{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-09-30T04:46:59.540Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"revenge","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":2,"coverage":{"cases":2,"countries":2,"languages":2,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":1,"coreRelations":1,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":1,"relationPending":1,"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-indore-agnihotri-ai-ncii","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The woman had filed a complaint at Banganga 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 Banganga 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":"In July 2025 a woman complained at Banganga police station, Indore, that an unknown person was mailing letters with abusive content and morphed nude photographs of her and her sister to her, her relatives and neighbours and pasting posters near their home, causing mental harassment; an FIR was registered against an unknown accused.","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 918/2025 and case was registered at Banganga 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":"At the end of January 2026 the Indore crime branch arrested an engineer working as a data analyst, who told police he had sought revenge after his marriage proposal to the complainant's sister, made through a matrimonial website, fell through over a horoscope mismatch; he posted the material about seven times between July 2025 and January 2026 from post offices in Ujjain, Dewas, Khategaon, Ashta and Dhar, disguised and changing buses; the case was registered under the BNS, the IT Act and the SC/ST Act and 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 Banganga 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":"Indore: an engineer was arrested at the end of January 2026 for a seven-month campaign of posting morphed obscene images of a woman and her sister, with threatening letters, to their relatives and neighbours and pasting posters near their home after the family rejected his marriage proposal; one Hindi report attributes the morphing to AI, citing a police forensic finding (Times of India, Free Press Journal, Patrika, NewsTak, 30-31 January 2026)","summary":"Indore police said at the end of January 2026 that the crime branch had arrested an engineer working as a data analyst after a woman complained at Banganga police station in July 2025 that an unknown person was mailing letters with abusive content and morphed nude photographs of her and her sister to her, her relatives and neighbours, and pasting posters near their house, causing mental harassment and social embarrassment. Police said the accused had approached the complainant's sister through a matrimonial website, that the proposal fell through over a horoscope mismatch, and that he then sought revenge by sending the material about seven times between July 2025 and January 2026 from post offices in Ujjain, Dewas, Khategaon, Ashta and Dhar, wearing a mask and cap and changing buses to avoid being traced; NewsTak adds that he also threatened the family with an acid attack and that a laptop and printer were seized. The case was registered under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the IT Act and the SC/ST Act and he was remanded. Patrika reports that the obscene images were created with AI and that police said digital forensics found AI-generated images; the English reports describe them as morphed without naming the technology, so the AI attribution rests on one outlet.","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, 31 January 2026: Man arrested for posting morphed photos after marriage proposal rejected","firstPublishedAt":"2026-06-15T09:09:12.465142+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:40.374102+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","morphing","non-consensual-imagery","harassment","revenge","india","indore","madhya-pradesh","arrest","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2025-israel-tira-chatgpt-knife-attack","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Carried forward from the 2026-09-15 metadata review and now supported by inspected bodies. JFeed (21 May 2025) and The Jerusalem Post (22 May 2025) both place the attempted stabbing at the police station in Tira, Israel, describe the accused as a 16-year-old from Tira and the intended target as a Border Police officer at that station, and report the indictment in the Lod District Juvenile Court, so event, affected-person and court countries are IL. This is a metadata review and does not verify the account of AI involvement.","evidence":[{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"from Tira, Israel","location":"summary","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["IL"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'Approximately two months ago, he armed himself with a 10-centimeter knife and walked to the Tira police station.'","location":"https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/chatgpt-teen-terror-plot","supports":["event_countries"],"countries":["IL"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'filed an indictment in the Lod District Juvenile Court against a 16-year-old from Tira'","location":"https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/chatgpt-teen-terror-plot","supports":["court_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["IL"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'The teenager, from Tira, allegedly entered the police station with a 10cm blade on the night of March 5, 2025'","location":"https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/crime-in-israel/article-854966","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["IL"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'An indictment was filed at the Juvenile District Court in Lod, against a 16-year-old who broke into a police station'","location":"https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/crime-in-israel/article-854966","supports":["court_countries"],"countries":["IL"]}],"court_countries":["IL"],"event_countries":["IL"],"affected_person_countries":["IL"]},"unresolved":["Event date: the retained row records 2025-03-21 (day precision), but The Jerusalem Post gives the night of 5 March 2025 and JFeed says 'approximately two months' before 21 May 2025. The retained date is not supported by either inspected body; a date correction is a separate review task.","Charge wording: JFeed says the minor is charged with attempting serious bodily harm under aggravated circumstances classified as an act of terrorism; The Jerusalem Post's body says he 'has not been charged' with that offence as an act of terrorism, which reads as an editing error but is not reconciled here.","Both inspected reports rely on the State Prosecution's indictment (JFeed via Ynet); the indictment itself was not inspected.","The affected-person country records the accused's home town and the officer's duty station; no separate residence information for the officer is given.","The retained additional_sources date for The Jerusalem Post (2025-05-21) differs from the page's publication time (22 May 2025, 00:38 UTC); a date correction is a separate review task."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-25","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/chatgpt-teen-terror-plot","notes":"Read live on 2026-09-25 (JFeed, 21 May 2025; html lang=en). Reports the indictment in the Lod District Juvenile Court 'as reported by Ynet', the accused's use of ChatGPT to research methods, the walk to the Tira police station about two months earlier and the attempted stabbing of a Border Police officer. Ynet itself was not inspected.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/crime-in-israel/article-854966","notes":"Read live on 2026-09-25 (The Jerusalem Post, 22 May 2025; html lang=en). Places the entry into the police station on the night of 5 March 2025, names the Juvenile District Court in Lod, and says the teenager discussed options and methods with ChatGPT before the attack.","access":"read","language":"en"}]},"name":"Israeli Border Police ChatGPT-Assisted Knife Attack Attempt","summary":"A 16-year-old from Tira, Israel, used ChatGPT to explore ways to execute a terrorist attack and seek operational planning advice. Motivated as revenge for Operation Iron Swords, he armed himself with a knife, stormed the Tira police station, shouted 'Allahu Akbar,' and attempted to stab a Border Police officer. The attack was thwarted and he was apprehended.","incidentDate":"2025-03-21","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2025-05-21","aiSystem":"ChatGPT","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":["third_party_harm_facilitation","delusion_reinforcement","minor_exploitation"],"harmOutcomes":["harm_to_others","legal_harm","loss_of_liberty"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A 16-year-old participant attempted to stab a police officer after using ChatGPT to explore attack methods and operational planning. He was apprehended and prosecuted.","frameworkFacets":["P1d","P5d"],"pathwayDirection":"outward","causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The criminal case documents one arrested minor AI participant. The attack was thwarted without a documented injury to the intended target.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"IL","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/chatgpt-teen-terror-plot","primarySourceLabel":"JFeed: ChatGPT Teen Terror Plot","firstPublishedAt":"2026-01-22T07:15:22.852777+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:06.833272+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["chatgpt","terrorism","knife-attack","minor","israel","lone-wolf","radicalization","violence","operation-iron-swords"]}]}