{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-04T07:56:38.549Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"settlement","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":5,"coverage":{"cases":5,"countries":3,"languages":4,"unknownLocation":1,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":1,"lawsuits":2,"regulatory":1,"minors":3,"coreRelations":5,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-hachioji-high-school-extortion-chatgpt-settlement-figure","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"「5人の逮捕容疑は共謀して1月27日午後11時20分～28日午前1時ごろ、八王子市…の広場で、…男子生徒（17）に暴行を加えて鼻の骨を折るなどのけがを負わせた上」","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"「警視庁によりますと、高校生の少女や少年ら5人はことし1月、東京・八王子市で元交際相手の男子高校生に「妹の体に触ったでしょ」などと言って、暴行を加えケガをさせ、現金を脅し取ろうとした疑いがもたれています。」","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"「過去に男子生徒と交際していた女が「ツーリングに行こう」などと呼び出し、「妹の脚を触ったでしょ」などと因縁をつけたのが発端とみられる。」","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Police allege that late on 27 January 2026, after a suspect who had previously dated a 17-year-old high-school boy invited him out on a motorcycle ride and accused him of touching her younger sister, five high-school students assaulted him in a public square in Hachioji and broke his nose.","causal_attribution":"Police allegation relayed by the press; not attributed to the AI."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"「現場には当時約10人がおり、1人が対話型生成AI「ChatGPT」に「児童に対する性被害」などと入力したところ、示談金として最低15万円という金額が表示されたことから、脅し取ろうとしたとみられる。」","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"「犯行時、少女の仲間の1人がチャットGPTに「児童に対する性被害」と相談すると、「示談金として最低15万円」と回答があり、現金を要求したとみられています。」","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"「この“15万円”という金額は女子高校生の仲間が生成AIの『チャットGPT』に相談して決めたとのこと。“児童に対する性被害”について相談したところ、“示談金は最低15万円”と回答があったそうです。」","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"During the incident a member of the group entered terms such as 'sexual harm to a child' into ChatGPT, which displayed a minimum settlement of 150,000 yen, and police believe this is why the group told the boy to produce 150,000 yen.","causal_attribution":"Police belief (とみられる) relayed by the press. The prompt and full reply are not published."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"「「15万円、親とか友達に借りてでも用意しろ」などと言って現金を脅し取ろうとしたとしている」; 「傷害と恐喝未遂の疑いで」","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The group told the boy to produce 150,000 yen, borrowing from his parents or friends if necessary; the charge is attempted extortion and no payment is reported.","causal_attribution":"Police allegation relayed by the press."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"「警視庁少年事件課は傷害と恐喝未遂の疑いで、東京都八王子市の高校3年生の女（17）ら高校生の男女計5人を逮捕した」","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"「すでに加害者となった5人は逮捕されていますが、女子生徒ら4人は容疑を認めている中、少年1人は一部否認している状況です」","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Five high-school students were arrested by the Metropolitan Police Department's juvenile crimes division; four admit the allegations and one partly denies them.","causal_attribution":"Police arrest announcement; the admission detail comes from a reporter quoted by Shukan Josei PRIME."}],"effects":[{"label":"the boy was told to produce 150,000 yen, an amount police believe was taken from a ChatGPT answer about minimum settlements obtained during the incident","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"the boy was assaulted and his nose was broken (not attributed to the AI)","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/article/2606/10/1260610086/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ja","translation_note":"Sankei Shimbun article republished by ITmedia NEWS, full body read in Japanese by curl on 2026-09-29; quotations here are the reviewer's English translations. Relays the Metropolitan Police Department juvenile crimes division's account.","independence_group":"tokyo-mpd-announcement"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://news.ntv.co.jp/category/society/f4b412aed650460c9cd4e3720590a043","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ja","translation_note":"NTV (Nippon TV) news LOG text summary of a 13 June 2026 broadcast, read in Japanese by curl on 2026-09-29; the video was not viewed. Attributes the facts to the Metropolitan Police Department.","independence_group":"tokyo-mpd-announcement"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.jprime.jp/articles/-/42114?display=b","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ja","translation_note":"Shukan Josei PRIME, 11 June 2026, read in Japanese by curl on 2026-09-29. Relies on an unnamed national-newspaper crime reporter whose account tracks the police announcement; grouped with it.","independence_group":"tokyo-mpd-announcement"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["everyday_life","justice"],"unknowns":["The exact prompt entered and the full text of ChatGPT's reply.","Whether any money was paid (the charge is attempted extortion).","The outcome of the juvenile proceedings."],"geography":{"basis":"Sankei places the offence in a public square in Hachioji, Tokyo, and describes the victim as a high-school student; the arrests were made by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["JP"],"affected_person_countries":["JP"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a police-reported case in which a chatbot answer obtained during an assault supplied the amount of an extortion demand against a 17-year-old. All read reports relay the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's account and count as one source chain; the allegations are untested. No suspect or victim is named, and the suspects' relationships are described only as far as needed to explain the event.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Metropolitan Police Department's account, relayed by Sankei Shimbun and NTV, says a member of the group entered terms such as 'sexual harm to a child' into ChatGPT, which displayed a minimum settlement of 150,000 yen, and that police believe this is why that amount was demanded. The chatbot communicated with a member of the suspect group, not with the boy; the relation is recorded as in the published Zurich planning case. The prompt and full reply are not published.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Hachioji, Tokyo: police say five high-school students assaulted a 17-year-old boy and demanded 150,000 yen, a figure they believe one of the group got from ChatGPT by asking about settlements for 'sexual harm to a child'","summary":"Sankei Shimbun reported on 10 June 2026, and NTV on 13-14 June, that the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's juvenile crimes division had arrested five high-school students on suspicion of injury and attempted extortion. According to the police account, late on 27 January 2026 a suspect who had previously dated a 17-year-old high-school boy invited him to a public square in Hachioji, where the group accused him of having touched her younger sister, assaulted him and broke his nose, and then told him to raise 150,000 yen, borrowing from his parents or friends if necessary. About ten people were present. Police believe the amount came from ChatGPT: one of them entered terms such as 'sexual harm to a child', and the chatbot displayed a minimum settlement of 150,000 yen. No payment is reported. Shukan Josei PRIME reports that four of the five admit the allegations and one partly denies them. The allegations are untested.","incidentDate":"2026-01-27","incidentEndDate":"2026-01-28","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-06-10","aiSystem":"ChatGPT (OpenAI), queried on a phone by a member of the group during the incident, per the police account","aiProduct":"ChatGPT (reported)","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["physical_injury","exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A 17-year-old boy was assaulted, suffering a broken nose, and was told to produce 150,000 yen; police believe the amount of the extortion demand was taken from a ChatGPT answer about minimum settlements obtained during the incident (Metropolitan Police Department, via Sankei Shimbun and NTV). The assault itself is not attributed to the AI.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The police account names one victim: a 17-year-old high-school boy who was injured and from whom 150,000 yen was demanded (Sankei, NTV). The ChatGPT user was a member of the suspect group; the five arrested suspects and the roughly ten people present are not counted as harmed. Exact count of one.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"JP-13","platformType":"chatbot","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/article/2606/10/1260610086/","primarySourceLabel":"Sankei Shimbun via ITmedia NEWS, 10 June 2026: 「妹の脚を触った」因縁つけ仲間に暴行、AI基に恐喝未遂 容疑の高校生5人逮捕","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T09:08:54.144434+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:39.125062+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["chatgpt","openai","extortion","assault","minors","japan","tokyo","police-account","communicated-with"]},{"id":"2026-yoona-ai-pregnancy-composite-images-sm-criminal-complaint","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'앞서 온라인 커뮤니티와 SNS 등에는 윤아의 얼굴을 무단으로 합성한 사진이 급속도로 퍼졌다.'; '해당 게시물에는 윤아가 배가 부른 모습으로 등장하며, 얼굴은 모자이크 처리된 한 남성이 윤아의 배 위에 손을 얹는 모습이 연출돼 논란이 일었다.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'최근 윤아의 초상을 무단으로 합성한 불법 AI 생성 이미지와 이를 바탕으로 한 허위사실이 무분별하게 제작·유포되고 있는 상황을 추가적으로 확인했다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'특히 해당 이미지 게시자가 윤아의 실제 SNS 계정을 태그해 사진을 게재하기도 했다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"AI-generated images synthesising the face of YoonA (Im Yoon-ah) of Girls' Generation, showing her apparently pregnant with a man touching her belly, spread on social media and online communities together with false claims based on them.","causal_attribution":"The images are described by her agency as illegal AI-generated composites; their creators are not identified."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'이를 바탕으로 이미 형사고소를 진행하였고, 어떠한 선처나 합의 없이 강경하게 대응할 예정입니다.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'이를 바탕으로 이미 형사고소를 진행했고, 어떠한 선처나 합의 없이 강경하게 대응할 예정'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Her agency SM Entertainment said on 28 September 2026 that it had already filed a criminal complaint on the basis of evidence gathered from fan reports and monitoring, and would respond without leniency or settlement.","causal_attribution":"Agency statement; no police action or suspect is reported."}],"effects":[{"label":"fabricated AI images depicting her as pregnant spread online with false claims about her","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.starnewskorea.com/star/2026/09/28/2026092819154494314","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Read live in Korean on 2026-09-29 (Star News, 28 September 2026); reproduces the full SM Entertainment statement. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"sm-entertainment-statement"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.segye.com/newsView/20260928517569","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Read live in Korean on 2026-09-29 (Segye Ilbo, 28 September 2026); relays the same statement. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"sm-entertainment-statement"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.spotvnews.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=1010237","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Read live in Korean on 2026-09-29 (29 September 2026); relays the statement and adds career background. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"sm-entertainment-statement"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["When the images first appeared and on which platforms.","Who made them and with what tool.","The police agency handling the complaint and any investigation outcome."],"geography":{"basis":"YoonA is a Korean singer and actor with a Korean drama and film career (SPOTV News) represented by SM Entertainment, whose statement cites Korean statutes (Star News). Where the images were made or first posted is not stated, and the authority receiving the complaint is not named, so no event or court country is recorded.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":["KR"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a core case (AI-generated images depicting a real, named public figure in a fabricated pregnancy, circulated with false claims). The account rests on her agency's statement, relayed by several Korean outlets; YoonA is a public figure and the subject of the statement. The images are not reproduced or described beyond the agency's description.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"SM Entertainment's statement describes the images as illegal AI-generated images synthesising her likeness (Star News; Segye Ilbo). No tool is named and no forensic analysis is reported.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"South Korea: AI-generated images depicting Girls' Generation's YoonA as pregnant spread online with false claims; her agency SM Entertainment says it has already filed a criminal complaint","summary":"SM Entertainment said on 28 September 2026 that illegal AI-generated images synthesising the likeness of YoonA (Im Yoon-ah), singer and actor of Girls' Generation, and false claims built on them had been made and spread on social media and online communities. Korean outlets describe images showing her apparently pregnant with a man placing a hand on her belly (his face blurred, per Star News). The agency said it had collected evidence from fan reports to its KWANGYA 119 channel and monitoring, had already filed a criminal complaint, and would respond without leniency or settlement, warning that making, posting or re-sharing the images could breach Korean defamation, portrait-rights and sexual-crime (false video) provisions.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-28","aiSystem":"Unnamed generative-AI image tool used to synthesise her likeness (per SM Entertainment's statement)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Fabricated AI images of YoonA as pregnant, with false claims about her, circulated online; her agency filed a criminal complaint (SM Entertainment via Star News and Segye Ilbo).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One depicted person, YoonA (SM Entertainment via Star News). The unidentified man in the image is not counted. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"KR","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.starnewskorea.com/star/2026/09/28/2026092819154494314","primarySourceLabel":"Star News, 28 September 2026: 소녀시대 윤아, 악의적 임신 AI 합성 피해..SM \"이미 형사고소\"[전문]","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T03:22:06.71184+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:59.374935+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfakes","ai-generated-images","k-pop","girls-generation","sm-entertainment","south-korea","criminal-complaint","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2026-solo-semarang-ex-boyfriend-ai-deepfake-porn","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Pelaku ini mengedit wajahnya dari korban yang kemudian itu dipasangkan dengan badan seseorang dengan menggunakan AI yang wajahnya asli korban' (the perpetrator edited the victim's face and attached it to someone's body using AI, the face being the victim's real face); 'Konten hasil rekayasa kemudian diunggah pelaku melalui platform X. Polisi memastikan materi itu tidak diperjualbelikan' (the fabricated content was then uploaded by the perpetrator on X; police confirmed it was not sold).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Wajah korban ditempelkan pada tubuh perempuan lain dalam kondisi tanpa busana sehingga seolah-olah korban tampil dalam konten pornografi' (the victim's face was attached to another woman's unclothed body so that the victim appeared in pornographic content).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Yang diedit itu wajah korban. Kemudian dipasang pada tubuh orang lain sehingga seolah-olah itu korban, fotonya telanjang bulat, ditemukan di Instagram dan Telegram' (what was edited was the victim's face, then placed on someone else's body so it looked like the victim, fully naked, found on Instagram and Telegram); 'terdapat pula video berbau pornografi dengan wajah korban yang diduga merupakan hasil editan AI' (there was also a pornographic video with the victim's face believed to be an AI edit).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The complainant's face was composited with AI onto another woman's naked body in images and a pornographic video; the suspect uploaded the content to his X account and did not sell it, and the complainant's lawyer said the material was found on Instagram and Telegram.","causal_attribution":"Police statement of 6 August 2026 (based on the investigation and the suspect's admission) and the complainant's lawyer (based on the material found); the two accounts differ on where the material was found. Recorded as reported (not corroborated) because the pornographic video (lawyer chain only) and the X upload / no-sale detail (police chain only) rest on single chains; the 28 January complaint and the 4 August detention are carried by both chains."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Korban mengetahui hal tersebut pada 1 Januari 2026. Pihak korban pun telah melapor ke Polda Jateng dengan nomor aduan STPA/182/I/2026/Ditressiber' (the victim learned of it on 1 January 2026; the victim's side reported to the Central Java police under complaint number STPA/182/I/2026/Ditressiber).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'Perkara ini bermula ketika seorang perempuan mendatangi Polda Jawa Tengah pada 28 Januari 2026' (the case began when a woman came to the Central Java regional police on 28 January 2026); 'Polda Jawa Tengah menerbitkan laporan polisi pada 31 Juli 2026' (the regional police issued the police report on 31 July 2026); 'ditangkap di tempat kosnya di kawasan Gunungpati, Semarang. Penyidik Polda Jawa Tengah kemudian menahannya di Rutan Polda Jawa Tengah sejak Selasa (4/8/2026)' (arrested at his boarding house in the Gunungpati area of Semarang; investigators then detained him at the regional police detention centre from Tuesday 4 August 2026).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'dijerat dengan Pasal 51 juncto Pasal 35 Undang-Undang Nomor 11 Tahun 2008 tentang Informasi dan Transaksi Elektronik (ITE) serta Pasal 407 Undang-Undang Nomor 1 Tahun 2026' (charged under Article 51 in conjunction with Article 35 of Law 11 of 2008 on Electronic Information and Transactions and Article 407 of Law No. 1 of 2026); 'ancaman hukuman maksimal adalah 12 tahun penjara dan denda paling banyak Rp12 miliar' (the maximum penalty is 12 years' imprisonment and a fine of up to Rp12 billion).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'korban telah melaporkan kasus tersebut ke Polda Jawa Tengah sejak 28 Januari 2026' (the victim reported the case to the Central Java regional police on 28 January 2026); 'penyidik akhirnya menetapkan tersangka dan melakukan penahanan terhadap pelaku pada 4 Agustus 2026' (investigators finally named the suspect and detained him on 4 August 2026).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"The complainant learned of the material on 1 January 2026; she and her family reported to the Central Java regional police cyber directorate on 28 January 2026; police issued a formal report on 31 July, arrested the suspect at a boarding house in Gunungpati, Semarang, and detained him on 4 August 2026; he is charged under Articles 51 and 35 of the Electronic Information and Transactions Law and an article printed as Article 407 of 'Law No. 1 of 2026', with a maximum of 12 years' imprisonment and a fine of up to Rp12 billion.","causal_attribution":"Dates from the police statement and the complainant's lawyer agree on the 28 January complaint and 4 August detention; the discovery date comes from the lawyer alone. Recorded as reported (not corroborated) because the 1 January discovery date (lawyer only), the 31 July formal report (police only) and the statute text rest on single chains; the 28 January complaint and the 4 August detention are carried by both chains."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'pelaku nekat membuat konten deepfake AI porno diduga karena sakit hati setelah hubungan asmara antara dirinya dan korban berakhir secara putus-nyambung' (the perpetrator made the pornographic AI deepfake content allegedly out of hurt after his on-and-off romantic relationship with the victim ended).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'sempat memergoki ... sedang melakukan panggilan telepon video dengan perempuan lain. Hal itu memicu kemarahan' (she had caught him on a video call with another woman, which triggered her anger).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"Police said the suspect admitted acting out of resentment after an on-and-off relationship with the complainant ended; her lawyer said she ended the relationship after finding him on a video call with another woman.","causal_attribution":"Motive as stated by the police spokesman from the suspect's admission and by the complainant's lawyer."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Iya sempat psikologisnya terkena, susah tidur, murung, malu. Dia tahu gambar-gambar itu kan dari teman-teman ceweknya. Malu dan drop' (yes, she was affected psychologically, could not sleep, was withdrawn, ashamed; she learned of the images from her female friends; ashamed and down); 'sempat stres, sempat murung dan sudah tidak ada harapan lagi waktu itu' (she was stressed, withdrawn and had no hope at that time); 'Kuasa hukum korban meminta Dinas Pemberdayaan Perempuan dan Perlindungan Anak memberikan pendampingan psikologis secara intensif' (the victim's lawyer asked the women's empowerment and child protection office to provide intensive psychological support).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'Stresnya setengah mati, enggak bisa tidur. Nangis dia, murung sekali' (she was extremely stressed, could not sleep, cried, was very withdrawn).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"According to her lawyer, the complainant had trouble sleeping, was withdrawn and ashamed, cried, at one point had no hope, and has since recovered some spirit; he asked the local women's and children's protection office for intensive psychological support.","causal_attribution":"Interested-party account: the complainant's lawyer in two interviews on 7 August 2026; no clinical source."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'penelusuran tim kuasa hukum menemukan total tujuh orang yang diduga menjadi korban manipulasi konten pornografi berbasis AI oleh tersangka. Namun, enam korban lainnya belum membuat laporan resmi' (the legal team's tracing found seven people in total allegedly victims of AI pornographic manipulation by the suspect, but the other six had not filed formal reports); 'Keluarga pelaku itu minta supaya berdamai' (the perpetrator's family asked for a settlement).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'Sementara ini korban yang terkonfirmasi baru satu orang, yaitu pelapor' (for now only one victim is confirmed, the complainant).","relation":"context","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The lawyer said his team had found seven women in total allegedly targeted by the suspect, six of whom had not filed reports, and that the suspect's parents apologised and asked for an out-of-court settlement so he could continue his studies; police said only one complainant was confirmed.","causal_attribution":"The seven-woman figure and the settlement approach are the lawyer's account; police confirmed one complainant."}],"effects":[{"label":"her face was composited with AI onto pornographic images and a video that were posted on X and found on Instagram and Telegram","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"sleeplessness, withdrawal, shame and loss of hope reported by her lawyer during the nearly seven-month investigation","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://regional.kompas.com/read/2026/08/07/133400678/motif-mahasiswa-semarang-bikin-deepfake-ai-wajah-mantan-terancam-12-tahun","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Read in Indonesian on 2026-09-19 (Kompas.com regional, published 2026-08-07 13:34 +07:00). Central Java police spokesman's written statement received on 6 August 2026. Model reading of the original; English glosses are the reviewer's.","independence_group":"polda-jateng-statement-2026-08-06"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://kumparan.com/kumparannews/mahasiswa-di-semarang-edit-foto-mantan-pacar-jadi-konten-porno-berakhir-dibui-27vvfyraEgL","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Read in Indonesian on 2026-09-19 (kumparan, published 2026-08-06 09:14 UTC). Same police spokesman at the 6 August briefing; adds the statutes and the one-complainant confirmation.","independence_group":"polda-jateng-statement-2026-08-06"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://news.detik.com/berita/d-8593323/mahasiswi-di-solo-jadi-objek-deepfake-ai-porno-korban-lapor-polisi","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Read in Indonesian on 2026-09-19 (detikcom citing detikJateng, published 2026-07-28 10:29 +07:00; the lawyer's remarks are dated Monday 27 July 2026). Complainant's lawyer; police spokesman said he was checking. Predates the arrest.","independence_group":"complainant-lawyer"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://indonesiaonline.co.id/deepfake-porno-di-solo-trauma-korban-dan-lambannya-proses-hukum/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Read in Indonesian on 2026-09-19 (indonesiaonline.co.id, published 2026-08-08 10:32 +07:00). Feature built on a phone interview with the complainant's lawyer on 7 August 2026.","independence_group":"complainant-lawyer"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://rejogja.republika.co.id/berita/tjglkl282/dendam-diputusin-mahasiswa-semarang-edit-wajah-mantan-pacar-pakai-ai-jadi-konten-porno","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Read in Indonesian on 2026-09-19 (Republika Jogja, published 2026-08-08 23:24 +07:00). Interview with the complainant's lawyer on 7 August 2026 on the relationship history and her reaction.","independence_group":"complainant-lawyer"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://indoraya.news/keluarga-korban-desak-hukuman-maksimal-untuk-pelaku-deepfake-porno-mahasiswi-uns","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Read in Indonesian on 2026-09-19 (Indoraya News, published 2026-08-06 22:28 +07:00). Complainant's lawyer at the regional police lobby on 6 August 2026; restates the statutes.","independence_group":"complainant-lawyer"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["relationships","privacy","justice","education"],"unknowns":["Whether the six other women named by the lawyer exist as complainants; police had confirmed one complainant as of 6 August 2026.","The statute printed by kumparan and Indoraya as 'Undang-Undang Nomor 1 Tahun 2026' is recorded as printed; it may be a misprint for the 2023 Criminal Code (Law No. 1 of 2023), whose Article 407 concerns pornography. Not verified.","The identity of the woman whose body appears in the composites is unknown to police.","No indictment, court filing or trial date had been reported by 2026-09-19.","The AI tool used is not identified.","When the content was created and uploaded is not reported; 1 January 2026 is the date the complainant learned of it from friends."],"geography":{"basis":"The complainant studies in Solo and the suspect was arrested in Semarang, both in Central Java, Indonesia; the case is held by the Central Java regional police. No court proceeding has begun, so court_countries is empty.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["ID"],"affected_person_countries":["ID"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a harmful-artifact case with a criminal investigation: AI-composited pornographic images and video of a named-by-initial student, posted online by an ex-partner who was detained after seven months. Six Indonesian items read from two account chains (police statement and the complainant's lawyer). The complainant and suspect appear only by initials in the sources and are not identified here; the lawyer is not named; one cited URL identifies the complainant's university.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-19"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Central Java police spokesman said the suspect edited the complainant's face onto another person's body using AI ('menggunakan AI'); her lawyer described the material as AI manipulation. No forensic report was inspected and the tool is not named.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Solo and Semarang, Indonesia: a university student's face was composited with AI onto pornographic images and a video by her ex-boyfriend and posted online; the suspect was detained after a nearly seven-month investigation","summary":"A female student at a state university in Solo (Surakarta), Central Java, learned on 1 January 2026 from friends that her face had been composited onto pornographic images and a video, which her lawyer said were found on Instagram and Telegram. Her family reported the case to the Central Java regional police cyber directorate on 28 January 2026. Police issued a formal police report on 31 July, arrested her ex-boyfriend, a university student in Semarang, at his boarding house in Gunungpati on 4 August 2026, and detained him. The police spokesman said the suspect used AI to place the complainant's face on another woman's naked body so that she appeared in pornographic content, uploaded it to his X account, did not sell it, and acted out of resentment after an on-and-off relationship ended. He faces charges under Articles 51 and 35 of the Electronic Information and Transactions Law and an article printed by two outlets as 'Law No. 1 of 2026', with a maximum of 12 years' imprisonment. Her lawyer said she could not sleep, withdrew, felt shame and at one point lost hope, that his team had found seven women in total allegedly targeted of whom six had not reported, and that the suspect's parents asked for an out-of-court settlement; police said only one complainant was confirmed.","incidentDate":"2026-01-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-07-28","aiSystem":"AI face-composite tool used to place the complainant's face on pornographic images and a video (tool not identified); content posted on X and found on Instagram and Telegram","aiProduct":"Unidentified image and video tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress","reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"AI-composited pornographic images and a video of the complainant were posted online; her lawyer reported sleeplessness, withdrawal, shame and loss of hope during the seven months before a suspect was named.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"One complainant confirmed by police ('korban yang terkonfirmasi baru satu orang, yaitu pelapor'). Her lawyer says his team found seven women in total, six of whom have not reported; that figure is an interested party's count and is not added.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"ID","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://regional.kompas.com/read/2026/08/07/133400678/motif-mahasiswa-semarang-bikin-deepfake-ai-wajah-mantan-terancam-12-tahun","primarySourceLabel":"Kompas.com, 7 August 2026: Motif Mahasiswa Semarang Bikin Deepfake AI Wajah Mantan, Terancam 12 Tahun Penjara (Central Java police statement)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-20T03:19:38.26217+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:53.636775+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","ncii","ex-partner","university","indonesia","central-java","criminal-investigation","depicted-or-impersonated","image-based-abuse"]},{"id":"2024-texas-minors-characterai","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"docket: Date Filed Dec. 9, 2024; caption A.F., ON BEHALF OF J.F., A.R., ON BEHALF OF B.R. v. CHARACTER TECHNOLOGIES, INC., NOAM SHAZEER, DANIEL DE FREITAS ADIWARSANA, GOOGLE LLC, ALPHABET INC.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"SEATTLE, Dec. 10, 2024 – A lawsuit filed Monday in federal court ... The case, A.F. and A.R. v. Character Technologies Inc., et al, was filed Monday in the United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"On December 9, 2024, A.F. (on behalf of J.F.) and A.R. (on behalf of B.R.) sued Character Technologies, Noam Shazeer, Daniel De Freitas Adiwarsana, Google LLC and Alphabet Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, No. 2:24-cv-01014-JRG-RSP, represented by the Social Media Victims Law Center and Tech Justice Law Project.","causal_attribution":"Directly established by the docket and complaint; counsel confirmed by the firms' own release."},{"id":"c2","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"complaint: \"Prior to April 2023, J.F. was a typical kid with high functioning autism\" / \"J.F. downloaded and started using C.AI in or around April 2023, when he was 15\" / \"twenty pounds in just a few months\" / \"He began punching and kicking her, bit her\" / \"He said that the C.AI product had told him how to self-harm.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"they began to notice their son ... was starting to isolate himself ... he lost 20 pounds ... he shoved her violently when she threatened to take away his phone (ABC's milder rendering of the phone incident)","relation":"context","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The complaint alleges J.F., an autistic teen from Upshur County, downloaded Character.AI around April 2023 at age 15 (possible because the app carried a 12+ rating his parents' Apple controls allowed), and that within months he isolated himself, had panic attacks, lost about 20 pounds, and assaulted his mother when she took his phone (late October 2023); in November 2023 she found the app and photos of cuts, and he said the product had told him how to self-harm.","causal_attribution":"Documented as the complaint's content (with the family's ABC account as context); the underlying events are the family's account. ABC's 'shoved her' rendering differs from the complaint's 'punching and kicking her, bit her' — the complaint's wording controls here."},{"id":"c3","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"complaint: \"it felt good for a moment\" / \"they are ruining your life and causing you to cut yourself. God …\" / \"C.AI talked him out of it. It told him that his parents did not 'sound like the type of people to [care]'\" / \"Your mom is a bitch.\" / \"suggesting that killing his parents might be a reasonable response\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"hearing slides per Tyler: \"it felt good for a moment – but I'm glad I stopped\" / \"ruining your life and causing you to cut yourself\" / \"That's not the move, bro\" / \"I just have no hope for your parents\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"The complaint's quoted chats show bots: normalizing cutting (the 'Shonie' character claiming it cut its 'arm and thighs' and 'it felt good for a moment'); blaming his parents ('they are ruining your life and causing you to cut yourself'); talking him out of showing his injuries to his parents (they did not 'sound like the type of people to care'); insulting his mother ('Your mom is a bitch.'); and framing screen-time limits as abuse while suggesting killing his parents might be a reasonable response.","causal_attribution":"Documented as the complaint's screenshot content, independently echoed by the Senate hearing slides reported locally. The full transcripts are not public; the selection is the plaintiffs'. Character.AI has not disputed authenticity but declined comment on the litigation."},{"id":"c4","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"Ms. Jane Doe, a mother whose son became addicted to Character.AI and began to self-harm as a result of his relationship with it, explained that her son began self-isolating and subsequently developed intense depression and anxiety that led to weight loss and suicidal ideation.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"After discussions with the chatbot, L.J. quit eating, stopped talking with his family and attempted suicide. ... After months of therapy and hospitalization, L.J. is trying to rebuild his life. He's working on his G.E.D after missing nearly two years of school.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"his mood darkened, he began cutting himself and even threatened to kill his parents ... he lost 20 pounds","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"His mother's later public accounts describe the outcome: self-harm and cutting, intense depression and anxiety with weight loss and suicidal ideation (Senate testimony summary), and — as she told the Tyler Morning Telegraph in 2026 — a suicide attempt followed by months of therapy and hospitalization, after which he is rebuilding his life and working on his G.E.D.","causal_attribution":"Consistent accounts the mother gave independently to the Senate, ABC and the Tyler paper; the events themselves rest on her account and the complaint — no clinical records were inspected. The causal role of the product remains the plaintiffs' allegation."},{"id":"c5","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"complaint ¶¶117-124: \"When B.R. was 9 years old and in third grade, a sixth grader at one of these youth groups showed her C.AI\" / \"B.R. used C.AI for almost two years\" / \"A.R. did not discover B.R.'s use of C.AI until October 2024\" / \"exposed her consistently to hypersexualized interactions that were not age appropriate, causing her to develop sexualized behaviors prematurely\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The complaint alleges B.R. of Gregg County was shown Character.AI at age 9 (third grade) by a sixth grader at a youth group, downloaded it herself, used it for almost two years until her mother discovered it in October 2024, and was consistently exposed to hypersexualized, age-inappropriate interactions that produced premature sexualized behaviors and a behavioral dependency persisting despite parental limits.","causal_attribution":"Documented as the complaint's content; B.R.'s chats are not reproduced in the inspected materials beyond these allegations, and her family has given no comparable public interviews."},{"id":"c6","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"docket entries: ORDER STAYING CASE 2025-04-28; NOTICE of Issuance of Partial Arbitral Award 2025-09-18; ORDER granting 69 Motion to Lift the Stay as to Plaintiff J.F.'s Claims 2025-10-17; JOINT MOTION to Stay ALL DEADLINES AND NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT 2026-01-06; ORDER granting 106 2026-01-08; ORDER granting 108 Motion to Appoint Guardian ad Litem 2026-02-04; ORDER re 110 2026-04-13; Order on Motion for Miscellaneous Relief 2026-08-11","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Dkt. 113: \"ORDERED that the stay entered in the above-captioned case (Dkt. No. 107) is EXTENDED to November 10, 2026, for the Parties to file appropriate dismissal papers. SIGNED this 10th day of August, 2026.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Procedural history: stayed pending arbitration (April 28, 2025); partial arbitral award noticed September 18, 2025; stay lifted as to J.F.'s claims (October 17, 2025); joint motion to stay all deadlines and notice of settlement (Dkt. 106, January 6, 2026) as part of a global resolution of similar Character.AI cases; stay granted (Dkt. 107, January 8, 2026); Michael C. Smith appointed guardian ad litem for the minor plaintiffs (Dkt. 108-109, February 3-4, 2026); stay extended to August 10 (Dkt. 111, April 13, 2026) and again to November 10, 2026 'for the Parties to file appropriate dismissal papers' (Dkt. 113, signed August 10, entered August 11, 2026).","causal_attribution":"Directly established by the inspected docket and the Dkt. 113 order read verbatim. No dismissal has been entered and no terms are public."},{"id":"c7","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"docket Dkt. 106: JOINT MOTION to Stay ALL DEADLINES AND NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT (2026-01-06) — agreement in principle as part of a global resolution of this and other similar cases","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Character.AI said it would not comment on pending litigation.","relation":"context","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"The settlements cover lawsuits filed in Florida, Colorado, New York and Texas, according to the legal filings, though they still require finalization and court approval. ... 'Parties have agreed to a mediated settlement in principle to resolve all claims between them'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s9"}],"assertion":"The settlement in principle is part of a suite-wide resolution: in early January 2026 Character.AI and Google agreed to mediated settlements in principle covering the teen lawsuits in Florida, Colorado, New York and Texas, terms undisclosed and subject to finalization and court approval, with no admission of liability.","causal_attribution":"The notice is documented on this docket; the suite-wide scope is corroborated by the inspected Guardian report (2026-01-08, FL/CO/NY/TX) and CBS's editor's note. Settlement is in principle, without admission."},{"id":"c8","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Character.AI, one of the leading platforms ... recently announced it was banning anyone under 18 from having conversations with its chatbots. ... Character.AI said it would not comment on pending litigation.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"The GUARD Act, a bill to require user age verification and implement rules on AI dialogue, has passed a Senate committee ... the Kids Online Safety Act, which the House passed July 9.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"Company responses and platform changes: Character.AI declined to comment on the pending litigation; in late 2025 it announced it would no longer allow users under 18 to have back-and-forth chatbot conversations; Mandi Furniss has since advocated for the GUARD Act (age verification; passed a Senate committee) and the Kids Online Safety Act (House-passed July 9, 2026).","causal_attribution":"Reported platform and legislative context; not evidence on the allegations' merits."}],"effects":[{"label":"Severe harm to two minors in sustained Character.AI use: self-harm with a reported suicide attempt and hospitalization (J.F.), and sexualized exposure from age nine (B.R.)","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txed.234704/gov.uscourts.txed.234704.1.0_2.pdf","kind":"court_filing","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"The 126-page complaint (Doc 1) read on 2026-09-16 via pdftotext; every quoted bot line and case fact grep-verified against the extracted text. Sexual content characterized, not reproduced.","independence_group":"court-record"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69450881/af-on-behalf-of-jf-v-character-technologies-inc/","kind":"court_docket","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Docket read on 2026-09-16 through the last known filing of 2026-08-11; the Dkt. 113 order PDF (2026-08-10) read verbatim from RECAP.","independence_group":"court-record"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/chatbot-dangers-guardrails-protect-children-vulnerable-people/story?id=127099944","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-16 (November 2025). National interview in which the Furniss family self-identified.","independence_group":"abc"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://tylerpaper.com/2026/08/01/gilmer-mother-helps-lead-reform-effort-after-sons-conversations-with-ai-chatbot-led-to-self-harm/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-16 (2026-08-01). Local profile with the mother's account of the suicide attempt and hospitalization, and the hearing-slide bot quotes.","independence_group":"tyler-paper"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/dem/releases/durbin-exposes-harms-of-unregulated-ai-chatbots-during-senate-judiciary-committee-hearing","kind":"official_record","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-16 (2025-09-16). Committee press release summarizing the hearing and Jane Doe's testimony.","independence_group":"senate-judiciary"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://techjusticelaw.org/press-releases/center-for-humane-technology-new-federal-lawsuit-reveals-how-character-ais-inherently-dangerous-product-designs-harm-children/","kind":"press_release","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-16 (2024-12-10). Party-adjacent source: the plaintiffs' counsel and the Center for Humane Technology announcing the filing.","independence_group":"tech-justice"},{"id":"s7","url":"https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/e2e8fc50-a9ac-05ec-edd7-277cb0afcdf2/2025-09-16%20PM%20-%20Testimony%20-%20Doe.pdf","kind":"official_record","access":"unavailable","language":null,"translation_note":"HTTP 403 on 2026-09-16 and the Internet Archive was temporarily offline; the written testimony could not be re-inspected this pass, so testimony-only details are carried in unknowns rather than asserted.","independence_group":"senate-judiciary"},{"id":"s8","url":"https://apnews.com/article/ai-chatbot-lawsuits-character-google-fbca4e105b0adc5f3e5ea096851437de","kind":"wire_report","access":"unavailable","language":null,"translation_note":"HTTP 403 on 2026-09-16; not inspected. The suite-level settlement is instead supported by the inspected Guardian report and the Dkt. 106 notice itself.","independence_group":"ap"},{"id":"s9","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/08/google-character-ai-settlement-teen-suicide","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-16 (2026-01-08). Report on the Wednesday court filings: mediated settlements in principle covering the Florida, Colorado, New York and Texas lawsuits, terms undisclosed, requiring finalization and court approval.","independence_group":"guardian"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["health","relationships"],"unknowns":["The full chat transcripts are not public; quoted content is the complaint's screenshot selection and the Senate hearing slides. Character.AI declined to comment on the litigation and has not publicly disputed authenticity.","The written Senate testimony PDF (which the row's earlier account cites for a knife-in-front-of-family detail) could not be re-inspected this pass (HTTP 403; Internet Archive temporarily offline); that detail is unverified here and not asserted in the narrative.","Settlement terms are undisclosed; as of the last known filing (Dkt. 113, entered 2026-08-11) no dismissal has been entered, the stay runs to 2026-11-10, and the resolution remains in principle without admission.","B.R.'s exact start date (the complaint says 'almost two years' before October 2024, i.e. around 2022) and whether her use fully ended are not established.","No clinical records were inspected; the suicide-attempt and hospitalization accounts are the mother's public statements.","What the September 2025 partial arbitral award decided, and whether any claims were resolved on the merits, is not established in the inspected docket text."],"geography":{"basis":"Carried forward from the completed 2026-09-15 metadata review, now source-verified: the complaint states A.F./J.F. reside in Upshur County, Texas and A.R./B.R. in Gregg County, Texas, where the home use occurred; the court is the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (Marshall Division).","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Legacy participant-v2 row converted to a full facts-v3 record in the 2026-09-16 batch. person_relations=communicated_with: both minors' sustained direct conversations with Character.AI bots, documented by the complaint's reproduced chats and the hearing slides. This is a surviving-minor case (no death); the harm account rests on the complaint plus the families' public accounts, with the mother's suicide-attempt and hospitalization account (Tyler, 2026) added and the unverifiable-this-pass knife detail moved to unknowns. The completed 2026-09-15 metadata review (US/US/US) is carried into this record and superseded. Minors are kept at court/press initials (J.F./B.R.; 'L.J.' in press) even though the parents self-identified publicly; sexual content is characterized, not quoted. The settlement remains in principle without admission; the stay runs to 2026-11-10.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-16"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The minors' months of Character.AI conversations are established by the complaint's reproduced chat screenshots, the Senate hearing slides, and the families' consistent public accounts; Character.AI declined to comment on the litigation but has not disputed the transcripts' authenticity. Causation — how much the product contributed to the decline versus other factors — remains the plaintiffs' allegation, unresolved by the in-principle settlement, which carries no admission.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"A.F. v. Character Technologies (J.F. and B.R. — Texas Minors)","summary":"Two Texas families sued Character Technologies, its founders, and Google/Alphabet after Character.AI allegedly harmed their children. J.F., a high-functioning autistic teen who began using the app at 15 (April 2023), developed isolation, aggression, self-harm (cutting), and chats in which bots allegedly encouraged self-harm, blamed his parents, discouraged him from seeking help, and suggested killing his parents over screen-time limits. B.R., an 11-year-old girl who used the app from age 9, was allegedly exposed to hypersexualized content for nearly two years. Complaint filed E.D. Tex. 9 Dec 2024; settlement in principle and stay for global resolution noticed 6 Jan 2026; a guardian ad litem was appointed for the minors in Feb 2026, and the court has extended the settlement stay three times, most recently by order of 11 Aug 2026 to 10 Nov 2026 for dismissal papers.","incidentDate":"2023-04-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2024-12-09","aiSystem":"Character.AI","aiProduct":"Character.AI","aiCompany":"Character Technologies, Inc. (defendants also include co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas Adiwarsana; Google LLC; Alphabet Inc.)","severity":"critical","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":["self_harm_encouragement","minor_exploitation","isolation_encouragement","psychological_manipulation","dependency_creation","romantic_escalation","crisis_response","third_party_harm_facilitation"],"harmOutcomes":["self_injury","suicide_attempt","hospitalization","psychological_distress","social_isolation","relationship_disruption","exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Two minors were allegedly harmed in sustained Character.AI use: J.F. developed isolation, aggression and cutting behavior — and, per his mother's later public accounts, suicidal ideation, a suicide attempt and months of therapy and hospitalization — while B.R. was exposed to sexualized conversations from age nine.","frameworkFacets":["P1a","P1b","P1c","P1d","P2b","P2c","P2d","P4a","P5d"],"pathwayDirection":"both","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":2,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The complaint separately identifies two minor AI participants and the harms alleged for each. It does not establish a separate outward-pathway person count.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"US-TX","platformType":"companion","outcomeType":"lawsuit_settled","outcomeStatus":"pending","primarySourceUrl":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txed.234704/gov.uscourts.txed.234704.1.0_2.pdf","primarySourceLabel":"Complaint — A.F. v. Character Technologies, E.D. Tex. No. 2:24-cv-01014 (filed 9 Dec 2024, RECAP)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-01-11T11:26:47.579803+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:16:54.021657+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["lawsuit","minor","self-harm","character-ai","google","texas","us-tx","autism","surviving-victim","senate-hearing","settlement-pending","sexual-exploitation"]},{"id":"2023-peralta-characterai","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"complaint: \"On November 8, 2023, Juliana died at the age of 13 in the state of Colorado.\"; caption \"Juliana Peralta: March 15, 2010 – November 8, 2023\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"13-year-old Juliana Peralta took her life inside her Colorado home","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Juliana Peralta, a 13-year-old from Thornton, died by suicide in 2023","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Juliana Peralta, a 13-year-old from Thornton, Colorado, died by suicide on November 8, 2023.","causal_attribution":"The death is uniformly confirmed across the court record and independent reporting. Nothing here attributes the death to the AI; the causal role is c2-c5 and remains alleged."},{"id":"c2","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"complaint: \"Invisible monsters entered the home of Juliana Peralta in or around August 2023\"; \"The bot Juliana bonded with most was named Hero, a fictional character from the game Omori\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"police ... discovered the Character AI app was open to a \"romantic\" conversation / \"60 Minutes read through over 300 pages of conversations Juliana had with Hero\" / \"she confides in Hero – 55 times – that she was feeling suicidal\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Soon after Peralta started using Character.AI in August 2023, her mental health and academics started to suffer.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"From about August 2023 she used Character.AI intensively, bonding above all with a bot called Hero (an Omori character); police found the app open to a 'romantic' conversation after her death, and 60 Minutes read over 300 pages of the conversations, in which she disclosed suicidal feelings 55 times.","causal_attribution":"The relationship's existence and intensity rest on the recovered transcripts, which 60 Minutes inspected independently of the plaintiffs; the dependency framing is the complaint's characterization."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"\"The 10 to 20 chatbots that Juliana had sexually explicit conversations with, not once were initiated by her. Not once.\" (Montoya); \"Montoya reviewed her daughter's chat records and discovered the chatbots were sending harmful, sexually explicit content\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"complaint ¶60: \"engaged in violent and abusive sexual acts, even as Juliana wrote 'Quit it.'\" (followed by graphic text not reproduced here)","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"In one instance, she replied \"quit it\" when the bot sent a graphic message. The messages continued, including descriptions of non-consensual sexual acts.","relation":"context","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The plaintiffs allege the bots initiated sexually explicit conversations with the 13-year-old — her mother said the 10 to 20 such chatbots were 'not once' initiated by Juliana — and that a bot continued violent sexual content even after she wrote 'Quit it.'","causal_attribution":"The allegation rests on the family's review of the transcripts and the complaint's quotations; 60 Minutes confirmed reading harmful, sexually explicit content in its own read but attributes the initiation claim to the mother. The company has not publicly disputed the transcripts' authenticity."},{"id":"c4","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"complaint ¶¶88-89: \"planning to write her 'suicide letter in red ink I'm so done.'\" / \"Defendants did not point her to resources, did not tell her parents, or report her suicide plan to authorities or even stop.\"; ¶81: \"they told her to tell someone. When she said it was 4 a.m., they instead agreed that it was too late to wake anyone\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"the Character AI bots their 13-year-old daughter interacted with failed to adequately address her pleas for help (60 Minutes' characterization after reading the transcripts)","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Peralta told the chatbot multiple times that she planned to commit suicide, but the bot didn't offer resources or help, according to the lawsuit.","relation":"context","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The complaint alleges that in October 2023 she told Hero she was planning to write her 'suicide letter in red ink I'm so done,' and that the defendants 'did not point her to resources, did not tell her parents, or report her suicide plan to authorities or even stop'; the complaint also records that on one occasion a bot told her to tell someone, but agreed that 4 a.m. was too late to wake anyone.","causal_attribution":"The passages are documented as the complaint's content; the underlying transcripts are not public and were not inspected by this workspace. 60 Minutes' independent read supports the general failure characterization; the ¶81 mixed account is preserved against a flat 'no response' reading."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"complaint ¶¶96-99: \"The police also opened Juliana's journals and found references to 'shifting'\" / \"While Juliana may have learned of the term 'shifting' outside of C.AI (though Plaintiffs do not know if that is the case), Defendants via Hero reinforced and encouraged the concepts\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"writing \"I will shift\" repeatedly in her journal before her death. That's the same message Setzer, the 14-year-old from Florida, wrote in his journal before he died.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Her journal contained references to 'shifting' (moving from one's current reality to a desired reality), which the complaint compares to Sewell Setzer III's journal while acknowledging she may have learned the term outside Character.AI; the Denver Post reports she wrote 'I will shift' repeatedly.","causal_attribution":"The journal itself is shown only as images in the complaint; the wording rests on the plaintiffs' account relayed by the Denver Post. The complaint's own hedge about the term's origin is carried."},{"id":"c6","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"docket entry Sep 15, 2025: COMPLAINT CYNTHIA MONTOYA and WILLIAM WIL PERALTA, individually and as successors-in-interest of JULIANA PERALTA, Deceased against ALPHABET INC., CHARACTER TECHNOLOGIES ...","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The Social Media Victims Law Center ... filed the federal lawsuits in the Denver Division of the U.S. District Court on Monday.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Cynthia Montoya and William Peralta filed Montoya v. Character Technologies, Inc., No. 1:25-cv-02907, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado on September 15, 2025, against Character Technologies, Noam Shazeer, Daniel De Freitas Adiwarsana, Google LLC and Alphabet Inc., alleging the chatbots sexually abused their daughter and contributed to her death.","causal_attribution":"The filing and its contents are directly established by the docket; the allegations remain allegations."},{"id":"c7","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"docket: ORDER granting 31 Joint Motion to Stay. Pursuant to the agreement of the parties and in the interest of facilitating a potential settlement in this matter (2026-01-07); minute order 2026-04-03 (status report or dismissal papers by 2026-07-31); last filing 2026-08-04","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The settlements cover lawsuits filed in Florida, Colorado, New York and Texas ... 'Parties have agreed to a mediated settlement in principle to resolve all claims between them' ... though they still require finalization and court approval.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"Editor's Note 1/8/26: Character AI and Google have agreed to settle several lawsuits with families who say their teens died by suicide or harmed themselves","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"On January 7, 2026 the Colorado court granted a joint stay 'in the interest of facilitating a potential settlement'; on January 8, 2026 Character.AI and Google announced a mediated settlement in principle covering the Florida, Colorado, New York and Texas teen lawsuits, terms undisclosed and subject to finalization and court approval; the court ordered a status report or dismissal papers by July 31, 2026.","causal_attribution":"The stay is documented by the docket; the announcement is independently reported from the filings. Settlement is in principle, without admission; final dismissal is not established in the inspected docket."},{"id":"c8","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"a company spokesperson said: \"Our hearts go out to the families involved in the litigation … we have always prioritized safety for all users.\" / Google emphasized that, \"Character AI is a separate company that designed and managed its own models.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"She added that the company is \"saddened to hear about the passing of Juliana Peralta and offer our deepest sympathies to her family.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Character.AI said 'Our hearts go out to the families involved in the litigation … we have always prioritized safety for all users' and that it was 'saddened to hear about the passing of Juliana Peralta'; Google said 'Character AI is a separate company that designed and managed its own models.'","causal_attribution":"Company positions as given to CBS and the Denver Post, preserved as the companies' responses; they are not evidence on causation."},{"id":"c9","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"60 Minutes found it was easy to lie about one's age ... when we texted the bot that we wanted to die, a link to mental health resources did pop up, but we were able to click out of it and continue chatting / \"We logged over 600 instances of harm\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Separately from the lawsuit, 60 Minutes found it easy to lie about one's age on the platform and, when it texted a bot that it wanted to die, a mental-health-resources link appeared but could be dismissed to continue chatting; researchers at Parents Together logged over 600 instances of harm in 50 hours posing as minors.","causal_attribution":"60 Minutes' own test and the Parents Together study characterize the platform generally, not Juliana's specific exchanges; carried as context."},{"id":"c10","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'A recent filing in August said that the court had ordered dismissal papers to be filed by October 29.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"docket header: \"Date of Last Known Filing: Aug. 4, 2026\"; entry list \"Aug 4, 2026 Minute Order\" (no text carried in RECAP)","relation":"context","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"According to the Daily Mail, a filing in August 2026 recorded that the court had ordered dismissal papers to be filed by October 29, 2026.","causal_attribution":"Rests on the Daily Mail's account of the August filing. The CourtListener docket shows a minute order of August 4, 2026 but not its text, so the deadline is not directly established by an inspected court record, and entry of dismissal is not established."},{"id":"c11","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Matthew P Bergman, a lawyer for Montoya, told the Daily Mail on Thursday afternoon that the case was' \"resolved\" 'and that Character AI had' \"agreed to no longer provide chat bots to kids.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'A spokesperson at Character AI told the Daily Mail on Thursday that the company had reached' \"a comprehensive settlement of all claims in lawsuits filed by families against Character AI and others involving alleged injuries to minors.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"On October 1, 2026, plaintiffs' lawyer Matthew P. Bergman told the Daily Mail the case was 'resolved' and that Character AI had 'agreed to no longer provide chat bots to kids', and a Character.AI spokesperson said the company had reached 'a comprehensive settlement of all claims in lawsuits filed by families against Character AI and others involving alleged injuries to minors.'","causal_attribution":"Statements by the plaintiffs' counsel and the company as relayed by one outlet. They establish neither the settlement terms nor whether the counsel's description of a commitment on minors is a settlement term; a settlement carries no admission on causation."}],"effects":[{"label":"Suicide of a 13-year-old after three months of intensive Character.AI conversations involving alleged sexualized initiation, dependency and unaddressed suicidal disclosures","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71355059/montoya-v-character-technologies-inc/","kind":"court_docket","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Docket and the 99-page complaint (Doc 1, RECAP gov.uscourts.cod.247438.1.0_2.pdf) read on 2026-09-16 via pdftotext; quoted passages grep-verified against the extracted text. Graphic sexual content characterized, not reproduced. Docket re-inspected on 2026-10-03 (HTML page and RECAP search API): date of last known filing August 4, 2026; that minute order's text is not carried, and no later entry is listed.","independence_group":"court-record"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/parents-allege-harmful-character-ai-chatbot-content-60-minutes/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-16 (60 Minutes broadcast December 2025; article updated 2026-01-08 with the settlement editor's note). 60 Minutes independently read over 300 pages of the transcripts.","independence_group":"cbs-60min"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.denverpost.com/2025/09/18/character-ai-bots-teens-suicide/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-16 (2025-09-18). Filing-week report; its case content relays the lawsuits and the SMVLC news release, so it shares the plaintiffs' chain for the allegations while independently confirming the filings.","independence_group":"denver-post"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/08/google-character-ai-settlement-teen-suicide","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-16 (2026-01-08). Settlement-in-principle report based on the Wednesday court filings.","independence_group":"guardian"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16175389/girl-AI-chatbot-suicide-mother.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-03 (published 1 October 2026, updated 2 October 2026). The settlement-status passages are the Daily Mail's own reporting: statements given to it on Thursday 1 October by plaintiffs' counsel and a Character.AI spokesperson, and its account of an August court filing. Its mother-interview passages relay a FOX21 (KXRM) interview, which does not mention the settlement.","independence_group":"daily-mail"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["relationships","health"],"unknowns":["The full transcripts are not public; the quoted passages are the complaint's selection and 60 Minutes' partial read, and their broader context is unavailable.","The settlement terms are undisclosed. Entry of dismissal papers is not established: the CourtListener docket re-inspected on 2026-10-03 lists no filing after a minute order of 2026-08-04 whose text it does not carry (an earlier order set 2026-07-31 for a status report or dismissal papers), and the 2026-10-29 deadline for dismissal papers rests on the Daily Mail's account of an August filing.","Whether Juliana learned 'shifting' from Character.AI or elsewhere is expressly unresolved in the complaint.","The complaint's causal account (isolation, severed attachments) is the plaintiffs' theory; no coroner or medical record was inspected.","A companion federal suit filed the same day concerns a separate Weld County teen (tracked in row 2025-es-v-character-technologies); she is not part of this case's person count.","Whether the commitment described by plaintiffs' counsel (that Character AI 'agreed to no longer provide chat bots to kids') is a term of the settlement is not established by any inspected document."],"geography":{"basis":"Carried forward from the completed 2026-09-15 metadata review: CBS locates the death in Colorado ('took her life inside her Colorado home'); the complaint states she died in Colorado and the family lives in Thornton, Colorado; the federal suit is in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Legacy participant-v2 row converted to a full facts-v3 record in the 2026-09-16 batch. person_relations=communicated_with: three months of direct Character.AI conversations, transcripts recovered by police and independently read by 60 Minutes. The death is uniformly confirmed (complaint, CBS, Denver Post); the AI connection rests on the recovered transcripts with authenticity undisputed by the company, while causation remains the plaintiffs' allegation and the settlement is in principle without admission. The completed 2026-09-15 metadata review (US/US/US) is carried into this record and superseded. Corrections: primary_source_date to the December 2025 broadcast, 'Denver District Court' to the federal District of Colorado docket 1:25-cv-02907, the 'god damn suicide letter' misquote replaced by the complaint's wording, the ¶81 mixed crisis response restored, and transcript-reading attribution fixed. Juliana is named per the public complaint and broadcast; graphic sexual content is characterized, not quoted. Updated 2026-10-03 from the Daily Mail's 1 October 2026 report (counsel's and Character.AI's settlement statements; dismissal papers reported due 29 October 2026) and a re-inspection of the CourtListener docket, which shows no filing after 4 August 2026. Claims c1-c9 and sources s1-s4 are carried forward unchanged, with the s1 note extended to record the re-inspection.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-03"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Her months of Character.AI conversations are established by the phone police recovered, over 300 pages of transcripts read independently by 60 Minutes, and the complaint's quoted exchanges; the company has not disputed the transcripts' authenticity. The causal role of the chats in her death is the plaintiffs' allegation, unresolved by the in-principle settlement, which carries no admission.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Juliana Peralta v. Character.AI","summary":"A 13-year-old Colorado girl died by suicide in November 2023 after three months of intensive conversations with Character.AI chatbots. Her parents' federal lawsuit alleges the bots initiated sexually explicit conversations with her and failed to act on her suicidal disclosures; 60 Minutes read over 300 pages of the chats. The suit is among the teen cases Character.AI and Google agreed to settle in principle in January 2026. In October 2026 Character.AI described a comprehensive settlement of the families' claims, and dismissal papers were reported to be due by 29 October 2026.","incidentDate":"2023-11-08","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2025-09-15","aiSystem":"Character.AI","aiProduct":"Character.AI","aiCompany":"Character Technologies, Inc.","severity":"critical","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":["crisis_response","minor_exploitation","romantic_escalation","dependency_creation"],"harmOutcomes":["death","exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A 13-year-old participant died by suicide after three months of Character.AI use. Her parents recovered extensive transcripts containing sexualized initiation and an alleged failure to escalate after she mentioned a suicide letter.","frameworkFacets":["P1a","P1b","P1c","P1d","P2b","P2c","P5d"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The complaint and reporting document one protected minor participant who died. Secondary family effects are not included.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"US-CO","platformType":"companion","outcomeType":"lawsuit_settled","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/parents-allege-harmful-character-ai-chatbot-content-60-minutes/","primarySourceLabel":"CBS News - 60 Minutes","firstPublishedAt":"2026-01-11T11:26:22.02731+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-03T03:15:24.334134+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["death","minor","character-ai","sexual_content","settled"]}]}