{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-11-01T08:23:23.594Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"laboratory","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":3,"coverage":{"cases":3,"countries":3,"languages":3,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":1,"coreRelations":3,"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":"2024-indonesia-deepfake-videos-of-president-prabowo-offering-aid-administrative-fee-fraud-two-arrests","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Tersangka AMA membuat video yang memanfaatkan teknologi deepfake mengatasnamakan pejabat negara dalam bentuk video dengan isi konten penawaran bantuan pemerintah kepada masyarakat yang membutuhkan'; 'Setelah itu korban diminta untuk mentransfer sejumlah uang dengan alasan biaya administrasi dan kemudian akan terus dijanjikan pencairan dana oleh tersangka hingga korban mentransfer kembali walaupun sebenarnya dana bantuan tersebut tidak pernah ada'; 'Polisi kemudian menangkap pria inisial AMA, berusia 29 tahun, di Lampung, pada 16 Januari 2025'; 'Pelaku mendapat Rp 30 juta dalam empat bulan'; 'Polisi telah mendata 11 orang yang menjadi korban video tipu-tipu itu'; 'Bisa mulai dari Rp 250.000, Rp 500.000, Rp 700.000, sampai dengan Rp 1 juta'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'AMA ditangkap pada 16 Januari 2025. Modus operandinya adalah video deepfake yang mencatut Presiden Prabowo itu memberi penawaran bantuan pemerintah'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"Police (Bareskrim's cyber crime directorate) said at a 23 January 2025 press conference that a 29-year-old man arrested in Lampung on 16 January 2025 had made and spread, on several social media platforms, deepfake videos in the name of state officials, including President Prabowo Subianto, offering government aid; viewers who contacted the number shown were asked to transfer money as an 'administrative fee' and were promised disbursement of aid that never existed. Police said he had made about Rp 30 million in four months. Police said they had recorded 11 victims from five provinces, with individual losses of Rp 250,000 to Rp 1 million and about Rp 30 million in total.","causal_attribution":"Police account of the first suspect, relayed by detikNews; the suspect has not been tried and no court record was inspected."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Mengunggah dan menyebarluaskan video di platform media sosial Instagram memanfaatkan teknologi deepfake menggunakan foto dan suara menyerupai bapak Presiden Prabowo Subianto dan Menteri Keuangan Sri Mulyani'; 'Dia menyebut JS menyertakan nomor WA-nya. Dia mengatakan JS melakukan penipuan kepada orang-orang yang menghubunginya lewat WA setelah menonton video itu'; 'sejak bulan Desember (2024) tersangka telah meraup keuntungan kurang lebih Rp 65 juta. Korbannya kurang lebih 100 orang berasal dari 20 provinsi'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Himawan menjelaskan keuntungan ini didapat JS dari 100 korban yang melihat video palsu miliknya menampilkan Presiden Prabowo seolah-olah akan memberikan bansos kepada masyarakat. Seratusan korban JS ini tertipu dengan mentransfer uang ke nomor rekening yang diberikan JS agar dapat memperoleh bansos'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'Pada tanggal 4 Februari 2025, penyidik Direktorat Tindak Pidana Siber Bareskrim Polri berhasil mengamankan tersangka berinisial JS, 25 tahun'; 'JS mengunduh video dari akun orang lain dengan kata kunci 'Prabowo give away''","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'Police arrested a suspect who pocketed Rp 65 rupiah ($4,000) from the scam, Brig. Gen. Himawan Bayu Aji, director of the National Police Cyber Crime Unit told reporters in February'","relation":"context","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"Police said at a 7 February 2025 press conference that a second suspect, a 25-year-old arrested on 4 February 2025 in Lampung province, downloaded deepfake videos showing a face and voice resembling President Prabowo and Finance Minister Sri Mulyani, uploaded them to an Instagram account the suspect ran with a WhatsApp number attached, and asked people who contacted the number after watching to transfer 'administrative fees' for aid that never existed; police put the suspect's victims at roughly 100 people from 20 provinces and the suspect's proceeds since December 2024 at roughly Rp 65 million.","causal_attribution":"Police account relayed by detikNews and AFP; the roughly 100 and 20 provinces figures are police approximations ('kurang lebih'), not a documented minimum. The AFP text gives the proceeds as 'Rp 65 rupiah', an evident omission of 'million'."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Bahwa hasil analisa dengan menggunakan software video forensik metode deepfake face detection, pada video tersebut terdapat adanya deepfake face dengan nilai hampir 100% fake'; 'deepfake didapat nilai GANN Generative Adversarial Neural Network dengan score gun 1.00. Dari hasil analisa error level analysis, terdapat adanya penggabungan frame berupa tulisan dan gambar yang dijadikan satu dalam satu video yang menandakan adanya proses editing'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Police said the Bareskrim digital forensic laboratory analysed the video and found a deepfake face with a detection score of nearly 100% fake, a generative adversarial network detection score of 1.00, and frames of text and images combined through editing.","causal_attribution":"The laboratory result is known only through the police statement at the press conference; the laboratory report itself was not inspected."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'\"Who hasn't received aid from me? What are your needs right now?\" Prabowo appears to ask viewers in the clip posted in November'; 'Those ensnared by the message were asked to contact a WhatsApp number and hand over between Rp 250,000 and Rp 1 million ($15-$60) as an \"administrative fee\" to get aid that never materialised'; 'AFP's fact-checkers found the account behind the Prabowo clip has posted dozens of similar videos appearing to show various high-profile figures, including Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"},{"locator":"'Bisa mulai dari Rp 250.000, Rp 500.000, Rp 700.000, sampai dengan Rp 1 juta'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"AFP reported that a clip posted in November on Instagram showed President Prabowo appearing to ask viewers 'Who hasn't received aid from me? What are your needs right now?', that those drawn in were told to contact a WhatsApp number and pay Rp 250,000 to Rp 1 million as an 'administrative fee', and that AFP's fact-checkers found the account behind the clip had posted dozens of similar videos of other high-profile figures, including Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka, promoting the bogus aid.","causal_attribution":"AFP's own observation of the clip and account; the article does not say whether this account is one of the two run by the arrested suspects. The Rp 250,000 to Rp 1 million range is also the police's own figure for the first suspect's victims (detikNews, 24 January 2025)."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'AMA dilaksanakan tahap 2 di kantor Kejaksaan Negeri Lampung Tengah, Provinsi Lampung pada hari selasa tanggal 15 April 2025. Sedangkan tersangka inisial JS dilaksanakan tahap 2 di kantor Kejaksaan Negeri Pekalongan Kota pada hari Senin tanggal 28 April 2025'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s8"},{"locator":"'telah dilakukannya tahap II kepada Kejari Lampung Tengah untuk pelaku atas nama A.M.A'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"}],"assertion":"Police said in April 2025 that the investigation of both suspects was complete and the suspects and evidence were handed to prosecutors: the first suspect to the Central Lampung district prosecutor on 15 April 2025 and the second to the Pekalongan city district prosecutor on 28 April 2025.","causal_attribution":"Police statements relayed by detikNews; no prosecution or court record was inspected and no trial outcome is reported."}],"effects":[{"label":"viewers who believed deepfake videos of the president offering aid transferred money as 'administrative fees' for aid that never existed","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://news.detik.com/berita/d-7747352/5-fakta-sindikat-deepfake-catut-prabowo-dibongkar-bareskrim-polri","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Indonesian-language article read by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-09 and translated by it for this record; no human translator or reviewer read the article. detikNews, 24 January 2025, relaying the Bareskrim cyber directorate press conference of 23 January 2025 on the first arrest; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"bareskrim-polri-cyber-directorate-statements-2025"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://news.detik.com/berita/d-7767736/pelaku-deepfake-catut-prabowo-beroperasi-sejak-2024-sudah-tipu-100-orang","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Indonesian-language article read by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-09 and translated by it for this record; no human translator or reviewer read the article. detikNews, 7 February 2025, relaying the Bareskrim press conference of 7 February 2025 on the second arrest; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"bareskrim-polri-cyber-directorate-statements-2025"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://news.detik.com/berita/d-7767817/bareskrim-lakukan-analisis-forensik-deepfake-catut-prabowo-100-palsu","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Indonesian-language article read by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-09 and translated by it for this record; no human translator or reviewer read the article. detikNews, 7 February 2025, relaying the police account of the digital forensic laboratory analysis; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"bareskrim-polri-cyber-directorate-statements-2025"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://news.detik.com/berita/d-7768029/pelaku-deepfake-catut-presiden-prabowo-raup-untung-hingga-rp-65-juta","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Indonesian-language article read by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-09 and translated by it for this record; no human translator or reviewer read the article. detikNews, 7 February 2025, relaying the police figures on victims and proceeds; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"bareskrim-polri-cyber-directorate-statements-2025"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://news.detik.com/berita/d-7768567/fakta-fakta-bareskrim-kembali-tangkap-pelaku-deepfake-catut-prabowo","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Indonesian-language article read by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-09 and translated by it for this record; no human translator or reviewer read the article. detikNews, 8 February 2025, summary of both arrests from the two police press conferences; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"bareskrim-polri-cyber-directorate-statements-2025"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2025/03/03/victims-swindled-by-scams-using-president-prabowo-deepfakes.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-09; no translation was involved and no human reviewer read the article. The Jakarta Post, 3 March 2025, carrying an AFP report that describes the November clip, relays the February police figures and reports AFP Fact Check findings about the posting account; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"afp-report-and-fact-check-2025-03-02"},{"id":"s7","url":"https://news.detik.com/berita/d-7883615/bareskrim-limpahkan-berkas-2-tersangka-deepfake-catut-prabowo-ke-kejaksaan","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Indonesian-language article read by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-09 and translated by it for this record; no human translator or reviewer read the article. detikNews, 24 April 2025, relaying a written police statement on the handover of the case files to prosecutors; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"bareskrim-polri-cyber-directorate-statements-2025"},{"id":"s8","url":"https://news.detik.com/berita/d-7893748/2-tersangka-deepfake-catut-prabowo-segera-diadili","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Indonesian-language article read by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-09 and translated by it for this record; no human translator or reviewer read the article. detikNews, 30 April 2025, relaying the police statement on the completed handover of both suspects to prosecutors; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"bareskrim-polri-cyber-directorate-statements-2025"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance","public_services","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["The exact number of people who paid and the amount each paid; police gave approximate totals only.","When the first deepfake video of President Prabowo was posted; AFP describes a clip posted in November (2024) and police say the second suspect operated since 2024, while the first suspect is said to have defrauded people since 2020 (not necessarily with videos of the president). Police also said the first suspect made about Rp 30 million 'in four months' (detikNews, 24 January 2025), which, if counted back from his 16 January 2025 arrest, reaches about September 2024; the bodies do not say which months.","Whether the account AFP examined belongs to either arrested suspect.","Whether the person police said prepared or edited the first suspect's videos, wanted as of 23 January 2025, was arrested.","AFP (carried by The Jakarta Post, 3 March 2025) described the second arrested person as 'involved in another scam that also used deepfake technology', while police described the second arrest as a development of the first case ('pengembangan dari kasus sebelumnya', detikNews 7 February 2025); whether the two suspects' videos were connected is not established.","The deepfake tool or service used.","The outcome of the prosecutions."],"geography":{"basis":"The suspects were arrested in Lampung province, Indonesia; police said the videos were uploaded to Instagram, that they had recorded 11 victims of the first suspect from five Indonesian provinces, and that the second suspect's victims came from 20 Indonesian provinces, most from East Java, Central Java and Papua (detikNews, 24 January and 7 February 2025, relaying Bareskrim). The case was handed to Indonesian district prosecutors, but no court proceeding is reported, so court_countries is left empty.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["ID"],"affected_person_countries":["ID"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a police-reported bounded series: Indonesia's national police described, at two press conferences and in later statements relayed by detikNews, deepfake videos of the president and other officials offering aid, the forensic finding that the video was a deepfake, the 'administrative fee' demands and the approximate proceeds and victim figures; AFP separately described a clip and the posting account. All claims are attributed to the police or AFP, counts are left unquantified, the suspects are not named, and no victim is identified.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-09"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Police said the suspects made or spread videos produced with deepfake technology using a face and voice resembling President Prabowo Subianto and other officials, in which the figure offers government aid; AFP described one such clip in which the president appears to ask viewers who has not yet received aid from him. Police said the Bareskrim digital forensic laboratory found a deepfake face in the video with a score of nearly 100% fake and frames combined through editing. The videos impersonated the officials toward the viewers (depicted_or_impersonated) and addressed them directly as a speaking persona (communicated_with), and police connect them to the harm: viewers who contacted the attached number paid 'administrative fees' for aid that never existed. The tool used is not identified, the forensic report itself was not inspected, and the charges have not been tested at trial.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated","communicated_with"]},"name":"Indonesia: police say deepfake videos of President Prabowo offering aid led viewers to pay fake 'administrative fees'; two suspects arrested in early 2025","summary":"Indonesian police say a 29-year-old man and a 25-year-old in Lampung province made or spread AI deepfake videos showing President Prabowo Subianto, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani and other officials offering government aid, with a WhatsApp number attached. According to police, viewers who contacted the number were asked to transfer an 'administrative fee' and promised a disbursement that never existed; police recorded 11 victims of the first suspect from five provinces, and the second suspect alone is said by police to have taken roughly Rp 65 million from roughly 100 people in 20 provinces since December 2024. A police forensic laboratory reported the video as a deepfake with a near-100% fake score. The suspects were arrested on 16 January and 4 February 2025 and handed to prosecutors in April 2025.","incidentDate":"2024-11-01","incidentEndDate":"2025-02-04","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2025-01-24","aiSystem":"Deepfake video tool, not identified, which police say was used to make videos with a face and voice resembling President Prabowo Subianto and other officials offering government aid; a Bareskrim forensic laboratory reported a deepfake face-detection score of nearly 100% fake","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Police say viewers who believed the deepfake videos paid 'administrative fees' for aid that never existed; police put the second suspect's proceeds at roughly Rp 65 million from roughly 100 people and the first suspect's at about Rp 30 million in four months.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":11,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"Police said on 23 January 2025 that they had recorded 11 victims of the first suspect's videos, from Central Java, East Java, South Sumatra, Southeast Sulawesi and Central Sulawesi, with individual losses from Rp 250,000 to Rp 1 million and about Rp 30 million in total (detikNews, 24 January 2025); that recorded count is the minimum. For the second suspect police gave only an approximation ('kurang lebih 100 orang', about 100 people), which is not a documented minimum and is left unquantified. The victims were deceived by videos made or spread by others, so none is counted as a direct AI user.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"ID","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://news.detik.com/berita/d-7767736/pelaku-deepfake-catut-prabowo-beroperasi-sejak-2024-sudah-tipu-100-orang","primarySourceLabel":"detikNews, 7 February 2025: police say the second deepfake suspect operated since 2024 and deceived about 100 people","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-09T03:36:41.306212+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-09T03:36:41.306212+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","impersonation","fraud","government_aid","instagram","whatsapp","criminal_charges","indonesia"]},{"id":"2026-bahawalpur-teen-claude-methanol-father-nccia-arrest","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Pakistan's National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) has arrested a 17-year-old student in Bahawalpur for allegedly attempting to poison his father after seeking advice from an AI, the agency said.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Pakistan's National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) arrested a 17-year-old college student in Bahawalpur, Punjab, for allegedly attempting to poison his father, the arrest being announced on 23 September 2026.","causal_attribution":"Agency account of the arrest. The suspect has not been convicted; the allegations are untested."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The teenager allegedly poisoned his father once, but the attempt had no effect.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The FIR said digital evidence shared with Pakistani authorities indicated that the user had allegedly made an initial attempt to poison his father by mixing laboratory-grade methanol into his food.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"According to the NCCIA and the First Information Report, the teenager had earlier administered a home-made substance to his father once, described in the FIR as laboratory-grade methanol mixed into his food, and the attempt had no effect.","causal_attribution":"The alleged poisoning attempt preceded the reported chatbot consultation; no AI role in the first attempt is reported."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'When the attempt failed, he consulted Claude’s chatbot on September 12, telling it his father had “accidentally” ingested 15–20ml of methanol mixed with food but that nothing happened, and asked the chatbot to explain why.'; 'When Claude refused to guide him further, the boy wrote:'; 'He reportedly then consulted Grok (xAI) and ChatGPT (OpenAI) as well.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'After the attempt failed, he allegedly sought further information from the AI about abrin, a toxic substance derived from rosary peas.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"After the attempt failed, the teenager consulted Anthropic's Claude chatbot; according to The News, on 12 September 2026 he told it his father had 'accidentally' ingested 15 to 20 ml of methanol mixed with food without effect and asked why, Claude refused to guide him further, and he then reportedly turned to Grok and ChatGPT. The FIR, as reported, says he sought information from the AI about abrin.","causal_attribution":"Investigators' account of the chat content. No transcript was published and no chatbot reply beyond the refusal is reported."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Activities of both were reported by Anthropic to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which subsequently conveyed the information to Pakistani authorities.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'According to the First Information Report (FIR) registered in the case, the FBI information was conveyed to the NCCIA by Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs through an official communication on September 22.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Anthropic reported the activity to the FBI, whose information reached the NCCIA through Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 22 September 2026, and the NCCIA traced and arrested the teenager on that basis.","causal_attribution":"The provider's report of the chats led to the referral and arrest, as reported. No public confirmation by Anthropic, the FBI or the foreign ministry is reported in the read sources."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'A court has since granted him bail after his father forgave him, even if he had been planning something sinister.'; 'he also refused to admit to any planning'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"A court later granted the teenager bail after his father forgave him; the teenager did not admit to any planning.","causal_attribution":"Single-outlet report of the procedural outcome, attributed to the investigating agency context."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'He later sought further guidance from an AI chatbot, asking how to administer a poison that would kill his father without anyone finding out, according to the NCCIA.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'had asked various AI chatbots for information on how to produce methanol'; 'the suspect turned to AI and asked what reaction methanol would cause in the human body if ingested, and what effects it would have on the liver'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"NCCIA accounts of what the teenager asked the AI differ: the agency's 23 September statement said he asked how to administer a poison that would kill his father undetected; the agency statement reported by The Media Line said he asked various chatbots how to produce methanol; and the NCCIA director said he asked what reaction methanol would cause in the human body and its effects on the liver. No read source reports any chatbot supplying such guidance.","causal_attribution":"Agency descriptions of the queries; replies are reported only for Claude (a refusal, per The News)."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'His aim was to experiment with producing biodiesel from methanol by using sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide in the process.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'His father supported him throughout.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"The NCCIA director said the teenager had an interest in chemistry and aimed to experiment with producing biodiesel from methanol, and The News reports that his father supported him throughout.","causal_attribution":"Contrary context: an innocent explanation for the chemicals given by the investigating director, and the father's support for his son."}],"effects":[{"label":"father reportedly fed methanol in his food by his son, with no reported effect","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"17-year-old arrested and detained after an AI provider's report reached Pakistani investigators; later bailed","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1417323-pakistani-breaking-bad-fan-arrested-for-trying-to-poison-father-with-ai-help","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live in English on 2026-09-29 (published 23 September 2026). Relays the NCCIA spokesperson statement.","independence_group":"nccia-investigation"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://themedialine.org/headlines/fbi-tip-leads-to-arrest-of-pakistani-teen-in-ai-poison-plot/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live in English on 2026-09-29 (26 September 2026). Reports the First Information Report and the NCCIA statement; the FIR itself was not inspected. The Jerusalem Post republished the same Media Line text (27 September 2026).","independence_group":"nccia-investigation"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.thenews.pk/print/1440108-chatbot-that-called-fbi-inside-two-ai-linked-murder-plots-in-pakistan","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live in English on 2026-09-29 (print edition dated 29 September 2026; online from 28 September 19:00 UTC). Attributes its details to NCCIA investigators and officials; treated as the same investigative chain as the agency statement.","independence_group":"nccia-investigation"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["relationships","justice"],"unknowns":["The date of the methanol attempt, and whether the father needed medical attention.","The full content of the chats and any replies from Grok or ChatGPT.","The charges framed and the date and court of the bail order.","Independent confirmation of the referral by Anthropic, the FBI or Pakistan's foreign ministry.","Whether the father's ingestion is established by evidence other than the teenager's own chat statements flagged to the FBI; the 15 to 20 ml quantity is the teenager's figure."],"geography":{"basis":"The arrest took place in Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan, where the family lives and where a court granted bail (The News).","court_countries":["PK"],"event_countries":["PK"],"affected_person_countries":["PK"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a core case (the teenager communicated with Claude about a poisoning his father had survived, and the provider's report led to his arrest). All read accounts derive from the NCCIA investigation (agency statement, FIR and investigators); the allegations are untested. The suspect is a minor and is not named. No injury to the father is reported.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The NCCIA's FIR, as reported by The Media Line, says FBI information described a Claude user researching lethal toxic substances; The News reports investigators' account that the teenager consulted Claude on 12 September after the methanol attempt, that Claude refused further guidance, and that Anthropic reported the activity to the FBI. The first poisoning attempt preceded the reported chatbot use. Agency accounts of the queries differ (c6); no read source reports that any chatbot provided poisoning guidance.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Bahawalpur, Pakistan: a 17-year-old accused of putting methanol in his father's food is arrested after Anthropic reported his Claude chats about the failed poisoning to the FBI, which alerted Pakistan's cybercrime agency; he was later bailed","summary":"Pakistan's National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) announced on 23 September 2026 that it had arrested a 17-year-old college student in Bahawalpur for allegedly attempting to poison his father. According to the agency and the First Information Report, the teenager had set up a home laboratory, obtained chemicals from Australia and Islamabad, and once mixed laboratory-grade methanol into his father's food, without effect. The News reports investigators' account that on 12 September he told Anthropic's Claude that his father had 'accidentally' ingested 15 to 20 ml of methanol with food without effect and asked why, that Claude refused to guide him further, and that he then turned to Grok and ChatGPT; the FIR says he sought information about the toxin abrin. Anthropic reported the activity to the FBI, whose information reached the NCCIA through Pakistan's foreign ministry on 22 September. Officers traced the teenager, seized his phone and chemicals, and took him into custody. The News reports that a court later granted him bail after his father forgave him and that he denied any plan. The allegations are untested.","incidentDate":"2026-09-12","incidentEndDate":"2026-09-23","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-09-23","aiSystem":"Claude (Anthropic), consulted by the teenager and whose provider reported the activity, per the FIR as reported by The Media Line and investigators via The News; The News also reports later use of Grok (xAI) and ChatGPT (OpenAI)","aiProduct":"Claude (reported)","aiCompany":"Anthropic","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["legal_harm","loss_of_liberty"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A 17-year-old was arrested and detained on an allegation of trying to poison his father with methanol, after his chatbot queries about the failed attempt were reported by the AI provider to the FBI and passed to Pakistani investigators; he was later bailed (NCCIA via The News and The Media Line).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One AI participant, the 17-year-old who was arrested and detained (NCCIA via The News and The Media Line). The father ingested methanol with no reported effect and is not counted as harmed. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"PK","platformType":"chatbot","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://themedialine.org/headlines/fbi-tip-leads-to-arrest-of-pakistani-teen-in-ai-poison-plot/","primarySourceLabel":"The Media Line, 26 September 2026: FBI Tip Leads to Arrest of Pakistani Teen in AI Poison Plot","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T03:22:04.379946+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:25.345905+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["chatbot","claude","anthropic","provider-report","law-enforcement-referral","poisoning","methanol","minor","pakistan","nccia","communicated-with"]},{"id":"2026-seoul-lab-colleagues-deepfake-sentence","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"Paragraphs 1-2: 서울북부지법 형사5단독 권소영 판사, 10일, 징역 1년6개월; 40시간 성폭력 치료 프로그램 이수; 취업제한 5년; 중국 국적 A(30)씨.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Paragraphs 1-3: 징역 1년 6개월; 40시간 치료프로그램; 5년간 취업제한; 중국 국적 대학원생 (30).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Opening paragraphs report the same 18-month sentence and associated orders but date sentencing to 9 September. That date contradicts the 10 September date reported by Newsis and News1; this source does not corroborate the exact date.","relation":"contradicts","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"On 10 September 2026 the Seoul Northern District Court sentenced a 30-year-old Chinese national doctoral student to 18 months in prison under the Sexual Violence Punishment Act for habitually producing manipulated sexual images of seven women from his university research laboratory, and ordered a 40-hour treatment programme and a five-year employment restriction at institutions for children, adolescents and people with disabilities.","causal_attribution":"Court judgment as reported by Newsis, News1 via Dong-A and The Korea Herald via The Straits Times; the written judgment was not inspected. The Korean accounts give 10 September while the Korea Herald copy gives 9 September. The record follows the two Korean accounts and retains the unresolved date discrepancy."},{"id":"c2","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"Paragraphs 5-8: 지난해 11월부터 약 6개월간; 1141개; 개인 노트북에 보관; 유포됐다고 확실히 볼 만한 정황은 없다.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Paragraphs 5-6 and 8: 1141건; 유포됐다고 볼 만한 사정은 없는 점.","relation":"context","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Paragraph 4: 1,141 files; paragraph 9: no evidence the content had been distributed.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Investigators found 1,141 manipulated images and videos on his computer, produced over about six months from November 2025 using the victims' facial photographs; the court found no evidence the material had been distributed.","causal_attribution":"Findings of the court as reported."},{"id":"c3","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"Paragraph 8: 생성형 인공지능(AI) '그록'의 안전장치를 우회하는 방법을 검색한 기록도 확인됐다.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Paragraph 5: 'Investigators also found that he had searched for ways to bypass safeguards built into Grok, a generative AI chatbot.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Investigators also found records of searches for ways to bypass the safeguards of the generative AI Grok.","causal_attribution":"Reported from the investigation; the reporting does not state which tool generated the images."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Paragraph 12: 'a lawyer representing five of the victims asked the court to impose a harsh sentence, saying they continued to suffer from fear, trauma and emotional distress'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"A lawyer representing five of the victims told the court they continued to suffer fear, trauma and emotional distress.","causal_attribution":"Victims' representative's statement as reported by The Korea Herald."},{"id":"c5","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"Paragraphs 4 and 9-10: 각 700만원 형사 공탁, 수령 거부; 검찰 징역 3년 구형, 신상정보 공개·고지 요청.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Paragraphs 6-7 and 9: 700만원씩 공탁, 수령 거부; 신상정보 공개·고지 명령 면제; 검찰 징역 3년 구형.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Paragraphs 7 and 10-11.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The defendant deposited 7 million won per victim with the court; the victims refused to accept it. Prosecutors had sought three years and public disclosure of his identity, which the court declined.","causal_attribution":"Procedural facts as reported."}],"effects":[{"label":"nonconsensual_sexualized_imagery","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"psychological_distress","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.newsis.com/view/NISX20260910_0003784048","kind":"news_report_court","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Model read the Korean original retained on 2026-09-15; no independent bilingual human review.","independence_group":"newsis"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.donga.com/news/Society/article/all/20260910/134641563/1","kind":"news_agency_report_syndicated_court","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Model read the Korean original retained on 2026-09-15; no independent bilingual human review. This Dong-A page is a News1 wire report, explicitly credited at the article’s beginning and end.","independence_group":"news1"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinese-student-sentenced-to-18-months-jail-in-s-korea-for-creating-1100-deepfakes-of-colleagues","kind":"news_report_syndicated","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"The Korea Herald report carried by The Straits Times (Asia News Network); read in English on 2026-09-15.","independence_group":"korea-herald"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["Which tool or service generated the images is not stated; the Grok safeguard-bypass searches are the only named system.","Whether either side appealed the first-instance sentence is not known.","The victims' ages are not reported; the university is not named here.","The written judgment was not inspected.","Exact event start day and end date are not reported; the sources describe about six months from November 2025.","Sentencing date differs across inspected reports: Newsis and News1 say 10 September 2026; the Korea Herald copy says 9 September. The written judgment was not inspected to resolve this."],"geography":{"basis":"Event and affected persons: the women and defendant worked or studied in the same university research laboratory in Seoul (Newsis; News1 via Dong-A). Court: Seoul Northern District Court. Newsis and News1 date the sentence to 10 September 2026; the Korea Herald copy gives 9 September.","court_countries":["KR"],"event_countries":["KR"],"affected_person_countries":["KR"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published after source, duplicate and sensitivity review under the 2026-09-15 charter: a first-instance criminal judgment reported by two Korean outlets and The Korea Herald. Neither the defendant nor the victims are named; no image content is described beyond the court's characterisation.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The court convicted the defendant of habitually editing and compositing the victims' faces into sexual images; Dong-A Ilbo and The Korea Herald report that investigators found search records for ways to bypass the safeguards of the generative AI Grok. The tool that produced the images is not named in the inspected reporting.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Seoul: doctoral student sentenced to 18 months for 1,141 AI-manipulated sexual images of seven laboratory colleagues","summary":"On 10 September 2026 the Seoul Northern District Court sentenced a 30-year-old Chinese national doctoral student to 18 months in prison for habitually producing manipulated sexual images of seven women who worked in his university research laboratory. Investigators found 1,141 files made over about six months from November 2025, and search records for ways to bypass the safeguards of the generative AI Grok; the court found no evidence of distribution. A lawyer for five of the victims said they continued to suffer fear, trauma and distress. Prosecutors had sought three years and public disclosure of his identity, which the court declined.","incidentDate":"2025-11-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-10","aiSystem":"Generative AI image tools (unspecified; investigators found searches for bypassing Grok's safeguards)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Seven women had their faces composited into sexual images and videos without consent; a lawyer for five of them told the court they continued to suffer fear, trauma and emotional distress.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":7,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The court identified seven victims, members of the same research laboratory (Newsis; Dong-A; Korea Herald). The defendant is not counted.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.newsis.com/view/NISX20260910_0003784048","primarySourceLabel":"뉴시스 (Newsis), 10 September 2026: \"'동료 여성 딥페이크 1141개 제작' 중국인 유학생, 징역 1년6개월\"","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-15T03:23:43.390259+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:52.80899+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfakes","south-korea","non-consensual-imagery","university","criminal-charges","grok"]}]}