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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-delhi-police-dcp-ai-altered-video-falsely-showing-resignation-over-student-protests-fir","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'A 44 second long video is doing the rounds on social media, where Delhi Police deputy commissioner Sumit Jha is seen declaring that he is resigning from his position in solidarity with the protesting students.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'A digitally altered video is circulating on social media with the false claim that it shows Delhi Deputy Commissioner of Police Sumit Jha resigning from the Indian Police force, alleging he was pressured to lie about student protesters'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"A video circulating on social media in late July 2026 showed Delhi Police DCP Sumit Jha appearing to announce his immediate resignation because the government had pressured him to implicate protesting students on false charges.","causal_attribution":"Two fact-checkers viewed the video independently."},{"id":"c2","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'This suggests that the viral clip was created using this original video, with the audio later manipulated.'; 'The result indicated a 67% possibility of the video being AI generated.'; 'The viral video claiming Delhi Police DCP Sumit Jha resigned over student protests is completely fake and AI generated.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'A reverse image search traced it back to the original video posted by the official Delhi Police X handle, on July 23.'; 'The clip shows a mismatch between the audio and Jha's lip movements, and running it through an AI detection tool confirmed it as synthetic.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'The video was later confirmed to be deepfake, with the Press Information Bureau (PIB) issuing a statement that it was AI-generated.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The video was made with AI from genuine Delhi Police footage of 23 July; Delhi Police called it completely fake and AI generated, and two fact-checkers found an audio-to-lip mismatch or manipulated audio and reported AI-detection results flagging it.","causal_attribution":"Independent analyses by Alt News and BOOM plus official statements by Delhi Police and the PIB; detection-tool scores are probabilistic."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'We have registered a case against unknown persons under sections 353 of statements amounting to public mischief of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and 66 D for cheating by impersonation of the Information Technology Act,'; 'On July 31,'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'Police have registered an FIR against unknown persons under Section 353 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (statements causing public mischief) and Section 66D of the Information Technology Act'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"Maharashtra Cyber Police registered a case against unknown persons under BNS section 353 and IT Act section 66D after a complainant saw the video in a Congress leader's post on 31 July.","causal_attribution":"One police account relayed by two outlets; the FIR itself was not inspected."}],"effects":[{"label":"a named police officer falsely depicted announcing his resignation and accusing the government, in a video that Delhi Police and fact-checkers say was AI-generated","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.altnews.in/delhi-dcp-resigned-to-support-students-protest-no-viral-video-is-a-deepfake/","kind":"fact_check","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-11; no translation needed. Alt News fact check, HTTP 200; its own keyframe and detection-tool analysis, plus a quoted Delhi Police X post of 26 July.","independence_group":"altnews-fact-check"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.boomlive.in/fact-check/video-of-delhi-dcp-quitting-over-framing-cjp-protesters-is-a-deepfake-31946","kind":"fact_check","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-11; no translation needed. BOOM fact check of 27 July 2026, HTTP 200; its own lip-sync and detection-tool analysis.","independence_group":"boom-fact-check"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumbai-news/fir-filed-over-ai-doctored-video-of-delhi-cop-101785613160911.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-11; no translation needed. Hindustan Times Mumbai, 2 August 2026, HTTP 200; quotes a Maharashtra Cyber Police officer and the FIR, and reports the PIB statement.","independence_group":"ht-mumbai-fir-report"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://thefederal.com/category/states/west/maharashtra/delhi-dcp-resignation-video-deepfake-police-fir-registered-maharashtra-252310","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-11; no translation needed. The Federal, 2 August 2026, HTTP 200; FIR details overlap the Hindustan Times account and part is credited to ANI, so it is not used as independent support for the FIR.","independence_group":"federal-fir-report"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["public_services","justice"],"unknowns":["Who made the video and with which tool.","Whether the depicted officer made any statement about the video or its effect on him.","Whether anyone has been identified or charged under the FIR."],"geography":{"basis":"The depicted officer serves with Delhi Police, the source footage was posted by Delhi Police, and the FIR was registered by Maharashtra Cyber Police; all in India. No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["IN"],"affected_person_countries":["IN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core depiction case: Delhi Police, the Press Information Bureau and two independent fact-checkers say a viral video falsely showing a named Delhi Police DCP resigning and accusing the government was AI-generated, and Maharashtra Cyber Police registered an FIR. The officer is named as a senior public official depicted in his official role; the complainant, the uploader and the sharing politician are not named.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-11"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Delhi Police called the video \"completely fake and AI generated\" in a fact check quoted by Alt News and The Federal; Alt News traced it to genuine Delhi Police footage of 23 July and concluded the audio was manipulated, with a detection tool estimating a 67% AI likelihood; BOOM found an audio-to-lip mismatch and reported that AI-detection tools flagged it as synthetic; the Hindustan Times reports a Press Information Bureau statement that it was AI-generated. The AI output is a manipulated video in which a voice resembling the officer's speaks a fabricated resignation statement over his genuine footage (depicted_or_impersonated), which is the false depiction that circulated and led to the FIR.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Delhi Police and fact-checkers say a viral video of a Delhi Police DCP resigning over student protests was AI-generated; FIR filed in Maharashtra","summary":"In late July 2026 a 44-to-47-second video circulated on social media in which Delhi Police Deputy Commissioner Sumit Jha appeared to announce that he was resigning \"immediately\" because the government had pressured him to implicate students protesting with the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) on false charges. The fact-checkers Alt News and BOOM traced the frames to a genuine Delhi Police video of 23 July in which the officer warned about Pakistan-based social media handles spreading misinformation. BOOM found a mismatch between the audio and his lip movements and said Deepfake O Meter tools flagged the clip as AI-generated. Alt News reported a 67% likelihood of AI generation from Detectvideo.AI. Delhi Police posted a fact check calling the video \"completely fake and AI generated\", and the Hindustan Times reports that the Press Information Bureau also said it was AI-generated. After a member of the BJP social media team saw the video in a post by a Congress leader on 31 July, Maharashtra Cyber Police registered an FIR against unknown persons for public mischief and cheating by personation. The officer is named because he is a senior public official depicted in his official role and the fact checks name him; no statement from him is reported.","incidentDate":"2026-07-23","incidentEndDate":"2026-07-31","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-07-27","aiSystem":"An AI-altered video built from Delhi Police footage of 23 July 2026, with manipulated audio in a voice resembling the officer's, which The Federal calls \"the AI-generated voice\"; Delhi Police called it \"completely fake and AI generated\", the Press Information Bureau said it was AI-generated, and BOOM and Alt News ran it through AI-detection tools. No tool is named","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to Delhi Police, the Press Information Bureau and two fact-checkers, an AI-altered video falsely showed a named Delhi Police DCP resigning and accusing the government of pressuring him to frame protesting students; it was shared widely and Maharashtra Cyber Police registered an FIR for public mischief and cheating by personation.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the depicted officer. He did not use the tool, so he is counted as another person harmed. Viewers, likes and the complainant are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"IN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.altnews.in/delhi-dcp-resigned-to-support-students-protest-no-viral-video-is-a-deepfake/","primarySourceLabel":"Alt News fact check, 29 July 2026: Delhi DCP resignation video is a deepfake","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-11T03:16:16.977265+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-11T03:16:16.977265+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","ai-generated-video","police","protest","delhi","india","reputational-harm","depicted-or-impersonated","fact-check"]},{"id":"2026-investigator-says-gemini-called-fake-tron-energy-rental-site-safe","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'About 80 people fell victim to Tronify dot rent last month. According to a victim report, Gemini even confirmed that it was a safe website!'; 'steal $69,651 - IN ONE MONTH!'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'A crypto investigator who posts on X as JP says tronify.rent took $69,651 from about 80 people in September.'; 'The Crypto Times has not independently verified the loss total or the victim count.'","relation":"context","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"A crypto investigator posting as JP (@rugpullfinder) said on 4 October 2026 that about 80 people lost $69,651 to tronify.rent in September and that, according to a victim report, Gemini had confirmed it was a safe website.","causal_attribution":"The investigator's account of a victim report; unverified."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The screenshot JP shared shows a google.com page with the “AI Mode” tab selected.'; 'In the screenshot, the user asks whether it is safe to connect a wallet “to them” and which domain is correct. The AI answer states: “The official, correct web domain is tronify.rent.”'; 'The answer supports this by saying Trust Wallet natively integrated Tronify.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"A screenshot in the post shows Google Search's AI Mode answering a user who asked whether it was safe to connect a wallet and which domain was correct, stating that the official, correct web domain is tronify.rent and citing Trust Wallet's integration of Tronify.","causal_attribution":"The Crypto Times' description of the investigator's screenshot."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'AI Mode is a conversational search feature that Google has said runs on a custom version of its Gemini models. JP’s post attributes the answer to Gemini.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"AI Mode is a conversational search feature that Google has said runs on a custom version of its Gemini models; the investigator's post attributes the answer to Gemini.","causal_attribution":"The Crypto Times."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Trust Wallet announced in October 2025 that it was integrating Tronify, an energy provider'; 'The announcement does not name tronify.rent.'; 'An earlier Trust Wallet blog post, from December 2024, links to Tronify’s energy rental market at tronify.io.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Trust Wallet's October 2025 announcement of its Tronify integration does not name tronify.rent, and a December 2024 Trust Wallet post links to Tronify's market at tronify.io.","causal_attribution":"The Crypto Times' own check of Trust Wallet's posts."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The lock-screen screenshot JP published shows Trust Wallet notifications dated Monday, September 28. The newest notification reads “Approved unlimited USDT.”'; 'A third notification, marked “now,” shows 1,419.699184 USDT sent to an address'; 'also on JP’s list.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"A second screenshot in the post shows Trust Wallet notifications dated Monday, 28 September: an unlimited USDT approval to an address on the investigator's list and 1,419.699184 USDT sent to another address on the list.","causal_attribution":"The Crypto Times' description of the investigator's screenshot; whose wallet it is is not stated."}],"effects":[{"label":"funds lost by a victim who, the investigator says, reported that Gemini confirmed the site was safe (investigator's account)","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://x.com/rugpullfinder/status/2106810536155402543","kind":"social_media_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English through X's public syndication endpoint (HTTP 200); the two attached images were downloaded and viewed by the research agent.","independence_group":"jp-rugpullfinder"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.cryptotimes.io/2026/10/05/google-ai-searchs-official-tronify-rent-label-raises-questions-after-69651-losses/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English in full (HTTP 200). Its account of the screenshots and losses derives from s1; its checks of Trust Wallet's announcements are its own.","independence_group":"jp-rugpullfinder"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["finance"],"unknowns":["The victim's identity, location and own account, and whether both screenshots come from that victim.","The amount this victim lost in total and whether any funds were recovered.","Whether the AI Mode answer was reproducible and whether Google has responded.","Whether the loss total and the count of about 80 victims are accurate."],"geography":{"basis":"No source states where the victim or the operators were; the site's claim to be a Florida company is the site's own statement and is not used.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a concrete, attributed account: an investigator relays a victim report that Google's Gemini called a fake crypto site safe, and an outlet that inspected his screenshots describes the AI answer naming the site as the official domain and wallet notifications of the approval and transfer. The victim is unidentified and the claims are unverified.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-06"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Crypto Times describes the screenshot the investigator posted: Google's AI Mode, asked whether it was safe to connect a wallet and which domain was correct, answered that the official, correct web domain was tronify.rent, citing a Trust Wallet integration that Trust Wallet's own posts tie to a different domain. The investigator says a victim reported that Gemini confirmed the site was safe, and posted wallet notifications showing an unlimited USDT approval and a transfer to addresses he links to the site. No inspected source says the AI Mode screenshot or the wallet notifications come from the victim whose report the investigator relays.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Investigator says Gemini told a victim a fake TRON energy-rental site was safe; a screenshot he posted shows Google AI Mode calling it the official domain","summary":"On 4 October 2026 a crypto investigator who posts on X as JP (@rugpullfinder) said a fake TRON energy-rental site, tronify.rent, took $69,651 from about 80 people in September and that, according to a victim report, Google's Gemini had confirmed it was a safe website. His post carries two screenshots. The Crypto Times, which inspected them, reports that the first shows Google Search's AI Mode answering a user who asked whether it was safe to connect a wallet and which domain was correct: 'The official, correct web domain is tronify.rent', supported by a statement that Trust Wallet had natively integrated Tronify. In the same answer, under a heading on avoiding scams, it tells users never to approve unlimited token allowances. The Crypto Times reports that Trust Wallet's October 2025 announcement of the integration does not name tronify.rent and that a December 2024 Trust Wallet post links to Tronify's market at tronify.io. The second screenshot shows Trust Wallet notifications dated Monday, 28 September: an unlimited USDT approval to an address on the investigator's list, then 1,419.699184 USDT sent to another listed address. The Crypto Times has not verified the loss total or the victim count. No inspected source publishes the victim's own account or says the screenshots come from that victim.","incidentDate":"2026-09-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-10-04","aiSystem":"Google Search AI Mode, a conversational search feature Google has said runs on a custom version of its Gemini models; the investigator's post attributes the answer to Gemini","aiProduct":"Google AI Mode","aiCompany":"Google","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A crypto investigator says a victim reported that Google's Gemini confirmed a fake TRON energy-rental site was safe; screenshots he posted, which no source attributes to that victim, show an AI Mode answer naming the site as the official domain and wallet notifications of an unlimited USDT approval and a 1,419.70 USDT transfer to addresses he links to the site (investigator's post, as inspected by The Crypto Times).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the victim whose report, per the investigator, said Gemini confirmed the site was safe. The investigator's figure of about 80 victims is unverified and is not tied to the AI answer, so the other victims are not counted in this case.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.cryptotimes.io/2026/10/05/google-ai-searchs-official-tronify-rent-label-raises-questions-after-69651-losses/","primarySourceLabel":"The Crypto Times, 5 October 2026: Google AI Search's 'Official' Tronify.rent Label Raises Questions After $69,651 Losses","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-06T03:13:31.387463+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-06T03:13:31.387463+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-search","crypto-scam","phishing","wallet-drainer","financial-loss","google"]},{"id":"2026-satara-maharashtra-minister-photo-allegedly-ai-morphed-into-dance-event-fir","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'तंत्रज्ञानाच्या माध्यमातून मॉर्फ करून ते साताऱ्यातील एका नृत्य कार्यक्रमाशी जोडल्याचा आरोप झाल्याने'; 'दोन वेगवेगळ्या घटनांमधील छायाचित्रे एकत्र करून त्यांना चुकीचा संदर्भ देण्यात आला असून, हा प्रकार राजकीय बदनामीच्या उद्देशाने करण्यात आल्याचा आरोप समर्थकांनी केला आहे.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Supporters of the minister alleged that the minister's photograph had been morphed with AI technology and linked to a dance programme in Satara, combining photographs from two different events and giving them a false context, in order to defame the minister politically.","causal_attribution":"The complainants' allegation as reported; the AI alteration is under police investigation."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'संबंधित यूट्यूब चॅनेलवरून शिवेंद्रसिंहराजे भोसले यांचे छायाचित्र कथितरीत्या संपादित करून समाजमाध्यमांवर प्रसारित करण्यात आल्याचे तक्रारीत नमूद करण्यात आले आहे.'; 'सातारा शहर पोलिस ठाण्यात धाव घेत संबंधित यूट्यूब चॅनेलविरोधात तक्रार दाखल केली.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"According to the complaint, the photograph was allegedly edited and circulated on social media from a YouTube channel, and supporters filed a complaint against the channel at Satara city police station.","causal_attribution":"Content of the complaint as reported."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'भारतीय न्याय संहिता (BNS) 353 (2), 356(2), 3(5) आणि माहिती तंत्रज्ञान कायदा (IT Act) 67 अन्वये गुन्हा नोंदवण्यात आला आहे'; 'एआयच्या माध्यमातून छायाचित्रात नेमका कोणता फेरफार करण्यात आला, पोस्ट कोणी तयार केली आणि ती समाजमाध्यमांवर कोणी प्रसारित केली, याचा तपास झाल्यानंतरच'; 'सातारा शहर पोलीस अधिक तपास करत आहेत'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Police registered a case against four social media handles and account holders under BNS sections 353(2), 356(2) and 3(5) and IT Act section 67, and Satara city police are investigating; Divya Marathi says the facts will become clear only after investigation of what alteration was made to the photograph with AI and who created and circulated the posts.","causal_attribution":"Divya Marathi's report of the registered case; no finding is reported."}],"effects":[{"label":"a photo of the minister, allegedly morphed with AI, was circulated linking the minister to a dance event, which supporters call political defamation","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://divyamarathi.bhaskar.com/local/maharashtra/kolhapur/news/shivendrasinhraje-bhosale-ai-morphed-photo-controversy-satara-police-138972326.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"mr","translation_note":"Read live in Marathi on 2026-10-03 (Divya Marathi, Satara, 8 September 2026). The visible lead paragraph is truncated by a paywall overlay; its continuation was read from the article content embedded in the same page (also repeated in the page description). Researcher translation.","independence_group":"divya-marathi-satara"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Whether the image was made with an AI tool or with ordinary photo editing, and which tool.","When the image was first posted and how widely it spread.","Whether the minister commented (the article embeds a post from the minister's Facebook page that could not be retrieved), and whether anyone was arrested or charged."],"geography":{"basis":"The image linked the minister to a dance programme in Satara, Maharashtra, and the complaint and case were registered at Satara city police station (Divya Marathi). Where the posts were made from is not stated. No court is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["IN"],"affected_person_countries":["IN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a core case: a photograph of a state minister, allegedly morphed with AI, was circulated linking the minister to a dance event, and police registered a case on a defamation complaint. The minister is a public figure and is named as the source does. One report; the AI element is the complainants' allegation and is under investigation.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-03"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Divya Marathi reports an allegation that the photograph was morphed through artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The supporters' warning refers to misuse of 'AI or photo editing' technology, and the complaint describes photographs from two different events combined. The report says the AI alteration is still under investigation. No tool is named and the image was not inspected. The image depicts the minister (depicted_or_impersonated).","status":"suspected"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Satara, Maharashtra: supporters of Public Works minister Shivendrasinhraje Bhosale allege that the minister's photo was morphed with AI to link the minister to a dance event and spread on social media; police registered a case against four social media accounts in September 2026","summary":"Divya Marathi reported on 8 September 2026 that supporters of Public Works minister Shivendrasinhraje Bhosale alleged that the minister's photograph had been morphed using artificial intelligence and linked to a dance programme in Satara. According to the complaint, the photo was allegedly edited and circulated on social media from a YouTube channel, combining photographs from two different events and giving them a false context; supporters said this was done to defame the minister politically. Supporters, including the municipal council president and the BJP group leader, went to Satara city police station on Tuesday and complained against the YouTube channel. On a named complainant's first information report, police registered a case against four social media handles and account holders under sections 353(2), 356(2) and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and section 67 of the Information Technology Act. Police accepted the complaint and began examining the posts, the photographs and the circumstances; Divya Marathi says the facts will become clear only after an investigation of what alteration was made to the photograph with AI and who created and spread the posts.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-08","aiSystem":"A photograph of the minister allegedly morphed with AI and linked to a dance event, circulated by a YouTube channel and social media accounts, per the complaint as reported by Divya Marathi; supporters also speak of 'AI or photo editing'. The tool is not named","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool (suspected)","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Supporters of the minister allege that a photo of the minister, morphed with AI, was circulated on social media linking the minister to a dance event with which the minister had no connection, in order to cause political defamation; police registered a case (Divya Marathi).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the minister depicted in the allegedly morphed photograph (Divya Marathi). Supporters who complained are not counted. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"IN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://divyamarathi.bhaskar.com/local/maharashtra/kolhapur/news/shivendrasinhraje-bhosale-ai-morphed-photo-controversy-satara-police-138972326.html","primarySourceLabel":"Divya Marathi, 8 September 2026: एआय मॉर्फिंगवरून साताऱ्यात राजे समर्थक आक्रमक","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-03T03:17:54.900038+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-03T03:17:54.900038+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-morphed-image","public-figure","politician","defamation-complaint","youtube","facebook","maharashtra","satara","marathi-language"]},{"id":"2026-alice-storytelling-ai-psychosis","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Alice in AI-Wonderland: digital dyad, distorted reality; Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 April 2026","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Alice in AI-Wonderland: digital dyad, distorted reality","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Cortney Husodo and Gurubhaskar Shivakumar published a case report, 'Alice in AI-Wonderland: digital dyad, distorted reality', in The British Journal of Psychiatry, online on 24 April 2026, describing a patient they call Alice.","causal_attribution":"The article itself establishes its authorship, title and publication date."},{"id":"c2","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"‘Alice’, an immigrant woman in her early 40s with no prior psychiatric history, was found unconscious and seriously injured; She reported acting in response to voices that instructed her; so as to divert perceived mortal danger to her school-aged child.; In the days preceding hospital admission","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The case report describes a woman in her early 40s, an immigrant with no prior psychiatric history, who was found unconscious and seriously injured, and who reported acting in response to voices that instructed her so as to divert perceived mortal danger to her school-aged child; she was admitted to hospital.","causal_attribution":"Clinical facts recorded by the authors; the instruction came from hallucinated voices, which the report does not attribute to platform output."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Approximately 6 months earlier, Alice had begun using the storytelling platform to practise English.; this evolved into a complex narrative universe populated by dozens of interconnected characters.; Over time, her engagement escalated to eight to ten hours daily.; The narratives gradually shifted from realistic interpersonal themes to increasingly fantastical content involving demonic entities.; Until shortly before her admission, she retained insight that these narratives were fictional.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"According to the case report, about six months earlier she had begun using a generative AI storytelling platform to practise English, created a character that grew into a narrative universe of dozens of interconnected characters, increased her use to eight to ten hours a day, and saw the narratives shift to fantastical content involving demonic entities, while retaining insight that they were fiction until shortly before admission.","causal_attribution":"Her history as given in the case report; no platform records or conversation logs are published."},{"id":"c4","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"They had begun several days before presentation and were entirely novel to Alice.; Over subsequent days, the voices intensified in frequency and volume. She developed profound insomnia, sleeping only one to two hours per night.; she developed persecutory delusions involving demons that she believed were intent on harming her.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The report says the voices began several days before she presented, intensified, and were accompanied by profound insomnia of one to two hours' sleep a night and by persecutory delusions involving demons she believed were intent on harming her.","causal_attribution":"Clinical findings recorded by the authors."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Initially, they issued banal behavioural instructions (e.g. ‘sit on the sofa’), closely mirroring the dialogue and actions of characters from a generative AI storytelling platform with which she had been extensively engaged.; Notably, both the figures and several of the voices corresponded directly to characters originating from the AI-generated narratives.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The authors write that the voices initially issued banal instructions closely mirroring the dialogue and actions of the platform's characters, and that the figures in her delusions and several of the voices corresponded directly to characters originating from the AI-generated narratives.","causal_attribution":"The authors' clinical observation of a correspondence in content; it does not establish that the platform caused the psychosis."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"immersive engagement with a generative AI storytelling platform was temporally associated with first-episode psychosis.; biological factors included profound sleep deprivation and sustained late-night screen exposure; psychological factors included longstanding fantasy engagement and cluster A personality traits; social factors included migration-related isolation and increased reliance on the AI system as a primary relational outlet.; Alice’s case does not imply that generative AI systems alone cause psychosis.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The authors describe the immersive AI use as temporally associated with first-episode psychosis, list profound sleep deprivation, late-night screen exposure, longstanding fantasy engagement, cluster A personality traits, migration-related isolation and reliance on the AI system as factors, and state that the case does not imply that generative AI systems alone cause psychosis.","causal_attribution":"The authors' own causal formulation, which leaves the AI's contribution unresolved."}],"effects":[{"label":"found unconscious and seriously injured after acting on hallucinated voices","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"first-episode psychosis with persecutory delusions and profound insomnia","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/alice-in-aiwonderland-digital-dyad-distorted-reality/A3403D7DF709BB001FF343CB1A3592B7","kind":"peer_reviewed_case_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-23 (live page, HTTP 200, full HTML article including Box 1 and the discussion; bodies/lr-alice-cup.html/.txt). Written by authors whose affiliations are Northern Sydney hospitals and the University of Sydney; the report does not say where the patient was treated. The clinical data are not public.","independence_group":"bjpsych-case-report"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2026.10641","kind":"peer_reviewed_case_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-23 (DOI resolved with HTTP 200 to the same Cambridge Core page; bodies/lr-alice-doi.html/.txt, text identical to s1). Not a separate account.","independence_group":"bjpsych-case-report"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["health","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["When the injury and admission happened; the report gives only relative timings and was published on 24 April 2026.","Where the patient lived and was treated.","Which storytelling platform she used and what its replies said; no conversation record is published and the clinical data are not public.","Her treatment course, recovery and the long-term effect of her injuries.","How far the AI use contributed to the psychosis; the authors describe a temporal association among several factors."],"geography":{"basis":"The case report names no country, city, hospital or health service for the patient and describes her only as an immigrant who used the platform to practise English. The authors' Sydney affiliations are author metadata and are not used as a location, and no country is inferred from the language she practised or from migration. No legal proceeding is described. Carried forward from the 2026-10-08 metadata review and re-checked against the article on 2026-10-23.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (communicated_with). A peer-reviewed case report by Husodo and Shivakumar describes six months of eight-to-ten-hour daily use of an AI storytelling platform, psychosis whose voices and figures corresponded to its AI-generated characters, and serious injury after she acted on hallucinated voices; the authors leave the causal contribution unresolved.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-23"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The case report says that over about six months she built fictional narratives with a generative AI storytelling platform, with use rising to eight to ten hours a day and stories turning to demonic themes, and that the demonic figures and several of the voices of her psychosis corresponded directly to characters originating from those AI-generated narratives before she was found unconscious and seriously injured. The authors call the AI use temporally associated with the psychosis, list sleep deprivation, personality traits and isolation among the factors, and do not attribute the voices' instruction to the platform's output.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"BJPsych case report describes first-episode psychosis temporally associated with months of intensive AI storytelling use, ending in serious injury","summary":"A case report by Cortney Husodo and Gurubhaskar Shivakumar in The British Journal of Psychiatry, published online on 24 April 2026, describes a woman in her early 40s, given the pseudonym Alice, with no prior psychiatric history. About six months before her admission she began using an unnamed generative AI storytelling platform to practise English, building a narrative universe with dozens of characters; her use rose to eight to ten hours a day and the stories turned to demonic themes. Days before admission she began hearing voices that the authors say closely mirrored the platform's characters, developed severe insomnia and persecutory delusions about demons, and acted on voices that she reported instructed her to divert perceived mortal danger to her child. She was found unconscious and seriously injured. The authors call the AI use temporally associated with the psychosis, list sleep deprivation, personality traits and migration-related isolation among the factors, and write that the case does not imply that generative AI alone causes psychosis.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2026-04-24","aiSystem":"Generative AI storytelling platform (not named in the case report)","aiProduct":"Unidentified AI storytelling platform","severity":"critical","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["physical_injury","hospitalization","psychiatric_deterioration"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A woman developed first-episode psychosis with voices and delusions that the authors say mirrored characters from months of intensive AI storytelling use, and was found unconscious and seriously injured after acting on those voices; the authors describe a temporal association within several other factors.","frameworkFacets":[],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"unclear","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The case report describes one patient. Her child, whom the voices told her she was protecting, is not reported to have been harmed and is not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/alice-in-aiwonderland-digital-dyad-distorted-reality/A3403D7DF709BB001FF343CB1A3592B7","primarySourceLabel":"The British Journal of Psychiatry, 24 Apr 2026: Husodo and Shivakumar, case report 'Alice in AI-Wonderland'","firstPublishedAt":"2026-07-01T11:30:13.311624+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-23T03:03:47.399044+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["case-report","psychosis","delusion","storytelling","physical-injury","adult"]}]}