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no examination of the images is reported."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'lo acusaron con docentes y administrativos de la preparatoria, sin que hasta ahora se tenga conocimiento de acciones que protejan la integridad de las jóvenes'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The pupils accused the classmate before teachers and administrators, and no action to protect the girls was known.","causal_attribution":"One local paper; no statement from the school is reported."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'sus compañeros de clase y algunas de las afectadas protestaron en medio del homenaje oficial de la escuela'; 'los encargados del sonido apagaron el audio'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"On Monday classmates and some of the affected girls protested during the school's official ceremony, and the sound was switched off when they tried to use the microphone.","causal_attribution":"La Jornada Maya; La Chispa's account of staff conduct at the same protest is recorded in c6."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'los alumnos del turno vespertino respaldaron a sus compañeros del matutino con una manifestación pacífica a la entrada de la escuela'; 'el reclamo ya llegó a padres de familias que están buscando respuesta'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Afternoon-shift pupils held a peaceful demonstration at the school entrance in support, and parents were seeking a response and protection for the girls.","causal_attribution":"One local paper."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'los manifestantes intentaron tomar la palabra a través del micrófono para hacer pública su demanda, pero los docentes presentes apagaron el equipo de sonido para evitar las intervenciones'; 'Ante los reclamos de los estudiantes para que reactivaran el micrófono, los profesores se negaron argumentando que tenían instrucciones superiores de no ceder la voz ni el equipo a los inconformes'; 'la directora del plantel ignoró el reclamo del alumnado, limitándose a observar a las jóvenes que levantaban carteles de protesta para posteriormente retirarse a su oficina sin atender el problema'; 'Los alumnos denunciaron públicamente la falta de empatía y la postura evasiva de las autoridades escolares'; 'Los jóvenes exigieron que se haga justicia por las víctimas y se apliquen sanciones concretas'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"La Chispa reports that during the protest the teachers present switched off the sound equipment when pupils tried to use the microphone and refused to switch it back on, saying they had instructions from above not to give the floor or the equipment to the protesters; that the school's director watched the girls holding protest placards and then withdrew to her office without addressing the complaint; and that pupils demanded concrete sanctions and publicly criticised the school authorities' lack of empathy and evasive stance.","causal_attribution":"One outlet's account (La Chispa, 6 October 2026); its sourcing is not stated, and no statement from the school is reported."}],"effects":[{"label":"female pupils were depicted without clothes in images a classmate is accused of making with AI apps","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"pupils and affected girls protested that the school took no known action to protect the girls","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.lajornadamaya.mx/campeche/269096/campeche-denuncian-a-alumno-de-preparatoria-por-realizar-fotos-con-ia-de-sus-companeras-sin-ropa","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"es","translation_note":"Read in Spanish by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-06 (La Jornada Maya, Campeche section, dated 05/10/2026, San Francisco de Campeche; HTTP 200); no human translator reviewed it. English renderings are the agent's own. 'Denunciaron' is rendered as accused or reported to staff, because the report describes an accusation to teachers and administrators and no complaint to prosecutors. The cited URL uses a shortened slug that omits the school's name and serves the same article (HTTP 200, 2026-10-06); the record does not repeat the school's name; the page's related-article list is not used.","independence_group":"la-jornada-maya-campeche-2026-10-05"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://lachispa.mx/protestan-por-acoso-escolar-con-ia-que-paso/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"es","translation_note":"Read in Spanish by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-11 (HTTP 200; page datePublished 2026-10-06); no human translator reviewed it, and English renderings are the agent's own. La Chispa does not cite La Jornada Maya and carries details absent from it (teachers citing instructions from above, the director watching girls holding placards), so it is grouped separately; it does not say whether its reporter attended the protest or relied on pupils' accounts. Its body states the accusation as fact and names the accused pupil; the record keeps the accusation attributed, omits the name, and the locators avoid it.","independence_group":"la-chispa-campeche-2026-10-06"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","privacy"],"unknowns":["Which application was used and how many girls were depicted.","Whether the images were shared beyond the pupil's tablet.","Any statement from the school or the accused pupil; La Chispa describes only staff conduct at the protest.","Whether a complaint was made to police or prosecutors."],"geography":{"basis":"La Jornada Maya reports the accusation and protests at an upper-secondary school in Campeche, Mexico, under a San Francisco de Campeche dateline. No court step is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["MX"],"affected_person_countries":["MX"]},"publication":{"basis":"A local paper reports that pupils accused a classmate of making nude images of female classmates with AI apps and protested the school's inaction; a second local outlet, La Chispa, describes staff conduct at the protest. All claims are reported, and the school, the accused pupil and the girls are left unidentified.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-06"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"La Jornada Maya reports that pupils accused a classmate of making images of female classmates without clothes with digital applications, describes this as AI used to make obscene photos, and says the images are not real photos but use the girls' faces. The generated images depict the girls (depicted_or_impersonated). The application is not named and no forensic finding is reported.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Campeche, Mexico: pupils accuse a high-school classmate of making AI nude images of female classmates and protest school inaction, a local paper reports","summary":"La Jornada Maya reported on 5 October 2026 that pupils at an upper-secondary school (preparatoria) in Campeche, Mexico, accused a classmate of making images of female classmates without clothes using digital applications, which the paper describes as AI used to make obscene photos and as images that are not real photos but use the girls' faces. The pupils reported him to teachers and administrators. According to the paper, no action to protect the girls was known, and on Monday classmates and some of the affected girls protested during the school's official ceremony, where the sound was cut off when they tried to use the microphone. Afternoon-shift pupils later held a peaceful demonstration at the school entrance and parents were seeking a response. No complaint to prosecutors or police is reported.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-10-05","aiSystem":"Unidentified digital applications that, according to La Jornada Maya, a pupil used to make images of female classmates without clothes, which the paper attributes to AI","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Female pupils in Campeche were depicted without clothes in images that a classmate is accused of making with AI apps, according to La Jornada Maya; pupils protested the school's lack of action.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"unquantified","affectedCountEvidence":"La Jornada Maya speaks of female classmates and of some of the affected girls in the plural but gives no number. No reliable count; zero placeholders.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"MX","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.lajornadamaya.mx/campeche/269096/campeche-denuncian-a-alumno-de-preparatoria-por-realizar-fotos-con-ia-de-sus-companeras-sin-ropa","primarySourceLabel":"La Jornada Maya, 5 October 2026: Campeche pupils accuse a high-school classmate of making AI nude images of female classmates","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-06T03:21:50.916694+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-11T07:47:44.914228+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-generated-sexual-images","deepfake","non-consensual-imagery","school","minors","mexico","campeche","ley-olimpia","depicted-or-impersonated","spanish-language"]},{"id":"2025-sydney-school-reported-deepfake-images-police-inquiry","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Article body, retained text line 99: paragraph about digitally altered images.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"ABC reports that digitally altered sexual images using female students' faces circulated online at a Sydney high school.","causal_attribution":"Two ABC reports on one school investigation. Police and commissioner statements remain reported. General statistics or experiences at other schools do not establish this case's individual impacts."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Article body, retained text line 93: paragraph about police complaint and investigation.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Article body, retained text line 101: paragraph about police complaint and investigation.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Families reportedly went to police and NSW Police confirmed an investigation was underway.","causal_attribution":"Two ABC reports on one school investigation. Police and commissioner statements remain reported. General statistics or experiences at other schools do not establish this case's individual impacts."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Article body, retained text line 99: paragraph about eSafety involvement.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The follow-up says the eSafety Commissioner's investigators were in talks with police and the education department about the digitally altered images.","causal_attribution":"Two ABC reports on one school investigation. Police and commissioner statements remain reported. General statistics or experiences at other schools do not establish this case's individual impacts."}],"effects":[{"label":"Reported nonconsensual sexual depictions circulated online","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-16/police-investigate-sydney-school-image-deepfake/105896812","kind":"journalistic","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"original-account-aiid-1234"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-17/deepfake-image-based-abuse-doubles-across-australia/105905152","kind":"journalistic","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"original-account-aiid-1234"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","privacy"],"unknowns":["The first creation date, generation method and number of affected students are unknown.","The identities of creators and any investigation or disciplinary outcome remain unknown."],"geography":{"basis":"Both reports explicitly locate the affected students at a Sydney high school. The school's name is withheld.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["AU"],"affected_person_countries":["AU"]},"publication":{"basis":"Inspected local reporting describes a concrete school image-abuse event and case-specific official responses. Students and school are not named. The record remains undated and does not borrow distress claims from other schools or general statistics.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-30"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"ABC describes the case as deepfake image-based abuse and reports the eSafety Commissioner's involvement. The reviewers have not inspected the images, tools or a forensic determination.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Sydney schoolgirls reportedly targeted with deepfake images circulated online","summary":"ABC News reports that digitally altered sexual images using the faces of girls from a Sydney high school circulated online. Families went to police, who confirmed an investigation, while the school and education department said they were working with police. A follow-up report says the eSafety Commissioner was also in talks with investigators. The school is not identified, and the number of affected students, creation date and later inquiry outcome are unknown.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2025-10-16","aiSystem":"Reported deepfake image-generation tools","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","aiCompany":"Unknown","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The reports describe nonconsensual sexual depictions of schoolgirls circulated online and families seeking police help. No separate clinical or educational outcome is attributed to these particular students.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"unquantified","affectedCountEvidence":"The sources refer to female students and several families without a reliable numeric count. Zero is an unknown-count placeholder and does not mean no one was harmed.","victimAgeRange":"minor","platformType":"other","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-16/police-investigate-sydney-school-image-deepfake/105896812","primarySourceLabel":"ABC News, 16 October 2025, police inquiry into Sydney school deepfake images","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-30T01:10:39.838754+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:58:17.276886+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":[]},{"id":"2026-gilmer-county-georgia-school-vending-vendor-ai-child-abuse-images-pepsi-lawsuit","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The student told authorities he had asked her to send him pictures through a social media app, a request she considered inappropriate.'; 'Investigators ultimately identified more than 150 underage victims from Georgia and other states, according to prosecutors.'; 'He then used the technology to manipulate the photos to make the children appear nude or, in some cases, engaged in sexual activity.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'then used AI applications to digitally alter the photos to make the subjects appear nude or engage in sexual activity, the district attorney’s office said.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'after authorities said they discovered a trove of child sex abuse material that he generated by running normal photographs of the victims through artificial intelligence programs.'; 'included sexual abuse content of more than 150 victims, many of whom were identified as students in Gilmer County, prosecutors said.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'the report prompted an extensive investigation that ultimately uncovered hundreds of images and videos depicting child sexual abuse, including digitally altered images involving minors from the local community.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"According to the prosecuting DeKalb County District Attorney's Office, the investigation began in December 2024 when a Gilmer High School student reported that a vendor who refilled drink machines on campus had asked her through a social media app to send him pictures; he downloaded photographs of minors from social media and used AI applications and bots to alter them so the children appeared nude or engaged in sexual activity; investigators identified more than 150 underage victims from Georgia and other states.","causal_attribution":"Prosecutors' account (one chain via CBS Atlanta, FOX 5 and Atlanta News First; the AJC attributes the same to authorities and prosecutors). The sheriff's separate statement supports digitally altered images of local minors but does not itself describe the AI tools."},{"id":"c2","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'118 counts of sexual exploitation of children.'; 'with 40 to serve in prison and the remainder on probation.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'has been sentenced to 60 years, with 40 years to be served in prison, following his conviction on 118 counts of Sexual Exploitation of Children.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'was convicted last month on 118 counts of sexual exploitation of children, court records show.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"The vendor was convicted on 118 counts of sexual exploitation of children and sentenced to 60 years, with 40 to be served in prison.","causal_attribution":"Conviction and sentence reported through the DA's statement (CBS Atlanta), the Gilmer County Sheriff's separate statement (FetchYourNews) and the AJC citing court records. The court record itself was not read."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'was found guilty Aug. 13 of 118 counts of sexual exploitation of children.'; 'The DeKalb County District Attorney's Office prosecuted the case after being appointed as conflict prosecutor in February 2025.'; 'Cobb County Senior Judge Grant Brantley presided over the case'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'was sentenced Sept. 2 following an investigation that began in December 2024'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'Nineteen victims gave impact statements at the sentencing hearing in Ellijay, according to the DeKalb County district attorney’s office'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"The verdict was rendered on 13 August 2026 by a Cobb County senior judge after the DeKalb County District Attorney's Office took the case as conflict prosecutor in February 2025; at the sentencing hearing on 2 September 2026 in Ellijay, 19 victims gave impact statements.","causal_attribution":"Procedural facts as reported by the DA's chain, the sheriff's statement and the AJC."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'At least eight female students were victimized by a vendor allowed access to Gilmer County schools even after students complained that he was taking photos and videos of them in school without their consent.'; 'The girls range from 12 to 17 years old.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"},{"locator":"'On Friday, the parents of eight victims filed a lawsuit against'; 'the Pepsi defendants conducted an investigation but later reinstated'; 'caused fear, mental suffering, shame, and humiliation and sustained damages'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"},{"locator":"'A civil lawsuit filed in Georgia accuses PepsiCo of negligence, saying the company failed to protect students from a vending machine vendor who photographed middle and high school girls and then used AI tools to alter the images into sexually explicit material.'; 'Pepsi has not yet filed a public response to the negligence claims.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s8"}],"assertion":"The parents of eight female students aged 12 to 17 sued the vendor, Pepsi Beverage Co. and Pepsi-Cola Sales and Distribution in a suit reported on 28 February 2025, alleging that after students complained he was photographing them at school the companies investigated but reinstated him to the same route including the school, and that his conduct caused the plaintiffs fear, mental suffering, shame and humiliation.","causal_attribution":"Allegations in the civil complaint as reported by the AJC and relayed by PetaPixel (one chain), and restated by USA Herald. The allegations are untested; the companies' response is not reported."}],"effects":[{"label":"ordinary photographs of more than 150 minors, many of them local students, were turned into child sexual abuse material with AI applications, according to prosecutors","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"eight student plaintiffs allege fear, mental suffering, shame and humiliation, and that the vendor was returned to their school route after students complained","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/former-georgia-school-vendor-sentenced-for-using-ai-to-make-child-sexual-abuse-material/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-27 (CBS Atlanta, 3 September 2026). Relays the DeKalb County DA's account.","independence_group":"dekalb-da-statement"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2026/09/02/gilmer-county-man-convicted-over-100-counts-sexual-exploitation/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-27 (Atlanta News First, 2 September 2026). Attributes each fact to the DA's office.","independence_group":"dekalb-da-statement"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/ex-school-vendor-faces-sentencing-ai-child-exploitation-case","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-27 (FOX 5 Atlanta, 31 August 2026, pre-sentencing). States that the information came from a DeKalb County DA press release.","independence_group":"dekalb-da-statement"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://gilmer.fetchyournews.com/2026/09/07/gilmer-county-man-sentenced-to-40-years-in-prison-after-conviction-on-118-child-exploitation-counts/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-27 (FetchYourNews Gilmer, 7 September 2026). Relays the Gilmer County Sheriff's Office statement, a separate official source from the DA.","independence_group":"gilmer-sheriff-statement"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/2026/09/georgia-man-sentenced-to-decades-in-prison-in-ai-child-sex-abuse-materials-case/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-27 (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, byline dated 2 September 2026; page metadata 3 September 2026). Only the deck and first three paragraphs rendered as readable text; the remainder is scrambled by the publisher's anti-scraping layer and was not used. Cites court records and the DA.","independence_group":"ajc"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/student-victims-of-vendor-accused-of-using-ai-to-turn-their-images-into-porn-file-lawsuit/D6UEXAAHRFE67OXBIQCW77IHPY/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-27 (AJC, 28 February 2025). Deck and first two paragraphs readable; the remainder scrambled by the publisher and not used. Reports the civil complaint.","independence_group":"civil-complaint-ajc"},{"id":"s7","url":"https://petapixel.com/2025/03/05/students-sue-pepsi-after-its-vendor-used-ai-to-turn-photos-into-child-porn/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-27 (PetaPixel, 5 March 2025). Relays the AJC's report of the complaint with direct complaint quotations; same chain as s6.","independence_group":"civil-complaint-ajc"},{"id":"s8","url":"https://usaherald.com/georgia-parents-sue-pepsi-after-vending-machine-worker-used-ai-to-make-child-abuse-images-of-their-children/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-27 (USA Herald, 26 September 2026). A legal-news write-up drawing on CBS Atlanta and other Georgia outlets; gives no court, filing date or case number for the suit.","independence_group":"usaherald"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["When the photographs were taken and altered; the known dated events are the student's report in December 2024 and the arrest in January 2025.","Which AI applications or bots were used.","How many of the more than 150 victims were depicted in AI-altered images rather than other material, and how many of the 118 counts concern AI-altered images.","The court, case number and current status of the civil suit, and whether USA Herald's 26 September 2026 article describes the February 2025 suit or a later filing.","Pepsi's response to the negligence allegations.","Which other states the victims live in."],"geography":{"basis":"The school, the report, the arrest and the sentencing are in Gilmer County, Georgia (FOX 5: sentencing scheduled 'at the Gilmer County Courthouse in Ellijay'; AJC: 'the sentencing hearing in Ellijay'); prosecutors say victims were 'from Georgia and other states' (the other states are not named); the civil suit is described as filed in Georgia (USA Herald).","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a core case (AI-generated sexual depictions of real children): the prosecuting DA's account, the AJC and the sheriff's statement describe AI-altered child sexual abuse material made from students' photographs, and the conviction and sentence are reported by separate official chains. The civil allegations against the Pepsi entities are reported as untested allegations. Children and the convicted vendor are not named.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-27"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The prosecuting DeKalb County District Attorney's Office says the vendor uploaded photographs of minors to online applications and bots and used AI applications to alter them into sexually explicit images (via FOX 5 Atlanta and Atlanta News First); the AJC and CBS Atlanta report the same, and the Gilmer County sheriff's separate statement refers to digitally altered or AI-generated material. He was convicted on 118 counts; the bodies do not say how many counts concerned AI-altered images, and the tools are not named.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Gilmer County, Georgia: a vendor who restocked drink machines in local schools used AI applications to turn ordinary photographs of students into child sexual abuse material; prosecutors identified more than 150 underage victims, he was convicted on 118 counts and sentenced on 2 September 2026 to 40 years in prison, and parents of eight students sued Pepsi entities for keeping him on the school route","summary":"According to the DeKalb County District Attorney's Office, which prosecuted the case as conflict prosecutor, the investigation began in December 2024 when a Gilmer High School student told a school resource officer that a vendor who refilled drink machines on campus had asked her through a social media app to send him pictures. The Gilmer County Sheriff's Office arrested him in January 2025 and searched his devices, car and home. Prosecutors say he downloaded photographs of minors from social media and used AI applications and bots to alter them so the children appeared nude or engaged in sexual activity, and that the material related to more than 150 underage victims in Georgia and other states, many of them Gilmer County students. A Cobb County senior judge found him guilty on 13 August 2026 of 118 counts of sexual exploitation of children and on 2 September 2026, after 19 victim impact statements, sentenced him to 60 years with 40 to serve in prison. Separately, the parents of eight female students aged 12 to 17 sued him, Pepsi Beverage Co. and Pepsi-Cola Sales and Distribution in a suit reported on 28 February 2025, alleging the companies reinstated him to the same school route after students complained that he was photographing them; USA Herald reported the negligence suit again on 26 September 2026 and said Pepsi had not yet responded publicly. The AI tools are not named and the court and status of the civil suit are not reported.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2025-02-28","aiSystem":"Unnamed AI applications and online bots used to alter photographs of minors taken from social media (DeKalb County District Attorney's Office via FOX 5 Atlanta and Atlanta News First); the tools are not identified","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Prosecutors say photographs of more than 150 minors were turned into child sexual abuse material with AI applications (DeKalb County DA via FOX 5, Atlanta News First and CBS Atlanta; AJC); the civil complaint, as reported by the AJC and PetaPixel, alleges the conduct caused eight student plaintiffs fear, mental suffering, shame and humiliation.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":150,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"Prosecutors say investigators identified 'more than 150 underage victims' (FOX 5 Atlanta, from the DA press release; AJC: 'more than 150 victims'). The explicit lower bound supports a minimum of 150. The eight civil plaintiffs are among the students; how many of the 150 were depicted in AI-altered rather than other images is not reported.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"US-GA","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/former-georgia-school-vendor-sentenced-for-using-ai-to-make-child-sexual-abuse-material/","primarySourceLabel":"CBS Atlanta, 3 September 2026: Former Georgia school vendor sentenced for using AI to make child sexual abuse material","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-27T03:39:37.494001+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:37.519889+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfakes","csam","minors","school","vendor","georgia","gilmer-county","criminal-conviction","lawsuit","depicted-or-impersonated"]}]}