{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-07T06:08:27.822Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"neighbour","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":5,"coverage":{"cases":5,"countries":3,"languages":2,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":2,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":1,"minors":1,"coreRelations":4,"contextualRelations":1,"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":"2026-shawnee-oklahoma-ai-app-child-sexual-abuse-images-from-local-children-photos-felony-charges","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'A Shawnee man has been charged with five felony counts of possession and creating child pornography by using an AI app.'; 'first court appearance on the charges is Tuesday at the Pottawatomie County Courthouse'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Prosecutors in Pottawatomie County have since filed the five felony counts'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Pottawatomie County prosecutors charged the Shawnee man with five felony counts of possession and creating child pornography by using an AI app, with a first court appearance at the Pottawatomie County Courthouse.","causal_attribution":"Charging facts as reported by News On 6 and repeated by Hoodline from the same reporting; the charging document itself was not read."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'more than 200 child sexual abuse images and videos on two separate phones. About 100 of those images appeared to be created through an AI app.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'including about 100 images that appeared to have been created through an AI app'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Police say they found more than 200 child sexual abuse images and videos on two phones, about 100 of which appeared to have been created through an AI app.","causal_attribution":"Police statement as reported; one origin."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'used pictures of children in his community'; 'According to court documents, police identified some of the young victims through selfies they posted on social media.'; 'he took of a neighbor from his front porch'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'investigators believe he used a photo of a neighbor taken from the neighbor's front porch'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Police say the man used pictures of children in his community; court documents cited by News On 6 say some young victims were identified through selfies they posted on social media, and investigators believe one photo he used was taken of a neighbour from his front porch.","causal_attribution":"Police and court-document account as reported; the neighbour identification is stated as investigators' belief."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'was tipped off in August through a national database'; 'State agents alerted Shawnee police, and a search warrant was executed'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The OSBI Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force was tipped off in August through a national database, state agents alerted Shawnee police, and a search warrant was executed at the man's home.","causal_attribution":"OSBI and police account as reported."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'explained why AI-generated child pornography is illegal'; 'it might be kind of a mash-up of children's images that are being used and so these children are being victimized'; 'Two years ago, the Oklahoma legislature passed a law making AI-generated child sexual abuse material illegal'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"An OSBI agent, speaking generally rather than about this case, said AI-generated images are pulled from other images on the internet so the children whose images are used are victimised; the outlet adds that Oklahoma passed a law two years earlier making AI-generated child sexual abuse material illegal.","causal_attribution":"General context from the OSBI; not evidence about this case's images."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'A Shawnee man is facing multiple felonies for allegedly using artificial intelligence to create child sexual abuse material.'; 'was arrested in August after investigators found over 200 child sexual abuse images and videos on his devices; about half of them appeared to be created with AI'; 'admitted to investigators that he uses an app called \"Desire AI\"'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"KFOR reported on 6 October 2026 that the man is facing multiple felonies for allegedly using artificial intelligence to create child sexual abuse material, that he was arrested in August after investigators found over 200 abuse images and videos on his devices, about half of which appeared AI-made, and that court documents say he admitted to investigators that he uses an app called \"Desire AI\".","causal_attribution":"Court documents as characterised by KFOR; the admission is reported, not inspected."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Court documents describe'; 'using a juvenile's selfie that had been posted online and turning it into sexually explicit AI-generated images'; 'took a photo from his driveway of a mother and her two-year-old daughter; investigators found that same photo altered with AI, making the two naked'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Court documents described by KFOR say the man used a juvenile's selfie that had been posted online to make sexually explicit AI-generated images, and that a photo he took from his driveway of a mother and her two-year-old daughter was found altered with AI to make both appear naked.","causal_attribution":"Court documents as characterised by KFOR; News On 6 and Hoodline place the neighbour photo on a front porch, KFOR on his driveway."}],"effects":[{"label":"children depicted in AI-generated sexual abuse images made from their photographs (police account)","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"},{"label":"a neighbouring mother and her two-year-old daughter photographed from the accused's property and depicted naked in an AI-altered image (court documents as reported)","claim_id":"c7","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.newson6.com/crime/oklahoma-man-charged-ai-creating-child-sexual-abuse-images","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-07 (bodies/tr-newson6-shawnee.txt). Original report; carries the Shawnee police statements, the OSBI agent interview and the court-document details.","independence_group":"shawnee-police-osbi-via-news9"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://hoodline.com/2026/09/shawnee-man-64-charged-after-ai-allegedly-turned-neighbor-s-photo-into-abuse-images/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-07 (bodies/tr-hoodline-shawnee.txt). States that it draws on 'the seed reporting that originated with News 9'; same police and OSBI origin.","independence_group":"shawnee-police-osbi-via-news9"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/shawnee-man-facing-felonies-using-220000513.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-07 (bodies/vc-yahoo-com-news-us-articles-shawnee-man-facing-felonies-using-220000513-html.txt): Yahoo's syndicated copy of KFOR's 6 October 2026 text article (Sydnee Batzlaff/KFOR); KFOR's own page returned 403. Same police and court-document origin for the charges; the OSBI agent's quotes to KFOR are his own statements to that station.","independence_group":"shawnee-police-osbi-via-news9"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","everyday_life","justice"],"unknowns":["When the images were made; the app identification (\"Desire AI\") rests on an admission described in court documents as characterised by KFOR.","How many children were depicted; police say 'some' victims were identified and name no number.","Whether any depicted child or family has been notified or has spoken; no victim account exists in the sources.","The outcome of the first court appearance and any plea.","Whether the neighbour photo was taken from the accused's front porch (News On 6, Hoodline) or his driveway (KFOR)."],"geography":{"basis":"News On 6 places the search, arrest and the children's community in Shawnee, Oklahoma, and the charges in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, United States; the court is the Pottawatomie County Courthouse.","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a concrete criminal case in which police say an AI image app was used to make sexual abuse images of real, identifiable local children, including a juvenile's online selfie and a neighbouring mother and toddler, with felony charges filed. Attributed throughout to the Shawnee police, OSBI and charging documents as reported by News On 6; the accused and the children are not named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-07"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Police say about 100 of the images found on the man's phones appeared to be created through an AI app and that he used pictures of children in his community; court documents cited by News On 6 say some young victims were identified through their social-media selfies and investigators believe one photo used was of a neighbour. The generated sexual images of real children are the harm. KFOR reports that court documents say he admitted using an app called \"Desire AI\" and that a juvenile's online selfie and a photo of a mother and her two-year-old daughter were altered with AI into sexual or naked images. The images were not inspected by any outlet; everything rests on the police, OSBI and charging-document account as reported.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Shawnee, Oklahoma police say a man used an AI app to make child sexual abuse images from photos of local children, one of a neighbour; five felony counts filed","summary":"Police in Shawnee, Oklahoma, say a local man used an artificial-intelligence app to create child sexual abuse images from photographs of children in his community, and Pottawatomie County prosecutors have charged him with five felony counts of possessing and creating child pornography. According to News On 6 (28 September 2026), the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation's Internet Crimes Against Children task force was tipped through a national database in August, Shawnee police executed a search warrant, and police say they found more than 200 child sexual abuse images and videos on two phones, about 100 of which appeared to have been created through an AI app. Court documents cited by the outlet say police identified some of the young victims through selfies they had posted on social media, and investigators believe one photo used was of a neighbour, taken from the man's front porch. KFOR reported on 6 October 2026 that court documents say he admitted using an app called \"Desire AI\", that a juvenile's online selfie was turned into sexually explicit AI images, and that a photo he took of a mother and her two-year-old daughter was altered to make both appear naked. The account rests on the police and OSBI statements and the charging documents as reported; the total number of children depicted is not stated.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-28","aiSystem":"An app called \"Desire AI\", which court documents say the accused admitted using, as reported by KFOR; police say about 100 of the images found appeared to be created through an AI app","aiProduct":"Desire AI (reported)","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Children in the accused's community, including a juvenile whose online selfie was altered and a neighbouring mother and her two-year-old daughter, were depicted in AI-generated sexual or naked images, according to police and court documents as reported by News On 6 and KFOR; at least three people are individually described and no further individual consequence is reported.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":3,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"Documented minimum 3: KFOR's account of the court documents individually describes a juvenile whose online selfie was altered into sexually explicit AI images, and a mother and her two-year-old daughter whose photo was altered to make both appear naked. News On 6 adds that 'some' young victims were identified through selfies, which is not a further lower bound, and the ~100 AI-made files are not converted into people. The accused is not counted.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"US-OK","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.newson6.com/crime/oklahoma-man-charged-ai-creating-child-sexual-abuse-images","primarySourceLabel":"News On 6 (KOTV), 28 September 2026: Oklahoma man charged with creating child sexual abuse images using AI app","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-07T03:25:37.097901+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-07T03:25:37.097901+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-generated-csam","image-generation","children","neighbour","social-media-photos","criminal-charges","oklahoma","us","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2026-neemuch-madhya-pradesh-ai-obscene-images-relative-extortion-complaint","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'एआई की मदद से एडिट कर उन्हें अश्लील और आपत्तिजनक तरीके से तैयार किया और इन्हें पत्नी के मोबाइल पर भेजकर उसे ब्लैकमेल करने लगा'; 'विरोध करने पर पति और दो बच्चों को जान से मारने की धमकी देने लगा'; 'सामाजिक और पारिवारिक रूप से बदनाम करने की धमकी देकर अवैध रूप से'; 'उत्तर प्रदेश के शाहजहांपुर के एक युवक ने उसे ब्लैकमेल किया'; 'ससुराल पक्ष की ओर से रिश्तेदार है'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"According to the husband's complaint, a relative of hers from Shahjahanpur district, Uttar Pradesh (from the husband's in-laws' side), used AI to edit the woman's photos and videos into obscene material, sent them to her phone to blackmail her, threatened to kill her husband and two children when she resisted, and threatened to circulate the material to shame her.","causal_attribution":"The complaint as reported by Nai Dunia; the material was not inspected and no police finding on the AI element is reported."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'ऑनलाइन तरीके से लगभग 50 लाख रुपये की राशि अवैध रूप से वसूली की'; 'लगभग 7 से 8 माह में ढाबा संचालक की पत्नी को ब्लैकमेल कर 20 से 25 व्यक्ति के क्यूआर कोड मोबाइल पर भेजकर करीब 50 से 60 बार में'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Over about seven to eight months the woman paid roughly ₹50 lakh in 50 to 60 payments to QR codes of 20 to 25 different people sent by the accused.","causal_attribution":"The complaint as reported; the amount is the complainant's figure, and the article's later sentence omits the word lakh."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'के खिलाफ प्रकरण दर्ज कर मामला जांच में लिया है'; 'पुलिस आरोपित की गिरफ्तारी कोशिश कर रही है'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Neemuch City police registered a case against the accused on the husband's complaint, began an investigation and were trying to arrest him.","causal_attribution":"Police action as reported by Nai Dunia; no official statement read."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'करीब छह माह यहां रहने के दौरान उसने ढाबे पर काम भी किया'; 'परिवार की समूची जानकारी थी, इसी का आरोपित ने फायदा उठाया'; 'करीब दो से ढाई साल पूर्व नीमच में ढाबा संचालक के'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The accused had lived in the family's home in Neemuch for about six months two to two and a half years earlier and worked at the husband's eatery, which the complainant says gave him knowledge of the family's finances.","causal_attribution":"The complainant's account to police as reported."}],"effects":[{"label":"blackmailed with AI-edited obscene photos and videos of her and threatened with the killing of her husband and children","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"paid about ₹50 lakh in 50 to 60 payments over seven to eight months, per the complaint","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.naidunia.com/madhya-pradesh/neemuch-accused-from-up-used-ai-to-create-obscene-photos-and-videos-of-a-female-relative-8467193","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"hi","translation_note":"Read live in Hindi on 2026-10-02 (Nai Dunia, Neemuch correspondent, 1 October 2026). Researcher translation. One sentence gives the total as 'करीब 50 रुपये' (about 50 rupees), evidently omitting 'lakh'; the headline and first paragraph say about 50 lakh.","independence_group":"neemuch-complaint"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://royalbulletin.in/desh-pradesh/madhya-pradesh/accused-of-blackmailing-a-woman-and-extorting-rs-50-lakh/article-237090","kind":"news_report","access":"unavailable","language":null,"translation_note":"HTTP 403 to curl on 2026-10-02; the Internet Archive was offline. Not read. Treated as the same complaint chain until read.","independence_group":"neemuch-complaint"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","finance","relationships"],"unknowns":["When the blackmail began and ended, and when the complaint was filed.","Which AI tool was used, and whether police have examined the material.","Whether the accused has been arrested or charged, and his response.","Whether the material was circulated to others."],"geography":{"basis":"The woman and the complainant live in Neemuch City, Madhya Pradesh, and the case was registered by Neemuch City police; the accused is from Shahjahanpur district, Uttar Pradesh (Nai Dunia). No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["IN"],"affected_person_countries":["IN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a core case: AI-edited obscene images and videos depicting a real woman, used by a relative to extort money from her with death threats against her family. The account is the complainant's as reported by Nai Dunia, with the newspaper reporting that police registered a case. The woman and the accused are not named and no image detail is reproduced.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-02"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Nai Dunia reports the complaint as saying the accused edited the woman's photos and videos 'with the help of AI' into obscene material and sent them to her phone. No police statement characterising the material, no forensic finding and no tool name appear in the source read; the material was not inspected.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Neemuch, Madhya Pradesh: police register a case after a woman's family says a relative from Uttar Pradesh used AI to make obscene photos and videos of her and, over seven to eight months, extorted about ₹50 lakh from her with threats to circulate them and to kill her husband and children","summary":"Nai Dunia reported on 1 October 2026 that police in Neemuch City, Madhya Pradesh, had registered a case against a man from Shahjahanpur district, Uttar Pradesh, who is a relative of a local woman through her own family (the complainant husband's in-laws' side). According to the complaint filed by her husband, the man used AI to edit photos and videos of the woman into obscene, objectionable material, sent them to her phone and blackmailed her. When she resisted he threatened to kill her husband and two children, and he threatened to spread the material to shame her socially and within the family. Over about seven to eight months, the complaint says, he sent QR codes of 20 to 25 different people to her phone and extracted roughly ₹50 lakh in 50 to 60 payments, which she sent through a neighbour and other women. The man had lived in the family's home and worked at the husband's business for about six months two to two and a half years earlier, which the complainant says gave him knowledge of the family's income and property. Nai Dunia reported that police were investigating and trying to arrest the accused. The account is the complainant's as reported by one newspaper; the images were not inspected.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-10-01","aiSystem":"AI used to edit photos and videos of the woman into obscene material, according to the complaint as reported (tool not identified)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image and video tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A woman was blackmailed with AI-edited obscene photos and videos of her, threatened that her husband and children would be killed, and paid about ₹50 lakh over seven to eight months, according to her husband's police complaint as reported by Nai Dunia.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the woman depicted and blackmailed (Nai Dunia). Her husband and children were threatened but are not counted as harmed. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"IN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.naidunia.com/madhya-pradesh/neemuch-accused-from-up-used-ai-to-create-obscene-photos-and-videos-of-a-female-relative-8467193","primarySourceLabel":"Nai Dunia (Neemuch), 1 October 2026: AI-made obscene photos and videos of a relative used to extort ₹50 lakh","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-02T03:14:58.282079+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-02T03:14:58.282079+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfakes","ai-edited-images","sextortion","blackmail","extortion","madhya-pradesh","india","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2025-maidenhead-reported-deepfake-letters-target-activist","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Article body: opening account of the latest letters and recipients.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The Guardian reports that letters containing deepfaked sexual images of the activist were delivered to former neighbours in Maidenhead in recent weeks.","causal_attribution":"The inspected reporting describes this account. Claims remain attributed and causation is alleged; multiple reports of the same victim or police/court account are one independence group."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Article body: interview paragraph following the separate Australian poster account.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The activist said she was terrified and described the latest material as escalating harassment using AI or digital tools.","causal_attribution":"The inspected reporting describes this account. Claims remain attributed and causation is alleged; multiple reports of the same victim or police/court account are one independence group."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Article body: latest police referral and unidentified sender paragraphs.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The sender was unknown and the latest letters were referred to police.","causal_attribution":"The inspected reporting describes this account. Claims remain attributed and causation is alleged; multiple reports of the same victim or police/court account are one independence group."}],"effects":[{"label":"Reported sexualised impersonation and fear after letters reached the activist's former neighbours","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/11/sexually-explicit-letters-deepfake-hong-kong-activists-uk-australia","kind":"journalistic","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"original-account-aiid-1301"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","civic_life"],"unknowns":["The first letter date, sender and generation tool are unknown.","The source does not establish AI involvement in the separate Australian poster or that the latest letters caused the activist's earlier relocation."],"geography":{"basis":"Letters were delivered to former neighbours in Maidenhead, UK; the activist is described as living in Britain. The claimed Macau mailing origin does not establish the creation site.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["GB"],"affected_person_countries":["GB"]},"publication":{"basis":"An inspected source describes a concrete person-level adverse experience connected to the specified AI use. Statements remain attributed, private identities are minimized, and unknown dates, counts and technical details are preserved.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-30"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The outlet labels the images deepfakes; the target mentions AI or digital tools. The method is reported rather than technically established. The Australian poster uses an old real photograph and is not treated as a second AI case.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Exiled Hong Kong activist reports fear after sexualised deepfake letters reached former UK neighbours","summary":"The Guardian reported that letters containing digitally faked sexual images of an exiled Hong Kong activist were sent to her former neighbours in Maidenhead in recent weeks. The activist said she was terrified and described the letters as escalating harassment using AI or digital tools. The sender and exact image-creation method remain unknown. Earlier bounty letters and a separate Australian poster campaign are distinct events.","incidentDate":"2025-01-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"year","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2025-12-11","aiSystem":"Reported deepfake image fabrication","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","aiCompany":"Unknown","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Reported sexualised impersonation and fear after letters reached the activist's former neighbours","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"One activist reports fear and is the image-abuse target. Letter recipients and people in separate harassment episodes are not added.","victimAgeRange":"adult","platformType":"other","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/11/sexually-explicit-letters-deepfake-hong-kong-activists-uk-australia","primarySourceLabel":"The Guardian, 11 December 2025, interviews about letters","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-30T01:10:49.632957+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:57:58.747259+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["historical-2025"]},{"id":"2026-southampton-choudhury-arrested-after-retrospective-facial-recognition-match-milton-keynes-burglary","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"was working at the home he shares with his parents in Southampton in January","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"handcuffed him and held him in custody for nearly 10 hours before releasing him at 2am.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"On 8 January 2026 Mr Alvi Choudhury was arrested on suspicion of a burglary that had occurred 100 miles away from where he was at the time.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"Choudhury is claiming damages against Thames Valley police and Hampshire constabulary, which executed his arrest.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"But the arresting officers from Hampshire Constabulary didn’t want to know.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Alvi Choudhury was arrested at the home he shares with his parents in Southampton on 8 January 2026 on suspicion of a burglary in Milton Keynes, handcuffed and held in custody for nearly 10 hours until released at 2am. Hampshire Constabulary officers carried out the arrest.","causal_attribution":"Event description only. The account comes from Choudhury and his solicitors through the Guardian, Liberty Investigates and a chambers news post. The Thames Valley Police statement quoted by the Guardian treats the arrest as having happened and apologises for the distress caused. The 8 January date appears only in the chambers post (the Guardian says January)."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Thames Valley police had used automated facial recognition software which matched him with footage of a suspect of a £3,000 burglary 100 miles away in Milton Keynes","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"following a retrospective facial recognition match, and was not influenced by racial profiling.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"A week later, after filing a complaint against Thames Valley Police, he found out the full story: he’d been flagged as a possible suspect by an automated facial recognition system.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"UK police forces use an algorithm procured by the Home Office from Cognitec, a German company.","relation":"context","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Thames Valley Police used automated retrospective facial recognition software that matched Choudhury with CCTV footage of a suspect in the Milton Keynes burglary. Choudhury says he learned about a week after the arrest, after filing a complaint, that an automated facial recognition system had flagged him as a possible suspect.","causal_attribution":"The Guardian bases the match on documents shared by Liberty Investigates, which were not inspected. The police spokesperson statement quoted in the same report itself refers to a retrospective facial recognition match. The sources do not state which product, version, threshold or match score applied to this search."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Thames Valley police said the decision to arrest Choudhury was made after a human visual assessment as well.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"A Thames Valley police spokesperson denied the arrest was unlawful and said: “While we apologise for the distress caused to the complainant in this case","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Facial matches should be treated as intelligence, not fact, according to the National Police Chiefs’ Council.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Thames Valley Police told the Guardian that the decision to arrest was made after a human visual assessment as well as the match, denied that the arrest was unlawful and said it was not influenced by racial profiling, and apologised for the distress caused. The Guardian reports the National Police Chiefs’ Council position that facial matches should be treated as intelligence, not fact.","causal_attribution":"A party statement about its own conduct, relayed by the Guardian. It addresses the arrest decision and gives no detail of the match."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"“I was very angry, because the kid looked about 10 years younger than me,” said Choudhury, who wears a beard.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"He offered evidence of work meetings in Southampton on the day of the crime but he was instead taken into custody.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"But Choudhury said officers at the Hampshire police station laughed when he asked: “Does this look anything like me?”","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"And he said the Thames Valley police officers who arrived to interview him said “they knew I wasn’t the suspect after looking at footage of the suspect and looking at my picture”.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Choudhury says the man in the CCTV footage looked about 10 years younger than Choudhury and had different features, that he offered evidence of work meetings in Southampton on the day of the burglary, that officers at the Hampshire police station laughed when he asked whether the footage looked like him, and that the Thames Valley Police officers who came to interview him said they knew he was not the suspect after looking at the footage and his picture.","causal_attribution":"First-person account relayed by the Guardian. The CCTV footage and the police interview record were not inspected, and no source independent of Choudhury describes the suspect’s appearance or the interview."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Thames Valley police admitted to Choudhury the arrest “may have been the result of bias within facial recognition technology”.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Thames Valley Police wrote to Choudhury, acknowledging that his arrest “may have been the result of bias within facial recognition technology”","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"as the use of facial recognition is already subject to review at a strategic level, I do not feel the need to raise this issue as part of wider organisational learning","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Thames Valley Police wrote to Choudhury that the arrest “may have been the result of bias within facial recognition technology”. An officer also told him that, because facial recognition use is already subject to review at a strategic level, the issue would not be raised as part of wider organisational learning.","causal_attribution":"Quotations from a police letter to Choudhury as relayed by the Guardian and Liberty Investigates. The letter itself was not inspected. The wording is conditional (“may have been”)."},{"id":"c6","status":"disputed","evidence":[{"locator":"“I just assumed that the investigative officer saw that I was a brown person with curly hair and decided to arrest me.”","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"their arrest was based on the investigating officers’ own visual assessment that the individual matched the suspect in CCTV footage","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Confusingly, however, the force concluded that his arrest was not a case of racial profiling, because officers had made their own assessment of the images before arresting him.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Whether the facial recognition match or the officers’ own visual assessment led to the arrest decision, and whether bias in the software contributed, is disputed. Choudhury says he assumed the investigating officer saw a brown person with curly hair and decided to arrest him. Thames Valley Police say the arrest rested on the investigating officers’ own visual assessment following the match and was not influenced by racial profiling, while also acknowledging in writing that the arrest may have been the result of bias within facial recognition technology.","causal_attribution":"Two accounts that conflict on the decisive input to the arrest. Neither the match record nor the officers’ assessment record was inspected."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"His neighbours saw him being led away in handcuffs, his father was very anxious about him being held and he was unable to work the following day, he said.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"He sometimes needs security clearance to work for government clients and he is asked about arrests and said: “This makes me look dodgier and dodgier.”","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Now he has had a second mugshot taken he is afraid the automated system could trigger more wrongful arrests.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"While we apologise for the distress caused to the complainant in this case","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Choudhury reports that neighbours saw him led away in handcuffs, that his father was very anxious about him being held, and that he was unable to work the following day. He says he sometimes needs security clearance to work for government clients, is asked about arrests, and that “This makes me look dodgier and dodgier”, and that he is afraid the automated system could trigger more arrests now that a second mugshot has been taken.","causal_attribution":"First-person account relayed by the Guardian. The police apology for distress caused is the only independent acknowledgement of an effect. No effect on an actual clearance decision is reported."},{"id":"c8","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Choudhury’s mugshot was held on the police system only because he had been wrongly arrested in 2021 when he had been attacked on a night out","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The police released him with no further action.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"comparing images taken from sources such as social media and CCTV to a database of more than 19m custody images, or mugshots.","relation":"context","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Choudhury’s image was held on the police system only because of an arrest in 2021 that the Guardian describes as wrongful (he had been attacked on a night out) and that ended with police releasing him with no further action.","causal_attribution":"Background as told by Choudhury to the Guardian. The sources do not state in terms that this custody image was the one returned by the search."},{"id":"c9","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Choudhury is claiming damages against Thames Valley police and Hampshire constabulary, which executed his arrest.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"after filing a complaint against Thames Valley Police","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"to pursue a claim for damages against Thames Valley Police for false imprisonment, breach of data protection law, breach of Art 8 ECHR and breach of the Equality Act 2010.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Choudhury filed a complaint against Thames Valley Police and is claiming damages from Thames Valley Police and Hampshire Constabulary. His solicitors have instructed counsel to pursue a claim for damages against Thames Valley Police for false imprisonment, breach of data protection law, breach of Article 8 ECHR and breach of the Equality Act 2010.","causal_attribution":"A complaint and a claim establish only their own existence and the allegations made. No court filing or outcome was found in the inspected sources."},{"id":"c10","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"This is the FR software currently used in the Police National Database (PND) for which the operational use case is Retrospective Facial Recognition (RFR).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"The FPIR for White subjects (0.04 %) is lower than that for Asian subjects (4.0 %)","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"At a face-match threshold of 0.8:","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"A National Physical Laboratory report for the Home Office and the Office of the Policing Chief Scientific Adviser (dated October 2025) evaluated Cognitec FaceVACS-DBScan ID v5.5, which it describes as the facial recognition software used in the Police National Database for retrospective facial recognition. At a face-match threshold of 0.8 on its test data it found a false positive identification rate of 4.0 % for Asian subjects and 0.04 % for White subjects.","causal_attribution":"The report establishes the evaluation findings on its own test dataset. It does not state which product version, threshold or settings applied to the search in this case."}],"effects":[{"label":"Arrested at home and held in custody for nearly 10 hours after a police retrospective facial recognition match","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"Distress acknowledged by the police, a lost working day and worry about future arrests and security clearance, as reported by Choudhury","claim_id":"c7","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/25/facial-recognition-error-prompts-police-to-arrest-asian-man-for-burglary-100-miles-away","kind":"news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"guardian-liberty-investigates-reporting"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/the-rise-of-facial-recognition-policing/","kind":"news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"guardian-liberty-investigates-reporting"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/automated-facial-recognition-software-innocent-man-arrested","kind":"organisation_statement","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read through an Internet Archive capture of 22 April 2026 because the site returned HTTP 403 to direct requests.","independence_group":"claimant-legal-team-post"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/693002a4cdec734f4dff4149/1a_Cognitec_NPL_Equitability_Report_October_25.pdf","kind":"official_record","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"npl-evaluation-report"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["justice","privacy"],"unknowns":["Which product, version, face-match threshold and match score the Thames Valley Police search used is not stated. The National Physical Laboratory report evaluates Cognitec FaceVACS-DBScan ID v5.5 (the Police National Database software) at stated thresholds, and the sources do not say those settings applied here.","The documents shared with the Guardian, the police letter to Choudhury, the CCTV footage and the police interview record were not inspected. All account details come from news reports and a chambers post.","Whether the human visual assessment preceded the arrest request, which force made the request and which force made the decision are stated differently by Choudhury, his solicitors and the police, and no record was inspected.","Whether a court claim was filed and the outcome of the complaint and the damages claim are not reported in any inspected source (the latest inspected reports are dated 1 April 2026).","The date 8 January 2026 comes from the news post of the claimant’s counsel (Internet Archive capture). The Guardian says only January. Distances given by outlets differ (100 miles in the Guardian) and are not material.","The burglary, the burglary suspect and any prosecution are not described in the inspected sources."],"geography":{"basis":"The arrest took place at Choudhury’s home in Southampton and the burglary was in Milton Keynes, both placed in England by the Guardian (Thames Valley Police and Hampshire Constabulary are the forces named). No court proceedings are reported, so court countries are unknown.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["GB"],"affected_person_countries":["GB"]},"publication":{"basis":"The Guardian article and the Liberty Investigates April feature were read in full from saved bodies. They come from one Liberty Investigates investigation built on an interview with Choudhury, documents shared with the Guardian and police statements, so they count as one reporting chain. The arrest date comes from the claimant’s counsel and the technical context from the National Physical Laboratory report, cited for its own contents. Claims about the arrest stay at reported status, the decisive causal question is recorded as disputed because Thames Valley Police dispute the causal account, and only the contents of the National Physical Laboratory report are recorded as documented. Choudhury is named because he spoke about the arrest under his own name to the Guardian and Liberty Investigates. The burglary suspect is not named or described beyond the reported age difference.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Thames Valley Police’s own statement, quoted by the Guardian, refers to a retrospective facial recognition match preceding the arrest, and the Guardian cites documents shared by Liberty Investigates. The police say the arrest decision rested on the investigating officers’ own visual assessment. Choudhury says the footage showed a man who looked about 10 years younger with different features, and that he assumed the investigating officer decided to arrest him because he is a brown person with curly hair. The police also wrote that the arrest may have been the result of bias within the technology. The weight of the match in the arrest decision is disputed. The sources do not identify the product version, threshold or match score.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Southampton: Alvi Choudhury arrested at home on suspicion of a Milton Keynes burglary after a police retrospective facial recognition match, held nearly 10 hours, claiming damages","summary":"The Guardian, in a joint report with Liberty Investigates, reported on 25 February 2026 that Alvi Choudhury, a 26-year-old software engineer, was arrested at his home in Southampton in January 2026 on suspicion of a £3,000 burglary in Milton Keynes, about 100 miles away, and held in custody for nearly 10 hours. Thames Valley Police had used automated retrospective facial recognition software, which matched him with CCTV footage of the burglary suspect. Choudhury says the man in the footage looked about 10 years younger and had different features. Thames Valley Police wrote to him that the arrest may have been the result of bias within facial recognition technology, and told the Guardian that the decision rested on the investigating officers’ own visual assessment and was not influenced by racial profiling. Choudhury is claiming damages from Thames Valley Police and Hampshire Constabulary.","incidentDate":"2026-01-08","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-02-25","aiSystem":"Retrospective facial recognition search run by Thames Valley Police (product, version and reference database not stated in the sources)","aiProduct":"Unidentified facial recognition system","aiCompany":"Not stated in the sources for this search (the Guardian says UK police forces use an algorithm procured by the Home Office from Cognitec)","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["loss_of_liberty","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The Guardian reports Choudhury was handcuffed at home, held for nearly 10 hours and released at 2am, and was unable to work the following day. Choudhury says neighbours saw him led away. Thames Valley Police apologised for the distress caused and deny the arrest was unlawful.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"disputed","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One man reported arrested and held. His father, neighbours and the burglary suspect are not counted as harmed.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"GB","platformType":"other","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/25/facial-recognition-error-prompts-police-to-arrest-asian-man-for-burglary-100-miles-away","primarySourceLabel":"The Guardian with Liberty Investigates (25 Feb 2026): Facial recognition error prompts police to arrest Asian man for burglary 100 miles away","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T21:15:56.164264+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:54.246626+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["historical-2026"]},{"id":"2026-indore-alleged-ai-sexual-image-harassment","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The woman had filed a complaint at [identifying detail withheld] police station in Indore in July 2025'; 'The complainant reported facing mental harassment due to these incidents'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The case started in July 2025 when a young woman filed a complaint at [identifying detail withheld] police station stating that an unknown person was sending letters with abusive content and her nude morphed photos to her, her relatives and neighbours.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"A woman complained to Indore police in July 2025 of abusive messages and altered sexual images of two women circulated to relatives and neighbours, causing distress. An FIR was registered.","causal_attribution":"Police release and DCP statement as reported."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'he revealed that marriage talks were underway between him and the complainant’s sister, but the family refused the proposal'; 'The accused was arrested on Wednesday under crime number [identifying detail withheld] and case was registered at [identifying detail withheld] police station under relevant sections of BNS, IT Act, and SC/ST Act.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'City crime branch arrested a man on Friday for harassing a woman by circulating her morphed obscene pictures.'; 'the marriage did not happen because their horoscopes did not match'; 'changed two or three buses while travelling from Indore to post offices in Ujjain, Dewas, Khategaon, Ashta and Dhar to send the letters.'; 'Police believe he carried out such acts around seven times between July 2025 and January 2026.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'जुलाई 2025 से जनवरी 2026 के बीच उसने सात बार इस तरह की हरकत की.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"Indore police arrested a man in January 2026 over the alleged image harassment. Reports describe repeated distribution between July 2025 and January 2026 and say he was remanded.","causal_attribution":"Police account (crime branch / DCP Crime) relayed by all four outlets; allegations in an untried case."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'सिविल इंजीनियर एक लड़की के AI से अश्लील फोटो बनाकर उसके परिवारवालों, रिश्तेदारों और पड़ोसियों को लेटर के साथ भेज रहा था।'; 'पुलिस का कहना है कि डिजिटल फॉरेंसिक जांच में AI से बनाई गई तस्वीरों के सबूत मिले हैं'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'morphing photographs of a woman and her sister and mailing them along with threatening letters'","relation":"context","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Patrika reports that the obscene photographs of the young woman were made with AI and that police said digital forensic examination found evidence of AI-generated images; the English reports describe the images as morphed without naming the technology.","causal_attribution":"Single-outlet report of a police forensic statement; police statements quoted in English say 'morphed'."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'इतना ही नहीं, आरोपी परिवार को एसिड अटैक की धमकियां भी दे रहा था.'; 'पुलिस ने आरोपी के घर से वारदात में इस्तेमाल लैपटॉप, प्रिंटर और अन्य सामग्री बरामद की है.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"NewsTak reports that the accused also threatened the family with an acid attack and that police recovered a laptop, printer and other material used in the offence from his home.","causal_attribution":"Single Hindi report relaying the police account."}],"effects":[{"label":"morphed nude images of two sisters, with abusive and threatening letters, were mailed to their relatives and neighbours and pasted as posters near their home over about seven months","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/indore/man-arrested-for-posting-morphed-photos-after-marriage-proposal-rejected/articleshow/127809228.cms","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-25 (The Times of India, Indore, 31 January 2026; html lang=en). Based on an official police release.","independence_group":"indore-crime-branch-briefing-jan-2026"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.freepressjournal.in/indore/indore-news-miffed-engineer-circulates-womans-morphed-obscene-pictures-after-rejection-of-marriage-proposal","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-25 (Free Press Journal, Indore, 31 January 2026; html lang=en). Quotes DCP (Crime) Rajesh Tripathi; same police account.","independence_group":"indore-crime-branch-briefing-jan-2026"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.patrika.com/indore-news/ai-misuse-deepfake-civil-engineer-arrested-20306882","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"hi","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-25 (Patrika, Indore, 30 January 2026; html lang=hi). Hindi; passages quoted in the original and paraphrased in English by the reviewer. The only inspected report that attributes the images to AI.","independence_group":"indore-crime-branch-briefing-jan-2026"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.newstak.in/madhya-pradesh/story/indore-man-arrested-sending-private-photos-relatives-one-sided-love-3230358-2026-01-31","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"hi","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-25 (NewsTak, 31 January 2026; html lang=hi). Hindi; adds the acid-attack threats and the seizure of a laptop and printer; same police account.","independence_group":"indore-crime-branch-briefing-jan-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["relationships","privacy","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Whether the images were made with an AI tool: only Patrika says so, reporting a police forensic finding; the tool is not identified by any report.","The exact arrest date (The Times of India says Wednesday, the Free Press Journal says Friday; both published 31 January 2026).","Whether a charge sheet has been filed or the case has progressed since January 2026.","How many relatives and neighbours received the mailings and posters.","The start date within July 2025 (month precision).","The end of the series is recorded as January 2026; incident_end_date 2026-01-30 marks the month of the last reported mailing and of the arrest, and the day is not established (the arrest day itself is disputed)."],"geography":{"basis":"Complaint at [identifying detail withheld] police station, Indore, Madhya Pradesh; posters pasted near the sisters' home in Indore; letters posted from towns in Madhya Pradesh; the accused was produced before a court in Indore (The Times of India, Free Press Journal).","court_countries":["IN"],"event_countries":["IN"],"affected_person_countries":["IN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Restored under the 2026-09-15 charter as a harmful-artifact and harassment case with two identified (unnamed) depicted people, a police complaint and an arrest, reported by four Indore outlets relaying the same police account; the attribution of the morphing to AI rests on one Hindi report and is recorded as reported. The original ID and first-publication timestamp are preserved; the historical row's incident date and the description of the rejected proposal are corrected. The accused is not named in the public text.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-25"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Patrika (Hindi) reports that the obscene photographs were made with AI ('AI से बनाईं') and that police said digital forensic examination found evidence of AI-generated images ('पुलिस का कहना है कि डिजिटल फॉरेंसिक जांच में AI से बनाई गई तस्वीरों के सबूत मिले हैं'); The Times of India and the Free Press Journal, relaying the same police account, describe the images only as 'morphed' and name no tool. The attribution to AI rests on one outlet's report of the police account and is recorded as reported.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Indian police investigate sexual-image harassment attributed to AI in one report","summary":"Indian police arrested a man over alleged sexual-image harassment of two women. Reporting describes altered images circulated to others and the women’s distress. One Hindi report attributes the images to AI and a police forensic finding; other outlets describe morphing without naming AI.","incidentDate":"2025-07-01","incidentEndDate":"2026-01-30","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-01-30","aiSystem":"Image-morphing tool used to create obscene images from the sisters' photographs; Patrika describes it as AI, the other reports say only 'morphed' and no tool is identified","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","reputational_harm","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Two sisters had morphed nude images of themselves, with abusive and threatening letters, mailed repeatedly to their relatives and neighbours and pasted as posters near their home over about seven months; the complainant reported mental harassment and social embarrassment (police release via The Times of India and the Free Press Journal). Police attribute the campaign to the arrested man; the AI attribution comes from Patrika alone, which reports a police forensic finding.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The complainant and her sister, both depicted in the morphed images sent to relatives and neighbours (The Times of India, Free Press Journal). Two people; relatives who received the mail are not counted as harmed.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"IN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/indore/man-arrested-for-posting-morphed-photos-after-marriage-proposal-rejected/articleshow/127809228.cms","primarySourceLabel":"The Times of India — report on the case","firstPublishedAt":"2026-06-15T09:09:12.465142+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T11:09:41.394589+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","morphing","non-consensual-imagery","harassment","revenge","india","indore","madhya-pradesh","arrest","depicted-or-impersonated"]}]}