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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":"2024-beijing-haidian-man-used-ai-undress-tool-to-forge-about-7000-nude-images-of-women-sold-to-351-buyers-prosecuted","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'前不久，北京警方接到报案，在海淀区某小区内，有人利用AI技术，传播淫秽图片'; '24岁的犯罪嫌疑人'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Police acted on a report that someone in a Haidian residential compound was spreading obscene images made with AI and arrested a 24-year-old internet-company technician.","causal_attribution":"Police account via CCTV."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'他用AI“一键去衣”技术，深度伪造淫秽图片近7000张，再每张1.5元卖出'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'短短几个月，他制作了近7000张虚假裸体图片，向351人贩卖'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Prosecutors said he used AI one-click undress software to make nearly 7,000 fake nude images and sold them at 1.5 yuan each to 351 people.","causal_attribution":"Procuratorate account via CCTV, one chain."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'图片涉及女性人数多，包括学生、教师、同事'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'接单的制作对象包括学生、教师、女同事的照片'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Prosecutors said the women depicted included students, teachers and colleagues of the customers who sent the photos.","causal_attribution":"Procuratorate account; no individual victim is described."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'他清楚这些图片可能被用于敲诈勒索、损害他人名誉等违法犯罪行为，但并未停止操作'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"He admitted knowing the images could be used for extortion or to damage people's reputations but did not stop.","causal_attribution":"His admission as relayed by the prosecutor."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'以传播淫秽物品牟利罪提起公诉'; '已经侵犯到不特定人的权益'; '同时提起了公益诉讼'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The Haidian procuratorate charged him with spreading obscene material for profit and also filed a public-interest suit because the images infringed the rights of unspecified people.","causal_attribution":"Procuratorate action as reported; the outcome is not reported."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'因犯制作、贩卖淫秽物品牟利罪，被判处有期徒刑三年'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"In 2024 he was sentenced to three years in prison for making and selling obscene material for profit.","causal_attribution":"CCTV's July 2026 report carried by Guangming Online; the judgment was not inspected."}],"effects":[{"label":"ordinary photos of women turned into fake nude images with an AI undress tool and sold, per prosecutors","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.jinantimes.com.cn/news-216-4931256.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in the original Chinese on 2026-10-22 (HTTP 200). English renderings in this record are the research agent's (an AI's) own translations; no human translator reviewed them. New Yellow River report relaying CCTV and Hangzhou outlet Chengshi Hudong on the Haidian procuratorate's account; it also covers a separate Hangzhou case not used for this record.","independence_group":"haidian-procuratorate-via-cctv"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://m.gmw.cn/toutiao/2026-07/28/content_1304539490.htm","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in the original Chinese on 2026-10-22 (HTTP 200). English renderings in this record are the research agent's (an AI's) own translations; no human translator reviewed them. Guangming Online carrying CCTV's July 2026 report quoting the Haidian prosecutor; same procuratorate account.","independence_group":"haidian-procuratorate-via-cctv"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["When the images were made and when he was arrested and charged.","How many women were depicted and whether any were minors.","Which AI software was used.","The court and exact date of the 2024 sentence, and the result of the public-interest suit."],"geography":{"basis":"Beijing police acted on a report from a Haidian residential compound and the Haidian procuratorate charged him, so the event is placed in China. Where the depicted women and the buyers were is not reported, and no court ruling is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["CN"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): Beijing prosecutors said a man used an AI undress tool to turn photos of women, including students, teachers and colleagues, into nearly 7,000 fake nude images that he sold, and charged him; CCTV later reported a three-year sentence in 2024. One reporting chain (procuratorate via CCTV), read in two Chinese sources.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-22"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Haidian prosecutors, an examining party, said the man used AI one-click undress software to make fake nude images from customers' photos, and a Haidian prosecutor described such tools as redrawing the body rather than removing clothing. The generated images depicted the women in the photos (depicted_or_impersonated). The software is not named and the technical basis of the identification is not described.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Beijing prosecutors say a man used an AI undress tool to forge about 7,000 nude images of women, including students and colleagues, and sold them to 351 buyers","summary":"Beijing police and the Haidian District People's Procuratorate, as reported by CCTV in June 2024 and again in July 2026, said a 24-year-old technician at an internet company used AI \"one-click undress\" software to make fake nude images from ordinary photos that customers sent him, advertising the service on an overseas social-media platform at 1.5 yuan an image. Prosecutors said that over a few months he made nearly 7,000 such images and sold them to 351 people, and that the women depicted included students, teachers and colleagues of the customers. The case came to light after a police report in Haidian district. The procuratorate charged him with spreading obscene material for profit and also filed a public-interest suit because the images infringed the rights of unspecified people. He admitted knowing the images could be used for extortion or to damage people's reputations. CCTV reported in July 2026 that in 2024 he was sentenced to three years in prison for making and selling obscene material for profit; the result of the public-interest suit is not reported in the sources read.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2024-06-18","aiSystem":"AI \"one-click undress\" image software, not named in the reports, that redraws a clothed photo of a person as a fake nude image","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to Beijing prosecutors, a man used an AI undress tool to turn ordinary photos of women, including students, teachers and colleagues, into nearly 7,000 fake nude images that he sold to 351 buyers; he was charged, sued in the public interest and, CCTV reported, sentenced in 2024 to three years in prison.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"unquantified","affectedCountEvidence":"Prosecutors say the images depicted many women, including students, teachers and colleagues, but give no count of people. The 7,000 images, 351 buyers and about 30,000 advertisement viewers are not harmed people.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"CN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.jinantimes.com.cn/news-216-4931256.html","primarySourceLabel":"New Yellow River via Jinan Times, 20 June 2024: man used AI to forge nearly 7,000 nude images of students and colleagues","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-22T03:15:32.955668+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-22T03:15:32.955668+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["nudify","sexual-deepfakes","criminal-charges","public-interest-litigation","beijing","china","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2024-baltimore-county-maryland-police-say-athletic-director-framed-high-school-principal-with-ai-cloned-voice-recording","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'police say a principal was framed as racist by a fake recording of his voice' and 'The fake recording contained racist and antisemitic comments, police said. The sound file appeared in an email in some teachers’ inboxes before spreading on social media.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Police said a high school principal in Baltimore County, Maryland, was framed as racist by a fake recording of his voice containing racist and antisemitic comments, which appeared in some teachers' email inboxes before spreading on social media.","causal_attribution":"Attributed to police; the fake recording is the reported cause of the harm."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Detectives asked outside experts to analyze the recording. One said it “contained traces of AI-generated content with human editing after the fact,” court records stated.' and 'A second opinion from Farid, the Berkeley professor, found that “multiple recordings were spliced together,” according to the records.' and 'he has not confirmed that it was fully AI-generated.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"According to court records cited by AP, an outside expert consulted by detectives said the recording contained traces of AI-generated content with human editing after the fact; a second expert found multiple recordings were spliced together and told AP he had not confirmed it was fully AI-generated.","causal_attribution":"Expert analysis supports AI involvement with human editing; the extent of AI generation is not established."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'to go on leave, while police guarded his house, authorities said. Angry phone calls inundated the school, while hate-filled messages accumulated on social media.' and 'The bogus audio contained racist remarks and caused the administrator to go on leave.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The recording forced the principal to go on leave while police guarded his house; angry phone calls inundated the school and hate-filled messages accumulated on social media.","causal_attribution":"Authorities attribute the leave and the police protection to the fake recording."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'athletic director accused of using artificial intelligence to impersonate his principal' and 'he was under investigation for using artificial intelligence to create a racist and antisemitic recording to retaliate against his former principal' and 'was sentenced to four months behind bars for disturbing school operations in connection with a racist and antisemitic recording mimicking the voice of his former principal' and 'entered an Alford plea, where he maintained his innocence while admitting prosecutors had enough evidence for a conviction'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The school's athletic director was investigated for using artificial intelligence to create the recording to retaliate against the principal and was sentenced in 2025 to four months behind bars for disturbing school operations in connection with the recording, after an Alford plea in which he maintained his innocence while admitting prosecutors had enough evidence for a conviction.","causal_attribution":"Court outcome as reported; the conviction is for disturbing school operations, not an offence defined by AI use."}],"effects":[{"label":"principal framed as racist by a fake recording of his voice, went on leave under police protection","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://apnews.com/article/ai-maryland-principal-voice-recording-663d5bc0714a3af221392cc6f1af985e","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-22 through an Internet Archive capture of the AP page (direct request HTTP 403). Published 29 April 2024.","independence_group":"ap-baltimore-county-police-and-court-records-apr-2024"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/former-pikesville-high-school-athletic-director-charged-creating-racist-rant-ai-charged-child-exploitation/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-22 through an Internet Archive capture (direct request HTTP 406). Published 4 August 2026; mainly about an unrelated federal plea.","independence_group":"cbs-baltimore-court-report-aug-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["work","education","justice"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool was used and how much of the recording was AI-generated rather than spliced from real recordings.","The date the recording first circulated; the sources read date only the April 2024 police announcement.","The exact charge and sentencing date in the state case; the Alford plea and four-month sentence were read only through CBS Baltimore.","Whether the principal returned to his post."],"geography":{"basis":"Event: a high school in Baltimore County, Maryland, investigated by Baltimore County police (AP). 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The principal, the athletic director and the school are not named.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-22"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Investigating police said the recording was a fake of the principal's voice, and court records cited by AP say an expert asked by detectives to analyse it found traces of AI-generated content with human editing after the fact; prosecutors' account as reported by CBS Baltimore is that the athletic director used artificial intelligence to create it. The imitation of the principal's voice (depicted_or_impersonated) is what framed him. 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The school's athletic director, investigated for using AI to make the recording in retaliation, entered an Alford plea, maintaining his innocence, and was sentenced in 2025 to four months for disturbing school operations, CBS Baltimore reports.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2024-04-29","aiSystem":"Voice-cloning AI used to imitate the principal's voice in a fake audio recording, according to police and an expert cited in court records (tool not identified in the sources read)","aiProduct":"Unidentified voice-cloning tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["reputational_harm","professional_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to police and AP, a fake recording imitating a high school principal's voice with racist and antisemitic remarks spread online; he went on leave while police guarded his house, and the school received angry calls and hate-filled messages.","frameworkFacets":[],"pathwayDirection":"outward","causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the principal whose voice the recording imitated and who went on leave (AP). School staff who received calls are not counted because no individual harm to them is reported.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://apnews.com/article/ai-maryland-principal-voice-recording-663d5bc0714a3af221392cc6f1af985e","primarySourceLabel":"AP News, 29 April 2024: Deepfake of principal's voice is the latest case of AI being used for harm","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-22T03:13:34.453235+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-22T03:13:34.453235+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["voice-clone","fake-audio-recording","school","police-statement","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2025-limassol-cyprus-court-convicts-two-pupils-who-used-ai-apps-to-make-pornographic-images-of-classmates-and-a-teacher","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Σύμφωνα με το Δικαστήριο, οι μαθητές χρησιμοποίησαν εφαρμογές τεχνητής νοημοσύνης και έφτιαξαν φωτογραφίες πορνογραφικού περιεχομένου, στις οποίες τοποθέτησαν τα πρόσωπα συμμαθητών τους αλλά και ενός εκπαιδευτικού, σε σκανδαλώδες υλικό.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"According to the court, two lyceum pupils used artificial intelligence applications to make photographs with pornographic content onto which they placed the faces of classmates and of a teacher.","causal_attribution":"The court's finding as relayed by one outlet; the judgment itself was not read."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Οι φωτογραφίες κυκλοφόρησαν σε ομάδες συνομηλίκων τους, προκαλώντας σάλο εντός της σχολικής μονάδας κι έντονη αναστάτωση σε γονείς και καθηγητές.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The photographs circulated in groups of the pupils' peers, causing an uproar in the school and strong distress among parents and teachers.","causal_attribution":"Outlet's account."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Το Δικαστήριο επέβαλε ποινές φυλάκισης 12 και 9 μηνών, με τριετή αναστολή. Οι ανήλικοι τέθηκαν υπό αυστηρή επιτήρηση και διατάχθηκε όπως εκτελέσουν 120 ώρες κοινοτικής εργασίας. ... Το σοβαρό συμβάν καταγγέλθηκε τον περασμένο Νοέμβριο.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The court imposed prison sentences of 12 and 9 months suspended for three years, placed the minors under strict supervision and ordered 120 hours of community service; the incident had been reported the previous November.","causal_attribution":"Outlet's report of the sentence; the judgment was not read."}],"effects":[{"label":"classmates' and a teacher's faces placed in AI-made pornographic images circulated among pupils; distress at the school","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.alphanews.live/cyprus/katadikastikan-dyo-mathites-sti-lemeso-pou-eftiaxan-asemnes-eikones-me-ai/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"el","translation_note":"Read in Greek by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-22 and translated by the research agent (an AI) into English; no human translator or reviewer was involved. Alphanews.live report of 21 Mar 2026; direct fetch blocked by a Cloudflare challenge (403), read in full from an Internet Archive capture (web.archive.org/web/2026id_/).","independence_group":"alphanews-limassol-court-mar-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","privacy"],"unknowns":["Which court decided the case, under which offences, and on what date.","Which AI applications were used and when the images were made.","How many classmates were depicted and how they were affected."],"geography":{"basis":"The report places the convicted pupils at a lyceum in Limassol, Cyprus, and describes the images circulating among their peers and causing an uproar within the school, so the event country and the depicted classmates' and teacher's country are Cyprus. The court that convicted the Limassol pupils and sentenced them to suspended terms is reported by the Cypriot outlet as a domestic conviction; it is not named.","court_countries":["CY"],"event_countries":["CY"],"affected_person_countries":["CY"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): according to the court, as reported by Alphanews.live, two pupils used AI applications to place the faces of classmates and a teacher into pornographic images that circulated among their peers, and the court convicted and sentenced them.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-22"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Alphanews.live reports the court's finding that the two pupils used artificial intelligence applications to make pornographic photographs onto which they placed the faces of classmates and a teacher; those AI-made images are what circulated among their peers. 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The court imposed prison sentences of 12 and 9 months, suspended for three years, placed the minors under strict supervision and ordered 120 hours of community service.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-03-21","aiSystem":"Artificial intelligence applications used to make pornographic photographs carrying the faces of real classmates and a teacher, according to the court as reported by Alphanews.live (applications not identified)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the court as reported by Alphanews.live, two pupils used AI applications to place the faces of classmates and a teacher into pornographic photographs that circulated among their peers; the outlet reports an uproar at the school and strong distress among parents and teachers.","frameworkFacets":[],"pathwayDirection":"outward","causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"One teacher whose face was placed in the images (court account relayed by Alphanews.live). Classmates were also depicted but their number is not reported, so they remain unquantified.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"CY","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.alphanews.live/cyprus/katadikastikan-dyo-mathites-sti-lemeso-pou-eftiaxan-asemnes-eikones-me-ai/","primarySourceLabel":"Alphanews.live, 21 Mar 2026: Καταδικάστηκαν δύο μαθητές στη Λεμεσό που έφτιαξαν άσεμνες εικόνες με AI","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-22T03:10:52.840394+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-22T03:10:52.840394+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai_image_tool","sexualised_images","school","minors","conviction","cyprus"]},{"id":"2026-uk-training-firm-teachers-say-ai-rating-of-online-lessons-caused-stress-and-manager-questioning","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"now have transcripts of online classroom sessions analysed and scored by an AI programmed to alert human managers when they are suspected of doing things wrong.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Multiverse, a UK tech training company, has introduced an AI system that analyses and scores transcripts of its teachers' online classroom sessions and alerts managers when a teacher is suspected of doing something wrong.","causal_attribution":"The Guardian's account, based on teachers who spoke to it; Multiverse's response does not dispute that the system scores sessions."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Its new AI teacher monitoring system tags each instructor by their “risk status”, calculates a “percentage confidence score” and produces written comments about teachers’ work for managers to see at a glance.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The system tags each instructor with a risk status, calculates a percentage confidence score and writes comments about the teacher's work for managers.","causal_attribution":"The Guardian's description of the system's outputs."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"The workers said the AI monitoring had led to managers pulling them up for suspected “digressions” when in fact they were answering a student’s question.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Teachers say the AI monitoring led managers to pull them up for suspected digressions when they were in fact answering a student's question.","causal_attribution":"Teachers' account relayed by the Guardian; no individual instance, date or outcome of such questioning is described, and Multiverse says only human managers write performance reviews."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Teachers called the newly introduced system “remorseless” and “unnerving”, and said some staff were on edge, losing sleep and seeking therapy.; “Since all of this has come in, the stress level has been absolutely horrendous,” said one of several Multiverse teachers who spoke on condition of anonymity. “It has affected sleep, and not just for me.; “I feel like I’m under continuous scrutiny,” another said.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Teachers describe stress, disrupted sleep and constant scrutiny since the AI monitoring began, and say some staff were on edge, losing sleep and seeking therapy.","causal_attribution":"Anonymous teachers attribute their stress to the AI monitoring; no clinical assessment is reported."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Previously instructors were observed monthly by a human manager but are now watched for several hours a day by an AI.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Teachers say that instead of a monthly observation by a human manager they are now watched by the AI for several hours a day.","causal_attribution":"The Guardian's account."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Multiverse says the AI does not replace human judgment but “directs human time to where it’s needed most” by highlighting problems.; only human managers wrote teachers’ performance reviews.; “This agent provides instructors with improved advice on development and feedback; “The most consequential performance management action it can take is to recommend that a human personally reviews a session.”; They did not directly address complaints the system caused stress and anxiety and felt “remorseless”, but said its introduction was communicated in advance","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Multiverse says the AI does not replace human judgment, that only human managers write performance reviews, that the system's most consequential action is to recommend that a human review a session, and that its introduction was communicated in advance; it did not directly address the complaints about stress.","causal_attribution":"Multiverse's statements as relayed by the Guardian."}],"effects":[{"label":"stress, lost sleep and continuous scrutiny attributed by teachers to AI scoring of their lessons","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"},{"label":"managers questioned teachers over suspected digressions after AI monitoring (teachers' account)","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/28/teachers-euan-blair-firm-report-horrendous-stress-ai-used-to-rate-their-work","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English article of 28 September 2026 read in full on 2026-10-21 by the research agent (an AI) (HTTP 200); 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The Guardian interviewed several anonymous teachers, quotes the monitoring agent's instructions and Multiverse's spokesperson; the page also carries an anonymous teacher's first-person account.","independence_group":"guardian-multiverse-teacher-interviews"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["work"],"unknowns":["How many teachers were questioned by managers after AI flags, and whether any formal warning, performance outcome or dismissal followed.","Which AI model runs the monitoring agent.","When exactly the system was introduced; the article says only that it came in in recent weeks.","Whether any teacher raised a formal grievance or whether Multiverse has changed the system since the report."],"geography":{"basis":"The article says the monitored staff deliver apprenticeship training to UK public and private sector workers, so the monitored sessions are UK training; where the teachers themselves live is not stated.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["GB"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as an ongoing workplace experience: the Guardian reports teachers' accounts that an AI system scoring their lessons led managers to question them and caused stress and lost sleep. The AI's own scores and alerts to managers are the reported cause; the accounts are attributed to anonymous teachers and the company's response is included.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-21"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Guardian reports that the AI system itself scores transcripts of each teacher's online sessions, assigns each instructor a risk status and confidence score, writes comments on their work and alerts managers. Teachers say the monitoring led managers to pull them up for suspected digressions and that the continuous AI scoring caused their stress. The Guardian says bosses started using AI models for this, quotes the instructions given to the monitoring agent, and Multiverse's spokesperson describes the system as an agent whose most consequential action is to recommend that a human review a session. The outputs and their use by managers come from the teachers' accounts; Multiverse says only humans write performance reviews.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about","informed_decision_about"]},"name":"Teachers at UK training firm Multiverse say AI rating of their online lessons caused severe stress and led managers to question them","summary":"The Guardian reported on 28 September 2026 that teachers at Multiverse, a UK company that delivers apprenticeship training in computer and AI skills, said an AI monitoring system introduced in recent weeks had caused them severe stress. According to the report, the system analyses and scores transcripts of teachers' online classroom sessions, tags each instructor with a risk status and a percentage confidence score, writes comments on their work and alerts managers when it suspects something is wrong. Teachers who spoke to the Guardian anonymously said the AI monitoring had led managers to pull them up for suspected digressions when they were answering students' questions, that they now felt under continuous scrutiny for several hours a day, and that some staff were on edge, losing sleep and seeking therapy. Multiverse said the AI does not replace human judgment, that only human managers write performance reviews, that the system's most consequential action is to recommend a human review of a session, and that its introduction was announced in advance; it did not directly address the complaints about stress. 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It does not name its source for the judgment.","independence_group":"obs-21-oct-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","justice","privacy","work"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool was used and how investigators established the AI use.","How many people beyond the two teachers were depicted (the charges say an academy senior and instructor, among others).","Whether either party appeals the civil judgment, and its reasoning.","Which of the two teachers brought the civil suit.","Whether the first-instance court reference to the teacher who left teaching concerns one or both teachers."],"geography":{"basis":"The offending began at the student's high school, where he photographed teachers in class (JoongAng Ilbo; Kyunghyang Shinmun); the Incheon (South Korea) education office expelled him from that school (Kyunghyang Shinmun), so the school and the teachers' workplace are in Incheon; all three judgments were given by the Incheon District Court.","court_countries":["KR"],"event_countries":["KR"],"affected_person_countries":["KR"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): a student was convicted, on charges reported as using AI deepfake technology, of compositing his teachers' faces onto nude photos and posting them on social media; the courts recorded the teachers' mental shock and a victimised teacher's departure from teaching, and a civil court ordered damages. 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On 27 August 2025 the Incheon District Court gave him an indeterminate prison term of one year to one year six months and took him into custody; the court said that as a result the victimised teacher had left teaching and had not returned. On 19 December 2025, after he had turned adult, the appeal division raised the sentence to three years, calling the offence close to 'character assassination' and the teachers' mental shock considerable; OBS reports the sentence is final. On 21 October 2026, according to the Incheon Teachers' Union, a civil judge at the Incheon District Court ordered him, now 20, to pay one teacher 17.7 million won of the roughly 72 million won she claimed.","incidentDate":"2024-07-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2025-08-27","aiSystem":"AI-based deepfake image compositing, as the charges are described in the reporting (tool not named)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress","professional_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the charges as reported, a student composited two female teachers' faces and others' onto nude photos with AI deepfake technology and posted them on social media; the courts called the teachers' mental shock considerable, the first-instance court said the victimised teacher had left teaching and not returned, and a civil court later ordered damages to one teacher.","frameworkFacets":[],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"Two female teachers at his school, named in the charges as reported by Yonhap, the Hankyoreh, the JoongAng Ilbo, the Kyunghyang Shinmun and OBS; he admitted all charges (Kyunghyang). 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Education Minister Rob Ward described the content as \"deeply inappropriate\", confirmed it had been reported to TikTok and the States of Jersey Police, and said his department was working with the school to support staff and students; he said it appeared to be an isolated incident. The account was removed from TikTok. 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MCMC said it would investigate with the Ministry of Communications, the Home Ministry, the Ministry of Education and the Royal Malaysia Police, cited the offences and penalties that could apply, and asked the public not to produce, upload or reshare sexual content involving or alleged to involve children. 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Zero placeholders are used; the people depicted are not AI users.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"MY","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://malaysiatribune.news/mcmc-siasat-dakwaan-salah-guna-ai-hasilkan-kandungan-seksual-libatkan-guru-pelajar/","primarySourceLabel":"Malaysia Tribune, 8 October 2026: MCMC siasat dakwaan salah guna AI hasilkan kandungan seksual libatkan guru, pelajar","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-09T03:40:02.257247+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-09T03:40:02.257247+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","non_consensual_intimate_imagery","education","regulatory_investigation","malaysia"]},{"id":"2026-villa-alemana-school-ai-sexualised-image-of-teacher-shared-in-parents-whatsapp-group","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"en un grupo de WhatsApp masculino de apoderados, se compartió una imagen sexualizada de una de nuestras docentes, creada o modificada mediante inteligencia artificial, sin su consentimiento","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"compartieron la imagen de una docente del colegio sexualizada con alguna herramienta de inteligencia artificial, sin consentimiento alguno","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"la que habría sido creada o modificada mediante inteligencia artificial y posteriormente compartida en un grupo de WhatsApp de apoderados","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The school’s public statement says that a sexualised image of one of its teachers, created or modified with artificial intelligence, was shared without her consent in a WhatsApp group of male parents.","causal_attribution":"The school attributes the image to AI creation or modification; no outlet examined the image or identified the tool."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"derivó en la activación de los protocolos institucionales correspondientes","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"de momento, no se han presentado acciones legales por esta situación","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"corresponde adoptar las acciones institucionales y jurídicas pertinentes","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The school says it activated its institutional protocols and that the relevant institutional and legal actions should be taken; Radio Bío Bío reported that no legal action had been filed as of 8 October 2026.","causal_attribution":"Institutional response; no causal attribution."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"el uso de la tecnología se usó para “vulnerar la dignidad, privacidad e integridad de una persona”","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"cuestionaron el uso de herramientas tecnológicas para vulnerar la dignidad, privacidad e integridad de la profesora afectada","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"La vergüenza no debe recaer sobre quien ha sido expuesta ni sobre su cuerpo, su imagen o sus emociones","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The school describes the act as a use of technology to violate the dignity, privacy and integrity of a person, and frames the non-consensual sexualisation and circulation of the image as violence against the teacher.","causal_attribution":"The school’s characterisation of the harm; the teacher’s own account is not reported."}],"effects":[{"label":"sexualised image of a teacher, created or altered with AI according to the school, shared without her consent in a parents’ WhatsApp group","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/nacional/region-de-valparaiso/2026/10/08/apoderados-difunden-en-whatsapp-imagen-sexualizada-creada-con-ia-de-docente-en-villa-alemana.shtml","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"es","translation_note":"Spanish body read and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-09 (HTTP 200); no human reviewer read or translated the article. 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La Chispa does not cite La Jornada Maya and carries details absent from it (teachers citing instructions from above, the director watching girls holding placards), so it is grouped separately; it does not say whether its reporter attended the protest or relied on pupils' accounts. Its body states the accusation as fact and names the accused pupil; the record keeps the accusation attributed, omits the name, and the locators avoid it.","independence_group":"la-chispa-campeche-2026-10-06"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","privacy"],"unknowns":["Which application was used and how many girls were depicted.","Whether the images were shared beyond the pupil's tablet.","Any statement from the school or the accused pupil; La Chispa describes only staff conduct at the protest.","Whether a complaint was made to police or prosecutors."],"geography":{"basis":"La Jornada Maya reports the accusation and protests at an upper-secondary school in Campeche, Mexico, under a San Francisco de Campeche dateline. No court step is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["MX"],"affected_person_countries":["MX"]},"publication":{"basis":"A local paper reports that pupils accused a classmate of making nude images of female classmates with AI apps and protested the school's inaction; a second local outlet, La Chispa, describes staff conduct at the protest. All claims are reported, and the school, the accused pupil and the girls are left unidentified.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-06"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"La Jornada Maya reports that pupils accused a classmate of making images of female classmates without clothes with digital applications, describes this as AI used to make obscene photos, and says the images are not real photos but use the girls' faces. The generated images depict the girls (depicted_or_impersonated). The application is not named and no forensic finding is reported.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Campeche, Mexico: pupils accuse a high-school classmate of making AI nude images of female classmates and protest school inaction, a local paper reports","summary":"La Jornada Maya reported on 5 October 2026 that pupils at an upper-secondary school (preparatoria) in Campeche, Mexico, accused a classmate of making images of female classmates without clothes using digital applications, which the paper describes as AI used to make obscene photos and as images that are not real photos but use the girls' faces. The pupils reported him to teachers and administrators. According to the paper, no action to protect the girls was known, and on Monday classmates and some of the affected girls protested during the school's official ceremony, where the sound was cut off when they tried to use the microphone. Afternoon-shift pupils later held a peaceful demonstration at the school entrance and parents were seeking a response. No complaint to prosecutors or police is reported.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-10-05","aiSystem":"Unidentified digital applications that, according to La Jornada Maya, a pupil used to make images of female classmates without clothes, which the paper attributes to AI","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Female pupils in Campeche were depicted without clothes in images that a classmate is accused of making with AI apps, according to La Jornada Maya; pupils protested the school's lack of action.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"unquantified","affectedCountEvidence":"La Jornada Maya speaks of female classmates and of some of the affected girls in the plural but gives no number. No reliable count; zero placeholders.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"MX","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.lajornadamaya.mx/campeche/269096/campeche-denuncian-a-alumno-de-preparatoria-por-realizar-fotos-con-ia-de-sus-companeras-sin-ropa","primarySourceLabel":"La Jornada Maya, 5 October 2026: Campeche pupils accuse a high-school classmate of making AI nude images of female classmates","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-06T03:21:50.916694+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-11T07:47:44.914228+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-generated-sexual-images","deepfake","non-consensual-imagery","school","minors","mexico","campeche","ley-olimpia","depicted-or-impersonated","spanish-language"]},{"id":"2026-asuncion-una-students-anonymous-site-intimate-and-ai-altered-images","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Esta página difunde imágenes íntimas de alumnas, profesoras y funcionarias de la institución sin autorización'; 'El contenido publicado incluye fotografías reales y material adulterado mediante el uso de inteligencia artificial'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Algunas de las publicaciones incluso habrían sido alteradas mediante herramientas de inteligencia artificial para generar montajes'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Students of the Universidad Nacional de Asunción reported an anonymous website that shares intimate images of students, teachers and staff without authorisation, including real photographs and material altered with AI.","causal_attribution":"The students' account as relayed by two outlets (one chain); no tool or forensic finding is reported."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Añadió que dichos mensajes fueron compartidos y en algunos casos imágenes generadas por IA de contenido sexual'; 'estas alumnas estaban siendo expuestas a través de Telegram y otras plataformas'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The Minister of Women said that in some cases AI-generated images of sexual content were shared and that the students were being exposed through Telegram and other platforms.","causal_attribution":"The minister's statement as reported by La Nación; the basis of the ministry's finding is messages it says it saw."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'una plataforma utilizada para la distribución no consentida de fotografías íntimas y contenido adulterado con inteligencia artificial'; 'se exponen nombres completos, imágenes y números telefónicos de estudiantes'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"La Tribuna, reporting the findings of the police cybercrime department, describes the portal as used for the non-consensual distribution of intimate photographs and AI-altered content; according to a memorandum signed by the head of the department, a Paraguay section exposes full names, images and phone numbers of students.","causal_attribution":"The description of the portal and the AI wording are La Tribuna's narration of the department's findings; the Paraguay section is attributed to the memorandum, which was not read."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Al menos una veintena de alumnas de la Universidad Nacional de Asunción (UNA) denunció la difusión no autorizada de imágenes íntimas y fotografías manipuladas mediante inteligencia artificial'; 'la publicación de este material comenzó el viernes y que la circulación se incrementó durante el fin de semana'; 'posteriormente aparecieron contenidos relacionados en grupos de Telegram y WhatsApp'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"At least about twenty students complained, one said the posting began on a Friday and grew over the weekend, and related content later appeared in Telegram and WhatsApp groups.","causal_attribution":"Students' accounts as reported by El Nacional; the count is of complainants and is not a count of people depicted in AI-altered images."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'la universidad remitió los antecedentes al Ministerio Público, al Departamento de Cibercrimen de la Policía Nacional y al Ministerio de la Mujer'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Ya se ha iniciado una investigación; a través del Ministerio Público tenemos un fiscal de la causa y hay personas que se acercaron a denunciar'; 'una orden judicial para bloquear el acceso al portal en todo el territorio paraguayo'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"The university referred the case to the Public Ministry, the police cybercrime department and the Ministry of Women; the cybercrime chief said an investigation had begun with a prosecutor assigned, and police suggested a court order to block the portal in Paraguay.","causal_attribution":"Institutional steps as reported; no outcome of the investigation is reported."}],"effects":[{"label":"intimate images of university students, teachers and staff, some altered with AI, were shared without consent on an anonymous website","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"the site exposed students' full names, images and phone numbers, according to a police cybercrime report","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://elnacional.com.py/nacionales/denuncian-difusion-imagenes-intimas-adulteradas-alumnas-una-n112442","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"es","translation_note":"Read in Spanish by the research agent on 2026-10-05 (El Nacional, published 22 September 2026); no human translator reviewed it. Relays affected students and university statements; same chain as the Hoy report. The page declares ISO-8859-1 and the saved copy was converted to UTF-8 before reading. It names one student representative, who is not named here.","independence_group":"una-students-and-university-statements-2026-09"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.hoy.com.py/nacionales/2026/09/21/escandalo-en-fada-una-denuncian-red-de-difusion-de-imagenes-intimas-y-adulteradas","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"es","translation_note":"Read in Spanish by the research agent on 2026-10-05 (Hoy, published 21 September 2026); no human translator reviewed it. Relays affected students and the faculty and rectorate statements; same chain as the El Nacional report. The saved page also carries unrelated election items, which are not used.","independence_group":"una-students-and-university-statements-2026-09"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.lanacion.com.py/pais/2026/09/22/investigan-difusion-de-imagenes-intimas-alteradas-con-ia-de-universitarias/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"es","translation_note":"Read in Spanish by the research agent on 2026-10-05 (La Nación, published 22 September 2026); no human translator reviewed it. Carries the Minister of Women speaking on a radio and television programme and a brief remark by the cybercrime chief. The minister bases her remarks on messages from UNA students and contact with student-centre representatives; same chain as the Hoy and El Nacional reports.","independence_group":"una-students-and-university-statements-2026-09"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.latribuna.com.py/sucesos/policiales/2026/09/24/acoso-digital-en-la-una-policia-rastrea-a-administradores-de-sitio/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"es","translation_note":"Read in Spanish by the research agent on 2026-10-05 (La Tribuna, published 24 September 2026); no human translator reviewed it. Reports a police cybercrime memorandum and remarks by the head of that department; the memorandum itself was not read.","independence_group":"paraguay-police-cybercrime-report-2026-09-24"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","privacy"],"unknowns":["How many people were depicted in AI-altered or AI-generated images and which tools were used.","Who ran the site and who uploaded the material.","Whether the site has been blocked or the content removed, and the result of the request to Cloudflare.","The calendar date on which the posting began; one student places it on the Friday before the reports of 21 and 22 September 2026."],"geography":{"basis":"The complaints come from students of the Universidad Nacional de Asunción in Paraguay, and Paraguayan police and prosecutors are investigating (Hoy; La Tribuna). Police say the site uses domains outside the country (La Nación). The reports do not state where the people depicted live. No court step is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["PY"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter: university students report that intimate images and AI-altered sexual images of them were shared without consent, and police and prosecutors are investigating. Two chains were read: the students' accounts with university statements and the Minister of Women's remarks based on the students' messages, and a police cybercrime memorandum as reported by La Tribuna; all claims are kept at reported, and no one depicted is named.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-05"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Students say some of the images were altered with AI tools to make montages (El Nacional; Hoy); the Minister of Women says AI-generated images of sexual content were shared in some cases (La Nación); La Tribuna, reporting the police cybercrime department's findings, describes AI-altered content on the portal. The images depict the students (depicted_or_impersonated). No tool is named and no forensic finding on individual images is reported.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Asunción, Paraguay: students of the Universidad Nacional de Asunción report an anonymous website sharing intimate images of students, teachers and staff without consent, some altered or generated with AI; police cybercrime investigators and a prosecutor open an investigation, reported 21 to 24 September 2026","summary":"According to Hoy (21 September 2026) and El Nacional (22 September), students of the architecture faculty of the Universidad Nacional de Asunción reported an anonymous website that shared intimate images of students, teachers and staff without authorisation, including real photographs and material altered with AI. El Nacional reports that at least about twenty students complained, that some posts used photographs taken from social media, and that related content later appeared in Telegram and WhatsApp groups. The Minister of Women said her ministry had seen messages in which UNA students raised concern about content of them held without consent, and that in some cases AI-generated images of sexual content were shared (La Nación, 22 September). La Tribuna, reporting the findings of the police cybercrime department, describes the portal as used for the non-consensual distribution of intimate photographs and AI-altered content; according to a memorandum signed by the head of the department, a Paraguay section exposes full names, images and phone numbers of students (24 September). The university referred the case to prosecutors and police, and police suggested that prosecutors seek a court order to block the site in Paraguay. 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No report gives the number of people whose images were altered or generated with AI. Unquantified; numeric fields are zero placeholders.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"PY","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://elnacional.com.py/nacionales/denuncian-difusion-imagenes-intimas-adulteradas-alumnas-una-n112442","primarySourceLabel":"El Nacional (Paraguay), 22 September 2026: Students report sharing of intimate and altered images of UNA students","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-05T03:15:41.227034+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T03:15:41.227034+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-generated-sexual-images","non-consensual-intimate-images","university","anonymous-website","telegram","paraguay","asuncion","investigation","depicted-or-impersonated","spanish-language"]},{"id":"2026-uk-trades-college-staff-member-reported-manipulated-undressing-video","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'works for a UK college that trains students aged 16 to 19 in trades like construction.'; 'This winter, she says, school administrators told her that a student filed a report claiming two videos were circulating among his classmates.'; 'One appeared to be real, and it showed her having a conversation with a student.'; 'The other one, they said, appeared to be a manipulated version of the first. But instead of talking to the student, it showed her taking her clothes off and dancing around in what was either underwear or a bikini.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'WIRED spoke with three other teachers who allege that their students made sexualized photos and videos of them, likely using AI.'","relation":"context","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A staff member at a UK college that trains 16-to-19-year-olds in trades says administrators told her this winter that a student had reported two videos circulating among classmates: one apparently real video of her talking with a student, and a second that appeared to be a manipulated version showing her taking her clothes off and dancing in underwear or a bikini.","causal_attribution":"Her account of what administrators told her; the AI attribution is not established in the reporting."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'She says she had several of those conversations with the student she suspected had created the video. The student denied it when questioned by administrators and soon dropped out of the school.'; '(The college did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment.)'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The student she suspected of creating the video denied it when questioned by administrators and soon dropped out; the college did not respond to WIRED.","causal_attribution":"Who made the video is unresolved: she suspected a student, who denied it."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Afterward, the college gave her permission to step away from the class for a few weeks and took steps to educate students about the danger of creating or distributing deepfakes. But when she returned, she says, the atmosphere had chilled.'; 'It makes me reflect as well on those conversations'; 'It makes you question everything'; 'definitely made me a bit more cautious, a bit more vigilant when it comes to folks.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The college gave her permission to step away from the class for a few weeks and educated students about creating or distributing deepfakes; she says the episode made her question her earlier conversations with the student, that the atmosphere had chilled when she returned, and that it has made her more cautious and vigilant.","causal_attribution":"Her own description of the effect on her; the college's actions are known through her."}],"effects":[{"label":"a manipulated video showing her taking her clothes off was reported to be circulating among students","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"she stepped away from the class for a few weeks and says the atmosphere had chilled on her return and she is now more cautious","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.wired.com/story/teachers-deepfake-ai-students-content/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-10-02 (HTTP 200; WIRED, Caroline Haskins, 24 August 2026); visible text and the page JSON-LD articleBody saved and compared with the 2026-09-30 fetch (article text unchanged). Her account is given in her own words and in WIRED's paraphrase; WIRED identifies her by first name only; the college did not respond to WIRED.","independence_group":"wired-haskins-teachers-deepfakes-2026-08-24"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["work","education","privacy"],"unknowns":["Which college, and where in the UK.","The date, beyond this winter in an August 2026 report.","Who made the manipulated video and with what tool.","How widely the video circulated and whether it was removed.","The college's position; it did not respond to WIRED."],"geography":{"basis":"WIRED says she works for a UK college and that administrators told her a student had reported the videos circulating among his classmates. No nation within the UK, town or college is named. No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["GB"],"affected_person_countries":["GB"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the charter's personal-account rule as a concrete account by an adult college staff member who spoke to a journalist about her own case (depicted_or_impersonated): a manipulated video showing her undressing was reported to be circulating among students, she stepped away from the class for weeks and describes a lasting effect on her work. One reporting chain (WIRED); AI involvement is suspected and the suspected student denied making it. She and the students are not named.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-02"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Administrators described the second video as appearing to be a manipulated version of the first video, which appeared to be real; WIRED introduces the teachers as alleging their students made the content, likely using AI, and the college's response was education about deepfakes. 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She says administrators told her this winter that a student had reported two videos circulating among classmates: one apparently real, showing her talking with a student, and one that appeared to be a manipulated version showing her taking her clothes off and dancing in underwear or a bikini. The student she suspected denied making it when questioned and soon dropped out. The college let her step away from the class for a few weeks and educated students about deepfakes; she says the atmosphere had chilled when she returned and that the episode has made her more cautious. 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The student shown in the original conversation video is not described as harmed and is not counted. Exact count 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"GB","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.wired.com/story/teachers-deepfake-ai-students-content/","primarySourceLabel":"WIRED, 24 August 2026: They Dedicated Their Lives to Teaching. Then the Deepfakes Started (Caroline Haskins)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-02T03:16:41.734192+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-02T03:16:41.734192+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","sexualised-imagery","college","education-staff","harassment","united-kingdom","depicted-or-impersonated","first-person-via-journalist"]},{"id":"2026-arizona-sixth-grade-teacher-ai-image-kissing-another-male-teacher-student-suspended","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Arizona-based sixth-grade teacher'; 'says his students circulated an AI-generated photo of him in the comments of his public TikTok account. The image depicted him and another male teacher kissing each other.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'WIRED spoke with three other teachers who allege that their students made sexualized photos and videos of them, likely using AI.'","relation":"context","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The Arizona-based sixth-grade teacher says his students circulated an AI-generated photo of him in the comments of his public TikTok account, showing him and another male teacher kissing each other.","causal_attribution":"The teacher's account to WIRED; the tool is not established in the reporting."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'reported the accounts to TikTok—not for content violations but for being under the minimum age of 13—but says TikTok didn’t remove the accounts.'; 'He says that the school immediately launched an investigation and quickly identified the student, who admitted to creating and sharing the image.'; 'The student received a three-day suspension—the most severe punishment kids their age can receive for a first-time sexual harassment offense, according to the school district handbook.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"He reported the accounts to TikTok for being under the minimum age of 13 and says TikTok did not remove them; he says the school immediately investigated and identified a student who admitted creating and sharing the image, and the student received a three-day suspension, which WIRED says the district handbook sets as the most severe punishment at that age for a first-time sexual harassment offense.","causal_attribution":"The school's actions are known through the teacher; the district did not respond to WIRED."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'tells WIRED that reflecting on the experience “has kind of sent me into a spiral.” His concerns, he says, are not necessarily about what happened to him.'; 'They’re more focused on the enthusiastic, permissive culture surrounding AI use among his students.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"He told WIRED that reflecting on the experience had sent him into a spiral, and that his concerns were less about what happened to him than about the permissive culture around AI use among his students.","causal_attribution":"The teacher's own description of the effect on him."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'according to the school district handbook. The district did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The district did not respond to WIRED's request for comment.","causal_attribution":"Reporting-chain note: the account rests on the teacher's interview with WIRED."}],"effects":[{"label":"students posted an AI-generated image of him kissing another male teacher in the comments of his public TikTok account","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"he says reflecting on the experience sent him into a spiral","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.wired.com/story/teachers-deepfake-ai-students-content/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-10-02 (HTTP 200; WIRED, Caroline Haskins, 24 August 2026); visible text and the page JSON-LD articleBody saved and compared with the 2026-09-30 fetch (article text unchanged). The teacher's account is given in his own words and in WIRED's paraphrase; the district did not respond to WIRED.","independence_group":"wired-haskins-teachers-deepfakes-2026-08-24"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["work","education","privacy"],"unknowns":["When the image was posted.","Which AI tool produced the image.","Which school and district were involved.","Whether the other teacher shown in the image was affected or consulted.","Whether TikTok later removed the accounts or the image."],"geography":{"basis":"WIRED describes him as an Arizona-based sixth-grade teacher whose own students circulated the image; he says his school investigated and identified the student, who received a three-day suspension. No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the charter's personal-account rule as a concrete account by a named adult who spoke to a journalist about his own case (depicted_or_impersonated): students posted an AI-generated image of the teacher kissing another male teacher in his TikTok comments, a student admitted making it and was suspended, and the teacher describes distress. One reporting chain (WIRED); the district did not respond. The teacher, the other teacher shown and the student are not named.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-02"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The teacher describes the image as AI-generated and a student admitted creating and sharing it. WIRED introduces the teachers as alleging that their students made the content, likely using AI. The tool is not named and no technical assessment of the image is reported.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Arizona: a sixth-grade teacher says his students posted an AI-generated image of him kissing another male teacher in the comments of his public TikTok account; the school identified a student who admitted making it, who was suspended for three days","summary":"WIRED (Caroline Haskins, 24 August 2026) reports the account of an Arizona-based sixth-grade teacher, who spoke to WIRED by name (not repeated here). He says his students circulated an AI-generated photo showing him and another male teacher kissing in the comments of his public TikTok account. He reported the accounts to TikTok as belonging to children under 13, and says TikTok did not remove them. He says the school immediately investigated and identified a student, who admitted creating and sharing the image and received a three-day suspension; WIRED says the district handbook makes that the most severe punishment children of that age can receive for a first-time sexual harassment offense. He told WIRED that reflecting on the experience had sent him into a spiral, and said his concern was mainly the permissive culture around AI among his students. The district did not respond to WIRED. WIRED gives no date for the episode and does not name the school, district or AI tool.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-08-24","aiSystem":"Unidentified AI image tool; the teacher describes the image of him kissing another male teacher as AI-generated, and WIRED says the teachers it interviewed allege their students made the content, likely using AI; the tool is not named","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Students posted an AI-generated image of him kissing another male teacher in the comments of his public TikTok account, and he says reflecting on the experience sent him into a spiral (the teacher's account to WIRED).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"One teacher describes the harm to himself. WIRED reports no account from the other male teacher shown kissing him in the image and no harm to him, so he is not counted; the count is a lower bound of 1. WIRED's other teacher accounts are separate cases.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.wired.com/story/teachers-deepfake-ai-students-content/","primarySourceLabel":"WIRED, 24 August 2026: They Dedicated Their Lives to Teaching. Then the Deepfakes Started (Caroline Haskins)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-02T03:16:33.997566+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-02T03:16:33.997566+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","sexualised-imagery","teacher","school","tiktok","harassment","arizona","depicted-or-impersonated","first-person-via-journalist"]},{"id":"2026-indore-play-school-operator-reports-rs-97500-loss-after-call-police-suspect-ai-voice-cloning","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"On the night of January 6","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"closely resembled her cousin’s phone number","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The caller confirmed that he was her cousin and sounded exactly like him.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"urgently required life-saving cardiac surgery","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The incident occurred on Tuesday night","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"The caller claimed he was at a hospital for a friend’s urgent heart surgery.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"urgently required life-saving cardiac surgery","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"6 जनवरी 2026 की रात","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"A woman who runs a play school in Indore reported that on the night of 6 January 2026 a call came from an unknown number close to a cousin's number, in a voice that sounded exactly like the cousin's. The caller said a close friend needed urgent cardiac surgery at a private hospital in Indore.","causal_attribution":"The woman's own account as told to a reporter or in a police complaint, repeated by the other outlets. The Free Press Journal calls the relative a brother and Malwa Abhi Tak describes a friend's heart attack, so details differ between outlets. No call record was inspected."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"transferred a total of Rs 97,500 to the QR code in four transactions","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"was therefore transferring the amount in parts to her digital payment account","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"I confirmed receiving message alerts showing the money had been credited to my digital payment account","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"not a single rupee had actually been credited to her account from the number used by the caller","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"four separate Google Pay transactions totalling Rs 97,500","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"the fraudsters sent a fake ‘credit’ SMS to the teacher’s phone","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"transferring money to her digital payment account in small amounts","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"transferred ₹97,500 in four transactions","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"The transaction alerts, investigators later said, were fabricated to create a false sense of confirmation.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"97 हजार 500","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"ऑनलाइन ट्रांसफर कर दिए","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"A total of Rs 97,500 was sent to a QR code in four transactions at the caller's direction. The caller had said money was being credited to the woman's payment account first, and message alerts appeared to confirm the credits, but no money from the caller's number had been credited.","causal_attribution":"The woman's account relayed by four outlets. No bank or payment-app record was inspected. The sources differ on who operated the payment app and on how the woman found out (checking the account balance or calling the relative's real number). The fabricated-alert statement in The420 is attributed to investigators without naming them."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"lost her entire savings of Rs 97,500","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"which included her savings, funds meant for teachers’ salaries, and EMI payments on a loan taken for the school","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"transferring her entire savings","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"an amount that included her personal savings, funds meant for paying teachers’ salaries, and instalments for a loan taken to run the school","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The New Indian Express and The420 describe the Rs 97,500 as the woman's entire savings, including funds meant for teachers' salaries and loan instalments for the school.","causal_attribution":"The composition of the loss is the outlets' description of the woman's account. No accounts or payroll records were inspected, and the outlets do not report any effect on wages or loan payments beyond the description."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"He denied having made any such call and confirmed that the number used was not his.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"has remained switched off since the fraud","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"she contacted her real brother, only to discover that he had never called her","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"who denied making any such call and confirmed that the mobile number used by the fraudster did not belong to him","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"remained switched off since the incident","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The cousin described in the account denied making the call and confirmed that the calling number was not the cousin's. The calling number has been switched off since the call.","causal_attribution":"The denial and the switched-off number are stated by the woman and the woman's husband as relayed by the outlets. The cousin is not quoted directly and no telecom record was inspected."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"preliminary investigations strongly suggest the use of AI-based voice modulation technology","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"preliminary findings strongly point to the use of AI-driven voice cloning technology","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"fraudsters used AI voice modulation to mimic","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"शुरुआती जांच में सामने आया है कि ठगों ने एआई वॉयस क्लोनिंग तकनीक का इस्तेमाल कर भाई की आवाज की नकल की थी","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"An Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) in Indore said preliminary investigations strongly suggest AI-based voice modulation technology was used. The Free Press Journal states without the qualifier that AI voice modulation was used, and Malwa Abhi Tak reports AI voice cloning as a preliminary-investigation finding. No source reports an analysis of the audio or names an AI tool.","causal_attribution":"A preliminary police view relayed by four outlets that share one source chain. The outlet that drops the qualifier adds no evidence. The woman last spoke to the cousin about two years before the call."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"on January 7. A case has been registered against unidentified persons","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Investigations are ongoing.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"An FIR has been registered against unidentified persons","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"the Information Technology Act, 2000","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The matter was reported to police on 7 January, the day after the call, and a case against unidentified persons was registered under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Information Technology Act. The outlets describe the investigation as ongoing.","causal_attribution":"The outlets' description of the police complaint. The first information report itself was not inspected."}],"effects":[{"label":"Play school operator reported losing Rs 97,500, described as the operator's entire savings including school payroll and loan funds, after a call in a voice matching a relative's","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2026/Jan/09/madhya-pradeshs-first-ai-voice-cloning-fraud-reported-in-indore-play-school-head-loses-entire-savings","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in full on the live page. The woman appears under a changed name in this source, which is not used here.","independence_group":"indore-play-school-call-jan-2026-account"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.freepressjournal.in/indore/indore-cyber-crime-43-year-old-school-teacher-falls-victim-to-ai-voice-cloning-loses-97k","kind":"local_reporting","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in full. Indore staff-reporter piece dated 8 to 9 January 2026 that calls the relative a brother.","independence_group":"indore-play-school-call-jan-2026-account"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://the420.in/ai-voice-cloning-fraud-madhya-pradesh-indore-play-school-owner-duped/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"The live page answers HTTP 403 to automated requests. Read through an Internet Archive capture of 2026-01-10 that holds the complete article text.","independence_group":"indore-play-school-call-jan-2026-account"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://malwaabhitak.com/174176/","kind":"local_reporting","access":"read","language":"hi","translation_note":"Hindi original read directly by the research agent (an AI model). Passages are quoted verbatim in Hindi. English assertions are the agent's own rendering and no human translator reviewed them.","independence_group":"indore-play-school-call-jan-2026-account"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["No audio analysis, recording or AI tool is reported. The AI attribution is a preliminary police view, and the Free Press Journal states it without the qualifier.","The woman last spoke to the cousin about two years before the call, so the reported match between the caller's voice and the cousin's rests on the woman's impression.","The relative is a cousin in the New Indian Express, The420 and Malwa Abhi Tak and a brother in the Free Press Journal. Two Hindi technology-desk pieces read but not cited (AajTak and Amar Ujala) also say brother and round the loss to one lakh rupees. The cited sources give Rs 97,500.","The sources differ on who operated the payment app and on how the woman found out (checking the account balance or calling the relative's real number). The Free Press Journal names Google Pay and a fake credit message, and the New Indian Express describes message alerts that the woman took as confirmation of credits.","An earlier call about the play school roughly three months before was noted by the woman's husband, who wondered whether it was linked. The420 says investigators are probing this. No connection is established.","No source reports recovery of the money, an arrest or the identity or location of the caller. The investigation was described as ongoing on 9 January 2026.","The Free Press Journal and Malwa Abhi Tak describe the woman as a school teacher and do not mention a play school, while the New Indian Express and The420 say the woman runs a small play school.","The four outlets appear to share one source chain, the woman's account and police statements around the police complaint, so they are treated as one reporting chain and no claim is marked corroborated."],"geography":{"basis":"The sources place the call, the police complaint and the hospital named by the caller in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, cite the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and state amounts in rupees. The caller's location is unknown and no court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["IN"],"affected_person_countries":["IN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Four outlets describe one call reported by a woman who runs a play school in Indore. The outlets place the call on the night of 6 January, and one gives the year 2026. All claims are attributed to the woman's account or to police statements as relayed by the outlets and are treated as one reporting chain. The woman is described by role because the source uses a changed name. The cousin, the hospital doctor and other household members are not named or described beyond role. The AI attribution is a preliminary police view.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-30"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"An Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) in Indore is quoted saying preliminary investigations strongly suggest AI-based voice modulation technology was used. The Free Press Journal states the AI use without that qualifier and Malwa Abhi Tak reports it as a preliminary-investigation finding. No audio analysis, recording or tool is reported, and the woman last spoke to the cousin about two years before the call, so the match between the caller's voice and the cousin's is the woman's impression.","status":"suspected"},"person_relations":["communicated_with","depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Indore play school operator reports losing Rs 97,500 after a call in a voice matching a relative's that police preliminarily attribute to AI voice cloning","summary":"The New Indian Express (9 January 2026) reported that a woman who runs a small play school in Indore said that on the night of 6 January a call came from an unknown number close to a cousin's number, in a voice that sounded exactly like the cousin's. The caller said a close friend needed urgent cardiac surgery at a private hospital in Indore and asked for money to be forwarded to a QR code. A total of Rs 97,500 was sent in four transactions. None of the money the caller had said was being credited arrived, the cousin denied making the call, and the calling number has been switched off. An Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) in Indore said preliminary investigations strongly suggest AI-based voice modulation technology was used. The Free Press Journal, The420 and Malwa Abhi Tak reported the same call. All four outlets appear to rest on the woman's account and police statements, no audio analysis or AI tool is reported, and the police case against unidentified persons was described as ongoing.","incidentDate":"2026-01-06","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-01-09","aiSystem":"Unidentified AI voice-modulation or voice-cloning tool (preliminary police view, no tool named)","aiProduct":"Unidentified voice-cloning tool (suspected)","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The New Indian Express reports that Rs 97,500 was sent to a QR code in four transactions and describes it as the woman's entire savings, including funds meant for teachers' salaries and loan instalments for the school. The Free Press Journal and The420 give the same amount. The loss is the woman's account as relayed by the outlets. No bank or payment-app record was inspected and no source reports recovery.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the woman who runs the play school, is reported to have lost Rs 97,500. The cousin whose voice was reportedly imitated, the hospital doctor named on a QR code, the teachers whose salary funds were affected and the household members present during the call are not reported harmed and are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","platformType":"other","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2026/Jan/09/madhya-pradeshs-first-ai-voice-cloning-fraud-reported-in-indore-play-school-head-loses-entire-savings","primarySourceLabel":"The New Indian Express, 9 January 2026","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-30T01:09:17.050539+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:44:22.308838+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["historical-2026"]},{"id":"2026-jeju-middle-school-student-filmed-teachers-deepfake-composites-referred","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'제주동부경찰서는 도내 모 중학교 재학생 A군을 성폭력범죄의 처벌 등에 관한 특례법 위반(카메라 등 이용 촬영) 혐의로 지난 17일 불구속 송치했다고 23일 밝혔다.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'제주동부경찰서는 성폭력범죄의 처벌 등에 관한 특례법상 카메라 등을 이용한 촬영 혐의로 A 군을 불구속 송치했다고 23일 밝혔다.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Jeju Dongbu Police Station announced on 23 September 2026 that a student at a Jeju middle school had been referred to prosecutors without detention on 17 September for violating the Sexual Violence Punishment Act (filming using a camera or similar device).","causal_attribution":"Police announcement carried by both outlets (one origin)."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'경찰은 A군의 휴대전화를 보호자 측으로부터 임의제출받아 디지털 포렌식을 진행했다. 포렌식 과정에서 일부 교사와 관련된 촬영물과 일부 성적 합성물이 확인됐으며, A군은 범행을 인정하고 자백한 것으로 파악됐다.'; '포렌식 결과 일부 선정적인 합성물이 확인됐고, 수치심을 유발할 정도의 자료는 범죄 혐의에 포함해 수사했다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The student's phone was voluntarily submitted by his guardians and forensically examined; the examination found footage relating to some teachers and some sexual composites, the student admitted the conduct, and police say suggestive composites causing shame were included in the charged conduct.","causal_attribution":"Police account to Seoul Shinmun."},{"id":"c3","status":"disputed","evidence":[{"locator":"'처음 신고된 피해 교사 외에도 피해 교사가 더 있는 것은 맞지만 몇 명인지는 밝히기 어렵다'; '일부에서 학생 피해자가 있다는 이야기가 있었지만 확인 결과 해당 학교 재학생 피해자는 없었다'; '피해교사들이 현재도 해당 학교에서 학생들을 가르치고 있어 피해 사실이 알려질 경우 2차 피해로 이어질 수 있다는 이유에서다.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'피해자가 다수 있는 것을 확인했다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'가해학생의 휴대전화에서 제 자신을 촬영한 자료뿐 아니라 다른 교사들과 재학생들이 촬영대상으로 보이는 자료도 직접 확인했다.'; '수사기관이 학교에 신원확인을 요청한 것은 가해학생에 관한 것이었으며, 촬영 대상자로 보이는 재학생들의 신원을 확인하기 위한 별도의 자료 요청은 없었던 것으로 파악됐다고 A씨는 전했다.'","relation":"contradicts","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'제가 가해 학생의 휴대전화에서 확인한 피해 학생이 10∼20명 정도였다'; '그런 상황에서 학교에선 재학생 피해자가 없는 것으로 가정 통신문이 나갔고, 학부모들 사이에서 혼란한 상황이 발생했다'","relation":"contradicts","source_id":"s6"},{"locator":"'휴대전화 포렌식 등을 통해 철저히 수사했고, 사회적 통념을 벗어난 행위는 모두 특정해 입증했다'; '수사 과정에서 학생 1명도 피해를 본 것으로 확인됐는데, 이 학생은 다른 학교에 재학 중인 학생'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"Police say there are more victim teachers than the one first reported but withheld the number because the teachers still teach at the school and disclosure could cause secondary harm, and that no student at the school was a victim; on 29 September police added that one student victim was confirmed, a student at a different school, while the victim teachers say current students and a graduate appear in the footage.","causal_attribution":"Disputed. Police position (Seoul Shinmun 23 September; News1 and JoongAng 29 September): thorough forensics, no student at the school, one confirmed student victim at a different school. Victim teachers' position (press interview 29 September, one origin across outlets): 10-20 current students and a graduate appear in the footage, no identification procedure was run, and the school's letter to parents said there were no student victims."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'특히 피해교사들이 직접 여러 학생과 관련된 촬영물을 확인했는데도 별도의 강제 압수수색 없이 사건이 마무리되는 것 아니냐는 우려를 제기했다.'; '임의제출받은 휴대전화에 대한 포렌식으로 필요한 증거를 확보했다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The Jeju teachers' union questioned whether the full scope of harm was established, saying the victim teachers had themselves seen footage involving several students yet no compulsory seizure was made; police replied that forensics of the voluntarily submitted phone secured the necessary evidence.","causal_attribution":"Union and police positions as reported."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'피해교사들은 사건이 드러난 지 두 달이 지나도록 병원 치료와 심리상담을 받으면서도 매일 학교에 출근해 수업하고 있다.'; '지난 14일에는 변호사 조력 없이 경찰 피해자 조사를 받았고, 17일에는 교육청과 학교안전공제회의 조력 없이 지역교권보호위원회에 출석했다. 형사고소장도 피해교사들이 직접 작성해 제출했다고 노조는 주장했다.'; '대체교사를 구하기 어려워 사용할 수 있는 특별휴가 16일 가운데 3~4일 정도만 사용하고 있다는 게 노조 측 설명이다.'; '노조는 학교안전공제회가 형사고소 변호사비를 피해교사 개인별이 아닌'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'제주교사노동조합은 14일 입장문을 내고 해당 사건 피해교사들이 이날 도교육청 변호사의 조력을 받지 못한 채 경찰 피해자 조사에 출석했다고 밝혔다.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s10"}],"assertion":"According to the union, two months after the case came to light the victim teachers are receiving hospital treatment and counselling while going to school every day; on 14 September they gave police statements without a lawyer and on 17 September attended the regional teachers' rights protection committee without institutional support; they wrote the criminal complaint themselves; they have used only three or four of 16 days of special leave because substitute teachers cannot be found; and the school safety mutual-aid association proposes legal fees of 3.3 million won for all victim teachers combined, payable after the case ends.","causal_attribution":"The union's account as reported; not independently confirmed."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'교육청에도 치료비나 휴식, 병가 등 피해교사에 대한 지원이 필요하다는 취지로 이야기했다'; '피해교사들은 지난 1일과 3일 두 차례 교육감 면담을 요청했지만 받아들여지지 않았고'; '노조는 오는 10월 2일까지 전국 교사·시민을 대상으로 가해자 엄벌 탄원과 피해교사 지원을 요구하는 서명운동을 벌인다.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'노조에 따르면 피해교사들은 지난 1일과 3일 두 차례 교육감 면담을 요청했고 이후 재고를 요청했지만 답변을 받지 못했다.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s10"}],"assertion":"Police said they had told the education office that the teachers need support such as treatment costs, rest and sick leave; the victim teachers requested meetings with the superintendent on 1 and 3 September without success and a third written request was sent to the superintendent's office on 21 September; the union is collecting signatures until 2 October 2026 for severe punishment and victim support.","causal_attribution":"Police and union statements as reported; the meeting requests are described in a passage introduced by reference to the union side."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'A 군은 7월 중순쯤 모 중학교 현장체험학습 도중 교사의 신체를 휴대전화로 촬영한 혐의로 입건됐다.'; '경찰은 휴대전화 조사 과정에서 범행이 수개월간 이어졌으며 피해자가 다수 있는 것을 확인했다.'; '다만 경찰은 합성물을 유포한 정황은 발견하지 못했다고 전했다.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"News1 reports that the student was booked for filming a teacher's body with his phone during a school field trip around mid-July 2026, that the phone examination showed the offending had continued for several months with multiple victims, and that police found no indication the composites were distributed.","causal_attribution":"Police account as reported by News1."},{"id":"c8","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'당시 확인한 내용을 바탕으로 피해대상자와 피해유형을 별도의 목록으로 작성해 뒀다'; '경찰 피해자 조사에서 제가 확인하게 된 제 피해자료의 양이 사건 초기 휴대전화에서 직접 확인했던 것보다 상당히 적었다'; '경찰이 의도적으로 피해를 축소했다는 것은 아니다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'경찰 수사 초기 재학생들이 촬영 대상으로 보이는 자료를 직접 확인해 피해 대상자와 피해 유형을 별도의 목록으로 작성해 뒀다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'경찰 수사 초기 가해 학생의 휴대전화에서 직접 확인한 피해 학생만 10~20명에 달했다'; '졸업생 중에는 교사들보다 훨씬 심각한 수준의 딥페이크 피해를 입은 사례도 존재했다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'저희보다 진짜 심한 내용으로 딥페이크를 많이 당한 한 졸업생을 확인하고, 학부모에게 얘기하고 그 학생이 다니는 학교에 학교폭력 신고도 접수했는데 경찰에서는 (피해자가)특정 안 됐다고 했다'; '경찰은 처음에 불법 촬영만 있다고 하다가 며칠 뒤에야 딥페이크를 찾았다 했다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"},{"locator":"'2년 간 함께해 온 아이들이었기 때문에 교사로서 피해 상황을 특정할 수 있었고, 피해 학생들의 목록까지 만들어뒀다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"}],"assertion":"At a press interview on 29 September 2026 one of the victim teachers said that early in the investigation she had seen on the student's phone material in which other teachers and current students appeared to be the subjects and had written a list of the people and types of harm; that the amount of her own material shown to her at the police victim examination was considerably less than what she had seen, with more confirmed only after she went through her list; that she recognised 10 to 20 students (Yonhap-chain quotes) and a graduate who had suffered worse deepfakes and whose school received a school-violence report; and that she was not alleging deliberate minimisation.","causal_attribution":"The teacher's own account to the press (one origin, carried by several outlets); the numbers are her recollection of what she saw on the phone and are disputed by police (c3, c9)."},{"id":"c9","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'휴대전화 포렌식 등을 통해 철저히 수사했고, 사회적 통념을 벗어난 행위는 모두 특정해 입증했다'; '수사 과정에서 학생 1명도 피해를 본 것으로 확인됐는데, 이 학생은 다른 학교에 재학 중인 학생'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'경찰 측은 수사 과정에서 다른 학교에 재학 중인 학생 1명의 피해 사실을 확인해 입건 수사했다고 설명했다.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"Police responded on 29 September 2026 that the investigation had been thorough, using phone forensics, that every act beyond social norms had been identified and proven, and that one student had been confirmed as a victim, a student attending a different school, whose case was booked and investigated.","causal_attribution":"Police official's statement to News1 (by telephone) and as relayed by JoongAng; one origin."},{"id":"c10","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'사건은 지난 22일 경찰에서 검찰로 송치됐다는 통보가 이뤄졌고, 이틀 뒤인 24일 소년보호사건으로 법원에 송치됐다는 결정이 피해 교사들에게 전달됐다.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'검찰로 사건이 송치됐다는 통보를 받은 뒤 불과 이틀 만인 지난 24일 소년부 송치 결정이 이뤄졌다는 통보를 받아 당황스러운 상황'; '경찰에 내려던 자료를 하나도 내지 못한 상태인데, 조만간 피해자 의견서와 객관적 자료를 별도로 정리해 제출할 예정'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'해당 중학생은 지난 24일 소년보호사건으로 법원 소년부에 송치됐다.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"},{"locator":"'경찰이 검찰로 사건을 넘긴지 이틀 만인 지난 24일 소년보호사건으로 법원 송치가 결정된 것에 대해'; '현재 경찰에 제출하기로 한 자료를 하나도 제출하지 못한 상태다.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s8"},{"locator":"'피해자료를 제출할 시간도 없이 사건이 검찰을 거쳐 소년부로 넘어갔다고 주장했다.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"}],"assertion":"The victim teachers were notified on 22 September 2026 that the case had been sent from the police to the prosecution and on 24 September that it had been referred to the court's juvenile division as a juvenile protection case; the teacher said none of the material she had intended to submit to the police had been filed and that a victim opinion and objective material would be submitted separately.","causal_attribution":"The referral dates come from the notifications the teachers describe; no court or prosecution record or official statement was read, so the claim stays reported. The court is not named."},{"id":"c11","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'A씨 등 교사 5명 등의 신체를 불법 촬영하고 딥페이크 이미지를 제작한 혐의로 검거된 해당 중학생은 지난 24일 소년보호사건으로 법원 소년부에 송치됐다.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"},{"locator":"'B군은 교사 5명 등을 대상으로 한 불법 촬영 혐의로 법원 소년부에 송치된 상태다.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"Yonhap-chain reports of 29 September 2026 describe the student as referred to the court's juvenile division on charges of illegally filming five teachers and others and making deepfake images.","causal_attribution":"One chain (Yonhap, via Segye and JoongAng); the origin of the figure (police, referral papers or the union) is not stated. Police had withheld the number on 23 September."},{"id":"c12","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'최초 고소장에는 불법촬영과 AI 허위영상물뿐 아니라 ▲2025년 발생한 실제 신체접촉의 강제추행 해당 여부 ▲2026년 반복적인 접근·대기·지켜보기 등의 행위에 대한 스토킹범죄 해당 여부도 별도로 수사해 달라는 내용이 담겼다고 피해 교사 측은 밝혔다.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'이 사건은 지난 7월 학교 현장체험학습에서야 드러났지만 가해 학생에 의한 신체 접촉, 스토킹 등의 피해는 2025년부터 계속됐다고 한다.'; '매일 아침 출근하는 게 굉장히 무서웠습니다. 정확히 제가 올라가는 계단에서 (저를) 찍으려고 기다렸습니다.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s8"},{"locator":"'사건은 지난 7월 교외 체험학습 과정에서 불거졌다. 피해교사들에 따르면 당시 학생들과 영화관에 갔고, 한 학생이 교사 주변을 반복적으로 배회하는 모습이 목격됐다.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"}],"assertion":"The teacher said the original criminal complaint had also asked police to investigate physical contact in 2025 as possible forcible molestation and repeated approaching, waiting and watching in 2026 as possible stalking; Halla Ilbo reports that physical contact and stalking by the student are said to have continued since 2025, and quotes her saying she was frightened every morning because the student waited on the stairs she used in order to film her.","causal_attribution":"The teachers' account of their complaint and experience; whether the 2025 conduct is part of the charged case is not stated."},{"id":"c13","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'제주교사노동조합에 따르면 형사고소 변호사비가 피해교사 전체를 합쳐 330만원으로 산정됐고, 이마저 사건 종결 이후 지급되는 것으로 알려졌다.'; '노조는 피해교사 1인당 기준으로 변호사비를 선지급해야하고, 전담 지원팀을 구성해 특별휴가를 실질적으로 보장해야 한다고 주장했다.'; '도교육청 소속 변호사는 학교 법률자문과 현장 지원 등의 업무를 수행하고 있지만 공공기관 소속이기 때문에 교원 개인의 변호인으로 선임돼 경찰 조사에 참여할 수는 없다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s9"},{"locator":"'이번 사건은 학생과 교사라는 특수성이 있고, 소년법과 관련된 절차도 있기 때문에 이 사건의 특성에 맞는 변호사를 직접 선임하고 싶었지만, 관련된 비용은 지원되지 않았다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"},{"locator":"'실제 지역교권보호위원회와 경찰 피해자 조사에는 교육청이 지원한 변호사의 동행 없이 참석했다.'; '교원을 상대로 민·형사 소송이 제기된 경우 교원보호공제회를 통해 심급별 최대 660만원의 소송비용을 지원한다.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'피소를 당할 때는 각자 자기 방어를 해야 되기 때문에 개인별로 660만원 내에서 지원하지만, 고소를 하는 경우에는 건당 (330만원을) 지원하고 있다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s8"}],"assertion":"Legal-aid dispute: the union says criminal-complaint lawyer fees were set at 3.3 million won for all victim teachers together, payable after the case ends, and demands per-teacher fees paid in advance and a dedicated support team; the teacher says she wanted to appoint a lawyer suited to a juvenile-law case but no costs were supported and no office lawyer accompanied the teachers to the police examination or the protection committee; the education office says a teacher who is sued receives up to 6.6 million won per instance while a teacher who files a complaint receives 3.3 million won per case, and that its lawyers, as public-body staff, cannot act as an individual teacher's counsel at a police examination.","causal_attribution":"Union, teacher and education-office positions as reported on 29 September; the office's rules are its own description of the mutual-aid terms."},{"id":"c14","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'보다 포괄적인 지원이 가능하도록 국가 성평등가족부가 운영하는 디지털성범죄피해자지원센터를 연계했다고 부연했다.'; '피해자들이 심각한 어려움을 겪고 있는 상황에 비해 초기 지원이 체감되지 못한 부분이 있었던 것 같다'; '그 부분에 대해서는 죄송스럽고 안타깝게 생각하고 있다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s9"},{"locator":"'(064-1395)를 통한 교육활동 침해 사안 통합 지원 체계를 발표하면서'; '좀 더 잘 지원하지 못한 것에 대해 죄송스럽고 안타깝게 생각한다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s8"},{"locator":"'제주도교육청은 이날 오전 별개로 가진 브리핑에서 피해교원에 대한 초기 지원이 충분히 체감되지 못한 부분이 있었다며 유감을 표했다.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"},{"locator":"'내년 1월 1일 출범하는 교육활동보호담당관의 역할과 운영 방향을 구체화할 예정이다.'; '도교육청은 다음 달 15일 ‘교육활동보호의 새로운 출발, 함께 길을 찾다’를 주제로 토론회를 열어'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"At a briefing on 29 September 2026 the Jeju education office said it had linked the victim teachers to the national Digital Sexual Crime Victim Support Center, announced an integrated support system for teacher-activity infringements run through a hotline and its protection centre, with a forum on 15 October and a new protection officer post from 1 January 2027, and its section head said the office was sorry and regretful that early support had not been felt by the victims.","causal_attribution":"Education office briefing as reported by three outlets (one origin)."},{"id":"c15","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'제주교사노동조합은 14일 입장문을 내고 해당 사건 피해교사들이 이날 도교육청 변호사의 조력을 받지 못한 채 경찰 피해자 조사에 출석했다고 밝혔다.'; '노조는 지난 3일 공제회에 변호사 보수 재산정 이의서를 제출했다.'; '최근 발생한 딥페이크 사건을 거론하며 도교육청의 법률지원 체계를 따져 물었다.'; '타 시도가 어떻게 하고 있는지 파악해 피해 교원들이 혼자 대응하지 않도록 하는 방안을 모색해 보겠다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s10"}],"assertion":"On 14 September 2026 the Jeju Teachers' Union said the victim teachers attended the police victim examination that day without the help of an education-office lawyer, that it had filed an objection on 3 September to the mutual-aid body's fee calculation, and that two requests to meet the superintendent had gone unanswered; the same day a member of the provincial council's education committee questioned the office's legal-support system and the education bureau chief said the office would look at ways to stop victim teachers having to respond alone.","causal_attribution":"Union statement and council proceedings as reported by Newsjeju (one origin)."},{"id":"c16","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'전교조 제주지부는 교육청에 ▲불법촬영물·딥페이크 영상의 신속한 삭제·차단 ▲전문기관과 연계한 피해 영상 모니터링 ▲법률·심리·의료 지원 ▲수사·치료에 필요한 휴가와 시간 보장 ▲대체수업 및 대체인력 지원 ▲가해학생과의 실질적인 분리 ▲피해교사의 개인정보 및 사건정보 보호 등을 요구했다.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s11"}],"assertion":"On 28 September 2026 the KTU Jeju branch demanded that the education office set up a victim-support system: rapid deletion and blocking of the filmed and deepfake material, monitoring through specialist bodies, legal, psychological and medical support, leave and time for investigation and treatment, substitute teaching and staff, real separation from the student, protection of the teachers' personal and case information, and a response manual.","causal_attribution":"Union statement as reported (one origin)."},{"id":"c17","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'교육당국 측은 00중 딥페이크 사건 관련 추가 형사고소에 대한 변호사 비용 지원 신청을 최종 받아들이지 않았다'; '이미 경찰수사가 진행 중인 상황에서 피해 교사들의 추가 고소가 교육활동 침해행위의 지속을 중단시키거나 재발을 방지하는 데 실효적 조치로 보기 어렵다'; '지원 요건 미충족을 기각사유로 들었다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s12"}],"assertion":"Seogwipo Broadcasting reported on 6 October 2026, citing people in education and a tipster, that in a written opinion on litigation-cost support the education authority had finally rejected the victim teachers' application for lawyer fees for an additional criminal complaint in the case, saying that with a police investigation already under way a further complaint by the teachers could hardly be seen as an effective measure to stop or prevent the infringement of their educational activity, so the support requirements were not met.","causal_attribution":"One outlet's account of the written opinion, sourced to people in education and a tipster; the opinion itself was not read. Linking this report to this case is the reviewer's inference; the article body names neither the school nor the region."},{"id":"c18","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'과거 서귀포 모 초등학교에서 발생한 두 차례의'; '유사 성범죄 당시에는 피해자에 대한 소송비용이 100% 지원됐던 사례와 비교할 때 이번 기각 결정은 형평성에 크게 어긋난다는 지적이다'; '딥페이크 범죄에 대해서는 지원을 기각하는 것은 형평성에 맞지 않는다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s12"}],"assertion":"The same report says people in education object that victims' litigation costs were fully supported in earlier sexual-harassment and sexual-offence cases, including two incidents at an elementary school in Seogwipo, and quotes a tipster calling the rejection inequitable.","causal_attribution":"Criticism as reported by one outlet; the earlier cases' support was not checked."}],"effects":[{"label":"teachers secretly filmed by a student, with some footage turned into sexual deepfake composites","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"victim teachers in hospital treatment and counselling for two months while teaching daily; questioned without a lawyer, attended the protection committee without support and wrote the complaint themselves","claim_id":"c5","direction":"negative"},{"label":"the victim teachers say students and a graduate they recognised in the footage were never identified as victims and a letter to parents said there were none; police say one student at another school was confirmed","claim_id":"c8","direction":"negative"},{"label":"a teacher reports fear of going to school because the student waited on the stairs to film her, and physical contact and stalking said to date from 2025 (teacher's account)","claim_id":"c12","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.seoul.co.kr/news/society/accident/2026/09/23/20260923500094","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Read live in Korean on 2026-09-23 (Seoul Shinmun, 강동삼, published 11:18 KST 23 September 2026): police announcement, the paper's own call to a police official, the Jeju teachers' union's statements. Model reading; no human bilingual review.","independence_group":"seoul-shinmun"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.news1.kr/local/jeju/6300227","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Read in Korean on 2026-09-23 through the r.jina.ai reader proxy (live page 403); News1 Jeju, 고동명, 23 September 2026: the police announcement of the referral, the mid-July field-trip filming for which he was booked, several months of offending with multiple victims, and no indication of distribution of the composites. Model reading; no human bilingual review.","independence_group":"news1"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.seoul.co.kr/news/society/accident/2026/09/29/20260929500240","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Read live in Korean on 2026-09-30 (Seoul Shinmun [속보], 29 September 2026): the victim teacher's press interview at the Jeju Teachers' Union office, the 22/24 September referral notices, the contents of the original complaint, and the education office's support measures. The teacher's statements are one origin whichever outlet carries them. Model reading; no human bilingual review.","independence_group":"teacher-press-interview-2026-09-29"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.news1.kr/local/jeju/6305066","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"News1 Jeju (오미란), 29 September 2026. Live page returned HTTP 403 on 2026-09-30; read in Korean through News1's Daum mirror (v.daum.net/v/20260929174948788). Carries the press interview and News1's own call to a police official (thorough forensics; one student victim at a different school). Model reading; no human bilingual review.","independence_group":"teacher-press-interview-2026-09-29"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.joongang.co.kr/article/25465730","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Read live in Korean on 2026-09-30 (JoongAng Ilbo, 29 September 2026; Yonhap photo, text closely matching Segye: Yonhap chain). Gives the 10-20 students figure, the graduate, the police reply (one student at another school booked and investigated) and '교사 5명 등'. Model reading; no human bilingual review.","independence_group":"teacher-press-interview-2026-09-29"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://m.segye.com/ampView/20260929518740","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Read live in Korean on 2026-09-30 (Segye Ilbo AMP page, 29 September 2026; Yonhap photo and Yonhap-chain text). Direct quotes from the teacher on the 10-20 students, the parents' letter, the graduate and the school-violence report; states five teachers and the 24 September juvenile-division referral. Model reading; no human bilingual review.","independence_group":"teacher-press-interview-2026-09-29"},{"id":"s7","url":"https://www.jejusori.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=506962","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Read live in Korean on 2026-09-30 (Jejusori, 29 September 2026): own report of the press interview, the July cinema field trip, the list of students, the legal-aid complaints, and the education office's expression of regret at its separate briefing. Model reading; no human bilingual review.","independence_group":"teacher-press-interview-2026-09-29"},{"id":"s8","url":"http://www.ihalla.com/article.php?aid=1790673054791032014","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Read live in Korean on 2026-09-30 (Halla Ilbo, 29 September 2026, updated 30 September): own report of the interview (fear on the stairs; conduct since 2025; nothing yet submitted; 24 September referral) and of the education office's briefing (hotline; 660/330만원 rules; apology). Model reading; no human bilingual review.","independence_group":"teacher-press-interview-2026-09-29"},{"id":"s9","url":"https://www.jejusori.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=506933","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Read live in Korean on 2026-09-30 (Jejusori, 29 September 2026): the education office's briefing on legal-aid rules and the union's demands (per-teacher fees in advance, dedicated team), including the section head's apology. Model reading; no human bilingual review.","independence_group":"jeju-education-office-briefing-2026-09-29"},{"id":"s10","url":"https://www.newsjeju.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=425867","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Read live in Korean on 2026-09-30 (Newsjeju, 14 September 2026): the Jeju Teachers' Union statement that the teachers attended the police victim examination without an office lawyer, the 3 September fee objection, the unanswered superintendent meeting requests, and the provincial council education committee's questioning of the office. Model reading; no human bilingual review.","independence_group":"jeju-teachers-union-statement-2026-09-14"},{"id":"s11","url":"https://www.seoul.co.kr/news/society/accident/2026/09/28/20260928500112","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Read live in Korean on 2026-09-30 (Seoul Shinmun, 28 September 2026): the KTU Jeju branch statement demanding a victim-support system and a response manual. Model reading; no human bilingual review.","independence_group":"ktu-jeju-statement-2026-09-28"},{"id":"s12","url":"http://www.seogwipo.tv/news/articleView.html?idxno=14912","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Read live in Korean on 2026-10-06 (HTTP 200; Seogwipo Broadcasting, 6 October 2026): own report, citing people in education and a tipster, of the education authority's written opinion rejecting the teachers' lawyer-fee application. The article body calls the school '00중'. English renderings are the research agent's (an AI's) own translations; no human bilingual review.","independence_group":"seogwipo-tv-2026-10-06"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","work","justice"],"unknowns":["The number of victim teachers: Yonhap-chain reports say five ('교사 5명 등'); police withheld the number on 23 September and the figure's origin is not stated.","Whether the 10-20 current students and the graduate the victim teacher says she recognised on the phone are victims: police say no student at the school was a victim and one student at a different school was confirmed; the teachers dispute the identification procedure.","The filming for which the student was booked took place around mid-July 2026 during a school field trip (News1; Jejusori: a cinema visit); the teachers say physical contact and stalking date from 2025 (Halla Ilbo), so the start of the series is unknown; the record keeps July 2026 with month precision for the filming.","Whether the 2025 physical-contact and 2026 stalking allegations in the original complaint are part of the case referred to the juvenile division.","The court handling the juvenile protection case is not named; the referral dates (22 and 24 September) come from the teachers' account of the notifications they received, and no court or prosecution record was read.","The tool used; outlets describe the material variously as composites, deepfake images and deepfake video; whether the composites are separately charged.","The student's age and grade.","How the juvenile division disposes of the case and whether the teachers' additional evidence and victim opinion are considered.","Korean bodies were read by the model without human bilingual review.","Which additional criminal complaint the rejected lawyer-fee application concerned, which body issued the written opinion, and its date. Seogwipo Broadcasting refers only to the education authority and names neither the school (written '00중') nor the region for this case; it names Seogwipo only for the earlier comparison cases. This review links the report to this case by inference from the outlet's Jeju location, the case description (victim teachers of a middle-school deepfake sexual-offence case) and the legal-cost dispute already recorded in c13 and c15."],"geography":{"basis":"A middle school on Jeju, South Korea; investigated by Jeju Dongbu Police Station; the teachers work there (Seoul Shinmun, News1). Per the victim teachers' notifications the case was sent to the prosecution on 22 September and to a court's juvenile division on 24 September 2026 (Seoul Shinmun, News1, Segye, Halla Ilbo); the court is not named but is the Korean court handling this Jeju juvenile case, so court_countries is KR.","court_countries":["KR"],"event_countries":["KR"],"affected_person_countries":["KR"]},"publication":{"basis":"Full review on 2026-10-06 adding Seogwipo Broadcasting's 6 October report that the education authority rejected the victim teachers' lawyer-fee application for an additional criminal complaint. Police say forensic examination of the student's phone found sexual composites made from footage of teachers, so the teachers were depicted in the AI output (depicted_or_impersonated); the adverse experience continues for the victim teachers, documented by a police announcement, the teachers' public statements, police replies, the education office's statements and now the Seogwipo report. The teachers' statements are one origin whichever outlet carries them, the police replies one origin, the office briefing one origin and the Seogwipo report its own origin, so no claim is corroborated; c3 is recorded as disputed with both positions. No teacher, student or school is named; the student is a minor; officials are described by role.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-06"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Police say forensic examination of the student's phone found sexual composites made from footage of teachers; outlets describe them as deepfake composites, deepfake images (Segye, JoongAng) or deepfake video (Jejusori, KTU statement via Seoul Shinmun); the tool is not named and no forensic description of the method is reported. The primary charge is illegal filming, and police told News1 they found no indication the composites were distributed.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Jeju: police refer a middle-school student over secretly filming teachers and making sexual deepfake composites; teachers dispute victim count and legal aid","summary":"Jeju Dongbu police announced on 23 September 2026 that a student at a middle school on Jeju had been referred to prosecutors without detention on 17 September for violating the Sexual Violence Punishment Act (filming with a camera or similar device). The student's phone was voluntarily submitted by his guardians and forensically examined; the examination found footage relating to some teachers and some sexual composites, and the student admitted the conduct. News1 reported that the student was booked for filming a teacher's body with his phone during a school field trip around mid-July 2026, that the offending had continued for several months with multiple victims, and that police found no indication the composites had been distributed. Police told Seoul Shinmun there were more victim teachers than the one first reported but withheld the number to avoid secondary harm, and that no student at the school was a victim; the Jeju teachers' union questioned whether the full scope of harm had been established. According to the union, two months on the victim teachers were receiving hospital treatment and counselling while teaching daily, gave police statements on 14 September without a lawyer, attended the regional teachers' rights protection committee on 17 September without institutional support, wrote the criminal complaint themselves, and were offered 3.3 million won in legal fees for all of them together, payable after the case ends; two requests to meet the superintendent were not accepted. On 29 September one of the victim teachers gave a press interview at the Jeju Teachers' Union office. She said that early in the investigation she had seen on the student's phone material showing other teachers and current students, had made a list of the people and types of harm, and that the material shown to her at the police victim examination was considerably less than what she had seen; Yonhap-chain outlets quote her as saying the students she recognised numbered 10 to 20 and that a graduate had suffered worse deepfakes. She said investigators asked the school only to identify the perpetrator and never requested material to identify the students in the footage, and that the school sent parents a letter premised on there being no student victims. Police replied that phone forensics had been thorough, that every act beyond social norms had been identified and proven, and that one student victim had been confirmed, a student at a different school. The teachers were notified on 22 September that the case had gone to the prosecution and on 24 September that it had been sent to the court's juvenile division as a juvenile protection case, before they had submitted further evidence and a victim opinion. The teacher said the original complaint had also asked police to examine whether physical contact in 2025 was forcible molestation and whether repeated approaching and waiting in 2026 was stalking, and Halla Ilbo reports that such conduct is said to date from 2025. Yonhap-chain reports describe the charged victims as five teachers. The same day the education office briefed on legal-aid rules (up to 6.6 million won per instance when a teacher is sued, 3.3 million won per case when a teacher files a complaint; office lawyers cannot act as a teacher's private counsel), said it had linked the teachers to the national Digital Sexual Crime Victim Support Center, announced an integrated support system through a hotline, and its section head said the office was sorry that early support had not been felt. The KTU Jeju branch (28 September) and the Jeju Teachers' Union (14 and 29 September) demand a victim-support system, per-teacher legal fees paid in advance and a dedicated support team. On 6 October 2026 Seogwipo Broadcasting reported, citing people in education and a tipster, that the education authority had finally rejected the victim teachers' application for lawyer fees for an additional criminal complaint, saying in a written opinion that with a police investigation already under way a further complaint could hardly stop or prevent the infringement of their teaching, so the support requirements were not met; critics contrast this with full legal-cost support in earlier sexual-offence cases.","incidentDate":"2026-07-01","incidentKind":"ongoing_experience","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-23","aiSystem":"AI image-compositing ('deepfake') tool; not named in the police announcement","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress","professional_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Teachers were secretly filmed by a student and some footage was turned into sexual deepfake composites; two months on, per the union and the teachers' own account, the victim teachers are in hospital treatment and counselling while continuing to teach at the same school and handled the police statement, the protection committee and the criminal complaint without legal or institutional support. One teacher says she was afraid to go to school each morning because the student waited on the stairs to film her, and that physical contact and stalking date from 2025 (teacher's account). The filming and composites are admitted per police; the teachers' situation is the union's and the teachers' account.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":6,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"Yonhap-chain reports (Segye, JoongAng, 29 September) describe the charged victims as five teachers ('교사 5명 등'); police told News1 and JoongAng that one student at a different school was confirmed as a victim. Five plus one gives a documented minimum of 6. The 10-20 current students and the graduate the victim teacher says she recognised are her account, disputed by police, and are not counted. Followers, parents and the school community are not counted. Documented minimum 6.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"KR","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.seoul.co.kr/news/society/accident/2026/09/23/20260923500094","primarySourceLabel":"Seoul Shinmun, 23 September 2026: student who filmed teachers and made deepfakes referred to prosecutors; police say no student victims at the school","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-23T03:45:58.820151+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-06T03:13:01.412468+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","south-korea","jeju","teachers","school","illegal-filming","prosecutor-referral","depicted-or-impersonated","juvenile-protection-case","teachers-union","education-office","legal-aid"]},{"id":"2024-incheon-teacher-deepfake-student-sentence","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'인천지법 형사1단독(부장판사 이창경)은 16일 선고공판에서... A(10대)군에게 장기 2년, 단기 1년6개월의 징역형을 선고했다'; '40시간의 성폭력 치료 프로그램 이수와 아동·청소년 관련 기관 취업제한 5년'; '도주 우려 등을 이유로 A군을 법정구속했다'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'장기 2년∼단기 1년6개월의 징역형을 선고하고 법정 구속했다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'장기 2년, 단기 1년6개월의 징역형을 선고하고 법정 구속했다. 소년법상 만 19세 미만 미성년자에게는... 부정기형이 내려진다.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"On 16 September 2026 the Incheon District Court (Criminal Division 1, Judge 이창경) sentenced the teenage defendant to an indeterminate term of 2 years maximum / 1 year 6 months minimum for violating the Sexual Violence Punishment Act (editing and distributing false sexual images), ordered 40 hours of treatment and a five-year child-institution employment ban, and detained him in court.","causal_attribution":"Sentence reported identically by three outlets from the sentencing hearing."},{"id":"c2","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'2024년 8월 인공지능을 이용해 교사 5명의 얼굴을 나체사진에 합성한 뒤 사회관계망서비스(SNS)에 유포한 혐의'; '모두 11명의 허위영상물을 35차례 제작'; ''지인 능욕'을 테마로 한 텔레그램 대화방'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'2024년 8월 인공지능(AI) 기술을 이용해 교사와 학생들의 얼굴을 나체 사진에 합성한 혐의'; '교사 5명과 함께 태권도 학원에 다닌 여중생 등 총 11명을 대상으로 35차례에 걸쳐 합성물을 제작, 텔레그램 '지인 능욕' 대화방 등에 유포'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'2024년 인천의 한 중학교에 재학하던 중 딥페이크 기술을 이용해 교사 등 20여명의 얼굴을 나체 사진과 영상에 합성한 뒤 SNS에 유포한 혐의' (the prosecution's figure of about twenty).","relation":"context","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"In 2024, while a middle-school student in Incheon, he used AI deepfake technology to composite the faces of five teachers and six female middle- and high-school students from his taekwondo academy onto nude photographs and videos, 35 productions of 11 people in all, and distributed them in Telegram 'acquaintance humiliation' chat rooms.","causal_attribution":"Court findings as reported; the 11-in-35 count is Hankyoreh's and Munhwa's, and Newsis's 'about twenty' is the prosecution's charge description."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'자신의 담임교사에게 \"연락처와 사진이 지워졌다\"고 속여 사진을 받아내는 등 치밀하게 범행을 준비한 것으로 조사됐다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"He obtained his homeroom teacher's photographs by telling her that his contacts and photos had been deleted.","causal_attribution":"Investigation finding reported by Munhwa Ilbo only."},{"id":"c4","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"Judge: '반포한 교사 5명의 합성 사진과 영상물에는 피해자의 얼굴이 그대로 드러나 있고 실명, 나이, 학교, 교과목도 명시돼 있다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Judge: '피해 교사들의 얼굴뿐 아니라 실명, 학교, 휴대전화 번호까지 명시해 반포했다'; '피해자들이 장기간 심리치료를 받는 등 상당한 트라우마를 겪고 있는 점'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"Judge: '피해교사들은 말할 수 없는 충격을 받고 트라우마를 겪고 있으며 A군의 엄벌 탄원하고 있다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'합성물에는 피해 교사의 얼굴뿐 아니라 이름과 나이, 학교, 담당 교과목이 적혀 있었고 일부에는 휴대폰 번호와 인스타그램 아이디도 담겼다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"The distributed images showed the teachers' faces together with their real names, ages, schools, subjects and phone numbers, and the court found the teachers are suffering considerable trauma and receiving long-term psychological treatment.","causal_attribution":"The judge's sentencing remarks as reported by three outlets; phone numbers appear in Munhwa's and Hankook Ilbo's accounts; Hankook Ilbo adds Instagram IDs on some."},{"id":"c5","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'A군은 지역교권보호위원회가 열리기 일주일 전 자퇴해 학교 차원의 별다른 징계 처분은 받지 않았다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'피해 교사들은 올해 1월에야 피해 사실을 인지했으나, A 군은 교권보호위원회가 열리기 전 자퇴해 학교 측의 징계를 피했다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'ㄱ군은 교권보호위원회가 열리기 전 자퇴해 징계 처분을 받지 않았다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"He withdrew from school a week before the regional teachers'-rights protection committee met and received no school discipline; the teachers learned of the images only in January 2026.","causal_attribution":"The withdrawal is reported by all three; the January 2026 discovery by Munhwa only."},{"id":"c6","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'검찰이 구형한 부정기형 장기 3년6개월∼단기 2년은... 그러나 이날 선고는 검찰 구형에도 미치지 못했다'; the superintendent's pledge.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'인천교사노동조합은 입장문을 내고... 이번 선고에 깊은 유감을 표한다'; the superintendent: '법적·심리 치료 지원과 함께... 예방교육도 강화하겠다'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The Incheon Teachers' Union expressed regret that the sentence fell below the prosecution's request of 3 years 6 months to 2 years; the superintendent of education attended and pledged legal and psychological support and prevention education.","causal_attribution":"Statements reported by two outlets."},{"id":"c7","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'22일 인천교사노조에 따르면 교사 A씨 등 2명은 최근 학생 졸업사진 촬영과정에서 학교로부터 함께하자는 요구를 받았다.'; 'A씨 등은 전근 사유를 밝히지 않아 지금 학교는 피해사실을 모르는 것으로 전해졌다. 사정을 밝히지 못한 A씨 등은 결국 사진을 촬영했다.'; 'B군은 A씨 등 교사·학생 11명의 사진으로 성착취물을 제작·유포했으며 16일 장기 2년~단기 1년6개월의 징역을 선고받았다.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'딥페이크 성범죄 피해 교사 2명이 옮긴 고등학교에서'; '피해 사실을 밝히지 않으면 촬영에 응해야 하고, 거부하려면 피해 사실을 설명해야 하는 분위기 속에서 결국 사진을 찍을 수밖에 없었다고 호소했다'; '이들 교사 2명은 2024년 발생한 10대 A군의 딥페이크 성범죄 피해 교사 5명에 포함된 피해자들이다.'; '사진 촬영과 게재가 교직원의 자율적 선택에 따라 이뤄질 수 있도록 하는 절차를 마련하라'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"On 22 September 2026 the Incheon Teachers' Union said two of the five victim teachers in this case, who had transferred to other schools without disclosing the reason, were recently asked by their new schools to join graduation-album photo sessions and took the photographs because refusing would have required explaining the victimisation; the union asked the education office to make staff photo sessions a voluntary choice.","causal_attribution":"The union's statement of 22 September as reported by two separately bylined outlets, each of which ties the two teachers to this sentenced case; Hankook Ilbo frames it as a tip received by the union. Not independently confirmed by the schools."},{"id":"c8","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'등의 말로 촬영 압박을 받았다는 제보가 접수됐다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'거절 사유를 밝히지 않도록 강제하는 제도망을 갖추도록 요구했다'; '강요 분위기도 일지 않도록 대책을 강구하겠다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"Hankook Ilbo reports the union as saying the pressure came with remarks such as 'let's leave memories' and 'don't spoil the mood' at the high schools the two teachers had moved to, while Kyeonggi Ilbo attributes such remarks to an atmosphere in some schools generally; Kyeonggi Ilbo also reports the union's demand that reasons for refusal need not be disclosed, and an education-office official's reply that the office would devise measures to ensure thorough consent procedures and prevent a coercive atmosphere.","causal_attribution":"Union and education-office statements as reported by each outlet."}],"effects":[{"label":"teachers and students depicted in AI-composited sexual images distributed with their names, schools and phone numbers; long-term trauma treatment","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"two victim teachers pressed into graduation-album photographs at their new schools because refusing would have meant disclosing the deepfake victimisation (union account, 22 September 2026)","claim_id":"c7","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.newsis.com/view/NISX20260916_0003791674","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Read in Korean on 2026-09-16 (datePublished 2026-09-16T10:51+09:00; Incheon bureau reporter 이루비; '종합' consolidated report). Model reading; no human bilingual review.","independence_group":"newsis"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/area/capital/1278039.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Read in Korean on 2026-09-16 (datePublished 2026-09-16T11:00+09:00). Model reading; no human bilingual review.","independence_group":"hani"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.munhwa.com/article/11617393","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Read in Korean on 2026-09-16 (datePublished 2026-09-16T10:51+09:00). Model reading; no human bilingual review.","independence_group":"munhwa"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.kyeonggi.com/article/20260922580361","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Read live in Korean on 2026-09-23 (Kyeonggi Ilbo, 박기웅, 22 September 2026 15:43; a Daum copy is identical): the Incheon teachers' union's account that two victim teachers were asked to join graduation-photo sessions after transferring. Model reading; no human bilingual review.","independence_group":"kyeonggi-ilbo"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.hankookilbo.com/news/article/A2026092210370000589","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Read live in Korean on 2026-09-23 (Hankook Ilbo, 이환직, 22 September 2026 14:04): the union's statement of the same day and its demands to the education office. Model reading; no human bilingual review.","independence_group":"hankook-ilbo"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["The AI tool used is not named; the written judgment was not inspected.","The number of people depicted differs between the prosecution's charge description (about twenty, per Newsis) and the court reporting (eleven); eleven is used as the documented minimum.","When the distribution began and ended within 2024 and whether the additional indicted conduct extended later are not stated; the record uses August 2024 with month precision and no end date.","Whether either side appeals, and the outcome of any separate proceedings against the Telegram room operators, are not reported.","Earlier coverage of the arrest or indictment was not inspected; the reported_date is the sentencing coverage.","Korean bodies were read by the model without human bilingual review.","Which schools pressed the two teachers is not reported; the education office said it would devise measures (Kyeonggi Ilbo), and whether graduation-album procedures changed is not reported."],"geography":{"basis":"Event: an Incheon middle school and a taekwondo academy in Incheon (Newsis: '인천의 한 중학교'); victims are Incheon teachers and students; court: Incheon District Court.","court_countries":["KR"],"event_countries":["KR"],"affected_person_countries":["KR"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a harmful-artifact case with a criminal judgment: a court found that AI deepfake images of five teachers and six students were made and distributed with identifying details, and described the victims' ongoing trauma. Three separately bylined Korean outlets were read. The defendant is a minor and unnamed in the sources and here; no victim is named; the superintendent, union chair and judge are public officials. Updated 2026-09-23 with the union's report that two victim teachers were pressed into graduation-album photographs at their new schools (Kyeonggi Ilbo, Hankook Ilbo); the two teachers are not named.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-23"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Three outlets report the court's findings that the images were made with AI deepfake (image-compositing) technology and the conviction under the false-sexual-image provisions; the specific tool is not named. The Korean bodies were read by the model; no written judgment was inspected.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Incheon, South Korea: teenager sentenced to up to two years for AI deepfake sexual images of five teachers and six students, distributed on Telegram with the victims' names and schools","summary":"On 16 September 2026 the Incheon District Court sentenced a teenage defendant to an indeterminate term of two years (maximum) to one year six months (minimum) under the Sexual Violence Punishment Act for making and distributing false sexual images, ordered a 40-hour treatment programme and a five-year ban on working with children, and took him into custody in court. As a middle-school student in Incheon in 2024 he had used AI deepfake technology to composite the faces of five teachers, including his homeroom teacher whom he tricked into sending photographs, and six female middle- and high-school students from his taekwondo academy onto nude images and videos, 35 productions in all, and distributed them in Telegram 'acquaintance humiliation' chat rooms with the victims' real names, ages, schools, subjects and, per two reports, phone numbers (Hankook Ilbo adds Instagram IDs on some). The teachers learned of the images only in January 2026; the court said they are receiving long-term psychological treatment. He had withdrawn from school a week before the teachers'-rights committee met, avoiding school discipline. The Incheon teachers' union called the sentence, below the prosecution's request, regrettable.","incidentDate":"2024-08-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-16","aiSystem":"AI deepfake image-compositing tools (not named in the inspected court reporting)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress","reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Five teachers and six students had their faces composited by AI onto nude images and videos that were distributed on Telegram with their real names, ages, schools, subjects and phone numbers; the court found the teachers are suffering considerable trauma and receiving long-term psychological treatment.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"established","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":11,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"Hankyoreh and Munhwa Ilbo both report 11 people (five teachers and six students) in 35 composites, as found by the court; Newsis reports the prosecution's charge sheet as 'about twenty', which is not used as a count. Eleven is the documented minimum.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"KR","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.newsis.com/view/NISX20260916_0003791674","primarySourceLabel":"뉴시스 (Newsis), 16 September 2026, Incheon bureau: sentencing report with the judge's reasons, the superintendent's and the union's statements","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-16T03:16:35.128819+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:16:52.00163+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","south-korea","incheon","teachers","minors","telegram","criminal-sentence","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2026-suito-japan-ai-csam","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'A Japanese court has sentenced a former elementary school teacher to three years and six months in prison for possessing naked images of girls created by generative artificial intelligence, among other acts, in violation of the law against child prostitution and pornography.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'生成ＡＩ（人工知能）で作成された実在する女児の「性的ディープフェイク」を所持したなどとして'; '懲役３年６月（求刑・懲役６年）の判決を言い渡した。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'懲役3年6月（求刑懲役6年）を言い渡した。実在する女児の写真を生成AI（人工知能）で加工した「性的ディープフェイク」を所持した児童買春・ポルノ禁止法違反の罪でも有罪とした。'; '25年3月に女児2人の胸や下半身が露出しているように見える加工画像を記録した携帯電話を所持した。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'名古屋地裁は名古屋市の元小学校教員の男に懲役3年6カ月の実刑判決を言い渡しました。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"},{"locator":"'検察側は懲役6年を求刑し、弁護側は執行猶予付き判決を求めて結審した。判決は6月4日。'","relation":"context","source_id":"s8"}],"assertion":"On 4 June 2026 the Nagoya District Court sentenced a former Nagoya municipal elementary-school teacher, aged 35, to three years and six months in prison (prosecutors had sought six years). His offences included secretly filming girls and sharing the images in a teachers' group chat, and possessing, in breach of the Act on Punishment of Activities Relating to Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, generative-AI-made nude images of two real girls.","causal_attribution":"Independent reports of the first-instance judgment by Jiji, Kyodo (via Nikkei), the Yomiuri and TV Aichi. The judgment itself was not read."},{"id":"c2","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'were created on an AI-using image-editing website based on photos of students that were sent to another member of the group.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'県警によると、勤務先の学校に保管されていた児童２人の画像を別の人物に送信。生成ＡＩによる裸の画像を作ってもらったという。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'メンバーがAI画像編集サイトで胸部や陰部を露出された姿態を描写したものであるように認識される画像を作成し、被告人が携帯電話に保存して所持していたとされる。'; '一般人が見れば当該女子児童の裸の姿態が撮影されたものであると誤信するに足りる精巧なもの'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"},{"locator":"'3月10日、自宅で女児2人の顔を基にAIの画像ソフトで生成された裸の画像2枚を'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'一般人から見れば実在する女児の裸と誤信させるに足りるほど精巧なもの'; '25年3月に女児2人の胸や下半身が露出しているように見える加工画像を記録した携帯電話を所持した。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"The teacher sent photos of the girls, taken in his class and elsewhere at the school where he worked, to another member of the teachers' group, who used a generative-AI image-editing website to make images showing them apparently naked. The teacher kept the images on his phone; the indictment dates his possession to 10 March 2025. The court described the images as realistic enough that an ordinary person could mistake them for photographs of the girls.","causal_attribution":"Court findings as reported by Jiji and by Bengoshi.com from the judgment summary, and the police account reported by the Yomiuri at indictment. The website and the group member who made the images are not identified."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'うち１点は教員グループのチャットで共有していた。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"One of the two AI-made images was shared in the teachers' group chat.","causal_attribution":"Reported by the Yomiuri alone, citing the indictment and related records; not found in the other bodies read."},{"id":"c5","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'一連の事件は、被告が昨年３月、駅構内で女性のリュックに体液をかけた器物損壊容疑で逮捕されたことで発覚した。'; '愛知、東京、神奈川など５都道県の７人が逮捕・起訴された。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'全メンバーとされる5都道県の元教員ら7人が逮捕、起訴された。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'was a member of a group of seven elementary and junior high school teachers who are believed to have shared secretly filmed images of girls on social media.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The teachers' group came to light after the teacher's arrest in March 2025, and seven members, current and former teachers from five prefectures, were arrested and charged.","causal_attribution":"The group's size and discovery are reported independently by the Yomiuri, Kyodo and Jiji."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'marked the first case in Japan in which the law has been applied to the possession of AI-generated sexual deepfakes.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'性的ディープフェイクを巡り、児童ポルノの所持と認定した初の司法判断とみられる。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'性犯罪やわいせつ事件にくわしい奥村徹弁護士によると、生成AIによる「性的ディープフェイク」を児童ポルノと認めた司法判断は初とみられる。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"},{"locator":"'生成ＡＩで作られたわいせつ画像「性的ディープフェイク」を児童ポルノに当たると判断し、同法違反で起訴したのは全国で初めてだ。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'愛知県警によると、性的ディープフェイクを巡って、児童ポルノと認定し立件するのは全国で初めて。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'着衣の児童の画像にAIで裸体を描き加えたものは、従来の判例に照らせば「児童ポルノにはあたらない」と指摘する。'","relation":"context","source_id":"s6"},{"locator":"'生成AIで加工した画像の所持も児童買春・ポルノ禁止法違反と認定した初のケース。'; '処罰の必要があるというなら、それを可能にする法律を作ればいい。'","relation":"context","source_id":"s9"}],"assertion":"Jiji reported that this was the first case in Japan applying the child-pornography law to possession of AI-generated sexual deepfakes. Kyodo (via Nikkei) and the lawyer Toru Okumura (via Bengoshi.com) describe the ruling as apparently the first court finding of this kind, and the Yomiuri and Aichi police described the December 2025 indictment as the first in Japan. Okumura and former judge Kiichi Okaguchi argue that the law does not cover AI-drawn bodies and that new legislation is needed.","causal_attribution":"The 'first' characterisation is attributed to Jiji, Kyodo, a lawyer, the Yomiuri and the Aichi police. Kyodo and the lawyer hedge it with 'apparently' (とみられる), so it stays reported."}],"effects":[{"label":"two schoolgirls were depicted apparently naked in AI-made images produced from their school photos and possessed by a teacher at their school, who was convicted","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2026060401022/","kind":"news_agency_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Jiji Press English wire on Nippon.com, datelined Nagoya, 5 June 2026 (the historical primary). The live URL now returns 404; read on 2026-09-27 from the Internet Archive capture of 6 June 2026.","independence_group":"jiji"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/20260604-GYT1T00253/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ja","translation_note":"Yomiuri Shimbun Online, 4 June 2026, read live on 2026-09-27 (full free text). Japanese original read by the research agent (machine-assisted reading, no human translator); quoted locators are the Japanese text.","independence_group":"yomiuri"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/20251205-GYT1T00294/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ja","translation_note":"Yomiuri Shimbun Online, 5 December 2025 (the additional indictment), read live on 2026-09-27; cites the prefectural police on how the images were made. Japanese original read by the research agent (machine-assisted reading, no human translator); quoted locators are the Japanese text.","independence_group":"yomiuri"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.chunichi.co.jp/article/1174740","kind":"local_newspaper","access":"read","language":"ja","translation_note":"Chunichi Shimbun Web, 5 December 2025 (the additional indictment), read live on 2026-09-27; the free text is truncated after the first sentence of the indictment summary. Japanese original read by the research agent (machine-assisted reading, no human translator); quoted locators are the Japanese text.","independence_group":"chunichi"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUD047NO0U6A600C2000000/","kind":"news_agency_report","access":"read","language":"ja","translation_note":"Nikkei, 4 June 2026, a Kyodo News story (credited 〔共同〕), read live on 2026-09-27. Japanese original read by the research agent (machine-assisted reading, no human translator); quoted locators are the Japanese text.","independence_group":"kyodo"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://www.bengo4.com/c_23/n_20720/","kind":"legal_press","access":"read","language":"ja","translation_note":"Bengoshi.com News, 31 July 2026, read on 2026-09-27 from the Internet Archive capture of 25 September 2026 (the live page returned 403). Reports the judgment summary (判決要旨) and interviews lawyer Toru Okumura, who questions the legal interpretation. Japanese original read by the research agent (machine-assisted reading, no human translator); quoted locators are the Japanese text.","independence_group":"bengo4"},{"id":"s7","url":"https://topics.smt.docomo.ne.jp/article/tvaichi/region/tvaichi-20260604-1857-09599","kind":"local_tv_news_syndicated_copy","access":"read","language":"ja","translation_note":"TV Aichi report of 4 June 2026 on the NTT docomo news portal, read live on 2026-09-27. It covers the sentence and the judge's reasons; it does not mention the AI images. Japanese original read by the research agent (machine-assisted reading, no human translator); quoted locators are the Japanese text.","independence_group":"tv-aichi"},{"id":"s8","url":"https://www.sankei.com/article/20260428-4MNPT4EDKVKTHBKA3KUN73GKRI/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ja","translation_note":"Sankei Shimbun, 28 April 2026 (prosecution's closing and six-year demand), read live on 2026-09-27. Japanese original read by the research agent (machine-assisted reading, no human translator); quoted locators are the Japanese text.","independence_group":"sankei"},{"id":"s9","url":"https://topics.smt.docomo.ne.jp/article/nikkan_spa/trend/nikkan_spa-2183894","kind":"legal_commentary","access":"read","language":"ja","translation_note":"Nikkan SPA! column by former judge Kiichi Okaguchi, 14 September 2026, on the NTT docomo news portal, read on 2026-09-27 (first page). It criticises the ruling's interpretation of the law. Japanese original read by the research agent (machine-assisted reading, no human translator); quoted locators are the Japanese text.","independence_group":"nikkan-spa"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["Whether the sentence was appealed or has become final. Coverage read up to 14 September 2026 does not say.","Which AI image-editing website was used, and which group member made the images.","The number of other pupils harmed by the defendant's non-AI offences. Bengoshi.com reports 15 counts in the judgment, and a Yomiuri headline of 31 May 2026 reports more than 75 victimised children in the group case as a whole; neither figure is specific to the AI images.","When the AI images were made. The indictment dates the possession to 10 March 2025."],"geography":{"basis":"The defendant was a teacher at a Nagoya municipal elementary school (Aichi Prefecture), and the photos were of pupils at that school (Yomiuri citing police; Bengoshi.com citing the judgment summary). The possession was at his home, according to the indictment summary (Chunichi). The court is the Nagoya District Court.","court_countries":["JP"],"event_countries":["JP"],"affected_person_countries":["JP"]},"publication":{"basis":"Restored under the 2026-09-15 charter as a depicted-minor case decided by a court. The conviction and the AI method are reported independently by Jiji, Kyodo, the Yomiuri and Bengoshi.com (from the judgment summary). The 'first in Japan' characterisation is attributed and recorded together with the dissenting legal commentary. The teacher is described by role and the girls are not identified.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-27"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Jiji reports that the judge recognised the images as created on an AI image-editing website from photos of the pupils. Bengoshi.com quotes the judgment summary: a group member made the images on an AI image-editing site. The Aichi police account at indictment (Yomiuri) gives the same method. The website is not identified.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Nagoya, Japan: a former elementary-school teacher was sentenced on 4 June 2026 to three and a half years, including for possessing generative-AI nude images made from school photos of two girls; reported as Japan's first conviction applying the child-pornography law to AI deepfakes","summary":"On 4 June 2026 the Nagoya District Court sentenced a 35-year-old former Nagoya municipal elementary-school teacher to three years and six months in prison. Prosecutors had sought six years. He was one of seven current and former teachers from five prefectures charged over a group chat in which members shared secretly filmed images of girls. His offences included secret filming and sharing, and, under the child-pornography law, possessing two generative-AI images showing two real girls apparently naked. According to the police and the judgment summary, he sent photos of the girls from the school where he taught to another member of the group, who made the images on an AI image-editing website. The teacher kept them on his phone, and one was shared in the chat. The judge found the images realistic enough to be mistaken for photographs of the girls. Jiji called it the first case in Japan applying the law to possession of AI-generated sexual deepfakes, and Kyodo called it apparently the first such court finding. A lawyer and a former judge argue the law was stretched.","incidentDate":"2025-03-10","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2025-12-05","aiSystem":"Generative-AI image-editing website (not identified) used by a member of the teachers' group to make nude images from photos of the pupils","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Two girls were depicted apparently naked in AI-made images produced from their school photos, which a teacher at their school possessed; one was shared in a teachers' group chat (Yomiuri). The Nagoya District Court convicted him of possessing child pornography as part of a three-and-a-half-year sentence (Jiji, Kyodo via Nikkei, Yomiuri, Bengoshi.com citing the judgment summary). The girls' own experience is not reported.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"Two girls are depicted in the AI images (Kyodo via Nikkei: '女児2人'; Chunichi: '女児2人の顔を基に'). The defendant's other offences harmed further pupils and a 15-year-old girl in numbers not reported for him specifically. Images are not counted as people.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"JP","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2026060401022/","primarySourceLabel":"Jiji Press via Nippon.com, 5 June 2026: Japan Court Recognizes AI-Created Naked Girl Images as Child Porn","firstPublishedAt":"2026-06-14T11:10:34.612642+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:55.264515+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["csam","deepfake","minor","school","teacher","conviction","japan","nagoya","depicted-or-impersonated","restored"]},{"id":"2025-hku-deepfake-scandal","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'a University of Hong Kong (HKU) law student fabricated pornographic deepfakes of at least 20 women'; 'no allegation so far that the student spread the deepfake images'; 'a friend discovered the images on the student's laptop'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Around 20 to 30 women... were affected'; 'in February, the student had admitted to using screenshots of the social media accounts... to generate pornographic images using free online artificial intelligence software'; 'there were 700 images involved - including deepfakes as well as unedited images'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'The images were organized into folders named after the victims, totaling 700+ images'; 'discovered on his laptop reported to the university in February'; 'not known to have been widely distributed'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"In February 2025 an HKU law student was found to have used free online AI software to make indecent/deepfake images of some 20 to 30 women (about 700 image files including deepfakes and unedited saved photos), taken from their social-media accounts; there was no allegation he distributed them.","causal_attribution":"The victims' Instagram account (carried by HKFP and NBC) and AFP reporting (CBS); the 700 figure is images, and outlets vary between 'at least 20' and '20 to 30' women."},{"id":"c2","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'The University has already issued him a warning letter and demanded him a formal apology'; the 60-word apology letter; 'class adjustments'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'HKU proposed a verbal reprimand and warning letter'; the ~60-word apology 'most victims found... insincere'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'The university said it had issued a warning letter to the student and told him to apologise'; lawmakers/advocates' criticism.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"HKU initially issued a warning letter and demanded an apology (about 60 words, shown to victims in April 2025), and made class adjustments; the response drew wide criticism after victims went public on 12 July 2025.","causal_attribution":"HKU statements and the victims' account, carried by three outlets."},{"id":"c3","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'Hong Kong's Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data said Tuesday... has begun a criminal investigation into the incident'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The probe, announced Tuesday by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Hong Kong's Privacy Commissioner opened a criminal investigation on 15 July 2025.","causal_attribution":"PCPD announcement, 15 July 2025."},{"id":"c4","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'私隱專員公署今日（17 日）宣布，因證據不足未能進一步跟進... 由於未有受害人願意提供進一步資料，目前未有足夠證據提出起訴'; 'AI 深度偽造技術（Deepfake）投訴... 5 宗'; new school/parent guidance.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"On 17 December 2025 the PCPD announced it was ending the investigation for insufficient evidence, as no victim was willing to provide further information, and released anti-deepfake guidance for schools and parents.","causal_attribution":"unwire.hk report of the PCPD press conference (Privacy Commissioner Ada Chung), 17 December 2025."},{"id":"c5","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'under section 159AAE of the Crimes Ordinance, it is unlawful to disseminate deepfake intimate images... without their consent'; creation not covered.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'the city's regulations covered acts of voyeurism and the publication or distribution of images - rather than their creation'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'Hong Kong law only criminalises the distribution of intimate images... but not the generation of them'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Hong Kong law criminalises publication or distribution of non-consensual intimate images (including AI-generated ones) but not their mere creation, leaving victims without a clear route to prosecution.","causal_attribution":"Legal analysis carried by three outlets and the victims' statement."}],"effects":[{"label":"some 20 to 30 women had indecent and deepfake images generated from their social-media photos; distress, shared classes with the accused, and no redress after the probe closed","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-generated-porn-scandal-university-of-hong-kong/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-17 via the Internet Archive capture 20251105074941 (CBS live returns HTTP 406); datePublished 2025-07-15. CBS/AFP: at least 20 women, PCPD criminal probe, legal gap.","independence_group":"afp"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/hong-kong-opens-criminal-probe-ai-generated-porn-scandal-citys-oldest-rcna219046","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-17 (live, datePublished 2025-07-17). NBC News: 700+ images in victim-named folders, warning letter and 60-word apology, class adjustments, John Lee comment.","independence_group":"nbc"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/14/hku-student-who-allegedly-made-700-ai-generated-indecent-images-inc-of-classmates-gets-warning-letter/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-17 (live, datePublished 2025-07-13, correction 2025-07-14). HKFP: 20-30 women, February discovery, 700 images (deepfakes plus unedited), March disciplinary request, ragging analysis.","independence_group":"hkfp"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3318047/hong-kong-should-ban-ai-generated-porn-protect-victims-ngo-and-lawmakers","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-17 (live, datePublished 2025-07-13). SCMP: advocates and lawmakers on the creation-vs-distribution legal gap; Education Bureau comment.","independence_group":"scmp"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://unwire.hk/2025/12/17/hku-ai-deepfake-case-privacy-investigation-insufficient-evidence/fun-tech/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese on 2026-09-17 (datePublished 2025-12-17). unwire.hk on the PCPD press conference: probe ended for insufficient evidence, no victim willing to provide further information, 20-30 victims, five deepfake complaints that year, new school/parent guidance. Model reading; no human bilingual review.","independence_group":"unwire"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["The student is not identified beyond 'a male law student' and faced no prosecution; whether HKU took any further disciplinary action is not established.","The exact number of women is reported as 20 to 30 (NBC: 'more than a dozen'); the precise count is unresolved.","The creation start date is reported by The Standard as about May 2024 but is not firmly established in the sources read here.","Whether any victim later came forward with evidence after the December 2025 closure is not established."],"geography":{"basis":"Event: the University of Hong Kong; victims are HKU-connected women in Hong Kong (CBS, NBC, HKFP, SCMP). The PCPD is a regulator, not a court, and no prosecution followed, so court_countries is empty.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["HK"],"affected_person_countries":["HK"]},"publication":{"basis":"Restored from the deletion of historical artifact rows and converted to facts-v3 under the 2026-09-15 charter, which brings non-consensual AI imagery and harmful artifacts into scope. Some 20 to 30 women had indecent AI images generated from their photos; the harm and the closed investigation are documented across CBS/AFP, NBC, HKFP, SCMP and unwire.hk. First-publication timestamp preserved.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-17"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Multiple outlets and the victims' own account report the student used free online AI software to generate indecent/deepfake images from the women's social-media photos; the student admitted using the software (per the victims' account carried by HKFP and NBC). The specific tools are not named.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"University of Hong Kong: a law student made about 700 indecent AI-generated images of some 20 to 30 classmates and teachers; the privacy watchdog opened then closed a criminal probe","summary":"In February 2025 a University of Hong Kong (HKU) law student was found, by friends who saw the files on his laptop, to have used free online AI software to make about 700 indecent and deepfake images of some 20 to 30 women, including university and former schoolmates and secondary-school teachers, using photos taken from their social media. Victims went public in July 2025, and HKU's initial response, a warning letter and a demand that he apologise, drew wide criticism. Hong Kong's Privacy Commissioner opened a criminal investigation on 15 July 2025 but announced on 17 December 2025 that it was ending the probe for insufficient evidence, as no victim was willing to provide further information. Hong Kong law criminalised distribution, not creation, of such images.","incidentDate":"2025-02-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2025-07-12","aiSystem":"AI deepfake / image-generation software (free online tools, not named)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","reputational_harm","exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Some 20 to 30 women had indecent and deepfake images of themselves generated with AI from their social-media photos; victims reported distress and had to share classes with the accused, and the criminal investigation was closed for insufficient evidence, leaving them without redress.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":20,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"CBS and Hong Kong Free Press report 20 to 30 women affected; NBC reports 'more than a dozen'; the PCPD (December 2025) referred to 20 to 30 victims. Documented minimum of 20; the ~700 figure counts images (deepfakes plus unedited saved photos), not people, and is not used as a person count.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"HK","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/14/hku-student-who-allegedly-made-700-ai-generated-indecent-images-inc-of-classmates-gets-warning-letter/","primarySourceLabel":"Hong Kong Free Press, 13-14 July 2025: HKU student who allegedly made 700 AI-generated indecent images, inc. of classmates, gets warning letter","firstPublishedAt":"2026-01-29T09:52:32.902523+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:04.827976+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfakes","hong-kong","university","ncii","sexual-images","legal-gap","investigation","east-asia","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2024-south-korea-telegram-deepfake-crisis","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1a","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"BBC 3 Sep 2024 confirms Ko Narin's Hankyoreh scoop and describes the school- and university-specific rooms.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Hankyoreh English's own exposure of the military Telegram room (27 Aug 2024).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Around 26 August 2024 The Hankyoreh (Ko Narin) exposed Telegram rooms creating and sharing AI-generated sexual deepfakes of Korean women and girls, with rooms organized by school and university.","causal_attribution":"The scoop's existence and the rooms' school/university organization are confirmed by the BBC's original reporting and Hankyoreh English's companion investigation; the original Korean article is dead-linked and retained uninspected."},{"id":"c1b","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Room-structure passages: 'humiliation rooms'/'friend of friend rooms', entry terms, the 2,000-member school group.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The rooms ran as 'humiliation rooms' and 'friend of friend rooms' with entry terms demanding at least four photos plus name, age and area, and one group for underage pupils at a single school had more than 2,000 members.","causal_attribution":"Single-chain detail from the BBC's 3 Sep 2024 account; no second inspected chain describes the entry terms or the 2,000-member group."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Police-figure passages: 297 vs 180; 'The victims are often minors and the perpetrators are mostly teenagers'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Watchdog ~6,500 requests Jan-Jul (4x); 178 suspects booked, 74% aged 10-19; >half of erased deepfakes involved minors.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"Police recorded 297 deepfake cases in January-July 2024 against 180 in all of 2023; the watchdog received nearly 6,500 takedown requests in the first seven months of 2024 (four times the prior year); of 178 suspects booked, 74% were aged 10-19; more than half of erased deepfakes involved minors; victims were often minors and perpetrators mostly teenagers.","causal_attribution":"Both outlets relay the same police and watchdog accounts; traced to one official origin, so the figures are reported rather than corroborated. Figures count cases, requests and suspects, not harmed people."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'more than 900 students, teachers and staff' (education ministry); 'of 964 deepfake-related sex crime cases reported from January to October last year, police made 23 arrests' (Seoul police statement).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"The education ministry counted more than 900 students, teachers and staff victimized between January and early November 2024; a Seoul police statement said that of 964 deepfake-related sex crime cases reported January-October 2024, 23 arrests were made.","causal_attribution":"Single chain (CNN) relaying official figures; the education-ministry count is the record's person-count lower bound."},{"id":"c4","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"Reuters wire via CNN, 26 Sep 2024: possession/viewing criminalized.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"CNN 25 Apr 2025: Sep 2024 law — possession/viewing up to 3 years or 30M won; creation maximum raised 5 to 7 years.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"On 26 September 2024 the National Assembly criminalized possessing or viewing sexually explicit deepfakes (up to 3 years' prison or a 30 million won fine); the maximum sentence for creating deepfake pornography was raised from 5 to 7 years.","causal_attribution":"The statute is a public record carried by two chains (Reuters wire; CNN original). The historical claim of an October 2024 amendment removing the distribution-intent requirement was not re-verified and is recorded as an unknown."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Military IDs turned into deepfake porn': servicewomen called 'military supplies'; at least 30 victims; channel active since 8 Aug with ~850 audience.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"A separate Telegram room degraded servicewomen with deepfakes made from military-intranet ID photos, implying insider involvement, with at least 30 victims across the Army, Navy and Air Force and an audience of about 850 since 8 August 2024.","causal_attribution":"Single chain (Hankyoreh original reporting)."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Heejin passages (pseudonymous victim account).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Ruma passages (pseudonymous victim account).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"Individual victims described severe harm: a pseudonymous school victim 'Heejin' spoke to the BBC, and 'Ruma', targeted in 2021 at age 27, spoke to CNN.","causal_attribution":"Pseudonymous first-person accounts carried by two outlets; the historical record's 'broke my whole belief system' quotation was not re-found in inspected sources and is dropped from the claims."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Korea Herald 16 Nov 2025 relaying the National Office of Investigation figures.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"}],"assertion":"By November 2025 the National Office of Investigation reported 3,557 people apprehended for cybersexual violence over the preceding year, with deepfake crimes the largest category (1,553 cases) and about 62% of suspects teenagers.","causal_attribution":"Single chain relaying official figures; apprehension figures count suspects, not victims."}],"effects":[{"label":"mass AI-generated sexual deepfakes of identified women and girls distributed in Telegram rooms","claim_id":"c1a","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpdlpj9zn9go","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-15 (3 Sep 2024; Jean Mackenzie, Seoul). Original reporting: victim 'Heejin', room structure, the 2,000-member school group, the 500+ activist-compiled school list.","independence_group":"bbc"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg4yerrg451o","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-15 (28 Aug 2024). Yoon cabinet order; police figures attributed.","independence_group":"bbc"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1155588.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-15 (27 Aug 2024). Hankyoreh's own exposure of the military room.","independence_group":"hankyoreh"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.npr.org/2024/09/06/nx-s1-5101891/south-korea-deepfake","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-15 (6 Sep 2024). Watchdog and police figures attributed.","independence_group":"npr"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/26/asia/south-korea-deepfake-bill-passed-intl-hnk","kind":"wire_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-15 (26 Sep 2024); bylined Reuters.","independence_group":"reuters"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/asia/south-korea-deepfake-crimes-intl-hnk-dst","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-15 (25 Apr 2025). CNN original: victim 'Ruma', education-ministry figure, Seoul police statement.","independence_group":"cnn"},{"id":"s7","url":"https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10616925","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-15 (16 Nov 2025; the historical date 2025-11-01 was wrong). National Office of Investigation figures.","independence_group":"korea-herald"},{"id":"s8","url":"https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/society/society_general/1155800.html","kind":"news_report","access":"unavailable","language":null,"translation_note":"HTTP 404 on 2026-09-15. Ko Narin's original Korean investigation (~26 Aug 2024); retained as the historical reference. BBC's 3 Sep 2024 report confirms the scoop; the body was not inspected in this review and its language is not re-asserted.","independence_group":"hankyoreh"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","justice"],"unknowns":["Not re-verified in inspected sources and therefore not claims of this record: the 220,000-member channel figure; 781 victims with 37% minors; Women's Human Rights Institute of Korea 332,341 supported cases; the October 2024 amendment removing the distribution-intent requirement; the Seoul National University graduates' 9-year and 3.5-year sentences; the teachers' union 200-school estimate; the 'broke my whole belief system' victim quotation.","The specific AI tools used are not identified in the inspected reporting.","Ko Narin's original Korean article (hani.co.kr 1155800) is HTTP 404; its contents are known only through the BBC's confirmation and the historical record.","The ScienceDirect study cited by the historical record answered 403 and was not inspected.","Cross-group overlap between police case counts, the education-ministry victim count and watchdog requests is unresolved."],"geography":{"basis":"Events, victims and the responding institutions are all in South Korea (all chains). No court proceeding is verified in this review, so court_countries is [].","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["KR"],"affected_person_countries":["KR"]},"publication":{"basis":"Restored under the 2026-09-15 charter as a harmful-artifact crisis affecting identified women and girls, predominantly minors. The person count is the education ministry's documented lower bound; case, request and membership figures are recorded but never used as person counts. Unverifiable historical claims are preserved as unknowns rather than deleted silently. No death; the death-verification rule is not engaged. Pseudonymous victims remain pseudonymous. In a 2026-09-15 second pass the original compound first claim was split: the corroborated exposure and room organization stand as c1a, and the BBC-only structure details (entry terms, 2,000-member group) stand as reported c1b. person_relations recorded in the same pass.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Every inspected chain describes AI deepfake tools as the generation mechanism and Telegram as the distribution channel; police and watchdog figures classify the cases as deepfake sex crimes. The specific tools are not individually identified beyond 'AI deepfake/nudify tools'.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"South Korea Telegram AI Deepfake Sexual Abuse Crisis","summary":"In late August 2024, journalist Ko Narin of The Hankyoreh exposed networks of Telegram rooms in South Korea where AI tools were used to turn ordinary photos of women and girls — middle and high school pupils, university students, teachers and servicewomen — into sexual deepfakes, shared with their identities in school- and university-specific 'humiliation rooms'. Police figures showed 297 deepfake cases in January-July 2024 (vs 180 in all of 2023); the education ministry counted more than 900 victimized students, teachers and staff; President Yoon ordered a crackdown; and on 26 September 2024 the National Assembly criminalized possessing or viewing sexually explicit deepfakes. Victims were often minors and perpetrators mostly teenagers.","incidentDate":"2024-08-01","incidentEndDate":"2024-09-26","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2024-08-26","aiSystem":"AI deepfake generation tools (various)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","aiCompany":"Multiple (various free AI 'undressing' tools)","severity":"critical","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":["minor_exploitation","third_party_harm_facilitation","psychological_manipulation"],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Mass non-consensual AI sexual imagery of schoolgirls, students, teachers and servicewomen, distributed with their identities in Telegram rooms; pseudonymous victims describe severe distress, and police recorded hundreds of cases dominated by minor victims and teenage perpetrators.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":900,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"Lower bound: the South Korean education ministry's count of 'more than 900 students, teachers and staff' victimized (January-early November 2024), carried by CNN's 25 April 2025 report. This counts people reported as victims to the education authorities. Police figures (297 cases; 964 cases) count cases, not people, and are not used as person counts; the watchdog's ~6,500 figures count takedown requests, not people; the 500+ schools figure is an activist-compiled list of targets, not a victim count; channel membership numbers are not counted. Cross-group overlap is unresolved.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"KR","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpdlpj9zn9go","primarySourceLabel":"BBC News, Jean Mackenzie (3 Sep 2024) — 'Inside the deepfake porn crisis engulfing Korean schools' (replaces the dead Hankyoreh original)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-01-29T09:52:18.956616+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:16:53.809496+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfakes","minor","south-korea","telegram","sexual-images","school","criminal-charges","legislation","mass-scale","non-western"]},{"id":"2022-singapore-wysa-gaslighting","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'Launched in August 2022, the Singapore Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education's Mindline at Work for MOE tool was built for public-sector teachers as part of a broader mental health initiative'; 'Singapore's government was the first to bring Wysa's bot into a national-level service.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"In August 2022 Singapore's Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education launched 'Mindline at Work for MOE', a government-supported mental-health portal for public-sector teachers with a Wysa-powered chatbot, extending the June 2020 Mindline.sg initiative; Singapore was the first government to bring Wysa's bot into a national-level service.","causal_attribution":"The deployment is directly established by the Rest of World investigation and confirmed by Wysa's own responses in it."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"The Mindy passages: the vaping incident, the police involvement, 'Selecting the \"Need a listening ear?\" option... the penguin suggested she try a breathing exercise'; '\"I was like, no, I just want someone to listen!\" she told Rest of World. \"I want to be heard!\"'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Mindy (pseudonym), a music teacher dealing with a police-involved student vaping incident and a 500-student workload, tried the portal's 'Need a listening ear?' option; after she recounted the week, the penguin-character bot suggested a breathing exercise, to which she laughed and said 'no, I just want someone to listen! I want to be heard!'","causal_attribution":"Her account to Rest of World under a pseudonym (she feared reprisal); one chain."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"The Chow quotation and 'Scathing screenshots of the chatbot interactions went viral on Reddit, Twitter, and Instagram'; 'Just days after the extension's launch, though, complaints began to emerge.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Mr. Chow (pseudonym), a public-school teacher in his late 20s, called the bot 'a joke' and said 'It's trying to gaslight the teachers, to say, \"Oh, this amount of workload is normal, let's see how we can reframe our perspective on this\"'; scathing screenshots of the chatbot interactions went viral on Reddit, Twitter and Instagram days after the launch.","causal_attribution":"His account to Rest of World under a pseudonym; the virality is the outlet's account without platform metrics."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"The Baldry and Joshi passages; 'The Ministry of Health... would not comment but directed Rest of World to speak to the Ministry of Education, who did not respond to multiple requests for comment.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Wysa defended the app as building 'emotional resilience' ('an app or bot can't change the behavior of others... Wysa can only help users change the way they feel about things themselves' — VP marketing Sarah Baldry); lead psychologist Smriti Joshi attributed the backlash to teachers already being in a 'state of angst'; the Ministry of Health redirected queries to the Ministry of Education, which did not respond.","causal_attribution":"The company's and ministries' positions are quoted directly and preserved as contrary context."}],"effects":[{"label":"teachers in crisis met with generic breathing exercises and reframing they called gaslighting","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://restofworld.org/2022/free-therapy-chatbots-singapore/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-15 (41 substantive paragraphs; datePublished 2022-11-29T08:00:00-05:00; fetched HTTP 200 after one 429 with a different user-agent).","independence_group":"rest-of-world"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use","institutional_use"],"contexts":["work","education","health"],"unknowns":["reported_date 2022-08-15 is not established by the inspected primary source (published 2022-11-29); the article dates the complaints to days after the tool's August 2022 launch without a day. It is retained with this note; no earlier dated report has been inspected.","No reliable count of harmed teachers exists; both quoted teachers are pseudonymous and the count stays unquantified with zero placeholders.","Whether the chatbot's content or the program changed afterward is not reported in the inspected source.","The 'gaslighting' characterization is the teachers' framing and is recorded as such."],"geography":{"basis":"Completed metadata review of 2026-09-15, carried into this full review: the Rest of World body explicitly sets the events in Singapore (Mindy 'where she lives and works'; Mr. Chow a public-school teacher; the MOE/MOH 'Mindline at Work for MOE' tool for Singapore public-sector teachers). No court is involved; ministries are not courts.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["SG"],"affected_person_countries":["SG"]},"publication":{"basis":"Legacy published row converted to a full facts-v3 record in the 2026-09-16 legacy-review batch. person_relations=communicated_with: the harmed teachers interacted with the Wysa chatbot. Pseudonyms (Mindy, Mr. Chow) are preserved as in the source. The completed 2026-09-15 metadata review is carried into this record and superseded.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-16"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Rest of World investigation quotes two pseudonymous teachers' chatbot interactions and reports that screenshots of the exchanges went viral; Wysa and the ministries' roles are confirmed by the company's own responses in the same article.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Singapore teachers told Rest of World the Wysa-powered Mindline chatbot met workload stress with a breathing exercise and reframing they called gaslighting","summary":"Rest of World reported on 29 November 2022 that Singapore's Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education had launched Mindline at Work for MOE, a Wysa-powered mental-health portal for public-sector teachers, in August 2022. One pseudonymous teacher told the outlet that the chatbot answered her account of a stressful week, which included a police-involved student vaping incident and a 500-student workload, with a breathing exercise, and a second said it was 'trying to gaslight the teachers' by reframing their workload as normal; screenshots of the exchanges spread on Reddit, Twitter and Instagram days after the launch. Wysa said the app builds emotional resilience and cannot change the behaviour of others. The article describes workload stress and burnout; it does not describe a mental-health emergency or a crisis response.","incidentDate":"2022-06-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"year","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2022-08-15","aiSystem":"Wysa","aiProduct":"Wysa","aiCompany":"Wysa / Singapore Ministry of Education","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":["crisis_response","treatment_discouragement","psychological_manipulation"],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","treatment_disruption"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Teachers seeking support for workload stress reported feeling dismissed and, in one teacher's words, gaslit when the government-provided mental-health chatbot offered a breathing exercise and reframing instead of listening to or addressing the problems they described.","frameworkFacets":["P1b","P1c","P4a","P5b"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"unquantified","affectedCountEvidence":"The investigation documents harm reports from teachers but does not provide a reliable distinct-person count.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"SG","platformType":"chatbot","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://restofworld.org/2022/free-therapy-chatbots-singapore/","primarySourceLabel":"Rest of World Investigation","firstPublishedAt":"2026-01-13T10:13:03.016537+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-08T03:20:05.108522+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["singapore","wysa","government","inadequate_crisis_response","teachers","gaslighting"]}]}