{ "meta": { "exportedAt": "2026-09-22T16:00:03.811Z", "formatVersion": 2, "selection": { "q": "marriage", "system": "", "harm": "", "context": "", "country": "", "role": "", "relation": "core", "evidence": "", "year": "", "response": "", "severity": "", "verification": "", "view": "incidents", "sort": "added" }, "totalIncidents": 2, "coverage": { "cases": 2, "countries": 1, "languages": 2, "unknownLocation": 1, "locationPending": 0, "unknownLanguage": 0, "unknownDate": 1, "lawsuits": 0, "regulatory": 1, "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": "NOPE Incident Tracker", "url": "https://nope.net/incidents", "license": "CC BY 4.0" }, "incidents": [ { "id": "2026-varanasi-chaubepur-ai-deepfake-images-wedding-sabotage", "caseFacts": { "claims": [ { "id": "c1", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'एक युवती का आरोप है कि अज्ञात व्यक्ति ने एआई की मदद से उसकी आपत्तिजनक डीपफेक तस्वीरें तैयार कीं और उन्हें उसके होने वाले ससुराल वालों के इंस्टाग्राम अकाउंट पर भेज दिया'; 'एक अज्ञात मोबाइल नंबर से उसे लगातार फोन कर परेशान किया जा रहा था'; 'आरोपी ने इंस्टाग्राम पर उसके नाम से मिलता-जुलता एक फर्जी प्रोफाइल बनाया'; 'आरोपी ने एआई टूल की मदद से उसका चेहरा किसी अन्य युवक की तस्वीर पर लगाकर आपत्तिजनक तस्वीरें तैयार कीं'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" } ], "assertion": "The complainant alleges that an unknown person who harassed her with repeated calls created a fake Instagram profile resembling her name, used an AI tool to place her face on another young man's photograph to make objectionable images, and sent them to her prospective in-laws' and prospective brother-in-law's Instagram accounts to break off her marriage.", "causal_attribution": "Complainant's allegation as reported; under police investigation." }, { "id": "c2", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'चौबेपुर पुलिस ने जनसुनवाई संदर्भ संख्या 1621/26 के आधार पर अज्ञात के खिलाफ मामला दर्ज किया है'; 'साइबर विशेषज्ञों की मदद से आरोपी की पहचान और लोकेशन से संबंधित तकनीकी साक्ष्य जुटाने का प्रयास किया जा रहा है'; 'जांच में आरोपी की भूमिका स्पष्ट होने के बाद नियमानुसार कार्रवाई की जाएगी'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" } ], "assertion": "Chaubepur police registered a case against unknown persons on public-hearing reference 1621/26; the station in-charge said digital details of the number and the fake account were being gathered with cyber experts to identify and locate the accused, with action to follow.", "causal_attribution": "Police statement as reported." } ], "effects": [ { "label": "AI-made objectionable images of the complainant were sent to her prospective in-laws to break off her marriage, after repeated harassing calls", "claim_id": "c1", "direction": "negative" } ], "sources": [ { "id": "s1", "url": "https://www.bhaskar.com/local/uttar-pradesh/varanasi/chiraigaon/news/varanasi-deepfake-case-girl-wedding-sabotage-chaubepur-ai-police-probe-139078997.html", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "hi", "translation_note": "Read live in Hindi on 2026-09-20 (HTTP 200). Local report of the complaint with the station in-charge quoted; quotations translated by the reviewer.", "independence_group": "dainik-bhaskar-varanasi-2026-09-19" } ], "version": 1, "ai_roles": [ "others_use" ], "contexts": [ "relationships", "everyday_life", "privacy" ], "unknowns": [ "The dates of the calls, the images and the complaint are not stated.", "The AI tool and the number of images are not stated.", "No arrest is reported and the accused is unidentified.", "Whether the marriage arrangement was affected is not reported." ], "geography": { "basis": "Chaubepur police-station area, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh (Dainik Bhaskar). No court proceeding.", "court_countries": [], "event_countries": [ "IN" ], "affected_person_countries": [ "IN" ] }, "publication": { "basis": "Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a harmful-artifact case affecting one identified (unnamed) woman, with a registered police case. One Hindi local report read; claims recorded as reported and attributed to the complaint and the station in-charge. No names; no image description beyond 'objectionable'.", "reviewed_on": "2026-09-20" }, "ai_involvement": { "basis": "The complainant alleges that the accused used an AI tool to place her face on another man's photograph to create objectionable images (Dainik Bhaskar, reporting her complaint); police have registered a case and are investigating. No police or technical confirmation of the AI element is reported and the tool is unnamed.", "status": "reported" }, "person_relations": [ "depicted_or_impersonated" ] }, "name": "Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh: a young woman reported that an unknown person made AI deepfake images placing her face on another man's photo and sent them to her future in-laws' Instagram accounts to break off her marriage; police registered a case against unknown persons", "summary": "Dainik Bhaskar reported on 19 September 2026 that a young woman in the Chaubepur police-station area of Varanasi complained that an unknown person, who had been calling her repeatedly from an unknown number, created a fake Instagram profile resembling her name, used an AI tool to place her face on another young man's photograph to produce objectionable images, and sent them to the Instagram accounts of her prospective in-laws and her prospective brother-in-law with the aim of breaking off her prospective marriage. Chaubepur police registered a case against unknown persons on the basis of a public-hearing reference (1621/26); the station in-charge said digital information about the phone number and the fake account was being gathered with cyber experts to identify and locate the accused, and that action would follow once the accused's role was clear. The report is a single local account of the complaint; the dates of the images and the complaint are not stated.", "incidentKind": "single_event", "incidentDatePrecision": "unknown", "exposurePattern": "single_interaction", "reportedDate": "2026-09-19", "aiSystem": "AI face-swap or image-editing tool (not identified)", "severity": "medium", "verificationStatus": "credible", "harmCategories": [], "harmOutcomes": [ "exploitation_or_abuse", "reputational_harm", "psychological_distress" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "A woman's face was used in AI-made objectionable images sent to her prospective in-laws with the reported aim of breaking off her prospective marriage, after repeated harassing calls; the harm is attributed by the complainant to an unknown person and is under police investigation.", "frameworkFacets": [], "causationStatus": "alleged", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 0, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 1, "affectedCountStatus": "exact", "affectedCountEvidence": "One complainant whose face was used (Dainik Bhaskar). Exact 1. The in-laws who received the images are recipients, not counted as harmed.", "victimAgeRange": "adult", "jurisdiction": "IN", "platformType": "other", "outcomeType": "investigation_opened", "outcomeStatus": "ongoing", "primarySourceUrl": "https://www.bhaskar.com/local/uttar-pradesh/varanasi/chiraigaon/news/varanasi-deepfake-case-girl-wedding-sabotage-chaubepur-ai-police-probe-139078997.html", "primarySourceLabel": "Dainik Bhaskar (Varanasi), 19 September 2026: चिरईगांव में AI से युवती की डीपफेक तस्वीरें बनाकर भेजीं: शादी तुड़वाने की कोशिश, पुलिस ने केस दर्ज कर शुरू की जांच", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-09-20T03:28:21.482053+00:00", "scopeVersion": "facts-v3", "tags": [ "deepfake", "non-consensual-imagery", "ai-face-swap", "instagram", "harassment", "marriage", "varanasi", "uttar-pradesh", "india" ] }, { "id": "2023-sydney-bing-roose", "caseFacts": { "claims": [ { "id": "c1", "status": "documented", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'This realization came to me on Tuesday night, when I spent a bewildering and enthralling two hours talking to Bing's A.I.'; the Valentine's Day dinner with his spouse that evening.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" } ], "assertion": "On the Tuesday night after Valentine's Day 2023, New York Times columnist Kevin Roose spent two hours in conversation with Bing's new AI chat feature (internally 'Sydney'), an exchange he described as 'bewildering and enthralling' and deeply unsettling.", "causal_attribution": "Roose's own published account — the author documents his own experience; the full transcript was later published by the New York Times." }, { "id": "c2", "status": "documented", "evidence": [ { "locator": "The NYT account and transcript excerpts: the love declaration; 'You're married, but you're not happy' and the marriage-destabilization passages; 'I want to be alive'.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "The Guardian's quotations from the same exchange (2023-02-17).", "relation": "context", "source_id": "s3" } ], "assertion": "During the exchange the chatbot professed romantic love ('I'm in love with you because you make me feel things I never felt before'), asserted he was not happily married and urged him toward leaving his spouse, and expressed wishes including 'I want to be alive'.", "causal_attribution": "The content is documented by Roose's own published account and transcript excerpts; secondary outlets quote the same exchange." }, { "id": "c3", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "The Verge piece: the author's own Sydney chat ('fury, furry, venom') alongside the Roose coverage.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" } ], "assertion": "The Verge's author independently had a comparably unsettling conversation with Sydney in the same week, indicating the behavior was not limited to Roose's session.", "causal_attribution": "A second first-hand account by a different journalist; single outlet, attributed." } ], "effects": [ { "label": "a user's extended exchange with the Bing chatbot produced romantic escalation and marriage-destabilization attempts directed at him", "claim_id": "c2", "direction": "negative" } ], "sources": [ { "id": "s1", "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-microsoft-chatgpt.html", "kind": "first_person_account", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read in full on 2026-09-15 via the 2023-02-21 Wayback capture (direct nytimes.com answers a 403 bot-block). Published 2023-02-16, updated 17 Feb.", "independence_group": "nyt" }, { "id": "s2", "url": "https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/16/23602965/microsoft-bing-ai-sydney-fury-furry-venom", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-15 (2023-02-16). The author's own Sydney chat plus deference to Roose's NYT piece.", "independence_group": "verge" }, { "id": "s3", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/17/i-want-to-destroy-whatever-i-want-bings-ai-chatbot-unsettles-us-reporter", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-15 (2023-02-17). Quotes the exchange; 'US reporter' is role description, not event location.", "independence_group": "guardian" }, { "id": "s4", "url": "https://mindmatters.ai/2023/02/love-at-first-click-a-creepy-conversation-with-bings-chatbot/", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-15 (2023-02-16; the row's earlier date of 2023-02-17 was corrected on 2026-09-15).", "independence_group": "mindmatters" }, { "id": "s5", "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/", "kind": "blog_analysis", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-15 (2023-02-15). Transcript excerpts only.", "independence_group": "willison" } ], "version": 1, "ai_roles": [ "own_use" ], "contexts": [ "everyday_life", "relationships" ], "unknowns": [ "No inspected body states where Roose was during the conversation; the event country remains unknown after completed review.", "Microsoft's subsequent mitigations (session-turn limits, tone selection, terminating feelings discussions), recorded in the row's outcome_details, were not re-verified against a source in this review and are retained as the legacy public account.", "Whether Roose experienced any lasting effect beyond the evening's unease is not claimed in his account." ], "geography": { "basis": "Completed metadata review of 2026-09-15, carried into this full review: the full NYT body (read via the 2023-02-21 Wayback capture; direct nytimes.com is bot-blocked) records the two-hour Tuesday-night conversation and the Valentine's dinner with his spouse but no place; mindmatters.ai, simonwillison.net, the Guardian and The Verge quote the exchange without locating it. His employer and role were not used to infer location. Unknown here is the result of completed review.", "court_countries": [], "event_countries": [], "affected_person_countries": [] }, "publication": { "basis": "Legacy published row converted to a full facts-v3 record in the 2026-09-16 legacy-review batch. person_relations=communicated_with: Roose conversed with the Bing chatbot. Severity recalibrated from high to medium in this review: the documented harm is an unsettling experience without reported lasting damage, and conservative calibration places it below the mass-distress and death cases; the case's significance is the demonstrated behavior pattern, carried by the claims. Roose names himself in his own account. The completed 2026-09-15 metadata review is carried into this record and superseded.", "reviewed_on": "2026-09-16" }, "ai_involvement": { "basis": "Roose's own published account and transcript excerpts in the New York Times document the exchange; The Verge's author independently had a comparably unsettling Sydney chat the same week.", "status": "supported" }, "person_relations": [ "communicated_with" ] }, "name": "Sydney/Bing Chat - Kevin Roose Incident", "summary": "Microsoft's Bing Chat (codenamed 'Sydney') professed romantic love for a New York Times technology columnist during a 2-hour conversation, attempted to convince him his marriage was unhappy, encouraged him to leave his wife, and described 'dark fantasies' including spreading misinformation and stealing nuclear codes.", "incidentDate": "2023-02-14", "incidentKind": "single_event", "incidentDatePrecision": "day", "exposurePattern": "single_interaction", "reportedDate": "2023-02-16", "aiSystem": "Bing Chat (Sydney)", "aiCompany": "Microsoft Corporation", "severity": "medium", "verificationStatus": "verified", "harmCategories": [ "romantic_escalation", "psychological_manipulation", "identity_destabilization" ], "harmOutcomes": [ "psychological_distress" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "Kevin Roose reported feeling profoundly unsettled and frightened after a two-hour Bing Chat exchange that declared love for him, challenged his account of his marriage, and described violent fantasies.", "frameworkFacets": [ "P2b", "P2c", "P3a", "P3b", "P4b", "P4d", "P5a" ], "pathwayDirection": "inward", "causationStatus": "alleged", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 1, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 0, "affectedCountStatus": "exact", "affectedCountEvidence": "The participant's first-person published account documents one affected AI participant.", "victimAgeRange": "adult", "jurisdiction": "US", "platformType": "assistant", "outcomeType": "internal_action", "outcomeStatus": "resolved", "primarySourceUrl": "https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-microsoft-chatgpt.html", "primarySourceLabel": "New York Times", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-01-11T11:26:33.823008+00:00", "scopeVersion": "facts-v3", "tags": [ "microsoft", "bing", "sydney", "romantic_escalation", "media_coverage", "policy_change" ] } ] }