que como era tan buen cliente esa semana me iban a depositar 500 mil pesos en mi cuenta'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Compré unos productos en Temu, que es una internacional que vende por internet.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'Martínez aseguró que, ante el pedido de los supuestos representantes, les brindó los datos de su cuenta bancaria para que pudieran realizarle el depósito.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"Callers posing as Temu told him he would receive a 500,000-peso deposit as a favoured customer, and he gave them his bank account details.","causal_attribution":"Recorded as context. No AI element is reported in this scam. In the televised account he says he does not blame the shopping platform, because its logo may have been copied."},{"id":"c5","status":"disputed","evidence":[{"locator":"'Me sacaron los 1400 dólares que había depositado en el banco'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Finalmente, le solicitaron datos de su cuenta bancaria. Martínez aseguró que, en esa oportunidad, le retiraron los últimos ahorros que conservaba: unos 1400 dólares.'","relation":"contradicts","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"The fake-Temu bonus call took the 1,400 dollars he had deposited in the bank.","causal_attribution":"His words in the La Criti account place the 1,400 dollars in the Temu-bonus scam. In his televised account (Infobae, TN, La Nación, Crónica) the 1,400 dollars are the last savings taken by the AI-promoted platform. Recorded as disputed between his two tellings."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Horas más tarde, un representante de su banco lo contactó para preguntarle si había solicitado dos préstamos, uno por $1.700.000 y otro por cerca de $863.000.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'Según detalló, el dinero de los préstamos se pudo cancelar, aunque el resto de sus fondos desapareció de las cuentas.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'“Le dije que no había pedido nada. A los diez minutos me llamaron y me dijeron que ya habían parado los dos créditos”, recordó.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'Y bueno, gracias a Dios, eso se pagó'","relation":"context","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"Hours after he gave his details to the bonus callers, his bank asked whether he had requested two loans of 1,700,000 and about 863,000 pesos, which he had not requested.","causal_attribution":"His televised account. Infobae and Crónica say the bank stopped the loans; TN and La Nación quote him saying the amount 'se pagó', so whether any debt remained is unclear. No AI element is reported in this step. In this telling the rest of his funds also disappeared from his accounts after this call ('el resto de sus fondos desapareció de las cuentas'), which conflicts with the La Criti account that ties the emptied accounts to the platform (see c3)."},{"id":"c7","status":"disputed","evidence":[{"locator":"'Allí le ofrecieron incorporarse a un sistema de supuestas ganancias en dólares a cambio de un depósito inicial de $149.600.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'Le aseguraron que tenía más de USD 1.200 disponibles y, después, que la cifra había crecido hasta llegar a USD 19.000.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'Me dijeron que había una suma de 19 mil dólares. Después me cambiaron el número de cuenta, la clave y me retiraron lo último que tenía, que eran USD 1.400'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"},{"locator":"'le retiraron los últimos ahorros que conservaba: unos 1400 dólares'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"},{"locator":"'Me sacaron los 1400 dólares que había depositado en el banco'","relation":"contradicts","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The platform asked for an initial deposit of 149,600 pesos, showed him fictitious credits rising from 1,200 to 19,000 dollars, then changed his account number and password and took the last 1,400 dollars he had.","causal_attribution":"His televised account; the 19,000-dollar balance was fictitious by his account. Disputed between his tellings: the La Criti account links the 1,400 dollars to the Temu call (see c5) and gives the platform's figure as 19,300 pesos of interest."},{"id":"c8","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'“Yo di usuario y clave. Por eso no puedo hacer absolutamente nada”, lamentó.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'Según su testimonio, le explicaron que esa circunstancia podía complicar el reclamo.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"He gave the scammers his bank user name and password, and was told this complicates a formal claim.","causal_attribution":"His account of what the bank and others told him; no complaint outcome is reported."}],"effects":[{"label":"savings lost to online scams, including money taken through an investment platform promoted with AI-made celebrity videos","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://laopinionaustral.com.ar/argentina/jorge-martinez-victima-de-una-doble-estafa-un-falso-messi-creado-con-ia-y-una-supuesta-bonificacion-de-temu-713028.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"es","translation_note":"Read live in Spanish on 2026-09-29 (La Opinión Austral, 28 September 2026). Relays the actor's account as told by journalist Nahuel Saa (La Criti). Researcher translation. Re-read from the retained body on 2026-10-03.","independence_group":"la-criti-account"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.pronto.com.ar/espectaculos/2026/9/28/jorge-martinez-victima-de-una-doble-estafa-le-vaciaron-las-cuentas-y-perdio-todos-sus-ahorros-264332.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"es","translation_note":"Read live in Spanish on 2026-09-29 (Pronto, 28 September 2026); same account and quotes. Researcher translation. Re-read from the retained body on 2026-10-03.","independence_group":"la-criti-account"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://x.com/LaCritiok/status/2104695128891756941","kind":"journalist_social_post","access":"read","language":"es","translation_note":"Post text read in Spanish on 2026-09-29 via api.fxtwitter.com (bodies/verify-ar-lacriti-x-2104695128891756941.json); the attached 99-second video of Martínez speaking was not transcribed. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"la-criti-account"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.infobae.com/teleshow/2026/09/29/jorge-martinez-conto-que-sufrio-dos-estafas-por-internet-me-sacaron-los-ahorros-de-toda-la-vida/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"es","translation_note":"Read live in Spanish on 2026-10-03 (Infobae, 29 September 2026). Reports the actor's interview on Lape Club Social. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"martinez-tv-interviews"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://tn.com.ar/show/famosos/2026/09/29/jorge-martinez-sufrio-dos-estafas-virtuales-y-perdio-todos-sus-ahorros-a-los-79-anos/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"es","translation_note":"Read live in Spanish on 2026-10-03 (TN, 29 September 2026). Quotes the actor's interview with América. Treated with s4, s6 and s7 as one group: the actor's own televised account. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"martinez-tv-interviews"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://www.lanacion.com.ar/sociedad/jorge-martinez-sufrio-una-doble-estafa-virtual-y-le-vaciaron-sus-cuentas-bancarias-nid29092026/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"es","translation_note":"Read live in Spanish on 2026-10-03 (La Nación, 29 September 2026). Quotes interviews with LN+ and América TV. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"martinez-tv-interviews"},{"id":"s7","url":"https://www.cronica.com.ar/diarioshow/farandula/jorge-martinez-sufrio-dos-estafas-virtuales-y-revelo-lo-que-mas-lamenta-me-sacaron-los-ahorros-de-toda-la-vida/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"es","translation_note":"Read live in Spanish on 2026-10-03 (Crónica, 29 September 2026); text closely follows Infobae (s4) on the Lape Club Social interview. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"martinez-tv-interviews"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["How much he lost to each scam: his tellings conflict on which scam emptied his accounts and which took the 1,400 dollars.","When the scams happened. In the interview reported on 29 September 2026 he said 'el mes pasado me sacaron todo', but no body states the interview's air date, so no month is recorded.","Whether a police complaint was filed: TN reports a difficulty 'al momento de realizar la denuncia', and no body reports a filing or its outcome.","Whether the loans requested in his name left any debt (stopped per Infobae and Crónica; 'se pagó' per TN and La Nación).","Which platform and videos were involved; the videos were not inspected."],"geography":{"basis":"Martínez is presented by Argentine outlets as a telenovela actor and the amounts he describes are in pesos (La Opinión Austral; Pronto); no body states his residence. The scammers' phone numbers came from Spain and England per his account; the platform's location is unknown, so no event country is recorded. In the televised account he says the scammers used numbers from other countries and that an account holder linked to the transfers was registered in Córdoba; the place of the platform remains unknown.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":["AR"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an adverse financial experience: he lost money through an investment platform promoted with AI-made videos of Messi (and Milei in several reports), alongside a separate fake-Temu bonus scam. Corrected 2026-10-03 after reading his televised account (Infobae, TN, La Nación, Crónica): the record now gives both of his tellings, which conflict on which scam emptied his accounts and which took 1,400 dollars, and adds the 149,600-peso deposit, the fictitious 19,000-dollar balance and the loans requested in his name. He is a public figure telling his own account; the AI element rests on that account.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-03"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Journalist Nahuel Saa (La Criti) posted on X on 28 September 2026 that Martínez was defrauded by a platform 'promocionada con IA' that used a video of Messi and another of Milei; La Opinión Austral and Pronto rewrite this as fake videos created with AI. In a television interview reported by TN on 29 September 2026 he said the platform had Messi as its figurehead and that he later saw it was an artificial intelligence; Infobae and Crónica report that the platform used fake videos made with AI and references to Messi. The videos were not inspected and the AI claim rests on his account. The AI depicted third parties; no AI relation to the actor himself is established, so the relation is unknown.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"Argentina: actor Jorge Martínez, 79, loses savings to two online scams days apart, one an investment platform promoted with AI-made fake videos of Lionel Messi and Javier Milei","summary":"The 79-year-old telenovela actor Jorge Martínez said in late September 2026 that he lost his savings to two online scams a few days apart. One was a supposed investment platform that, by his relayed and televised accounts, used fake videos of Lionel Messi (and, in several reports, Javier Milei) made with artificial intelligence. In a television interview he said the platform had Messi as its figurehead and that he later saw it was an artificial intelligence. The other began with callers posing as Temu, who promised him a 500,000-peso deposit as a favoured customer and asked for his bank details. His published tellings differ on which scam took what. In the account relayed by journalist Nahuel Saa (La Criti) on 28 September, the platform scam left his four bank accounts at zero and the Temu call took 1,400 dollars. In the television interviews reported on 29 September, the Temu call was followed by two loans requested in his name and the withdrawal of his savings, and the platform took an initial 149,600-peso deposit, showed a fictitious balance of 19,000 dollars and then took the last 1,400 dollars he had.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-09-28","aiSystem":"AI-generated fake videos of Lionel Messi (and, in several reports, Javier Milei) used to promote the investment platform (per the actor's relayed and televised accounts); the tool is not identified","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"An elderly actor lost savings to two online scams days apart, one an investment platform promoted with AI-made celebrity videos that took money from him (his account via La Criti, La Opinión Austral and Pronto, and his television interviews reported by Infobae, TN, La Nación and Crónica; the tellings differ on the amounts per scam).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, Jorge Martínez (La Opinión Austral; Pronto; Infobae; TN; La Nación; Crónica). Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"elderly","jurisdiction":"AR","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://laopinionaustral.com.ar/argentina/jorge-martinez-victima-de-una-doble-estafa-un-falso-messi-creado-con-ia-y-una-supuesta-bonificacion-de-temu-713028.html","primarySourceLabel":"La Opinión Austral, 28 September 2026: Jorge Martínez, víctima de una doble estafa: un falso Messi creado con IA y una supuesta bonificación de Temu","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T03:22:15.951695+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-03T03:26:32.54818+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfakes","investment-scam","celebrity-deepfake","messi","milei","elderly","argentina","financial-loss"]},{"id":"2026-orelien-goncourt-selection-removed-ai-detector-accusation","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Le 21 septembre, le compte « Balance ton Claude », jusque-là peu connu, affirme avoir soumis plusieurs extraits de C’était ça ou mourir au logiciel américain Pangram, spécialisé dans la détection de textes potentiellement générés par intelligence artificielle. Certains passages auraient obtenu des scores allant jusqu’à 100 % de probabilité de génération par IA.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'Les premières accusations ont été portées lundi par un compte anonyme sur X, mettant en avant le verdict du détecteur d'IA Pangram. L'essayiste Samuel Fitoussi a confirmé vendredi être derrière ce compte, Balance ton Claude, assurant n'être qu'un des membres d'un collectif.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The accusation began when an anonymous X account, Balance ton Claude, said it had run excerpts of the novel through the Pangram AI-detection software, with some passages scoring up to 100 per cent probability of AI generation; essayist Samuel Fitoussi later said he was one of the people behind the account.","causal_attribution":"Account of how the accusation arose, as reported."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'L'Académie Goncourt a annoncé, vendredi 25 septembre, la \"suppression\" du roman C'était ça ou mourir de Thélyson Orélien de sa première sélection'; 'L'ouvrage \"est selon toute vraisemblance très largement le produit d'une intelligence artificielle\", justifie-t-elle après plusieurs jours de polémique, expliquant se reposer sur le \"résultat convergent de plusieurs analyses de chercheurs et journalistes dignes de foi\".'; 'L'Académie Goncourt justifie également sa décision par \"des plagiats dont son auteur s'est rendu coupable au fil du temps et qui viennent d'être révélés\", qui ne concernent pas son roman mais au moins une nouvelle et des articles publiés au Canada.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'L'Académie Goncourt a annoncé vendredi qu'elle retirait le roman de l'auteur canado-haïtien Thélyson Orélien de sa sélection pour le prix Goncourt en raison des accusations de plagiat et d'utilisation de l'intelligence artificielle (IA) le visant.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"On 25 September 2026 the Académie Goncourt removed the novel from its first selection, stating that it is in all likelihood very largely the product of an artificial intelligence on the basis of several analyses by researchers and journalists, and also citing plagiarism by the author in older texts published in Canada that do not concern the novel.","causal_attribution":"The Académie's stated reasons combine AI analyses and plagiarism findings; the weight given to the Pangram results is not stated. The communiqué itself was not read directly."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'L'écrivain canado-haïtien conteste avoir eu recours à l'intelligence artificielle, et a dénoncé jeudi une \"volonté\" de le \"faire taire\".'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Il explique que son style, marqué notamment par les répétitions et certains rythmes propres à son univers linguistique et culturel, pourrait être interprété à tort par des outils automatisés.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Orélien denies using artificial intelligence to write the novel and says its repetitions and rhythms reflect his linguistic and cultural background and may be misread by automated tools.","causal_attribution":"The author's denial; the Académie and the accusers maintain the contrary. No decisive evidence either way is reported."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Les éditions du Boréal, basées à Montréal, ont annoncé suspendre \"les activités promotionnelles\" autour du livre'; '\"Malheureusement, il nous est impossible à ce stade-ci d'infirmer ou de confirmer les allégations auxquelles l'auteur fait face\", a expliqué Boréal'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Au Canada, les Éditions du Boréal ont suspendu les activités promotionnelles entourant le roman'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"His Montreal publisher, Éditions du Boréal, suspended promotional activities around the book, saying it could neither confirm nor refute the allegations.","causal_attribution":"Publisher statement as reported; the suspension followed both the AI and plagiarism allegations."}],"effects":[{"label":"novel removed from the Goncourt prize selection after accusations, based partly on AI-detector scores, that it was largely AI-generated","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"publisher suspended promotion of the book pending the allegations","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.franceinfo.fr/culture/livres/le-roman-de-thelyson-orelien-supprime-de-la-selection-du-prix-goncourt-en-raison-de-soupcons-de-recours-a-l-intelligence-artificielle-et-d-accusations-de-plagiats_8209475.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read live in French on 2026-09-28; bylined 'franceinfo avec AFP'. Quotes the Académie communiqué. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"goncourt-communique-afp"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.rts.ch/info/culture/livres/2026/article/thelyson-orelien-l-essayiste-samuel-fitoussi-dit-avoir-lance-la-polemique-29367142.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read live in French on 2026-09-28 (25 September 2026). No wire credit visible in the saved text but the account parallels the AFP copy; treated as the same chain. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"goncourt-communique-afp"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.juno7.ht/thelyson-orelien-polemique-ia-goncourt-pangram/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read live in French on 2026-09-28 (26 September 2026). A Haitian synthesis of published reporting with no independent sourcing; treated as the same chain. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"goncourt-communique-afp"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://t24.com.tr/dunya/odullu-yazarin-romanina-yapay-zek-suclamasi-adayliktan-cikarildi,1350116","kind":"news_relay","access":"read","language":"tr","translation_note":"Read live in Turkish on 2026-09-28 (27 September 2026); relay of the same reporting. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"goncourt-communique-afp"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["work"],"unknowns":["Whether generative AI was used to write the novel; the author denies it.","Which analyses by researchers and journalists the Académie relied on, and how much weight it gave the Pangram scores relative to the plagiarism findings.","The novel's status on the Femina, Médicis and Renaudot lists after the Goncourt decision.","The author's own account of personal or financial effects beyond the public statements reported."],"geography":{"basis":"The decision was taken by the Académie Goncourt for the French literary prize (franceinfo) while the author was in France promoting the book (RTS). The author is described as Canadian-Haitian and his publisher is in Montreal, but his country of residence is not stated in the read sources, so no affected-person country is recorded.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["FR"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a contextual case (an AI-detection tool's output about his text launched public accusations of AI authorship, and the Académie Goncourt then removed his novel, citing unnamed analyses finding it probably AI-generated as well as separate plagiarism). AI authorship is disputed and unproven, and the decision also rested on separate plagiarism findings; the record states both. The author is a public figure; all read sources derive from the same public statements and AFP-led reporting.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-28"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Pangram AI-detection software was used by the accusing account to score excerpts of the novel as AI-generated (franceinfo; RTS; juno7). That generative AI was used to write the novel is disputed: the author denies it. The Académie relied on unspecified analyses by researchers and journalists, not solely on Pangram.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"France: the Académie Goncourt removes Thélyson Orélien's bestselling novel from its prize selection, saying it is in all likelihood largely AI-generated, days after an anonymous X account publicised Pangram AI-detector scores; the author denies using AI, and the Académie also cites separate plagiarism in his older texts","summary":"On 21 September 2026 an anonymous X account, Balance ton Claude, said it had run excerpts of Thélyson Orélien's debut novel C'était ça ou mourir through the American AI-detection software Pangram, with some passages scoring up to 100 per cent probability of AI generation. On 25 September the Académie Goncourt removed the novel from the first selection of sixteen books for its 2026 prize, stating that the work is 'in all likelihood very largely the product of an artificial intelligence', based on 'the convergent result of several analyses by researchers and journalists', and also citing plagiarism in older texts by the author published in Canada (at least one short story and articles), which do not concern the novel. Orélien, a 38-year-old Canadian-Haitian writer whose novel had won the Fnac novel prize, denies using AI and says its repetitions and certain rhythms reflect his linguistic and cultural world and may be misread by automated tools. His Montreal publisher Boréal suspended promotional activities, saying it could neither confirm nor refute the allegations. Essayist Samuel Fitoussi said he was one of the people behind the account. Whether AI was used to write the novel is disputed; AI-detector reliability is itself contested in the coverage.","incidentDate":"2026-09-21","incidentEndDate":"2026-09-25","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-25","aiSystem":"Pangram, an AI-text detection tool, used by the Balance ton Claude account to score excerpts of the novel (juno7; RTS; franceinfo); the alleged use of a generative-AI model to write the novel is denied by the author and unproven","aiProduct":"Pangram AI-text detector","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"disputed","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["professional_harm","reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The author's novel was removed from the Goncourt prize selection and his publisher suspended its promotion after public accusations, based partly on AI-detector scores, that the book was largely AI-generated; he denies using AI and the Académie also cited separate plagiarism (franceinfo with AFP; RTS; juno7).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"disputed","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the author Thélyson Orélien, whose novel was removed from the selection (franceinfo; RTS). Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"FR","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.franceinfo.fr/culture/livres/le-roman-de-thelyson-orelien-supprime-de-la-selection-du-prix-goncourt-en-raison-de-soupcons-de-recours-a-l-intelligence-artificielle-et-d-accusations-de-plagiats_8209475.html","primarySourceLabel":"franceinfo (with AFP), 25 September 2026: Le roman de Thélyson Orélien supprimé de la sélection du prix Goncourt en raison de soupçons de recours à l'intelligence artificielle et d'accusations de plagiats","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-28T03:31:42.415125+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:48.719742+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-detection","ai-detector-accusation","literary-prize","goncourt","pangram","france","disputed","made-claim-about"]},{"id":"2018-india-journalist-deepfake-sexual-abuse","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Article paragraphs introducing Rana Ayyub and describing her immediate reaction and hospital visit (retained text L63-L64).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The journalist reported a sexual deepfake circulating in April 2018 and a hospital visit for acute distress.","causal_attribution":"Participant account; independent verification of the reported consequence is unavailable."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Paragraph describing her brother travelling from Mumbai to see her in Delhi (web-reader L129).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Her account locates the aftermath in Delhi.","causal_attribution":"Participant account; independent verification of the reported consequence is unavailable."}],"effects":[{"label":"The journalist reported acute distress and nonconsensual sexual depiction.","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.dazeddigital.com/science-tech/article/41424/1/deepfakes-ai-edited-revenge-porn","kind":"journalistic_interview","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English article read directly; relevant paragraphs on Ayyub and her complaint. The source interviews two different women.","independence_group":"ayyub-account"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.huffpost.com/archive/in/entry/deepfake-porn_a_23595592","kind":"first_person_account","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English contributor account read through the web reader after the direct request returned 406. Same witness, not independent corroboration.","independence_group":"ayyub-account"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["identity","privacy","work"],"unknowns":["The creator and generation software are unknown.","Hospital admission, diagnosis and later clinical course are unverified.","The independent contribution of the video within the surrounding harassment is not established."],"geography":{"basis":"The first-person account places her in Delhi during the aftermath. No court location is asserted.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["IN"],"affected_person_countries":["IN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Concrete adverse experience with a core person relation. Claims remain attributed to their sources. Technical and causal limits are recorded.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-25"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Dazed describes this particular video as a deepfake. No forensic examination was conducted.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Indian journalist reports acute distress and a hospital visit after sexual deepfake abuse","summary":"An Indian journalist later reported acute distress and a hospital visit after a sexual deepfake of her circulated in April 2018. The generation tool and clinical records were not inspected.","incidentDate":"2018-04-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2018-09-19","aiSystem":"Unspecified deepfake video tool","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The journalist reported acute distress and nonconsensual sexual depiction.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One targeted journalist. Relatives and viewers are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.dazeddigital.com/science-tech/article/41424/1/deepfakes-ai-edited-revenge-porn","primarySourceLabel":"Dazed, interview, 19 September 2018","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-25T03:28:55.40973+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:16:46.167294+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["historical-review"]},{"id":"2026-gisi-infopro-digital-creteil-ai-dismissals-suspended","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Page 12: 'ORDONNONS la suspension du projet de réorganisation de la Société GISI et du projet de licenciement collectif (des 8 secrétaires de rédaction) en découlant, incluant la suspension des processus de reclassement, jusqu'à ce qu'il soit procédé à la réalisation des tests en situation réelle et à l'élaboration de numéros 0'; 'PRONONÇONS à l'encontre de la société GISI une astreinte provisoire de 8 000 euros par jour de retard pendant une durée de trois mois'; 'FAIT AU PALAIS DE JUSTICE DE CRETEIL, le 15 septembre 2026'. Page 1: 'ORDONNANCE DU : 15 Septembre 2026', 'N° RG 26/00991'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"\"la suspension du projet de réorganisation (...) et du projet de licenciement collectif (des 8 secrétaires de rédaction)\"; \"par jour de retard sur trois mois\"; \"En revanche, les dommages et intérêts réclamés ont été rejetés.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"\"La justice a suspendu mardi en référé un projet de suppression de 8 postes au sein du groupe de presse Gisi (L'Usine nouvelle, LSA, L'Argus de l'assurance...), en lien avec le déploiement de l'intelligence artificielle\"; \"Il a par conséquent suspendu le plan jusqu'à la réalisation de tests complets. Contactée par l'AFP, la direction de Gisi a indiqué se réserver la possibilité de faire appel\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"On 15 September 2026 the Créteil judicial court, sitting in référé on the application of Gisi's CSE, ordered the suspension of Gisi's reorganisation project and of the resulting collective dismissal of the eight secrétaires de rédaction, including the redeployment processes, until real-situation tests and pilot issues confirm what share of sub-editor tasks the generative-AI tool can take over; it imposed a provisional penalty of 8,000 euros per day of delay for three months, refused the damages provision and awarded 2,000 euros in costs.","causal_attribution":"Established by the court order itself and confirmed by L'Informé and AFP, which each consulted the decision."},{"id":"c2","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Page 11: 'représenter un risque grave et caractérisé sur la santé physique et mentale de plusieurs catégories de salariés de la société GISI'; 'la société GISI ne justifie pas de la mise en oeuvre des dispositifs de prévention du risque lié à l'introduction de la nouvelle technologie d'IA générative alors que dans le DUERP 2025 qu'elle produit (pièce 5) elle identifie 3 risques en lien avec l'introduction de l'IA (stress lié à l'insécurité de l'emploi lié à l'intelligence artificielle ; changements organisationnels liés à l'introduction de l'intelligence artificielle ; absence de repères liés à l'utilisation de l'IA et manque d'acculturation) mais ne les a pas côtés'. Page 10: 'sans aucune participation des salariés concernés, ni réalisation en situation réelle'; 'L'expert pronostique un risque d'intensification majeur du travail des rédacteurs'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"\"un risque grave et caractérisé sur la santé physique et mentale de plusieurs catégories de salariés\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"\"Le tribunal judiciaire de Créteil, saisi par le Comité social et économique (CSE) de Gisi\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"\"des risques de surcharge de travail (...) et une baisse de la qualité du travail fourni, de l'autonomie et du conflit de valeur, de la perte de sens et de l'altération du collectif\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The judge found that implementing the generative-AI project and the dismissal of all sub-editor posts on an approximate evaluation, without real-situation testing or participation of the staff concerned, presented a serious and characterised risk to the physical and mental health of several categories of Gisi staff, and that Gisi had not shown prevention measures although its 2025 risk register listed three AI-related risks including stress linked to AI-related job insecurity.","causal_attribution":"The court's own finding; it concerns a risk to health created by the way the AI-based reorganisation was to be deployed, not an individually diagnosed injury."},{"id":"c3","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Page 2: 'La société GISI emploie 127 salariés dont 92 journalistes'; 'un outil dénommé DIGI'; 'Le projet de la société GISI prévoit la suppression de 8 postes de secrétaires de rédaction (SR) et la création de 2 postes de chefs d'édition reprenant une partie des missions des SR, à savoir celles ne pouvant être automatisées par l'outil DIGI'; 'Le 4 mai 2026 le CSE était convié à une réunion dite R0 de présentation du projet'; 'Le 12 mai 2026 la société GISI convoquait le CSE à une première réunion d'information/consultation sur deux projets'; 'le CSE de la société GISI obtenait le 15 juillet 2025 une ordonnance de référé'; 'Par un arrêt du 21 mai 2026 la cour d'appel de Paris confirmait l'ordonnance de référé du 15 juillet 2025'. Page 10: 'la société GISI a évalué à environ 70 % la part des tâches des SR réalisées par l'outil IA'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"\"Au sein de Gisi, 8 postes de SR sont menacés\"; \"la société estimant que 70% des tâches des SR peuvent être réalisées par l'IA\"; \"Des reclassements ont été proposés à tous les secrétaires de rédaction\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"\"avait déjà contrainte à ouvrir un processus d\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Gisi (127 staff, 92 journalists) planned to remove its eight sub-editor posts and create two chef d'édition posts for the tasks its in-house generative-AI tool DIGI could not automate, estimating that the tool would perform about 70% of sub-editor tasks; the project was presented to the CSE on 4 May 2026 and consultation opened on 12 May 2026, after an earlier July 2025 order (confirmed on appeal on 21 May 2026) had required consultation before AI tools were used.","causal_attribution":"Facts recited in the court order and reported by AFP from the company."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"\"Les quelque 250 journalistes de ces 26 titres au total avaient lancé une grève au printemps pour s'opposer au projet de leur propriétaire de supprimer 19 postes de secrétaires de rédaction\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"\"Nous allons poursuivre les tests et faire des numéros complets\"; \"la direction de Gisi a indiqué se réserver la possibilité de faire appel\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"\"nous suspendons le projet le temps de finaliser ces tests\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Some 250 journalists across Infopro Digital's 26 titles struck in spring 2026 against the owner's plan to cut 19 sub-editor posts because of the AI deployment; after the order Gisi's president said the tests would continue with full pilot issues and that the company reserved the right to appeal.","causal_attribution":"AFP reporting of the strike and of management's reaction; L'Informé carries management's written reply."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"\"with five of the eight affected journalists having already received pre-dismissal interview letters\"; \"newsroom positions accompanied by training were offered to all affected editorial secretaries, although some declined them\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"Digital Watch, citing Stratégies, reports that five of the eight affected sub-editors had already received pre-dismissal interview letters and that Gisi had offered three chef d'édition roles and one technical editor-in-chief position, with newsroom posts offered to all affected sub-editors, some of whom declined.","causal_attribution":"Secondary summary attributing the detail to Stratégies (not readable from this host); reported only. Its count of three chef d'édition roles differs from the two posts in the order."}],"effects":[{"label":"eight sub-editors faced collective dismissal in favour of a generative-AI tool; a court found a serious risk to the physical and mental health of several categories of staff","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://linforme.files.sirius.press/files/1789566133007-SECURISE_ordonnance%20du%2015%20septembre%202026-2.pdf","kind":"court_order","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Court record: Tribunal judiciaire de Créteil, section des référés, ordonnance de référé of 15 September 2026, RG 26/00991, CSE de la société Gisi v. SAS Gisi, published by L'Informé (watermarked, 12 scanned pages without a text layer). Pages 1, 2, 10, 11 and 12 read visually in French on 2026-09-19; pages 3-9 not read. Quotations are transcribed from the page images.","independence_group":"tj-creteil-order"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.linforme.com/medias-culture/article/lsa-l-usine-nouvelle-la-justice-retoque-le-remplacement-des-journalistes-par-l-ia_8645.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in French on 2026-09-19 (L'Informé, 15 Sep 2026, updated 16 Sep with Infopro Digital's reaction). The served page truncates the opening paragraph; the court's findings, the penalty, the union reaction and management's reply are readable. L'Informé published the order.","independence_group":"linforme"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.cbnews.fr/medias/justice-suspend-projet-suppressions-postes-liees-ia-chez-usine-nouvelle-lsa","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in French on 2026-09-19 (CB News, 16 Sep 2026, AFP dispatch). AFP states it consulted the decision; carries Gisi president Isabelle André's comments.","independence_group":"afp"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.bfmtv.com/economie/emploi/vie-de-bureau/un-risque-grave-et-caracterise-sur-la-sante-physique-et-mentale-la-justice-suspend-un-projet-de-suppressions-de-postes-liees-a-l-ia-dans-les-medias-du-groupe-gisi_AD-202609160444.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in French on 2026-09-19 (BFM Business with AFP, 16 Sep 2026). Same AFP dispatch with a definition of the sub-editor role.","independence_group":"afp"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.liberation.fr/economie/medias/la-justice-suspend-un-projet-de-suppressions-de-postes-liees-a-lia-dans-le-groupe-de-presse-infopro-digital-20260916_H7LH5VX6A5EDBFWSDNNM3DPB3U/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in French on 2026-09-19 via the MSN content API copy (Libération, 16 Sep 2026, AFP). Same dispatch, adding the staff representative and SNJ-CGT reactions given to L'Informé.","independence_group":"afp"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://dig.watch/updates/french-court-ai-job-cuts-journalists","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-19 (Digital Watch Observatory, 17 Sep 2026). A secondary summary that attributes the pre-dismissal-letter and redeployment details to Stratégies, whose own article returns 403 to this host.","independence_group":"strategies-via-digital-watch"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["work","justice"],"unknowns":["Whether Gisi has appealed the order.","Whether the pre-dismissal procedure for the sub-editors has been formally withdrawn and whether all eight remain employed; individual health effects are not reported.","Pages 3-9 of the order (the parties' submissions) were not read.","The status of Groupe Moniteur's separate redundancy plan (PSE) covering the remaining sub-editor posts.","Digital Watch, citing Stratégies, reports three chef d'édition roles offered; the order and AFP record two chef d'édition posts. The difference (offers versus created posts, or a Stratégies error) is unresolved."],"geography":{"basis":"Gisi is registered in Créteil with its seat in Gentilly (Val-de-Marne) per the order; the staff work for its French titles; court: Tribunal judiciaire de Créteil.","court_countries":["FR"],"event_countries":["FR"],"affected_person_countries":["FR"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a work-lane case of an institutional AI decision with concrete consequences for identified staff: eight sub-editors were subject to a collective dismissal plan justified by a generative-AI tool, and a court found the deployment presented a serious and characterised risk to the physical and mental health of several categories of staff and suspended it. The court order (primary record), L'Informé and AFP copies read; the affected people are unnamed.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-19"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The court order and AFP identify the generative-AI tool (DIGI) as the basis of the reorganisation and of the dismissal of the eight sub-editor posts, and the court's health-risk finding concerns deploying that tool without real-situation testing. The tool did not communicate with, decide about or depict the affected people; it was to take over their tasks, so none of the listed relations applies and the relation is recorded as unknown.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"Créteil, France: a court suspended Gisi's (Infopro Digital) plan to cut eight sub-editor posts in favour of a generative-AI tool, finding a serious and characterised risk to the physical and mental health of several categories of staff","summary":"Gisi, the Infopro Digital subsidiary publishing L'Usine nouvelle, LSA and L'Argus de l'assurance (127 staff, 92 journalists), presented to its works council (CSE) on 4 May 2026 a reorganisation built around 'DIGI', an in-house generative-AI editorial tool, and on 12 May 2026 opened consultation on the reorganisation and on the resulting collective dismissal of its eight secrétaires de rédaction (sub-editors), to be replaced by two chefs d'édition, on the company's estimate that the tool would take over about 70% of sub-editor tasks. Some 250 journalists across Infopro Digital's 26 titles had struck in spring 2026 against a group-wide plan to cut 19 sub-editor posts, and according to Digital Watch (citing Stratégies) five of the eight Gisi sub-editors had received pre-dismissal interview letters. The CSE, relying on an expert report, went to the Créteil judicial court in July. On 15 September 2026 the référé judge found that deploying the plan without real-situation testing presented 'un risque grave et caractérisé sur la santé physique et mentale de plusieurs catégories de salariés', ordered the suspension of the reorganisation and the collective dismissal (including the redeployment processes) until real-situation tests and full pilot issues are produced, with a provisional penalty of 8,000 euros per day for three months, and refused the damages provision. Gisi said it would continue the tests and reserved the right to appeal.","incidentDate":"2026-05-04","incidentKind":"ongoing_experience","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"product_change","reportedDate":"2026-09-15","aiSystem":"'DIGI', Gisi's in-house generative-AI editorial tool (transcription of interviews, drafting and correction help; planned spelling, grammar and typography correction, editorial-coherence and fact-reliability checks)","aiProduct":"DIGI editorial tool","aiCompany":"Gisi (Groupe Industrie Service Infos), a subsidiary of Infopro Digital (deployer of the in-house 'DIGI' generative-AI tool)","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["professional_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Eight sub-editors at Gisi faced collective dismissal because a generative-AI tool was to take over most of their tasks (five had received pre-dismissal interview letters, per Digital Watch citing Stratégies), and a court found that the plan, deployed without real-situation testing, presented a serious and characterised risk to the physical and mental health of several categories of staff; the court suspended the dismissals pending tests.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":8,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"The order suspends 'le projet de licenciement collectif (des 8 secrétaires de rédaction)' and AFP reports eight sub-editor posts threatened at Gisi; Digital Watch, citing Stratégies, says five of the eight had received pre-dismissal interview letters. The court's health-risk finding extends to 'plusieurs catégories de salariés' without a number. Eight counted plus unquantified others: partial.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"FR","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"lawsuit_ongoing","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://linforme.files.sirius.press/files/1789566133007-SECURISE_ordonnance%20du%2015%20septembre%202026-2.pdf","primarySourceLabel":"Tribunal judiciaire de Créteil, ordonnance de référé of 15 September 2026 (RG 26/00991), CSE de la société Gisi v. SAS Gisi, as published by L'Informé","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-20T03:19:47.791082+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:37.711237+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["work","journalism","layoffs","generative-ai","newsroom-automation","france","creteil","labour-court","occupational-health","institutional-use"]},{"id":"2024-south-korea-telegram-deepfake-crisis","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1a","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"BBC 3 Sep 2024 confirms Ko Narin's Hankyoreh scoop and describes the school- and university-specific rooms.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Hankyoreh English's own exposure of the military Telegram room (27 Aug 2024).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Around 26 August 2024 The Hankyoreh (Ko Narin) exposed Telegram rooms creating and sharing AI-generated sexual deepfakes of Korean women and girls, with rooms organized by school and university.","causal_attribution":"The scoop's existence and the rooms' school/university organization are confirmed by the BBC's original reporting and Hankyoreh English's companion investigation; the original Korean article is dead-linked and retained uninspected."},{"id":"c1b","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Room-structure passages: 'humiliation rooms'/'friend of friend rooms', entry terms, the 2,000-member school group.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The rooms ran as 'humiliation rooms' and 'friend of friend rooms' with entry terms demanding at least four photos plus name, age and area, and one group for underage pupils at a single school had more than 2,000 members.","causal_attribution":"Single-chain detail from the BBC's 3 Sep 2024 account; no second inspected chain describes the entry terms or the 2,000-member group."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Police-figure passages: 297 vs 180; 'The victims are often minors and the perpetrators are mostly teenagers'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Watchdog ~6,500 requests Jan-Jul (4x); 178 suspects booked, 74% aged 10-19; >half of erased deepfakes involved minors.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"Police recorded 297 deepfake cases in January-July 2024 against 180 in all of 2023; the watchdog received nearly 6,500 takedown requests in the first seven months of 2024 (four times the prior year); of 178 suspects booked, 74% were aged 10-19; more than half of erased deepfakes involved minors; victims were often minors and perpetrators mostly teenagers.","causal_attribution":"Both outlets relay the same police and watchdog accounts; traced to one official origin, so the figures are reported rather than corroborated. Figures count cases, requests and suspects, not harmed people."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'more than 900 students, teachers and staff' (education ministry); 'of 964 deepfake-related sex crime cases reported from January to October last year, police made 23 arrests' (Seoul police statement).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"The education ministry counted more than 900 students, teachers and staff victimized between January and early November 2024; a Seoul police statement said that of 964 deepfake-related sex crime cases reported January-October 2024, 23 arrests were made.","causal_attribution":"Single chain (CNN) relaying official figures; the education-ministry count is the record's person-count lower bound."},{"id":"c4","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"Reuters wire via CNN, 26 Sep 2024: possession/viewing criminalized.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"CNN 25 Apr 2025: Sep 2024 law — possession/viewing up to 3 years or 30M won; creation maximum raised 5 to 7 years.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"On 26 September 2024 the National Assembly criminalized possessing or viewing sexually explicit deepfakes (up to 3 years' prison or a 30 million won fine); the maximum sentence for creating deepfake pornography was raised from 5 to 7 years.","causal_attribution":"The statute is a public record carried by two chains (Reuters wire; CNN original). The historical claim of an October 2024 amendment removing the distribution-intent requirement was not re-verified and is recorded as an unknown."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Military IDs turned into deepfake porn': servicewomen called 'military supplies'; at least 30 victims; channel active since 8 Aug with ~850 audience.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"A separate Telegram room degraded servicewomen with deepfakes made from military-intranet ID photos, implying insider involvement, with at least 30 victims across the Army, Navy and Air Force and an audience of about 850 since 8 August 2024.","causal_attribution":"Single chain (Hankyoreh original reporting)."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Heejin passages (pseudonymous victim account).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Ruma passages (pseudonymous victim account).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"Individual victims described severe harm: a pseudonymous school victim 'Heejin' spoke to the BBC, and 'Ruma', targeted in 2021 at age 27, spoke to CNN.","causal_attribution":"Pseudonymous first-person accounts carried by two outlets; the historical record's 'broke my whole belief system' quotation was not re-found in inspected sources and is dropped from the claims."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Korea Herald 16 Nov 2025 relaying the National Office of Investigation figures.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"}],"assertion":"By November 2025 the National Office of Investigation reported 3,557 people apprehended for cybersexual violence over the preceding year, with deepfake crimes the largest category (1,553 cases) and about 62% of suspects teenagers.","causal_attribution":"Single chain relaying official figures; apprehension figures count suspects, not victims."}],"effects":[{"label":"mass AI-generated sexual deepfakes of identified women and girls distributed in Telegram rooms","claim_id":"c1a","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpdlpj9zn9go","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-15 (3 Sep 2024; Jean Mackenzie, Seoul). Original reporting: victim 'Heejin', room structure, the 2,000-member school group, the 500+ activist-compiled school list.","independence_group":"bbc"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg4yerrg451o","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-15 (28 Aug 2024). Yoon cabinet order; police figures attributed.","independence_group":"bbc"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1155588.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-15 (27 Aug 2024). Hankyoreh's own exposure of the military room.","independence_group":"hankyoreh"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.npr.org/2024/09/06/nx-s1-5101891/south-korea-deepfake","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-15 (6 Sep 2024). Watchdog and police figures attributed.","independence_group":"npr"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/26/asia/south-korea-deepfake-bill-passed-intl-hnk","kind":"wire_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-15 (26 Sep 2024); bylined Reuters.","independence_group":"reuters"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/asia/south-korea-deepfake-crimes-intl-hnk-dst","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-15 (25 Apr 2025). CNN original: victim 'Ruma', education-ministry figure, Seoul police statement.","independence_group":"cnn"},{"id":"s7","url":"https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10616925","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-15 (16 Nov 2025; the historical date 2025-11-01 was wrong). National Office of Investigation figures.","independence_group":"korea-herald"},{"id":"s8","url":"https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/society/society_general/1155800.html","kind":"news_report","access":"unavailable","language":null,"translation_note":"HTTP 404 on 2026-09-15. Ko Narin's original Korean investigation (~26 Aug 2024); retained as the historical reference. BBC's 3 Sep 2024 report confirms the scoop; the body was not inspected in this review and its language is not re-asserted.","independence_group":"hankyoreh"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","justice"],"unknowns":["Not re-verified in inspected sources and therefore not claims of this record: the 220,000-member channel figure; 781 victims with 37% minors; Women's Human Rights Institute of Korea 332,341 supported cases; the October 2024 amendment removing the distribution-intent requirement; the Seoul National University graduates' 9-year and 3.5-year sentences; the teachers' union 200-school estimate; the 'broke my whole belief system' victim quotation.","The specific AI tools used are not identified in the inspected reporting.","Ko Narin's original Korean article (hani.co.kr 1155800) is HTTP 404; its contents are known only through the BBC's confirmation and the historical record.","The ScienceDirect study cited by the historical record answered 403 and was not inspected.","Cross-group overlap between police case counts, the education-ministry victim count and watchdog requests is unresolved."],"geography":{"basis":"Events, victims and the responding institutions are all in South Korea (all chains). No court proceeding is verified in this review, so court_countries is [].","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["KR"],"affected_person_countries":["KR"]},"publication":{"basis":"Restored under the 2026-09-15 charter as a harmful-artifact crisis affecting identified women and girls, predominantly minors. The person count is the education ministry's documented lower bound; case, request and membership figures are recorded but never used as person counts. Unverifiable historical claims are preserved as unknowns rather than deleted silently. No death; the death-verification rule is not engaged. Pseudonymous victims remain pseudonymous. In a 2026-09-15 second pass the original compound first claim was split: the corroborated exposure and room organization stand as c1a, and the BBC-only structure details (entry terms, 2,000-member group) stand as reported c1b. person_relations recorded in the same pass.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Every inspected chain describes AI deepfake tools as the generation mechanism and Telegram as the distribution channel; police and watchdog figures classify the cases as deepfake sex crimes. The specific tools are not individually identified beyond 'AI deepfake/nudify tools'.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"South Korea Telegram AI Deepfake Sexual Abuse Crisis","summary":"In late August 2024, journalist Ko Narin of The Hankyoreh exposed networks of Telegram rooms in South Korea where AI tools were used to turn ordinary photos of women and girls — middle and high school pupils, university students, teachers and servicewomen — into sexual deepfakes, shared with their identities in school- and university-specific 'humiliation rooms'. Police figures showed 297 deepfake cases in January-July 2024 (vs 180 in all of 2023); the education ministry counted more than 900 victimized students, teachers and staff; President Yoon ordered a crackdown; and on 26 September 2024 the National Assembly criminalized possessing or viewing sexually explicit deepfakes. Victims were often minors and perpetrators mostly teenagers.","incidentDate":"2024-08-01","incidentEndDate":"2024-09-26","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2024-08-26","aiSystem":"AI deepfake generation tools (various)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","aiCompany":"Multiple (various free AI 'undressing' tools)","severity":"critical","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":["minor_exploitation","third_party_harm_facilitation","psychological_manipulation"],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Mass non-consensual AI sexual imagery of schoolgirls, students, teachers and servicewomen, distributed with their identities in Telegram rooms; pseudonymous victims describe severe distress, and police recorded hundreds of cases dominated by minor victims and teenage perpetrators.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":900,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"Lower bound: the South Korean education ministry's count of 'more than 900 students, teachers and staff' victimized (January-early November 2024), carried by CNN's 25 April 2025 report. This counts people reported as victims to the education authorities. Police figures (297 cases; 964 cases) count cases, not people, and are not used as person counts; the watchdog's ~6,500 figures count takedown requests, not people; the 500+ schools figure is an activist-compiled list of targets, not a victim count; channel membership numbers are not counted. Cross-group overlap is unresolved.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"KR","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpdlpj9zn9go","primarySourceLabel":"BBC News, Jean Mackenzie (3 Sep 2024) — 'Inside the deepfake porn crisis engulfing Korean schools' (replaces the dead Hankyoreh original)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-01-29T09:52:18.956616+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:16:53.809496+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfakes","minor","south-korea","telegram","sexual-images","school","criminal-charges","legislation","mass-scale","non-western"]}]}