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    "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.",
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    {
      "id": "2025-muar-johor-school-ai-deepfake-three-pupils-expelled",
      "caseFacts": {
        "claims": [
          {
            "id": "c1",
            "status": "reported",
            "evidence": [
              {
                "locator": "'Sebuah sekolah Cina di Muar, Johor, mengambil tindakan buang sekolah terhadap tiga pelajar lelaki kerana menggunakan kecerdasan buatan (AI) untuk menghasilkan imej lucah deepfake melibatkan rakan sekelas perempuan mereka' (a Chinese school in Muar, Johor, expelled three male pupils for using AI to produce indecent deepfake images involving their female classmates); 'China Press melaporkan bahawa sebahagian daripada imej yang diubahsuai itu tersebar di internet, melibatkan sekurang-kurangnya dua pelajar perempuan yang telah membuat laporan polis' (China Press reported that some of the altered images spread on the internet, involving at least two female pupils who lodged police reports).",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s1"
              },
              {
                "locator": "'3名涉案学生分别就读初二、初三及高一。据了解，他们利用人工智能软体，将多名女生的头像合成至不雅照片中，部分影像更已在网路上流传' (the three pupils are in junior two, junior three and senior one; they used AI software to composite several girls' faces into indecent photos, some of which had already circulated online); '至少有2名女学生受害，受害者已向警方报案' (at least two girls were affected and the victims have reported to police).",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s3"
              },
              {
                "locator": "'expelled three male students for using artificial intelligence to make explicit AI deepfake images of their female classmates'; 'affecting at least two female students who filed police reports'.",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s2"
              }
            ],
            "assertion": "Three male pupils in Forms 2, 3 and 4 at a Chinese secondary school in Muar used AI software to composite several female classmates' faces onto indecent images; some of the images spread on the internet; at least two girls lodged police reports.",
            "causal_attribution": "School statement and principal's account as first reported by China Press and relayed by FMT and Seehua; single reporting chain."
          },
          {
            "id": "c2",
            "status": "reported",
            "evidence": [
              {
                "locator": "'校方是本周一接获校内流传不雅合成照片的消息，鉴于事态严重，立即展开调查，并在确认涉案学生与受害女生身分后，安排双方家长到校会面' (the school received word on Monday this week that composited indecent photos were circulating in the school, began an investigation immediately given the seriousness, and after confirming the identities of the pupils involved and the affected girls arranged for both sets of parents to meet at the school); '男生家长也接受校方开除学籍的决定' (the boys' parents accepted the school's decision to expel them).",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s3"
              },
              {
                "locator": "'telah membuang pelajar Tingkatan 2, 3 dan 4 tersebut selaras peraturan sekolah' (expelled the Form 2, 3 and 4 pupils in line with school rules); 'Ibu bapa ketiga-tiga pelajar terbabit menerima keputusan sekolah untuk membuang mereka' (the parents of all three pupils accepted the school's decision to expel them).",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s1"
              }
            ],
            "assertion": "The school was told of the images on Monday 1 December 2025, investigated immediately, met the parents of all pupils involved, expelled the three boys under its rules citing zero tolerance, urged the victims to report to police and parents to delete such images; the boys' parents accepted the decision.",
            "causal_attribution": "School statement and principal's account; single chain."
          },
          {
            "id": "c3",
            "status": "reported",
            "evidence": [
              {
                "locator": "'麻坡警区主任拉益慕克里兹受询时证实，警方已接获相关报案，并已传召涉案男学生协助调查，案件仍在进一步调查中' (the Muar district police chief confirmed when asked that police had received the reports, had summoned the boys involved to assist the investigation, and the case was still under investigation).",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s3"
              },
              {
                "locator": "'Ketua Polis Muar ... mengesahkan laporan telah diterima dan siasatan sedang dijalankan' (the Muar police chief confirmed reports had been received and an investigation was under way).",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s1"
              }
            ],
            "assertion": "The Muar district police chief confirmed that reports had been received, that the boys had been summoned to assist the investigation, and that an investigation was under way.",
            "causal_attribution": "Police chief's confirmation as quoted in the same reports."
          }
        ],
        "effects": [
          {
            "label": "female classmates' faces were composited with AI onto indecent images, some of which spread online; at least two girls lodged police reports",
            "claim_id": "c1",
            "direction": "negative"
          }
        ],
        "sources": [
          {
            "id": "s1",
            "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/bahasa/tempatan/2025/12/04/3-pelajar-dibuang-sekolah-buat-imej-lucah-rakan-sekelas-guna-ai",
            "kind": "news_report",
            "access": "read",
            "language": "ms",
            "translation_note": "Read in Malay on 2026-09-19 (FMT Malay edition, published 2025-12-04 11:03 UTC). Credits China Press; carries the school statement and the Muar police chief's confirmation. Model reading of the original; English glosses are the reviewer's.",
            "independence_group": "china-press-school-and-police-2025-12-03"
          },
          {
            "id": "s2",
            "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2025/12/04/3-muar-students-booted-for-making-explicit-ai-deepfakes-of-classmates",
            "kind": "news_report",
            "access": "read",
            "language": "en",
            "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-19 (FMT, published 2025-12-04 10:49 UTC). English version of the same China Press-derived report.",
            "independence_group": "china-press-school-and-police-2025-12-03"
          },
          {
            "id": "s3",
            "url": "https://news.seehua.com/post/1412690",
            "kind": "news_report",
            "access": "read",
            "language": "zh",
            "translation_note": "Read in Chinese on 2026-09-19 through a Wayback Machine capture (the live page returns HTTP 403); Seehua, published 2025-12-03 22:37 +08:00, Muar dateline 3 December. Same school statement and police confirmation with more detail on the school's steps; no attribution to another outlet is shown, so independence from China Press is not established.",
            "independence_group": "china-press-school-and-police-2025-12-03"
          }
        ],
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        "contexts": [
          "education",
          "privacy",
          "justice"
        ],
        "unknowns": [
          "How many girls were affected beyond the two who lodged police reports; Seehua says several.",
          "The ages of the three boys beyond their forms (Form 2 to Form 4, roughly 14 to 16).",
          "When the images were made and how widely they circulated; the school learned of them on 1 December 2025.",
          "The AI software used.",
          "Any charge or outcome of the police investigation.",
          "The China Press original was not read (HTTP 403), so the reporting chain is established from FMT's attribution only."
        ],
        "geography": {
          "basis": "The school and the police district are in Muar, Johor, Malaysia; the pupils are of that school. No court proceeding is reported.",
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          "event_countries": [
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          "affected_person_countries": [
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        },
        "publication": {
          "basis": "Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a harmful-artifact case involving minors with an institutional response and a police investigation, on the school's own statement and the district police chief's confirmation as relayed by three outlets in Malay, English and Chinese (one reporting chain, recorded as reported). The pupils are minors and unnamed; the school is described by type and district; the principal and police chief are not named in the record.",
          "reviewed_on": "2026-09-19"
        },
        "ai_involvement": {
          "basis": "The school and the China Press report describe the images as AI deepfakes made with AI software ('menggunakan kecerdasan buatan (AI)', '利用人工智能软体'); the police confirmation does not describe the tool. No forensic finding and no tool name.",
          "status": "reported"
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      "name": "Muar, Johor: three boys were expelled from a Chinese secondary school for using AI to make indecent deepfake images of female classmates; some images spread online and at least two girls lodged police reports",
      "summary": "In early December 2025 a Chinese secondary school in Muar, Johor, expelled three male pupils in Forms 2, 3 and 4 after finding they had used AI software to composite several female classmates' faces onto indecent images, some of which had spread online. The school said it was told of the images on Monday 1 December, investigated immediately, met the parents of all pupils involved, expelled the three under its rules with a stated zero-tolerance policy, and urged victims to lodge police reports and parents to delete any such images. The boys' parents accepted the decision. At least two girls lodged police reports; the Muar district police chief confirmed reports had been received, that the boys had been summoned to assist the investigation, and that an investigation was under way. No charge or later outcome has been reported.",
      "incidentDate": "2025-12-01",
      "incidentKind": "bounded_series",
      "incidentDatePrecision": "month",
      "exposurePattern": "repeated_interactions",
      "reportedDate": "2025-12-03",
      "aiSystem": "AI image software used by pupils to composite classmates' faces onto indecent images (software not identified)",
      "severity": "high",
      "verificationStatus": "credible",
      "harmCategories": [],
      "harmOutcomes": [
        "exploitation_or_abuse",
        "reputational_harm"
      ],
      "harmOutcomeSummary": "AI-composited indecent images of female classmates were made and some circulated online; at least two girls lodged police reports and the school expelled the three boys.",
      "frameworkFacets": [],
      "causationStatus": "supported",
      "participantUsersAffectedMin": 0,
      "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 2,
      "affectedCountStatus": "documented_minimum",
      "affectedCountEvidence": "At least two female pupils lodged police reports ('sekurang-kurangnya dua pelajar perempuan yang telah membuat laporan polis'; '至少有2名女学生受害'); Seehua says several girls' faces were composited ('多名女生'), which is not quantified. The three expelled boys are not counted as harmed.",
      "victimAgeRange": "minor",
      "jurisdiction": "MY",
      "platformType": "other",
      "outcomeType": "investigation_opened",
      "outcomeStatus": "unknown",
      "primarySourceUrl": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2025/12/04/3-muar-students-booted-for-making-explicit-ai-deepfakes-of-classmates",
      "primarySourceLabel": "Free Malaysia Today, 4 December 2025: 3 Muar students booted for making explicit AI deepfakes of classmates (citing China Press)",
      "firstPublishedAt": "2026-09-20T03:19:35.893689+00:00",
      "scopeVersion": "facts-v3",
      "tags": [
        "deepfake",
        "ncii",
        "minors",
        "school",
        "malaysia",
        "johor",
        "expulsion",
        "depicted-or-impersonated",
        "image-based-abuse"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-cileungsi-bogor-students-ai-deepfake-pornography",
      "caseFacts": {
        "claims": [
          {
            "id": "c1",
            "status": "reported",
            "evidence": [
              {
                "locator": "'Ratusan pelajar di Cileungsi, Kabupaten Bogor, diedit pakai AI dan dijadikan konten pornografi. Kasus itu kini diselidiki kepolisian.'; 'Sejauh ini yang di kami baru lapor tiga orang, tapi satu laporan, kita masih dalami kasus tersebut termasuk si pembuat kontennya siapa'",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s1"
              }
            ],
            "assertion": "Polres Bogor is investigating a report that pupils in Cileungsi had their faces edited with AI into pornographic content; three pupils have reported in one police report, and police are still identifying the maker and the program used.",
            "causal_attribution": "Police statement; the police attribute nothing yet to a named person."
          },
          {
            "id": "c2",
            "status": "reported",
            "evidence": [
              {
                "locator": "'ratusan pelajar sekolah swasta di Cileungsi Bogor menjadi korban deepfake AI dimana wajah mereka dimanipulasi dan diubah menjadi konten tidak senonoh'; 'pelaku mencuri foto korban dari akun media sosial masing-masing pelajar'; 'ada beberapa website yang sudah pernah diunggah seperti website judol dan lain-lain'",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s2"
              },
              {
                "locator": "'kasus bermula setelah korban mendapat informasi dari temannya bahwa ada seseorang yang diduga membuat konten menggunakan wajahnya melalui teknologi AI'",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s1"
              }
            ],
            "assertion": "According to the witnesses' lawyer, hundreds of pupils of a private school in Cileungsi had photographs taken from their social-media accounts manipulated into nude photographs and pornographic videos, some uploaded to websites including an online-gambling site.",
            "causal_attribution": "Lawyer's account of the scale; police confirm only the three complainants and the AI-edited content."
          },
          {
            "id": "c3",
            "status": "reported",
            "evidence": [
              {
                "locator": "'Kepolisian sudah mengantongi dua nama yang dilaporkan sebagai pelaku'; 'sebagai inisiator dan pembuat konten'; 'pelaku mengakui saat ditanya'; 'menemukan adanya ribuan foto serta video yang diduga hasil manipulasi AI di smartphone milik terduga pelaku'",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s2"
              }
            ],
            "assertion": "Two former pupils have been reported as suspects, in the roles of initiator and content maker, and are said by the lawyer to have admitted the acts to witnesses; police reportedly found thousands of suspected AI-manipulated photos and videos on a suspect's phone.",
            "causal_attribution": "Allegations relayed by the victims' lawyer; no charge announced."
          },
          {
            "id": "c4",
            "status": "reported",
            "evidence": [
              {
                "locator": "'Meski baru dilaporkan pada 19 Mei 2026, kasus ini diduga sudah berlangsung semenjak 2025 lalu, bahkan saat semua pihak (termasuk pelaku) masih berstatus pelajar'; 'terduga pelaku disebut telah lulus dari sekolah, beberapa korban masih berstatus pelajar dan beberapa lainnya sudah berstatus mahasiswa'",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s2"
              }
            ],
            "assertion": "The case was reported to police on 19 May 2026 and is believed to have run since 2025 while all involved were pupils; the suspects have since graduated and some victims are now university students.",
            "causal_attribution": "Timeline as reported by Uzone/Pojok Bogor."
          },
          {
            "id": "c5",
            "status": "reported",
            "evidence": [
              {
                "locator": "'Kita tidak bisa berasumsi saja, harus jelas, apalagi ini terkait Undang-Undang ITE, harus tahu benar dia yang membuat atau tidak, harus ada buktinya yang jelas'; 'penanganan perkara masih berada pada tahap awal'",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s1"
              }
            ],
            "assertion": "Police say the investigation is at an early stage, that they must establish with clear evidence who made the content under the ITE Law, and that tracing the AI program used is a challenge.",
            "causal_attribution": "Police statement."
          }
        ],
        "effects": [
          {
            "label": "pupils' social-media photographs were turned into AI pornographic images and videos, some uploaded to public websites; three have filed a police report and the victims' lawyer says hundreds were affected",
            "claim_id": "c2",
            "direction": "negative"
          }
        ],
        "sources": [
          {
            "id": "s1",
            "url": "https://kumparan.com/kumparannews/ratusan-pelajar-di-bogor-jadi-korban-pornografi-deepfake-ai-polisi-selidiki-28CxcCG6rv6",
            "kind": "news_report",
            "access": "read",
            "language": "id",
            "translation_note": "Read in Indonesian on 2026-09-19 (Kumparan, 18 September 2026; quotes the Polres Bogor unit head by phone). Quotations translated by the reviewer.",
            "independence_group": "polres-bogor-statement"
          },
          {
            "id": "s2",
            "url": "https://uzone.id/ratusan-pelajar-cileungsi-jadi-korban-deepfake-ai-foto-jadi-porno",
            "kind": "news_report",
            "access": "read",
            "language": "id",
            "translation_note": "Read in Indonesian on 2026-09-19 (Uzone, relaying Pojok Bogor of 17 September 2026 and the witnesses' lawyer). The Pojok Bogor original was not fetched; grouped as one lawyer-account chain.",
            "independence_group": "pojok-bogor-lawyer-account"
          }
        ],
        "version": 1,
        "ai_roles": [
          "others_use"
        ],
        "contexts": [
          "education",
          "privacy"
        ],
        "unknowns": [
          "The number of victims is disputed in scale: police count three complainants, the lawyer says hundreds.",
          "The AI tools used are not identified.",
          "No arrest, charge or court proceeding is reported; the suspects' admissions are relayed by the lawyer, not confirmed by police.",
          "The school is not named in the inspected reports and is not recorded here.",
          "The Pojok Bogor original article (16-17 September 2026) was not directly read; its account is taken from Uzone's relay."
        ],
        "geography": {
          "basis": "Private school in Cileungsi, Bogor Regency, West Java; Polres Bogor investigating (Kumparan, Uzone). No court proceeding yet.",
          "court_countries": [],
          "event_countries": [
            "ID"
          ],
          "affected_person_countries": [
            "ID"
          ]
        },
        "publication": {
          "basis": "Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an image-based-abuse series against school pupils with a police-confirmed report and a lawyer-described scale, read in Indonesian from two chains (police via Kumparan; the victims' lawyer via Uzone/Pojok Bogor). Claims recorded as reported; the scale is attributed. Minors: no names, no school name, suspects' initials omitted; no imagery described beyond 'nude photographs and pornographic videos'.",
          "reviewed_on": "2026-09-19"
        },
        "ai_involvement": {
          "basis": "Police describe the content as made with AI technology and say they are still tracing the program used; the victims' lawyer describes AI-manipulated nude photos and pornographic videos, and thousands of suspected AI-manipulated files found on a suspect's phone. No tool is named and no forensic finding has been published.",
          "status": "reported"
        },
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          "depicted_or_impersonated"
        ]
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      "name": "Cileungsi, Bogor Regency, Indonesia: photographs of private-school pupils taken from social media were turned into AI pornographic images and videos, reportedly since 2025; three pupils have filed a joint police report, the victims' lawyer says hundreds were affected, and two former pupils are named as suspects",
      "summary": "Bogor Regency police confirmed on 18 September 2026 that they are investigating a report that pupils of a private school in Cileungsi had their faces edited with artificial intelligence into pornographic content. The head of the women-and-children unit told Kumparan that so far three pupils had reported in a single police report, that the case began when a victim heard from a friend that someone was making content with their face using AI technology, and that investigators were still establishing who made the content and which program was used, under the Electronic Information and Transactions Law. A lawyer for the witnesses, quoted by Pojok Bogor and Uzone, says the victims number in the hundreds; that two former pupils, one as initiator and one as maker, have been reported and admitted the acts to witnesses; that police found thousands of suspected AI-manipulated photos and videos on a suspect's phone, some uploaded to websites including an online-gambling site; and that the case, reported on 19 May 2026, is believed to have run since 2025 while all involved were still pupils, some victims now being university students. Police say the case is at an early stage and asked the public not to draw conclusions.",
      "incidentDate": "2025-01-01",
      "incidentKind": "bounded_series",
      "incidentDatePrecision": "year",
      "exposurePattern": "unknown",
      "reportedDate": "2026-05-19",
      "aiSystem": "AI image- and video-manipulation tools (not identified; police say the program used is still being traced)",
      "severity": "high",
      "verificationStatus": "credible",
      "harmCategories": [],
      "harmOutcomes": [
        "exploitation_or_abuse",
        "psychological_distress",
        "reputational_harm"
      ],
      "harmOutcomeSummary": "Pupils of a Cileungsi private school had their social-media photographs turned into AI pornographic images and videos, some reportedly uploaded to public websites; three have filed a police report and the victims' lawyer says hundreds were affected and asks for a swift process so they can focus on their studies. Attribution to the reported suspects rests on the lawyer's account of their admissions and on police examination of a phone; police have not announced charges.",
      "frameworkFacets": [],
      "causationStatus": "alleged",
      "participantUsersAffectedMin": 0,
      "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 3,
      "affectedCountStatus": "partial",
      "affectedCountEvidence": "Police: three pupils have reported in one police report (Kumparan, 18 Sep 2026). The victims' lawyer says the victims number in the hundreds (Uzone/Pojok Bogor). Three counted people plus additional unquantified victims: partial. 'Thousands of photos and videos' is a content count, not a person count.",
      "victimAgeRange": "minor",
      "jurisdiction": "ID",
      "platformType": "other",
      "outcomeType": "investigation_opened",
      "outcomeStatus": "ongoing",
      "primarySourceUrl": "https://kumparan.com/kumparannews/ratusan-pelajar-di-bogor-jadi-korban-pornografi-deepfake-ai-polisi-selidiki-28CxcCG6rv6",
      "primarySourceLabel": "Kumparan, 18 September 2026: Ratusan Pelajar di Bogor Jadi Korban Pornografi Deepfake AI, Polisi Selidiki (Polres Bogor women-and-children unit statement)",
      "firstPublishedAt": "2026-09-19T03:17:35.203873+00:00",
      "scopeVersion": "facts-v3",
      "tags": [
        "deepfake",
        "ncii",
        "minors",
        "school",
        "indonesia",
        "bogor",
        "cileungsi",
        "police-investigation",
        "image-based-abuse"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2025-west-bengal-teen-deepfake-suicide",
      "caseFacts": {
        "claims": [
          {
            "id": "c1",
            "status": "corroborated",
            "evidence": [
              {
                "locator": "'A class 10 student was found hanging from the ceiling of her room in Sonarpur in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district'; 'where doctors declared her brought dead on Thursday night, a police officer said'",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s1"
              },
              {
                "locator": "'বৃহস্পতিবার রাতে ঘর থেকে তার ঝুলন্ত দেহ উদ্ধার করা হয়।'; 'চিকিৎসকেরা তাকে মৃত বলে ঘোষণা করেন' (Thursday night her hanging body was recovered from the room; doctors declared her dead)",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s5"
              },
              {
                "locator": "'On Thursday night, her body was found hanging in her room.'; 'she was rushed to hospital where doctors declared her dead'",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s6"
              },
              {
                "locator": "'শুক্রবার সকালে ঘর থেকে ওই কিশোরীর ঝুলন্ত দেহ উদ্ধার হয়'; 'সোনারপুর থানা এলাকা থেকে আজ সকালে এক মাধ্যমিক পরীক্ষার্থী ছাত্রীর মামার বাড়ি থেকে ঝুলন্ত দেহ পাওয়া গিয়েছে' (ETV: the body was recovered on Friday morning; the Baruipur SDPO is quoted that a Madhyamik candidate's hanging body was found \"this morning\" at her maternal uncle's house in the Sonarpur police-station area)",
                "relation": "context",
                "source_id": "s4"
              }
            ],
            "assertion": "A Class 10 student, a minor preparing for the 2026 Madhyamik examination, was found hanging at the relative's home where she lived in the Sonarpur police-station area of South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, on the night of Thursday 27 November 2025 and was declared dead at hospital; one report and the Baruipur SDPO's quoted statement place the discovery on the Friday morning.",
            "causal_attribution": "Death confirmed by a police officer to PTI, by the Baruipur SDPO on the record to ETV Bharat, and by local reporting (Anandabazar, Dainik Bhaskar). Timing of discovery differs between reports."
          },
          {
            "id": "c2",
            "status": "corroborated",
            "evidence": [
              {
                "locator": "'\"We have received a complaint alleging that a married man from the locality has been harassing her,\" he said.'; 'Her family members, in the complaint, alleged that the man had collected her photographs and used AI tools to generate nude images, which were then shared online.'; 'The family also accused members of the man's family of participating in the harassment.'",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s1"
              },
              {
                "locator": "'পরিবারের অভিযোগের ভিত্তিতে সোনারপুর থানায় একটি এফআইআর দায়ের হয়েছে' (an FIR was lodged at Sonarpur police station on the family's complaint)",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s4"
              },
              {
                "locator": "'তার কিছু ছবি সংগ্রহ করে এআই-এর সাহায্যে তা নগ্ন করে দেওয়া হয়। তার পর তা একাধিক সমাজমাধ্যম প্লাটফর্মে ছড়িয়ে দেওয়া হয়।'; 'অভিযোগ, তাঁর স্ত্রী, মা এবং আরও কয়েক জন কিশোরীকে হেনস্থা করেছেন।' (some of her photos were collected and made nude with AI, then spread on several social-media platforms; the family alleges his wife, mother and others harassed her)",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s5"
              },
              {
                "locator": "'Her family alleges that a local, married youth had been tormenting her for months. They claim he collected personal photos and used artificial intelligence to generate nude images, which were later made viral online.'",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s6"
              },
              {
                "locator": "'তাঁর মেয়ের ছবি নিয়ে AI দিয়ে নগ্ন ছবি বানায়। তারপর সেই ছবি ভাইরাল করে বলে অভিযোগ।' (the mother: he took her daughter's photos, made nude images with AI and made them viral)",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s7"
              }
            ],
            "assertion": "Her family's complaint to Sonarpur police alleges that a married man from the locality had been harassing her for months, collected her photographs and used AI tools to generate nude images of her, which were then shared on social media, and that members of his family took part in the harassment; police registered an FIR on the complaint.",
            "causal_attribution": "The AI connection rests on the family's allegation, relayed by police to PTI and stated by the mother and aunt to Bengali outlets; no police or forensic confirmation that the images were AI-generated was published."
          },
          {
            "id": "c3",
            "status": "reported",
            "evidence": [
              {
                "locator": "'Preliminary reports suggest the teenager may have taken her own life due to prolonged mental distress caused by harassment and online abuse, the police officer added.'",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s1"
              },
              {
                "locator": "'অভিযুক্তেরা তাকে ব্ল্যাকমেল করছে'; 'উদ্ধার হয়নি কোনও সুইসাইড নোটও' (she had told her mother the accused were blackmailing her; no suicide note was recovered)",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s5"
              },
              {
                "locator": "'পুলিশ সূত্রে জানান হয়েছে এখনও কোনও সুইসাইড নোট উদ্ধার হয়নি।' (police sources: no suicide note recovered so far)",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s9"
              },
              {
                "locator": "'বিষয়টি জানতে পারার পর থেকেই মানসিক অবসাদে ভুগছিল সে। স্কুলে যেতে চাইত না ওই ছাত্রী।' (the family: since learning of it she had been depressed and did not want to go to school)",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s7"
              },
              {
                "locator": "'Relatives said the student had become increasingly withdrawn, rarely speaking to anyone at home and often remaining visibly distressed.'",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s6"
              }
            ],
            "assertion": "Police said preliminary reports suggest the teenager may have taken her own life because of prolonged mental distress caused by harassment and online abuse; relatives said she had become withdrawn, would not go to school and had told her mother she was being blackmailed; no suicide note was found.",
            "causal_attribution": "Police preliminary view as relayed by PTI; family accounts to Anandabazar and Dainik Bhaskar. Causation is not established."
          },
          {
            "id": "c4",
            "status": "reported",
            "evidence": [
              {
                "locator": "'AI দিয়ে নিজের প্রেমিকের সঙ্গে আমাদের মেয়ের আপত্তিকর ছবি তৈরি করেছিল'; 'তারপর সেটা সোশাল মিডিয়ায় ছেড়ে দেয় সে'; 'বাড়িতে এসে কিশোরীকে মারধরের চেষ্টাও করে' (the aunt: she made objectionable AI images of our girl with her own boyfriend, then released them on social media; they came to the house and tried to beat her)",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s4"
              },
              {
                "locator": "'অভিযুক্তের অন্য এক প্রেমিকা ওই ছবি সোশ্যাল মিডিয়ায় ছড়িয়ে দেয় বলেও অভিযোগ তুলেছে পরিবার' (the family also allege that another woman, the accused's girlfriend, spread the images on social media)",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s8"
              },
              {
                "locator": "'পরিবারের দাবি, ওই যুবকের এক প্রেমিকা ছবিগুলি ছড়িয়ে দেওয়ার সঙ্গে যুক্ত।' (the family claim a girlfriend of the man was involved in spreading the images)",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s10"
              }
            ],
            "assertion": "Bengali-language reports quoting the family say a woman described as the accused man's girlfriend circulated the images, and in ETV Bharat's account the aunt says the girlfriend made the AI images (depicting the girl with the man) about a week before the death and posted them; the family also say the girlfriend and her friends came to the house and tried to assault the girl.",
            "causal_attribution": "Family statements to Bengali outlets; the accounts differ on who produced the images and are not confirmed by police."
          },
          {
            "id": "c5",
            "status": "reported",
            "evidence": [
              {
                "locator": "'An investigation has been initiated, and officers are examining digital evidence and questioning those named in the complaint.'",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s2"
              },
              {
                "locator": "'পুলিশ সূত্রে জানা গিয়েছে, অভিযুক্তের খোঁজে তল্লাশি শুরু হয়েছে এবং ছাত্রীর ফোন ও সোশ্যাল মিডিয়া অ্যাকাউন্ট খতিয়ে দেখা হচ্ছে।' (police sources: a search for the accused has begun and the girl's phone and social-media accounts are being examined)",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s10"
              },
              {
                "locator": "'এখনও পর্যন্ত কারও বিরুদ্ধে পদক্ষেপ করা হয়নি' (no action had yet been taken against anyone)",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s5"
              },
              {
                "locator": "'অভিযুক্তদের খোঁজে তল্লাশিও চালানো হচ্ছে।' (a search for the accused is under way)",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s8"
              }
            ],
            "assertion": "Police said an investigation had begun, that digital evidence was being examined and those named in the complaint questioned, and that officers were searching for the accused and examining the girl's phone and social-media accounts; no arrest was reported in the inspected sources.",
            "causal_attribution": "Police statements as reported on 28 November 2025; no later development was found."
          }
        ],
        "effects": [
          {
            "label": "a minor died by hanging after AI-generated nude images of her were reportedly circulated on social media during months of harassment",
            "claim_id": "c1",
            "direction": "negative"
          },
          {
            "label": "non-consensual AI nude images of a minor circulated locally; withdrawal, humiliation and reported blackmail before her death",
            "claim_id": "c2",
            "direction": "negative"
          }
        ],
        "sources": [
          {
            "id": "s1",
            "url": "https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/bengal-teen-dies-by-suicide-after-ai-generated-nude-images-circulated-online-1920296",
            "kind": "news_report",
            "access": "read",
            "language": "en",
            "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-19 (Deccan Chronicle, Kolkata dateline, 28 November 2025, live). PTI wire copy quoting a police officer and the family complaint; identical text runs in Deccan Herald, NDTV, News18, Telegraph India, Jagran and India.com.",
            "independence_group": "pti"
          },
          {
            "id": "s2",
            "url": "https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/class-10-student-dies-by-suicide-in-bengals-sonarpur-after-ai-generated-nude-images-circulated/cid/2135262",
            "kind": "news_report",
            "access": "read",
            "language": "en",
            "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-19 from a Wayback Machine capture (the live page answers 403). Same PTI text as s1 with one added closing line on the investigation.",
            "independence_group": "pti"
          },
          {
            "id": "s3",
            "url": "https://www.news18.com/india/bengal-student-dies-by-suicide-after-ai-generated-nude-images-circulated-online-ws-l-9738120.html",
            "kind": "news_report",
            "access": "read",
            "language": "en",
            "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-19 from a Wayback Machine capture (live page 403). Carries the PTI credit (\"With inputs from PTI\") that establishes the wire chain for s1 and s2.",
            "independence_group": "pti"
          },
          {
            "id": "s4",
            "url": "https://www.etvbharat.com/bn/state/girl-hanging-body-recovered-after-her-ai-made-obscene-photos-viral-on-social-media-west-bengal-news-wbs25112802025",
            "kind": "news_report",
            "access": "read",
            "language": "bn",
            "translation_note": "Read in Bengali on 2026-09-19 (ETV Bharat Bengali, Sonarpur dateline, 28 November 2025, live). Own reporting: quotes the Baruipur SDPO and the girl's maternal aunt. Translated by the reviewer; the aunt's and SDPO's words are paraphrased in English in the locators.",
            "independence_group": "etv-bharat"
          },
          {
            "id": "s5",
            "url": "https://www.anandabazar.com/west-bengal/24-parganas/madhyamik-examinee-dies-in-sonarpur-south-24-parganas-dgtld/cid/1650636",
            "kind": "news_report",
            "access": "read",
            "language": "bn",
            "translation_note": "Read in Bengali on 2026-09-19 from a Wayback Machine capture (live page 403; the page is partly paywalled but the article text was present in the capture). Own reporting from local sources and the family. Translated by the reviewer.",
            "independence_group": "anandabazar"
          },
          {
            "id": "s6",
            "url": "https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/local/west-bengal/news/ai-misuse-nude-images-student-humiliation-suicide-sonarpur-investigation-family-demands-strict-punishment-136533320.html",
            "kind": "news_report",
            "access": "read",
            "language": "en",
            "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-19 (Dainik Bhaskar English, South 24 Parganas byline, 28 November 2025, live). Own reporting citing local and police sources.",
            "independence_group": "dainik-bhaskar"
          },
          {
            "id": "s7",
            "url": "https://zeenews.india.com/bengali/state/sonarpur-incident-madhyamik-candidate-girl-ends-her-life-after-her-ai-driven-fake-photos-goes-viral-by-lover_626454.html",
            "kind": "news_report",
            "access": "read",
            "language": "bn",
            "translation_note": "Read in Bengali on 2026-09-19 from a Wayback Machine capture (live page 403). Zee 24 Ghanta, bylined, 28 November 2025; quotes the mother. Its text is shared nearly verbatim by Asianet News Bangla (29 November) and overlaps Kolkata TV, so these are grouped as one chain. Translated by the reviewer.",
            "independence_group": "bengali-tv"
          },
          {
            "id": "s8",
            "url": "https://kolkatatvonline.in/scroll/hanging-body-of-secondary-school-student-recovered-in-sonarpur-kolkatatv-online-kolkata-news/",
            "kind": "news_report",
            "access": "read",
            "language": "bn",
            "translation_note": "Read in Bengali on 2026-09-19 (Kolkata TV, 28 November 2025, live). Earliest inspected report (12:10 IST). Grouped with s7. Translated by the reviewer.",
            "independence_group": "bengali-tv"
          },
          {
            "id": "s9",
            "url": "https://bangla.asianetnews.com/west-bengal/west-bengal-news/photo-of-sonarpur-student-nude-with-ai-goes-viral-commits-suicide-out-of-shame/photoshow-d9atrbt",
            "kind": "news_report",
            "access": "read",
            "language": "bn",
            "translation_note": "Read in Bengali on 2026-09-19 (Asianet News Bangla photo story, 28 November 2025, live). Grouped with s7. Translated by the reviewer.",
            "independence_group": "bengali-tv"
          },
          {
            "id": "s10",
            "url": "https://bengali.indianexpress.com/west-bengal/sonarpur-student-suicide-nude-photo-viral-case-10820656",
            "kind": "news_report",
            "access": "read",
            "language": "bn",
            "translation_note": "Read in Bengali on 2026-09-19 from a Wayback Machine capture (live page 403). Indian Express Bangla, bylined, 28 November 2025; own reporting citing the family and police sources. Translated by the reviewer.",
            "independence_group": "ie-bengali"
          }
        ],
        "version": 1,
        "ai_roles": [
          "others_use"
        ],
        "contexts": [
          "everyday_life",
          "privacy",
          "justice"
        ],
        "unknowns": [
          "Whether the images were in fact AI-generated has not been confirmed by police or forensics; it is the family's allegation.",
          "Who produced the images: the family's complaint and the mother name the married man; ETV Bharat quotes the aunt saying his girlfriend made them (depicting the girl with the man). Several reports say the girlfriend circulated them.",
          "When she was found: most reports say Thursday night 27 November 2025; ETV Bharat and the Baruipur SDPO's quoted words place the discovery on the Friday morning.",
          "Whether anyone was arrested or charged; no arrest is reported in the inspected sources and no later coverage was found through 2026-09-19.",
          "When the images were first circulated and how widely; ETV Bharat says about a week before the death.",
          "The AI tool or platform used, and the social-media platforms involved, are not identified."
        ],
        "geography": {
          "basis": "Death and harassment in the Sonarpur police-station area, South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal (all sources); FIR at Sonarpur police station; no court proceeding reported.",
          "court_countries": [],
          "event_countries": [
            "IN"
          ],
          "affected_person_countries": [
            "IN"
          ]
        },
        "publication": {
          "basis": "Restored under the 2026-09-15 charter as a harmful-artifact case with a deceased depicted minor. Death rule met: the death is confirmed by a police officer (PTI), the Baruipur SDPO (ETV Bharat) and independent local reporting (Anandabazar, Dainik Bhaskar), and the reported AI connection is carried by each of those chains as the family's allegation. Claims about who made and spread the images stay reported and attributed. Original ID and first-publication timestamp preserved; death date corrected to 27 November 2025.",
          "reviewed_on": "2026-09-19"
        },
        "ai_involvement": {
          "basis": "The family's police complaint, relayed by a police officer to PTI and repeated by the mother and aunt to Bengali outlets, says AI tools were used to make nude images of the girl from her photographs. No police or forensic finding that the images were AI-made was published, and one report attributes their creation to the man's girlfriend rather than the man. The artifacts depicted the girl; no AI system interacted with her.",
          "status": "reported"
        },
        "person_relations": [
          "depicted_or_impersonated"
        ]
      },
      "name": "Sonarpur, West Bengal: a Class 10 student died by hanging after AI-generated nude images of her were circulated on social media; her family's police complaint accuses a married man from the locality of making them",
      "summary": "On the night of Thursday 27 November 2025 a Class 10 student, a minor preparing for the 2026 Madhyamik examination, was found hanging at the relative's home where she lived in the Sonarpur police-station area of South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, and was declared dead at hospital. Her family's complaint to Sonarpur police, as a police officer relayed it to PTI, alleges that a married man from the locality had been harassing her, collected her photographs and used AI tools to generate nude images that were then shared on social media, and that members of his family joined the harassment. Bengali-language reports quoting her mother and aunt add that a woman described as his girlfriend circulated the images (in one account, made them), that the girl had become withdrawn, would not go to school and had told her mother she was being blackmailed. Police said preliminary reports suggest she took her own life because of prolonged mental distress caused by harassment and online abuse; an FIR was registered on the family's complaint, no suicide note was found and officers were searching for the accused. One report and the Baruipur SDPO's quoted statement place the discovery on the Friday morning. No arrest or later development was found in this review.",
      "incidentDate": "2025-11-27",
      "incidentKind": "single_event",
      "incidentDatePrecision": "day",
      "exposurePattern": "unknown",
      "reportedDate": "2025-11-28",
      "aiSystem": "AI image-manipulation (\"nudifying\") tools, not named in any inspected report; AI use is the family's allegation",
      "severity": "critical",
      "verificationStatus": "credible",
      "harmCategories": [],
      "harmOutcomes": [
        "death",
        "psychological_distress",
        "exploitation_or_abuse",
        "reputational_harm"
      ],
      "harmOutcomeSummary": "A minor died by hanging after, according to her family's police complaint, AI-generated nude images of her were circulated on social media during months of harassment by a married man from the locality; police said preliminary reports pointed to prolonged distress from harassment and online abuse. Causation is the family's allegation and a preliminary police view.",
      "frameworkFacets": [],
      "causationStatus": "alleged",
      "participantUsersAffectedMin": 0,
      "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 1,
      "affectedCountStatus": "exact",
      "affectedCountEvidence": "One depicted person, the girl who died (all inspected reports). Relatives are not counted; the accused and the girlfriend are alleged perpetrators.",
      "victimAgeRange": "minor",
      "jurisdiction": "IN",
      "platformType": "other",
      "outcomeType": "investigation_opened",
      "outcomeStatus": "unknown",
      "primarySourceUrl": "https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/bengal-teen-dies-by-suicide-after-ai-generated-nude-images-circulated-online-1920296",
      "primarySourceLabel": "Deccan Chronicle (PTI), 28 November 2025: Bengal teen dies by suicide after AI-generated nude images circulated online (police officer and family complaint)",
      "firstPublishedAt": "2026-03-09T05:43:05.91184+00:00",
      "scopeVersion": "facts-v3",
      "tags": [
        "deepfake",
        "ai-generated-imagery",
        "ncii",
        "minor",
        "suicide",
        "death",
        "harassment",
        "india",
        "west-bengal",
        "sonarpur",
        "depicted"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2025-hku-deepfake-scandal",
      "caseFacts": {
        "claims": [
          {
            "id": "c1",
            "status": "corroborated",
            "evidence": [
              {
                "locator": "'a University of Hong Kong (HKU) law student fabricated pornographic deepfakes of at least 20 women'; 'no allegation so far that the student spread the deepfake images'; 'a friend discovered the images on the student's laptop'.",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s1"
              },
              {
                "locator": "'Around 20 to 30 women... were affected'; 'in February, the student had admitted to using screenshots of the social media accounts... to generate pornographic images using free online artificial intelligence software'; 'there were 700 images involved - including deepfakes as well as unedited images'.",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s3"
              },
              {
                "locator": "'The images were organized into folders named after the victims, totaling 700+ images'; 'discovered on his laptop reported to the university in February'; 'not known to have been widely distributed'.",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s2"
              }
            ],
            "assertion": "In February 2025 an HKU law student was found to have used free online AI software to make indecent/deepfake images of some 20 to 30 women (about 700 image files including deepfakes and unedited saved photos), taken from their social-media accounts; there was no allegation he distributed them.",
            "causal_attribution": "The victims' Instagram account (carried by HKFP and NBC) and AFP reporting (CBS); the 700 figure is images, and outlets vary between 'at least 20' and '20 to 30' women."
          },
          {
            "id": "c2",
            "status": "corroborated",
            "evidence": [
              {
                "locator": "'The University has already issued him a warning letter and demanded him a formal apology'; the 60-word apology letter; 'class adjustments'.",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s2"
              },
              {
                "locator": "'HKU proposed a verbal reprimand and warning letter'; the ~60-word apology 'most victims found... insincere'.",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s3"
              },
              {
                "locator": "'The university said it had issued a warning letter to the student and told him to apologise'; lawmakers/advocates' criticism.",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s4"
              }
            ],
            "assertion": "HKU initially issued a warning letter and demanded an apology (about 60 words, shown to victims in April 2025), and made class adjustments; the response drew wide criticism after victims went public on 12 July 2025.",
            "causal_attribution": "HKU statements and the victims' account, carried by three outlets."
          },
          {
            "id": "c3",
            "status": "corroborated",
            "evidence": [
              {
                "locator": "'Hong Kong's Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data said Tuesday... has begun a criminal investigation into the incident'.",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s1"
              },
              {
                "locator": "'The probe, announced Tuesday by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data'.",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s2"
              }
            ],
            "assertion": "Hong Kong's Privacy Commissioner opened a criminal investigation on 15 July 2025.",
            "causal_attribution": "PCPD announcement, 15 July 2025."
          },
          {
            "id": "c4",
            "status": "documented",
            "evidence": [
              {
                "locator": "'私隱專員公署今日（17 日）宣布，因證據不足未能進一步跟進... 由於未有受害人願意提供進一步資料，目前未有足夠證據提出起訴'; 'AI 深度偽造技術（Deepfake）投訴... 5 宗'; new school/parent guidance.",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s5"
              }
            ],
            "assertion": "On 17 December 2025 the PCPD announced it was ending the investigation for insufficient evidence, as no victim was willing to provide further information, and released anti-deepfake guidance for schools and parents.",
            "causal_attribution": "unwire.hk report of the PCPD press conference (Privacy Commissioner Ada Chung), 17 December 2025."
          },
          {
            "id": "c5",
            "status": "corroborated",
            "evidence": [
              {
                "locator": "'under section 159AAE of the Crimes Ordinance, it is unlawful to disseminate deepfake intimate images... without their consent'; creation not covered.",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s3"
              },
              {
                "locator": "'the city's regulations covered acts of voyeurism and the publication or distribution of images - rather than their creation'.",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s4"
              },
              {
                "locator": "'Hong Kong law only criminalises the distribution of intimate images... but not the generation of them'.",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s1"
              }
            ],
            "assertion": "Hong Kong law criminalises publication or distribution of non-consensual intimate images (including AI-generated ones) but not their mere creation, leaving victims without a clear route to prosecution.",
            "causal_attribution": "Legal analysis carried by three outlets and the victims' statement."
          }
        ],
        "effects": [
          {
            "label": "some 20 to 30 women had indecent and deepfake images generated from their social-media photos; distress, shared classes with the accused, and no redress after the probe closed",
            "claim_id": "c1",
            "direction": "negative"
          }
        ],
        "sources": [
          {
            "id": "s1",
            "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-generated-porn-scandal-university-of-hong-kong/",
            "kind": "news_report",
            "access": "read",
            "language": "en",
            "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-17 via the Internet Archive capture 20251105074941 (CBS live returns HTTP 406); datePublished 2025-07-15. CBS/AFP: at least 20 women, PCPD criminal probe, legal gap.",
            "independence_group": "afp"
          },
          {
            "id": "s2",
            "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/hong-kong-opens-criminal-probe-ai-generated-porn-scandal-citys-oldest-rcna219046",
            "kind": "news_report",
            "access": "read",
            "language": "en",
            "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-17 (live, datePublished 2025-07-17). NBC News: 700+ images in victim-named folders, warning letter and 60-word apology, class adjustments, John Lee comment.",
            "independence_group": "nbc"
          },
          {
            "id": "s3",
            "url": "https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/14/hku-student-who-allegedly-made-700-ai-generated-indecent-images-inc-of-classmates-gets-warning-letter/",
            "kind": "news_report",
            "access": "read",
            "language": "en",
            "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-17 (live, datePublished 2025-07-13, correction 2025-07-14). HKFP: 20-30 women, February discovery, 700 images (deepfakes plus unedited), March disciplinary request, ragging analysis.",
            "independence_group": "hkfp"
          },
          {
            "id": "s4",
            "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3318047/hong-kong-should-ban-ai-generated-porn-protect-victims-ngo-and-lawmakers",
            "kind": "news_report",
            "access": "read",
            "language": "en",
            "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-17 (live, datePublished 2025-07-13). SCMP: advocates and lawmakers on the creation-vs-distribution legal gap; Education Bureau comment.",
            "independence_group": "scmp"
          },
          {
            "id": "s5",
            "url": "https://unwire.hk/2025/12/17/hku-ai-deepfake-case-privacy-investigation-insufficient-evidence/fun-tech/",
            "kind": "news_report",
            "access": "read",
            "language": "zh",
            "translation_note": "Read in Chinese on 2026-09-17 (datePublished 2025-12-17). unwire.hk on the PCPD press conference: probe ended for insufficient evidence, no victim willing to provide further information, 20-30 victims, five deepfake complaints that year, new school/parent guidance. Model reading; no human bilingual review.",
            "independence_group": "unwire"
          }
        ],
        "version": 1,
        "ai_roles": [
          "others_use"
        ],
        "contexts": [
          "education",
          "privacy",
          "justice"
        ],
        "unknowns": [
          "The student is not identified beyond 'a male law student' and faced no prosecution; whether HKU took any further disciplinary action is not established.",
          "The exact number of women is reported as 20 to 30 (NBC: 'more than a dozen'); the precise count is unresolved.",
          "The creation start date is reported by The Standard as about May 2024 but is not firmly established in the sources read here.",
          "Whether any victim later came forward with evidence after the December 2025 closure is not established."
        ],
        "geography": {
          "basis": "Event: the University of Hong Kong; victims are HKU-connected women in Hong Kong (CBS, NBC, HKFP, SCMP). The PCPD is a regulator, not a court, and no prosecution followed, so court_countries is empty.",
          "court_countries": [],
          "event_countries": [
            "HK"
          ],
          "affected_person_countries": [
            "HK"
          ]
        },
        "publication": {
          "basis": "Restored from the deletion of historical artifact rows and converted to facts-v3 under the 2026-09-15 charter, which brings non-consensual AI imagery and harmful artifacts into scope. Some 20 to 30 women had indecent AI images generated from their photos; the harm and the closed investigation are documented across CBS/AFP, NBC, HKFP, SCMP and unwire.hk. First-publication timestamp preserved.",
          "reviewed_on": "2026-09-17"
        },
        "ai_involvement": {
          "basis": "Multiple outlets and the victims' own account report the student used free online AI software to generate indecent/deepfake images from the women's social-media photos; the student admitted using the software (per the victims' account carried by HKFP and NBC). The specific tools are not named.",
          "status": "supported"
        },
        "person_relations": [
          "depicted_or_impersonated"
        ]
      },
      "name": "University of Hong Kong: a law student made about 700 indecent AI-generated images of some 20 to 30 classmates and teachers; the privacy watchdog opened then closed a criminal probe",
      "summary": "In February 2025 a University of Hong Kong (HKU) law student was found, by friends who saw the files on his laptop, to have used free online AI software to make about 700 indecent and deepfake images of some 20 to 30 women, including university and former schoolmates and secondary-school teachers, using photos taken from their social media. Victims went public in July 2025, and HKU's initial response, a warning letter and a demand that he apologise, drew wide criticism. Hong Kong's Privacy Commissioner opened a criminal investigation on 15 July 2025 but announced on 17 December 2025 that it was ending the probe for insufficient evidence, as no victim was willing to provide further information. Hong Kong law criminalised distribution, not creation, of such images.",
      "incidentDate": "2025-02-01",
      "incidentKind": "bounded_series",
      "incidentDatePrecision": "month",
      "exposurePattern": "unknown",
      "reportedDate": "2025-07-12",
      "aiSystem": "AI deepfake / image-generation software (free online tools, not named)",
      "severity": "high",
      "verificationStatus": "credible",
      "harmCategories": [],
      "harmOutcomes": [
        "psychological_distress",
        "reputational_harm",
        "exploitation_or_abuse"
      ],
      "harmOutcomeSummary": "Some 20 to 30 women had indecent and deepfake images of themselves generated with AI from their social-media photos; victims reported distress and had to share classes with the accused, and the criminal investigation was closed for insufficient evidence, leaving them without redress.",
      "frameworkFacets": [],
      "causationStatus": "supported",
      "participantUsersAffectedMin": 0,
      "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 20,
      "affectedCountStatus": "documented_minimum",
      "affectedCountEvidence": "CBS and Hong Kong Free Press report 20 to 30 women affected; NBC reports 'more than a dozen'; the PCPD (December 2025) referred to 20 to 30 victims. Documented minimum of 20; the ~700 figure counts images (deepfakes plus unedited saved photos), not people, and is not used as a person count.",
      "victimAgeRange": "adult",
      "jurisdiction": "HK",
      "platformType": "other",
      "outcomeType": "investigation_opened",
      "outcomeStatus": "resolved",
      "primarySourceUrl": "https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/14/hku-student-who-allegedly-made-700-ai-generated-indecent-images-inc-of-classmates-gets-warning-letter/",
      "primarySourceLabel": "Hong Kong Free Press, 13-14 July 2025: HKU student who allegedly made 700 AI-generated indecent images, inc. of classmates, gets warning letter",
      "firstPublishedAt": "2026-01-29T09:52:32.902523+00:00",
      "scopeVersion": "facts-v3",
      "tags": [
        "deepfakes",
        "hong-kong",
        "university",
        "ncii",
        "sexual-images",
        "legal-gap",
        "investigation",
        "east-asia",
        "depicted-or-impersonated"
      ]
    }
  ]
}