{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-05T08:56:59.759Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"journalist","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"2025","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":2,"coverage":{"cases":2,"countries":0,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":2,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":2,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2025-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I had understood it to say.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Both statements were wrong and are withdrawn.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":"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"]}]}