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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":"2026-canyon-county-idaho-man-sentenced-for-using-ai-to-turn-a-teens-facebook-photos-into-sexually-exploitative-videos","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'to 10 years fixed followed by 20 years indeterminate for one count of Producing Sexually Exploitative Material of a Child'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'on Oct. 26 sentenced'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'pleaded guilty to a felony charge of Producing Sexually Exploitative Material of a Child'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The man pleaded guilty to one count of producing sexually exploitative material of a child and on 26 October 2026 was sentenced to 10 years fixed followed by 20 years indeterminate.","causal_attribution":"Prosecutor's office account of the plea and sentence, relayed by two stations."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'took photographs of the teen from Facebook and used artificial intelligence software to turn them into pornographic videos'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'after admitting he used artificial intelligence to create sexually exploitative material depicting a teenager he knew'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'used artificial intelligence software to turn them into exploitative videos'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"According to the prosecutor's office, he took photographs of a teen he knew from Facebook and used artificial intelligence software to turn them into pornographic videos; KTVB reports that he admitted using artificial intelligence to create the material.","causal_attribution":"The prosecutor's account after a guilty plea; the AI software turned the photos into the exploitative videos that harmed the victim. The tool is not named."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Police discovered the material after a traffic stop in Greenleaf in May 2026'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The case came to light after a traffic stop in Greenleaf in May 2026'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Police discovered the material after a traffic stop in Greenleaf in May 2026.","causal_attribution":"Date of discovery from the prosecutor's account; when the videos were made is not stated."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'In a statement, the victim told the court about the toll'; 'Think about what it means to look at yourself and feel disgusted'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The victim testified in court'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The victim gave a statement to the court describing feeling disgusted looking at themselves because someone else chose to violate them.","causal_attribution":"The victim's statement as quoted by the prosecutor's office and KBOI."}],"effects":[{"label":"teenager depicted in AI-made sexually exploitative videos created from Facebook photos; the victim described feeling disgusted and violated","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.canyoncounty.id.gov/canyon-county-man-sentenced-to-up-to-30-years-in-prison-for-using-ai-to-create-sexually-exploitative-material-of-a-child/","kind":"official_statement","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-28; no translation needed. Release of the Canyon County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.","independence_group":"canyon-county-prosecutor-release-oct-2026"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/crime/canyon-county-man-sentenced-prison-ai-create-child-porn/277-3b732b91-9483-47d7-a167-ce4ed12daf3e","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-28; no translation needed. Read through the MSN syndication copy of the KTVB report (assets.msn.com AA2gcdgq); KTVB attributes its account to the prosecutor's office and its news release.","independence_group":"canyon-county-prosecutor-release-oct-2026"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://idahonews.com/news/local/idaho-man-used-teens-facebook-ai-to-create-child-sex-abuse-material","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-28; no translation needed. KBOI report; its account matches the prosecutor's release and is treated as dependent on it.","independence_group":"canyon-county-prosecutor-release-oct-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["Which AI software was used.","When the videos were made, beyond being found in May 2026.","Whether the videos were shared with anyone.","The victim's age beyond being a teenager."],"geography":{"basis":"The prosecutor's office is in Caldwell, Idaho, the case was sentenced by an Idaho district judge, and police found the material at a traffic stop in Greenleaf, Idaho. Where the victim lives is not stated beyond being a teen the offender knew.","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): the prosecutor's office says, after a guilty plea, that the man used AI software to turn a teenager's photos into sexually exploitative videos, KTVB reports he admitted it, and the victim told the court of the harm. All sources rest on the prosecutor's account.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-28"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Canyon County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, after a guilty plea, says the man used artificial intelligence software to turn a teenager's Facebook photographs into pornographic videos, and KTVB reports that he admitted using AI. The AI-generated videos depicting the teenager are the material behind the conviction and the victim's described harm. The software is not named.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Canyon County, Idaho, man sentenced to up to 30 years after prosecutors say he used AI to turn a teen's Facebook photos into sexually exploitative videos","summary":"On 26 October 2026 a judge in Canyon County, Idaho, sentenced a man to 10 years fixed followed by 20 years indeterminate for producing sexually exploitative material of a child, after he pleaded guilty. According to the Canyon County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, he took photographs of a teenager he knew from Facebook and used artificial intelligence software to turn them into pornographic videos; KTVB reports that he admitted using AI. Police found the material after a traffic stop in Greenleaf in May 2026. The victim told the court about the toll on their life, saying they felt disgusted looking at themselves because someone else chose to violate them. The tool used is not named.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-10-26","aiSystem":"Unnamed artificial intelligence software that the offender used to turn a teenager's Facebook photographs into pornographic videos, according to the Canyon County prosecutor","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A teenager's Facebook photographs were turned into sexually exploitative videos with AI software, according to the prosecutor; the victim told the court of feeling disgusted and violated (Canyon County Prosecuting Attorney's Office; KBOI).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the teenager depicted in the material, who gave a statement to the court (prosecutor's release; KBOI). The offender is not counted.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"US-ID","platformType":"other","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.canyoncounty.id.gov/canyon-county-man-sentenced-to-up-to-30-years-in-prison-for-using-ai-to-create-sexually-exploitative-material-of-a-child/","primarySourceLabel":"Canyon County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, 26 October 2026: man sentenced to up to 30 years for using AI to create sexually exploitative material of a child","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-28T03:19:10.954264+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:19:10.954264+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-generated-sexual-images","child-sexual-exploitation","sentencing","idaho"]},{"id":"2026-teen-travelling-in-china-took-aristolochia-herbal-remedy-after-chatbot-said-it-was-safe-case-report","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"consulted a local alternative medicine practitioner, who prescribed an herbal remedy containing Aristolochia (birthwort) extract. Unsure about the treatment, the patient asked a popular commercial chatbot for guidance, which reassured him that the remedy was safe and harmless","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The case report says a 16-year-old boy with recurring abdominal pain, travelling in China, was prescribed an herbal remedy containing Aristolochia extract by a local alternative-medicine practitioner, asked a popular commercial chatbot about it, and was reassured by the chatbot that it was safe and harmless.","causal_attribution":"The author's account of the patient's history; the chatbot's reply is paraphrased, not quoted, and no chat record is shown."},{"id":"c2","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"The therapy was stopped after 3 days due to no improvement and the onset of severe nausea. When he returned home, the patient discovered that Aristolochia contains aristolochic acid, a potent nephrotoxin","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The report says the therapy was stopped after three days because of no improvement and the onset of severe nausea, and that after returning home the patient discovered that Aristolochia contains the nephrotoxin aristolochic acid.","causal_attribution":"Clinical facts as the case report documents them."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"This report presents three cases where patients and families were misled by LLM chatbots","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"This study highlights three cases where these tools misled patients and families by providing false information, which could cause harm","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The author presents the case as one in which a chatbot misled a patient by providing false information.","causal_attribution":"The author's attribution of the patient's use of the remedy to the chatbot's reassurance."}],"effects":[{"label":"took a nephrotoxic herbal remedy for three days and developed severe nausea","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13387640/","kind":"peer_reviewed_case_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-23 as the complete article body through NCBI's PMC efetch service (PMC13387640, XML, HTTP 200); the PMC web page itself returned only a script shell to this host.","independence_group":"jfmpc-2026-weizman-case-series"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42483378/","kind":"peer_reviewed_case_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"PubMed record read in English on 2026-10-23 through NCBI E-utilities (abstract text, HTTP 200); it is the abstract of the same article.","independence_group":"jfmpc-2026-weizman-case-series"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["health"],"unknowns":["Which chatbot was used and its exact reply.","When the episode happened; the report gives no date.","Whether the patient's kidney function was tested and whether any lasting harm followed.","How far the decision to take the remedy rested on the chatbot rather than the practitioner's prescription."],"geography":{"basis":"The report says he was travelling in China and consulted the chatbot while abroad, so the event is placed in China. His home country is not stated; the author's institution in Israel is not evidence of it.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["CN"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case: a peer-reviewed case report says a commercial chatbot told a teenager that a prescribed Aristolochia remedy was safe and harmless, and that he took it for three days before stopping because of severe nausea. Clinical facts are documented by the report; the chatbot's causal role is the author's account. Low severity: no kidney outcome is reported.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-23"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The case report says the patient asked a popular commercial chatbot about the prescribed remedy and that it reassured him the remedy was safe and harmless. The report then describes three days of the remedy, stopped for severe nausea, and presents the case as one where a chatbot misled a patient with false information. The chatbot is not named and its reply is not quoted.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Case report: teenager travelling in China took a nephrotoxic Aristolochia herbal remedy after a commercial chatbot told him it was safe, then had severe nausea","summary":"A case series published in the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care in 2026 by an author from the Faculty of Health Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev describes three cases in which chatbots misled patients or families. In the first, a 16-year-old boy with recurring abdominal pain had a severe episode while travelling in China and consulted a local alternative-medicine practitioner, who prescribed an herbal remedy containing Aristolochia (birthwort) extract. Unsure about the treatment, he asked a popular commercial chatbot, which reassured him that the remedy was safe and harmless. The therapy was stopped after three days because it did not help and he developed severe nausea. After returning home he learned that Aristolochia contains aristolochic acid, a nephrotoxin linked to irreversible kidney damage and cancer and banned in many countries. The report does not name the chatbot, say when this happened or report any kidney testing or lasting effect.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-06-18","aiSystem":"A popular commercial chatbot, not named in the case report, which the patient asked whether a prescribed herbal remedy was safe","aiProduct":"Unidentified chatbot","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["medical_deterioration"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"After a chatbot told him the remedy was safe, a 16-year-old took an Aristolochia-containing herbal remedy for three days and developed severe nausea; the report notes the herb's nephrotoxicity but reports no kidney outcome (clinical case report).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One patient, Case 1 of the series. The other two cases report no adverse consequence and are not counted here.","victimAgeRange":"minor","platformType":"chatbot","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13387640/","primarySourceLabel":"J Family Med Prim Care (PMC), 18 Jun 2026: “Hallucinations” of artificial intelligence tools misleading patients and families","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-23T03:07:21.717712+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-23T03:07:21.717712+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["case-report","chatbot","medical-advice","herbal-remedy","minor","false-reassurance"]},{"id":"2026-teenager-says-years-of-character-ai-and-chatbot-roleplay-left-them-unable-to-sleep-and-quitting-brought-self-harm-first-person","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"I've had an issue with chatbots for four years now, I can't sleep withought them and I get super stressed out whenever the servers go down, I spend all day on them and it's really really impacting my life.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says they have had a problem with chatbots for four years, cannot sleep without them, get very stressed when the servers go down and spend all day on them.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"I've stopped using C.ai cause my account got the age restriction thing, and now that I can't use it I'm so bored and it's honestly made me totally miserable, I can't sleep well withought it, I feel so lonely and miserable now.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The poster says they stopped using Character.AI in February 2026 when their account hit the app's age restriction, and that afterwards they could not sleep well and felt lonely and miserable.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account; the age restriction is the poster's description of why access ended."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"I used to be super dependant on it having around 10-15 hours a day on it, to the point I barely spoke to my family or left my bed. ... I think the biggest struggle for me is when I'm trying to sleep, since I've stopped using the app I've had a really hard time going to sleep, and I start feeling painfully lonely.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The poster says they had used Character.AI for about 10 to 15 hours a day, to the point of barely speaking to family or leaving bed, and that falling asleep without it was the hardest part of stopping.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Relapsed TW: Self Harm ... I was like 2 months clean. ... seeing how risky that is I went back to c,ai when the urge got really bad since I got kinda freaked out. ... it might be better to keep using the godforsaken app and letting the addiction continue than it is to hurt myself and feel like shit all the time.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"The poster says that in March 2026, after about two months away, they relapsed, that while off the app they had begun hurting themselves to cope, and that they went back to Character.AI when the urge got bad.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account linking the self-harm to being without the app; no clinical assessment is reported."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Ive reached 20000 hours on this app","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"Ive hit over fifteen thousand hours, I need help.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"The poster gives differing totals for time spent: 20,000 hours on the app in July 2026 and over fifteen thousand hours in September 2026.","causal_attribution":"Poster's own figures; they are inconsistent and are not relied on as a measurement."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"I've been really badly addicted for 4 years now and it just gets worse. ... And I recently lost my only friend because I've started getting really uncomfortable and irritated around other people and got kinda mean to him and the rest of that friend group.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"The poster says in September 2026 that they had been addicted for four years and had recently lost their only friend after becoming irritable around people.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account; the poster does not say the chatbot caused the irritability."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"\"Okay I deleted my account to the chatbots app I was using earlier today and deleted it, and now I'm deeply regretting it and having kinda a panic.\" and \"It's kinda late at night and at this time I'm usually falling asleep rping with bots, and now that I've not got that I'm not feeling too good.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"}],"assertion":"In a post early on 21 October 2026 the poster says they had deleted their account on the chatbot app they were using, regretted it and felt unwell at the time they would usually fall asleep roleplaying with bots.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account; the post does not name the app."},{"id":"c8","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"I've only been withought it for three days so a lot hasn't changed, but I've gotten better sleep and I've been doing more self care stuff","relation":"supports","source_id":"s8"}],"assertion":"In a comment on 11 February 2026 the poster said that three days without the app their sleep had improved and they were doing more self-care.","causal_attribution":"Poster's own account of an early improvement; it differs from the 7 February post."}],"effects":[{"label":"cannot sleep without the chatbots and stressed when servers go down (poster's account)","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"sleeplessness and loneliness after losing access to Character.AI (poster's account)","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"self-harm while off the app, then relapse (poster's account)","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatbotAddiction/comments/1xajudj/ive_reached_4_years_of_nonstop_using_ts_apps/","kind":"social_media_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-21 from the arctic_shift Reddit archive (author post search, HTTP 200); reddit.com returned HTTP 403 to the fetcher. No translation and no human reviewer. The poster's username is not recorded. Post of 20 Oct 2026 05:36 UTC; its only comment is a subreddit auto-reply; re-read about 03:10 UTC 21 Oct.","independence_group":"reddit-teen-character-ai-dependency-poster"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/character_ai_recovery/comments/1qy6soy/i_quit_and_now_im_kinda_miserable/","kind":"social_media_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-21 from the arctic_shift Reddit archive (author post search, HTTP 200); reddit.com returned HTTP 403 to the fetcher. No translation and no human reviewer. The poster's username is not recorded. Same author, 7 Feb 2026.","independence_group":"reddit-teen-character-ai-dependency-poster"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/character_ai_recovery/comments/1r7vzj1/first_week_withought_cai/","kind":"social_media_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-21 from the arctic_shift Reddit archive (author post search, HTTP 200); reddit.com returned HTTP 403 to the fetcher. No translation and no human reviewer. The poster's username is not recorded. Same author, 18 Feb 2026.","independence_group":"reddit-teen-character-ai-dependency-poster"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/character_ai_recovery/comments/1s1a834/relapsed_tw_self_harm/","kind":"social_media_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-21 from the arctic_shift Reddit archive (author post search, HTTP 200); reddit.com returned HTTP 403 to the fetcher. No translation and no human reviewer. The poster's username is not recorded. Same author, 23 Mar 2026. The self-harm method in the post is not reproduced.","independence_group":"reddit-teen-character-ai-dependency-poster"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/character_ai_recovery/comments/1uzth4n/is_it_even_that_bad/","kind":"social_media_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-21 from the arctic_shift Reddit archive (author post search, HTTP 200); reddit.com returned HTTP 403 to the fetcher. No translation and no human reviewer. The poster's username is not recorded. Same author, 18 Jul 2026.","independence_group":"reddit-teen-character-ai-dependency-poster"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/character_ai_recovery/comments/1wuf0al/ive_hit_over_fifteen_thousand_hours_i_need_help/","kind":"social_media_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-21 from the arctic_shift Reddit archive (author post search, HTTP 200); reddit.com returned HTTP 403 to the fetcher. No translation and no human reviewer. The poster's username is not recorded. Same author, 30 Sep 2026.","independence_group":"reddit-teen-character-ai-dependency-poster"},{"id":"s7","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatbotAddiction/comments/1xb8pa2/lowk_panicking_kinda_urgently_could_do_with_some/","kind":"social_media_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the verifier vmix10 (an AI) on 2026-10-21 from the arctic_shift Reddit archive (author search, HTTP 200); no translation and no human reviewer. The poster's username is not recorded. Same author, 21 Oct 2026 00:23 UTC.","independence_group":"reddit-teen-character-ai-dependency-poster"},{"id":"s8","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/character_ai_recovery/comments/1r1rnfq/small_improvements/o4uesgw/","kind":"social_media_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the verifier vmix10 (an AI) on 2026-10-21 from the arctic_shift Reddit archive (author search, HTTP 200); no translation and no human reviewer. The poster's username is not recorded. Comment by the same author, 11 Feb 2026, in another user's thread.","independence_group":"reddit-teen-character-ai-dependency-poster"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["health","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Which app or apps the poster used after July 2026; the September and October posts do not name one.","How many hours the poster actually spent; the poster's own totals conflict.","Whether any clinician, parent or school assessed the poster's sleep, mood or self-harm.","Character.AI's account of the age restriction applied to the poster's account in February 2026.","Where the poster lives."],"geography":{"basis":"The posts do not say where the poster lives; currency mentioned in unrelated posts is not used as location evidence.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the public-forum rule as a concrete first-person account, across six dated posts by one author, of a teenager's dependence on Character.AI roleplay and the sleeplessness, loneliness and self-harm the author connects to losing access. Described with attribution and without corroboration; the self-harm method, sexual content and identifying personal details are omitted, and the conflicting hour totals are recorded.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-21"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The poster describes years of their own roleplay and venting exchanges with Character.AI, used for 10 to 15 hours a day and to fall asleep, and connects losing access to it (through the app's age restriction and through attempts to quit) to sleeplessness, loneliness and self-harm. The posts describe the poster's use of the chatbot, not the content of particular replies, and the later posts do not name the app.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"First-person posts: teenager says years of Character.AI and chatbot roleplay left them unable to sleep without it and that quitting brought self-harm","summary":"In a Reddit post on 20 October 2026 a poster who says they are a teenager writes that they have had a problem with chatbots for four years, cannot sleep without them, become very stressed when the servers go down and spend all day on them. Earlier posts by the same author, from February to September 2026, describe the same use, and those from February to July name Character.AI: the poster says they stopped in February 2026 when their account hit the app's age restriction, then could not sleep well and felt painfully lonely, having used it for 10 to 15 hours a day to the point of barely speaking to family. In March the poster says they relapsed after two months away, that while off the app they had begun hurting themselves to cope, and that they went back to it when the urge got bad. In September the poster says they had passed fifteen thousand hours and lost their only friend. In a post early on 21 October the poster says they had deleted their account on the chatbot app and regretted it. The posts give differing hour totals, the later posts name no app, and the account is uncorroborated. The poster's descriptions of the AI's role are their own.","incidentKind":"ongoing_experience","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-10-20","aiSystem":"Character.AI, which the poster names in posts from February to July 2026 as the roleplay chatbot app they used; the September and October posts refer only to chatbots and a chatbot app","aiProduct":"Character.AI (reported)","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","self_injury"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The poster, a teenager, says years of Character.AI and chatbot roleplay left them unable to sleep without it and that losing access brought sleeplessness, loneliness and, in March 2026, self-harm before a relapse (first-person account, uncorroborated).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the poster, who used the app directly. Family members are mentioned but no harm to them is described.","victimAgeRange":"minor","platformType":"companion","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatbotAddiction/comments/1xajudj/ive_reached_4_years_of_nonstop_using_ts_apps/","primarySourceLabel":"Reddit post by the poster, 20 Oct 2026: four years of chatbot use, cannot sleep without the bots","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-21T03:09:58.825703+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-21T03:09:58.825703+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["first-person","reddit","companion-chatbot","character-ai","minor","dependency"]},{"id":"2025-greater-manchester-former-supply-teacher-jailed-over-ai-sexualised-images-of-pupils-and-upskirting","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'used his position as a teacher to find information about pupils so he could locate them on social media and use their own photos to create sexualised images using AI technology'; 'Officers found deepfake images where the image of teenage children had been put onto the body of adults or alongside adults engaging in sexual activity.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'used artificial intelligence (AI) to create sexualised fake images from pupils' social media photographs which he shared online'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"According to the Crown Prosecution Service, the defendant used his position as a teacher to find pupils' details, located them on social media and used AI to create sexualised images from their own photos; officers found deepfake images in which teenage children had been put onto adults' bodies or alongside adults engaged in sexual activity.","causal_attribution":"Prosecution account after a guilty plea; the BBC's narrative matches it but may draw on the same CPS statement, so the claim is treated as one origin."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Some of the images were posted on X, where one of his accounts had about 1,000 followers.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'created and shared sexualised deepfake images of pupils on social media'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The images were shared on social media; the BBC reports some were posted on X, where one of the defendant's accounts had about 1,000 followers.","causal_attribution":"BBC report and the senior crown prosecutor's statement; the X detail and follower count come from the BBC only."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'On 2 March 2025, police received several reports from concerned parents about two social media accounts where they had seen images of school pupils.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'came across an image of her daughter in her school uniform next to graphic sexual images'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Police received several reports from concerned parents on 2 March 2025 about two social media accounts showing images of school pupils; the BBC reports a girl's mother found an image of her daughter in school uniform next to graphic sexual images on X.","causal_attribution":"How the offending was discovered; context."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The court heard one girl whose social media photograph had been used was left embarrassed and \"weirded out\", while another felt \"disgusted and upset\".'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'it has had a profound impact on both the victims and wider community'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The court heard that one girl whose social media photograph had been used was left embarrassed and 'weirded out', and the senior crown prosecutor said the offending had a profound impact on the victims and the wider community.","causal_attribution":"Victim impact as heard in court and as the prosecutor describes it."},{"id":"c5","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'He pleaded guilty to 21 offences, including taking indecent photographs of children and publishing obscene material.'; '20-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order banning him from working in schools'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'was jailed at Bolton Crown Court, for six years and was made the subject of a 20-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order to prevent further offending'; 'pleaded guilty at Bolton Crown Court on 28 May 2026'; '4 counts of publishing an obscene article'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The defendant pleaded guilty at Bolton Crown Court in May 2026 to 21 offences, including publishing obscene material, and on 15 October 2026 was jailed for six years with a 20-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order barring him from working in schools.","causal_attribution":"The plea and sentence as reported from court by the BBC and stated by the prosecuting authority."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'taking more than 100 upskirt photographs of schoolgirls, including in his classroom'; 'The court heard 15 girls, aged 13 to 16, were targeted at seven secondary schools in Bolton, Bury and Salford. Police said 12 had been identified.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The defendant also took more than 100 covert upskirt photographs of schoolgirls, including in classrooms; the court heard 15 girls were targeted across the offending and police had identified 12.","causal_attribution":"Non-AI offending in the same prosecution; context for the counts."}],"effects":[{"label":"pupils' social media photos made into sexualised AI images and shared online","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"a girl whose photo was used left embarrassed","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ck79p174x3d3o","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-16 (HTTP 200). BBC court report of the 15 October 2026 sentencing, quoting the prosecutor, the judge, the defence and Greater Manchester Police; it also quotes the CPS statement.","independence_group":"bolton-crown-court-sentencing-bbc"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.cps.gov.uk/north-west/news/former-supply-teacher-jailed-sexual-offences-including-deepfake-images-and","kind":"official_statement","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-16 (HTTP 200). Crown Prosecution Service North West press release of 15 October 2026.","independence_group":"cps-north-west-release"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","education","justice"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool was used and when the AI images were made","How many pupils were depicted in the AI images, as distinct from the upskirt photographs","How long the images stayed online, who saw them and whether the platform removed them"],"geography":{"basis":"Event and affected people: the BBC reports the targeted girls attended seven secondary schools in Bolton, Bury and Salford, Greater Manchester, where the defendant worked. Court: Bolton Crown Court.","court_countries":["GB"],"event_countries":["GB"],"affected_person_countries":["GB"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published on the prosecuting authority's account after a guilty plea: the Crown Prosecution Service says the former supply teacher used AI to create sexualised images from pupils' social media photos and shared them, and officers found the deepfake images on his devices; the BBC court report says the same and that a girl whose photo was used was left embarrassed. The plea and sentence are reported by both. The pupils are minors and are not identified; the defendant is not named because his name adds nothing to the record.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-16"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Crown Prosecution Service, which prosecuted the case to a guilty plea, says the defendant used pupils' own social media photos to create sexualised images using AI technology, and that officers found deepfake images on his seized devices placing teenage children onto adults' bodies or alongside sexual activity; police also found his searches about creating images with AI. The BBC court report says he used AI to make sexualised fake images from pupils' photographs and shared them online. The AI output is itself the sexual depiction of the pupils (depicted_or_impersonated). The tool is not named.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Greater Manchester: former supply teacher jailed for six years; prosecutors say he used AI to make sexualised images of pupils from their social media photos","summary":"A former supply teacher who worked at secondary schools in Greater Manchester was jailed for six years at Bolton Crown Court on 15 October 2026 after pleading guilty to 21 offences, including publishing obscene material and taking indecent photographs of children. The Crown Prosecution Service says he used his position to find pupils' details, located their social media profiles and used AI to create sexualised images from their own photos, which he shared on social media; the BBC reports some were posted on X. Parents reported two accounts to police in March 2025. The court heard that one girl whose photograph had been used was left embarrassed. His offending also included more than 100 covert upskirt photographs taken in schools. The AI tool is not named.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-10-15","aiSystem":"AI technology used to create sexualised images from pupils' social media photographs, as the Crown Prosecution Service describes it (tool not identified)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the Crown Prosecution Service, a supply teacher used AI to make sexualised images of teenage pupils from their social media photos and shared them online; the court heard that one girl whose photo was used was left embarrassed.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"At least one pupil whose social media photograph was used is described as embarrassed (claim c4, BBC court report). The CPS refers to victims in the plural and the court heard that 15 girls were targeted across all the offending, but the sources do not say how many were depicted in AI images, so further victims are unquantified. The pupils did not use the AI.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"GB","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ck79p174x3d3o","primarySourceLabel":"BBC News, 15 October 2026: Teacher jailed for taking upskirt photos of pupils","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-16T03:00:14.536526+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-16T03:00:14.536526+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-sexualised-images","non-consensual-sexual-imagery","minors","school-staff","social-media","guilty-plea","sentencing","england","united-kingdom","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2026-texas-parker-county-sheriff-says-teen-used-ai-to-make-nude-images-of-younger-children-posted-to-tiktok","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'deputies said the teen confessed to taking photos of a younger child and using AI to alter the images to make the child appear nude'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'police say the suspect confessed to taking photographs of a younger juvenile and using AI to alter the images to make the subject appear nude'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"According to the Parker County Sheriff's Office, the teenager confessed to taking photographs of a younger child and using AI to alter the images to make the child appear nude.","causal_attribution":"The sheriff's office's account of the suspect's confession, relayed by two outlets from one release."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'evidence indicated the suspect had used photos of at least three other victims for the same purpose, and that investigators identified all of the victims and notified their families'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'evidence from the electronics and social media account revealed the teen obtained photos of at least three other juvenile victims'; 'The teen used AI to transform these photos into deep fakes before uploading them to the platform'; 'Investigators identified all the juvenile victims and notified their families.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"According to the sheriff's office, evidence from the devices and TikTok account showed the teenager had obtained photos of at least three other juvenile victims and used AI to turn them into nude images before uploading them to TikTok, and investigators identified all the victims and notified their families.","causal_attribution":"Sheriff's office account of device and account evidence; one origin."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'TikTok had alerted the NCMEC that a user had shared the images on the platform'; 'Parker County deputies said they executed a search warrant on Oct. 1 at a residence there'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The investigation began in July when TikTok notified the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) about a user posting child pornography images'; 'NCMEC initially sent the tip to the Celina Police Department, believing the suspect lived in that jurisdiction.'; 'Parker County Sheriff’s Office investigators executed a search warrant on Oct. 1'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The investigation began in July when TikTok alerted NCMEC that a user had shared the images; NCMEC first sent the tip to the Celina Police Department, and Parker County deputies executed a search warrant at a residence on 1 October.","causal_attribution":"Sheriff's office account of how the case began; context."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'charged with possession of child pornography – a second-degree felony – along with voyeurism of a child victim and possession of certain visual material depicting a child, both of which are state jail felonies'; 'the teen was released to their parents under state law'; 'the suspect now awaits juvenile court proceedings'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'second-degree felony possession of child pornography, state jail felony voyeurism of a child victim, and state jail felony possession of certain visual material depicting a child'; 'The juvenile was processed and released to their parents while awaiting court proceedings'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The juvenile is charged with possession of child pornography (a second-degree felony), voyeurism of a child victim and possession of certain visual material depicting a child (state jail felonies), was released to their parents and awaits juvenile court proceedings.","causal_attribution":"Charges as the sheriff's office describes them; untried."}],"effects":[{"label":"photos of juveniles altered with AI into nude images and uploaded to TikTok","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/north-texas-teen-ai-child-sex-abuse-material-10-14-2026/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-15 (HTTP 200). CBS Texas report of 14 October 2026 relaying the Parker County Sheriff's Office account.","independence_group":"parker-county-sheriff-release"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.fox4news.com/news/parker-county-16-year-old-charged-using-ai-create-deep-fake-nude-images-children","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-15 (HTTP 200). FOX 4 report of 14 October 2026; it states that its information comes from the Parker County Sheriff's Office, so it is the same origin as s1.","independence_group":"parker-county-sheriff-release"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool was used, and when the photos were taken and altered","How long the images stayed on TikTok and who saw them","The victims' ages and their families' responses","The outcome of the juvenile court proceedings"],"geography":{"basis":"Event: FOX 4 relays that the images were uploaded from Parker County, Texas, and the search warrant was executed at a residence there. Affected people: the victims' locations are not stated. Court: no court has yet acted; the juvenile awaits juvenile court proceedings.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a reported case resting on one police origin: the Parker County Sheriff's Office, relayed by CBS Texas and FOX 4, says a teenager confessed to using AI to alter photos of a younger child into nude images and that device and account evidence showed at least three further juvenile victims whose AI-altered images were uploaded to TikTok. The AI attribution is the investigating sheriff's office's account of the confession and evidence; the tool is not named. The suspect and victims are minors and are not identified; the charges are untried.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-15"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The investigating Parker County Sheriff's Office says the teenager confessed to taking photographs of a younger child and using AI to alter them so the child appeared nude, and that evidence from the devices and TikTok account showed photos of at least three other juveniles were transformed with AI the same way and uploaded. The AI output is itself the non-consensual sexual depiction of the children (depicted_or_impersonated) and is the basis of the charges. The attribution rests on the suspect's confession and the device evidence as the sheriff's office describes them; the tool is not named.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Parker County, Texas: sheriff's office says a teenager confessed to using AI to make nude images of younger children from photos and posting them to TikTok","summary":"The Parker County Sheriff's Office in Texas says a juvenile confessed to taking photographs of a younger child and using AI to alter them so that the child appeared nude, and that evidence from the teenager's devices and TikTok account showed photos of at least three other juvenile victims were transformed the same way and uploaded to TikTok. The case began with a July tip from TikTok to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The sheriff's office says all victims were identified and their families notified. The teenager faces felony charges, including possession of child pornography, and awaits juvenile court proceedings; the account is the sheriff's office's, relayed by CBS Texas and FOX 4 on 14 October 2026, and the charges are untried.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-10-14","aiSystem":"AI used to alter photographs of children so they appear nude, as the Parker County Sheriff's Office describes it (tool not identified)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the Parker County Sheriff's Office, a teenager used AI to alter photos of at least four younger juveniles into nude images and uploaded them to TikTok; investigators identified the victims and notified their families.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":4,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"At least four juveniles, per the sheriff's office: the younger child the suspect photographed (claim c1) and 'at least three other' juvenile victims (claim c2). The victims did not use the AI. The phrase 'at least' makes four a documented minimum.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/north-texas-teen-ai-child-sex-abuse-material-10-14-2026/","primarySourceLabel":"CBS Texas, 14 October 2026: North Texas teen accused of uploading AI-generated child sexual abuse material to TikTok","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-15T02:59:42.916219+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-15T02:59:42.916219+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-altered-image","non-consensual-sexual-imagery","minor","tiktok","criminal-charges","texas","united-states","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2026-uttar-pradesh-alleged-ai-image-blackmail-minor","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'पीड़ित की तहरीर पर पुलिस ने प्राथमिकी दर्ज कर जांच शुरू कर दी है।'; 'प्राथमिकी दर्ज कर मामले की जांच की जा रही है।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'पुलिस ने तहरीर के आधार पर संबंधित धाराओं में मुकदमा दर्ज कर मामले की जांच शुरू कर दी है।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'शिकायत पर केस दर्ज कर लिया गया है।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Police in Bahraich district registered a first information report and began an investigation on a written complaint by the girl's brother.","causal_attribution":"Amar Ujala's and Bhaskar Digital's reports of the registration and the station officer's statement in Amar Ujala and Dainik Bhaskar; all relay the same police action."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'आरोप है कि दुकान पर मौजूद दो युवकों ने मोबाइल से उसकी निजी फोटो निकाल लीं। इसके बाद एआई तकनीक की मदद से उन्हें अश्लील रूप दे दिया।'; 'आरोप है कि दोनों युवक फोटो सोशल मीडिया पर प्रसारित करने की धमकी देकर किशोरी को ब्लैकमेल कर रहे हैं।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'उसकी बहन के मोबाइल फोन से फोटो निकालकर कथित तौर पर आर्टिफिशियल इंटेलिजेंस (एआई) की मदद से अश्लील तस्वीरें तैयार कीं।'; 'आरोप है कि इन तस्वीरों के जरिए उसकी बहन को ब्लैकमेल करने और सोशल मीडिया पर वायरल करने की धमकी दी जा रही थी।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'इन युवकों ने आर्टिफिशियल इंटेलिजेंस (AI) की मदद से महिला की अश्लील फोटो बनाई थीं।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"According to the complaint, two young men took photos from the girl's mobile phone, made obscene images of her from them with AI, and blackmailed her by threatening to spread them on social media.","causal_attribution":"An allegation in a registered complaint, relayed by three outlets; one origin (the brother's complaint). Bhaskar Digital states the allegations await confirmation by the police investigation."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'साथ ही, उसकी इच्छा के विरुद्ध बार-बार संपर्क कर उसे भयभीत और मानसिक रूप से परेशान किया जा रहा था।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'साथ ही, फोन पर बार-बार संपर्क कर उसे मानसिक रूप से परेशान कर रहे हैं।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"According to the complaint, the men repeatedly contacted the girl against her will, frightening and mentally distressing her.","causal_attribution":"The complainant's allegation relayed by both outlets; one origin."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'युवक के अनुसार, कुछ दिन पहले उसकी बहन का मोबाइल फोन खराब हो गया था। वह उसे बनवाने के लिए क्षेत्र की एक दुकान पर गई थी। आरोप है कि दुकान पर मौजूद दो युवकों ने मोबाइल से उसकी निजी फोटो निकाल लीं।'; 'किशोरी को ब्लैकमेल कर रहे हैं।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Amar Ujala reports, according to the brother, that the photos were taken from the phone at a local shop where the girl had taken it for repair a few days earlier, and describes her as a teenager whose stated age makes her a minor.","causal_attribution":"Single outlet relaying the brother's account; Bhaskar Digital says only that the photos were taken from her phone and does not state her age, and Dainik Bhaskar calls her a woman."}],"effects":[{"label":"obscene AI images allegedly made from photos taken from her phone and used to blackmail her","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"repeated unwanted contact leaving her frightened and mentally distressed, according to the complaint","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.amarujala.com/uttar-pradesh/bahraich/teenager-blackmailed-after-ai-generated-obscene-photos-were-created-bahraich-news-c-98-1-bhr1029-158290-2026-10-10","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"hi","translation_note":"Read in the original Hindi on 2026-10-11 (HTTP 200) by the research agent (an AI); English renderings in this record are the research agent's own translations and no human translator reviewed them. Amar Ujala Bahraich desk report quoting the brother's account and the station officer and additional superintendent; published 10 October 2026.","independence_group":"amarujala"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://bhaskardigital.com/bahraich-case-registered-against-two-youths-a/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"hi","translation_note":"Read in the original Hindi on 2026-10-11 (HTTP 200) by the research agent (an AI); English renderings in this record are the research agent's own translations and no human translator reviewed them. Bhaskar Digital report based on the written complaint (tahrir), published 9 October 2026 at 18:17 IST.","independence_group":"bhaskardigital"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.bhaskar.com/local/uttar-pradesh/bahraich/news/bahraich-ai-blackmail-case-139300806.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"hi","translation_note":"Read in the original Hindi on 2026-10-11 (HTTP 200) by the research agent (an AI); English renderings in this record are the research agent's own translations and no human translator reviewed them. Dainik Bhaskar Bahraich district report based on the complaint and the station officer, published 9 October 2026 at 17:39 IST; cited at an address keyed on the article id (139300806) under the Bahraich district path, which omits personal names and the locality and returned the same article text on 2026-10-11 (HTTP 200).","independence_group":"dainik-bhaskar"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Whether the images were generated or altered with an AI tool, which rests on the complaint as reported; no examination or tool is described","When the photos were taken and when the blackmail began (Amar Ujala: a few days before the complaint)","Whether the images were shared with anyone or only used as a threat, and whether any demand was made of the girl","Her age: Amar Ujala calls her a teenager and gives an age that makes her a minor, Bhaskar Digital says girl, and Dainik Bhaskar says woman","The outcome of the police investigation","Whether the complaint is connected to a separate case in which the two accused were themselves abducted, which Bhaskar Digital and Dainik Bhaskar report alongside it"],"geography":{"basis":"Event: Amar Ujala says the photos were taken at a shop in the area when the girl took her phone for repair, and all three outlets place the complaint with police in Bahraich district, Uttar Pradesh. Affected person: described by Amar Ujala as the sister of a resident of the area. No court is involved.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["IN"],"affected_person_countries":["IN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a reported case: three Hindi outlets with separate wording describe a registered police complaint alleging that two young men made obscene AI images of a girl from photos taken from her phone and used them to blackmail her, and quote the station officer confirming the first information report. The AI involvement and the harm are the complainant's allegations; the tool, dates and any distribution are unknown. Identity is minimised to the district: the police station area, her exact age, the station officer's name and the date and place of the accused's separate abduction are omitted, and no names of the girl, her brother or the accused are repeated.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-11"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Amar Ujala and Bhaskar Digital each report the brother's registered police complaint alleging that two young men took photos from his sister's phone and made obscene pictures of her with AI ('एआई तकनीक की मदद से उन्हें अश्लील रूप दे दिया'; 'आर्टिफिशियल इंटेलिजेंस (एआई) की मदद से अश्लील तस्वीरें तैयार कीं'). The images depict her (depicted_or_impersonated) and, per the complaint, were the instrument of the blackmail: the men threatened to spread them on social media. The AI description is the complainant's allegation in a registered case; no examination or tool is described.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh: brother's police complaint alleges two young men made AI obscene images of his sister from her phone photos to blackmail her","summary":"Three Hindi outlets report that police in Bahraich district, Uttar Pradesh, registered a case on a complaint by a man who alleges that two young men took photos from his sister's mobile phone, turned them into obscene images with AI and blackmailed her by threatening to spread them on social media, while repeatedly contacting her and causing her mental distress. She is described as a teenager (a minor, per Amar Ujala; Dainik Bhaskar describes her as a woman), and Amar Ujala says the photos were taken after she took her broken phone to a local shop for repair. The station officer is quoted as saying a first information report was registered and the case is under investigation. Bhaskar Digital notes that the allegations can only be confirmed by the police investigation. The images, the tool and any distribution beyond the threats are not described.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-10-09","aiSystem":"AI ('एआई तकनीक', 'आर्टिफिशियल इंटेलिजेंस (एआई)') used, according to the complaint as reported, to turn photos taken from the girl's phone into obscene images (tool not identified)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to her brother's police complaint as reported by Amar Ujala and Bhaskar Digital, two young men made obscene AI images from photos taken from her phone and blackmailed her with threats to spread them on social media, repeatedly contacting her and leaving her frightened and mentally distressed.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the complainant's sister, who is depicted in the alleged images and was threatened with them. Her brother, who filed the complaint, is not counted. She did not use the AI.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"IN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.amarujala.com/uttar-pradesh/bahraich/teenager-blackmailed-after-ai-generated-obscene-photos-were-created-bahraich-news-c-98-1-bhr1029-158290-2026-10-10","primarySourceLabel":"Amar Ujala, 10 October 2026: Bahraich teenager blackmailed after obscene photos were made with AI","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-11T03:16:53.262308+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-11T07:40:02.324172+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","intimate-image-abuse","blackmail","minor","india","uttar-pradesh","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2026-indiana-man-charged-over-ai-altered-nude-images-of-teenage-girl-he-knew","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'police say he used artificial intelligence to strip clothing from photographs of a teenage girl he knew'; 'allegedly used AI to remove the victim's clothes from photographs and a video'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Greenwood police say the accused used artificial intelligence to remove a teenage girl's clothing from photographs and a video, producing nude images of a real minor he knew.","causal_attribution":"Police account relayed through court documents cited by Fox 59 and Hoodline; untested in court."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Greenwood police were contacted in March by a teenage victim who said'; 'possessed nude photographs of her. The teen reportedly recorded a video of herself scrolling through'; 'including images of at least two underage girls'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The girl contacted Greenwood police in March saying the man possessed nude photographs of her and recorded a video of herself scrolling through his phone, which investigators say held nude images of teenage girls and young adult women, including at least two underage girls he knew personally.","causal_attribution":"Fox 59's account of the police investigation, relayed by Hoodline (one chain)."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'initially denied that any nude images on his phone were of underage girls. He later said the images of the victim had been altered with AI'; 'said he used the AI-generated images to teach the girls a lesson'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"According to court documents, the man first denied that any nude images were of underage girls, later said the images of the girl had been altered with AI, and told police he used the AI-generated images to teach the girls a lesson.","causal_attribution":"Court documents cited by Fox 59 and relayed by Hoodline; the accused's statements as recorded by police."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'was arrested last week'; 'was charged with one count of child exploitation, a Level 5 felony, on September 30'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The man was charged on 30 September 2026 with one count of child exploitation, a Level 5 felony, after an arrest the week before 7 October 2026.","causal_attribution":"Hoodline, citing Greenwood police and Fox 59; no court record inspected."}],"effects":[{"label":"a teenage girl's clothed photographs and a video were altered with AI into nude images that she found on the phone of a man she knew","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://hoodline.com/2026/10/greenwood-indiana-man-38-charged-after-using-ai-to-strip-clothes-from-teen-s-photos/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-09; no translation was involved and no human reviewer read the article. Hoodline (7 October 2026) credits Greenwood Police Department as its source and relays Fox 59's report of the court documents; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"fox59-report-of-greenwood-police-and-court-documents-2026-10-07"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/greenwood-man-said-he-made-nude-images-of-underage-girl-with-ai-to-teach-her-a-lesson/","kind":"news_report","access":"unavailable","language":"en","translation_note":"Not read: fox59.com returned HTTP 403 to the research agent on 2026-10-08 and 2026-10-09 and the Internet Archive had no readable capture; Fox 59 is the originating report that Hoodline relays and belongs to the same chain.","independence_group":"fox59-report-of-greenwood-police-and-court-documents-2026-10-07"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["When the images were made and which AI tool was used; the only dated events are the girl's report to police in March (year not stated in the inspected body) and the 30 September 2026 charge.","Whether the images were shared with anyone, and how the girl has been affected beyond discovering the images and reporting them.","Whether the images of the second underage girl police mention were also AI-altered.","The accused's response in court; the allegations rest on police and court documents relayed by one chain."],"geography":{"basis":"Greenwood police in Indiana investigated and the charge is a Level 5 felony under Indiana law (Hoodline, citing Greenwood police and Fox 59); the girl contacted Greenwood police, placing her in the same area. The court is in Indiana.","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case on one attributed chain: Greenwood, Indiana police and court documents, reported by Fox 59 and relayed by Hoodline, say a man used AI to remove a teenage girl's clothing from her photographs and a video, told police he made the AI images to teach the girls a lesson, and was charged with child exploitation on 30 September 2026. Every claim is attributed; the girl is not named and the accused is not named in the public text.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-09"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Greenwood police, through court documents cited by Fox 59 and relayed by Hoodline, say the accused used artificial intelligence to remove the girl's clothes from photographs and a video, and that he told police the images of the girl had been altered with AI and that he used the AI-generated images to teach the girls a lesson. The AI-altered sexual images of a real minor are the harm itself: they depict the girl (depicted_or_impersonated) and she found them on his phone. The tool is not identified, the images were not examined by the research agent, the Fox 59 report itself could not be read, and the allegations are untested in court.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Greenwood, Indiana: police say a man used AI to remove a teenage girl's clothing from her photographs and a video; child exploitation charge, 30 Sept 2026","summary":"Greenwood, Indiana police say a man used artificial intelligence to remove clothing from photographs and a video of a teenage girl he knew, producing nude images of a real minor. According to court documents cited by Fox 59 and relayed by Hoodline, the girl contacted police in March after finding nude images of herself on the man's phone, which investigators say also held nude images of teenage girls and young adult women, including at least two underage girls the man knew personally. Court documents say the man first denied that any images were of underage girls, then said the images of the girl had been altered with AI, and told police he used the AI-generated images to teach the girls a lesson. He was charged with one count of child exploitation, a Level 5 felony, on 30 September 2026. The allegations are untested in court. The account rests on one chain: Fox 59's report of the court documents and the police account, relayed by Hoodline.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-10-07","aiSystem":"AI tool, not identified, which police say was used to remove a teenage girl's clothing from photographs and a video so that she appeared nude","aiProduct":"Unidentified image and video tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to Greenwood police and court documents relayed by Fox 59 and Hoodline, a teenage girl's clothed photographs and a video were altered with AI into nude images that she found on the phone of a man she knew. The production of sexual images of a real minor is the reported harm; no further consequence for the girl is reported.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"One teenage girl is reported as the person whose photographs and a video were altered with AI (the victim who contacted police). Police say images of at least two underage girls he knew were on the phone and that he spoke of teaching the girls a lesson, but AI alteration is described only for the one girl, so the count is a documented minimum of 1. The accused is the AI user and is not counted as a harmed participant.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://hoodline.com/2026/10/greenwood-indiana-man-38-charged-after-using-ai-to-strip-clothes-from-teen-s-photos/","primarySourceLabel":"Hoodline, 7 October 2026: Greenwood, Indiana man charged after police say he used AI to strip clothes from a teen's photos (relays Fox 59 and police)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-09T03:23:48.549322+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-09T03:23:48.549322+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","non_consensual_intimate_imagery","minors","criminal_charges","united_states","indiana"]},{"id":"2026-new-orleans-former-teacher-charged-ai-generated-sexual-images-from-social-media-photos","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'used artificial intelligence to create fake'; 'images of females after obtaining their photos from social media, according to investigators'; 'The documents say that images were placed into an online artificial intelligence platform where they could be altered from their original state'; 'numerous images of the same females at various stages of life'; 'the females appear to be from the New Orleans metro area'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Investigators say, according to court records reported by Fox 8, that photographs obtained from social media accounts were placed into an online artificial intelligence platform and that the accused obtained AI-generated sexual images of the females, including collages and numerous images of the same females at various stages of life, who appear to be from the New Orleans metro area.","causal_attribution":"Investigators' court records as obtained and reported by Fox 8; allegations untested in court."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'made from teenage girls'; 'The Attorney General's office said the charges stem from deepfakes allegedly made from photos of his students'; 'saying they did not know who the girls pictured in the deepfakes were'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Prosecutors said, as reported by KPLC, that the deepfakes were AI-generated images made from teenage girls' Instagram posts and the Attorney General's office said they were made from photos of the accused's students, while the school emailed parents that it did not know who the girls pictured were.","causal_attribution":"Prosecutors' and Attorney General's statements and the school's email as reported by KPLC (WVUE); the accounts conflict and are recorded as such."},{"id":"c3","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'60 counts of 14:73.13, Unlawful Deepfakes'; 'was arrested on January 8, 2026, for violating 22 counts'; 'remains in custody at the Orleans Justice Center'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'was arrested on 60 counts of unlawful deepfakes on Wednesday (April 1)'; 'was first taken into custody on Jan. 8'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The Attorney General's office announced on 2 April 2026 that the former teacher, in custody since the arrest of 8 January 2026, had been rearrested on 60 counts of unlawful deepfakes.","causal_attribution":"The Attorney General's release directly establishes the announcement, the counts and the custody; it does not establish the conduct."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'60 counts of unlawful deepfakes of minors'; 'is being held without bond and will be arraigned at a later, unknown date'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"On 27 May 2026 an Orleans Parish special grand jury indicted the former teacher on charges including 60 counts of unlawful deepfakes of minors; the accused is held without bond with the arraignment date unreported.","causal_attribution":"Attorney General's office as reported by Fox 8; the indictment itself was not inspected."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'called the bond exorbitant'; 'saying he had not yet received evidence from the state'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The defence attorney called the bond exorbitant and declined to comment on the allegations, saying the state had not yet provided evidence.","causal_attribution":"Defence attorney's statements as reported by KPLC (WVUE)."}],"effects":[{"label":"females' social-media photographs allegedly turned into AI-generated sexual images, including collages, on the accused's devices","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.fox8live.com/2026/04/02/former-new-orleans-teacher-arrested-third-time-now-faces-deepfake-charges/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-09-30 (batch 2) and re-read on 2026-10-08 from the saved body; no translation was involved and no human reviewer read the page. Fox 8 (WVUE, Gray) report of 2 April 2026 based on court records it obtained and Louisiana Bureau of Investigation statements; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"gray-wvue-court-records-and-ag-reports"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.kplctv.com/2026/04/03/former-newman-teacher-held-8m-bond-alleged-ai-generated-nude-images-students/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-09-30 (batch 2) and re-read on 2026-10-08 from the saved body; no translation was involved and no human reviewer read the page. KPLC carrying the WVUE report of 2/3 April 2026 on the bond hearing, with prosecutors', the Attorney General's office's, the defence attorney's and the school's statements; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"gray-wvue-court-records-and-ag-reports"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.ag.louisiana.gov/Article/475","kind":"official_statement","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-09-30 (batch 2) and re-read on 2026-10-08 from the saved body; no translation was involved and no human reviewer read the page. Louisiana Attorney General's Office release of 2 April 2026, read from the Internet Archive capture of 9 May 2026; whole release.","independence_group":"louisiana-attorney-general-release"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.fox8live.com/2026/05/27/former-newman-teacher-indicted-dozens-child-sex-abuse-material-charges/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-09-30 (batch 2) and re-read on 2026-10-08 from the saved body; no translation was involved and no human reviewer read the page. Fox 8 (WVUE) report of 27 May 2026 on the grand jury indictment, citing the Attorney General's office; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"gray-wvue-court-records-and-ag-reports"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","education"],"unknowns":["When any AI-generated image was made; the accused has been in custody since 8 January 2026, so the alleged creation falls on or before that date, and no filing dating it was found.","How many people are depicted, who they are, whether any are the accused's students (prosecutors and the Attorney General's office say students or teenage girls; the school says it did not know who they were), and whether any depicted person has been told.","Which AI platform was used, and whether any image was shared or distributed; no source says so.","The outcome of the charges; the arraignment date was unreported as of 27 May 2026 and the accused is presumed innocent."],"geography":{"basis":"The accused lived and taught in New Orleans, the devices were seized there, and investigators say the depicted females appear to be from the New Orleans metro area (Fox 8). The charges are in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court (KPLC, Fox 8).","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case on investigators' court records reported by Fox 8, prosecutors' statements reported by KPLC and the Attorney General's release: an online AI platform was allegedly used to turn females' social-media photographs into sexual images, the accused was charged with 60 counts of unlawful deepfakes and indicted on counts naming the depicted people as minors. The conduct claims are reported and the conflicting accounts of who is depicted are preserved. The accused, the school and the depicted people are not named; no image content beyond AI-generated sexual images is described; the event date is unknown.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-08"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Court records reported by Fox 8 say investigators found that images obtained from social media accounts were placed into an online artificial intelligence platform and that the accused then obtained AI-generated sexual images of the females with their faces unchanged, including collages; KPLC reports prosecutors saying the deepfakes were AI-generated images made from teenage girls' Instagram posts. The AI-generated images are the alleged offence (60 counts of unlawful deepfakes) and depict the females (depicted_or_impersonated). The platform is not identified, no image or filing was inspected by the research agent, and the allegations are investigators' and prosecutors' statements untested at trial.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"New Orleans: former school teacher charged with 60 counts of unlawful deepfakes; investigators say an AI platform turned social-media photos into sexual images","summary":"Louisiana's Attorney General announced on 2 April 2026 that a former New Orleans school teacher and coach, already in custody since 8 January 2026 on child sexual abuse material charges, had been rearrested on 60 counts of unlawful deepfakes. According to court records reported by Fox 8, investigators from the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation say the former teacher obtained photographs that account owners had posted on social media, placed them into an online artificial intelligence platform and obtained AI-generated sexual images of the females with their faces unchanged, including collages and images of the same females at various stages of life; the females appear to be from the New Orleans metro area. Prosecutors said the images were made from teenage girls' Instagram posts, while the school emailed parents that it did not know who the depicted girls were. A grand jury indicted the former teacher on 27 May 2026 on 102 counts including 60 counts of unlawful deepfakes of minors. The number and identities of the depicted people are not reported, no source dates the creation of the images, and the charges are untested in court.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-04-02","aiSystem":"Online artificial intelligence platform, not identified, into which investigators say social-media photographs were placed to obtain AI-generated sexual images of the depicted females","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to investigators' court records and prosecutors as reported by Fox 8 and KPLC, females whose photographs were posted on social media were depicted in AI-generated sexual images, including collages; the indictment counts describe them as minors. Whether any image was distributed or any depicted person knows is not reported.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"unquantified","affectedCountEvidence":"No source counts the depicted people: the records speak of numerous images of the same females and of 60 counts, which count charges rather than people, so both numeric fields are zero placeholders. The students in the separate video-voyeurism counts are not AI-related and are not counted. The accused used the tool, so no participant user is a harmed person.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.fox8live.com/2026/04/02/former-new-orleans-teacher-arrested-third-time-now-faces-deepfake-charges/","primarySourceLabel":"Fox 8 (WVUE), 2 April 2026: former New Orleans teacher accused of using AI to make fake images from social media photos, per court records","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-08T03:22:11.595654+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-11T07:28:01.608528+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","non_consensual_intimate_imagery","minors","criminal_charges","united_states","louisiana","social_media"]},{"id":"2025-reported-teen-deepfake-video-extortion-demand","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Article body, retained text line 14: paragraph about Telegram messages and fabricated video.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Article body, retained text line 14: paragraph about Telegram messages and fabricated video.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The creator report says the boy received his photograph and a doctored sexual video on Telegram.","causal_attribution":"One Newswav creator article relaying a mother's public account. It is not represented as an independently corroborated police finding. The mother's original post was not read."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Article body, retained text line 16: paragraph about extortion demand and police complaint.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Article body, retained text line 16: paragraph about extortion demand and police complaint.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The mother's relayed account says an extortionist demanded RM5,800 and threatened to release fabricated footage, and that the family went to police.","causal_attribution":"One Newswav creator article relaying a mother's public account. It is not represented as an independently corroborated police finding. The mother's original post was not read."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Article body, retained text line 13: paragraph about reported AI method.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Article body, retained text line 16: paragraph about reported AI method.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The article attributes the footage to AI and relays police comments describing deepfake tools.","causal_attribution":"One Newswav creator article relaying a mother's public account. It is not represented as an independently corroborated police finding. The mother's original post was not read."}],"effects":[{"label":"Reported threat using a fabricated sexual video","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://newswav.com/article/ai-deepfake-extortion-targets-children-a-mother-s-warned-after-her-son-was-A2510_dMUjVW","kind":"public_creator_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"original-account-aiid-1241"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","finance"],"unknowns":["The precise event date and country are not established from the inspected article.","The original family post, police report, footage and technical generation method were not inspected. No payment or case outcome is reported."],"geography":{"basis":"The article describes a local family and uses Malaysian currency but gives no explicit event location. Publisher location and currency are not used to establish the family's country.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"A concrete, attributed public creator account describes a minor's experience of fabricated sexual-video extortion. The limited reporting chain and missing original account remain explicit. The boy and family are not identified and the event is undated.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-30"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The creator account relays the mother's report of an AI-generated video and police comments, without the original post, footage or a technical determination.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Mother reportedly sought police help after a teen received a fabricated sexual video and extortion demand","summary":"A Newswav creator article relays a mother's account that her teenage son received his photograph and a purported AI-generated sexual video through Telegram, followed by a demand for RM5,800. The mother said the family sought police help and that the boy asked a school contact for advice. The article attributes the AI explanation to the family's account and reported police comments. No payment, precise event location or independently verified generation method is established.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2025-10-18","aiSystem":"Purported AI-generated sexual video","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","aiCompany":"Unknown","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The relayed family account describes a teenage boy threatened with circulation of fabricated sexual footage and a demand for RM5,800. No payment is reported.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"One teenage boy is the described target. A mentioned earlier student and the boy's relatives are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"minor","platformType":"other","primarySourceUrl":"https://newswav.com/article/ai-deepfake-extortion-targets-children-a-mother-s-warned-after-her-son-was-A2510_dMUjVW","primarySourceLabel":"Newswav creator account, 18 October 2025, mother's reported sextortion complaint","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-30T01:10:43.053379+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:58:11.054712+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":[]},{"id":"2025-victoria-secondary-school-reported-ai-sexual-images-of-female-students","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Two high school students have been suspended after sexually explicit, digitally-generated AI images of teenage girls were circulated online.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The images allegedly involved formal photos of female students","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The images had been inappropriately manipulated using artificial intelligence technology before being released online.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The outlet reported that sexually explicit AI-generated images of teenage female students were circulated online, and that police said the images allegedly involved formal photos of female students.","causal_attribution":"A regional news report of a Victoria Police press conference. Police are quoted on the alleged use of formal photos and on the investigation. The AI manipulation is stated by the outlet. The images and the AI tool were not verified by the reviewer."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Two year 11 students have been suspended over the incident.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"police had not yet interviewed the two students who had been suspended over the alleged incident as they had been unable to locate them","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Two Year 11 students were suspended over the incident. At the time of the report police had not interviewed them because they could not be located.","causal_attribution":"Police and school statements as relayed by the outlet. The suspensions do not establish who created or circulated the images, and police had not yet interviewed the two suspended students."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Victoria Police is currently working to establish the number of victims.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Victoria Police was still working to establish the number of victims when the report was published.","causal_attribution":"A police statement of an investigative status. It gives no count of affected students."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"has taken appropriate disciplinary action, and wellbeing support has been offered to any student that needs it","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A Victorian Department of Education spokesperson said the school had taken disciplinary action and that wellbeing support had been offered to any student who needed it.","causal_attribution":"A department statement about support offered. No affected student is quoted and no individual effect on a student is described."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"This is a very serious offence, we are talking about images of production, possession and distribution of child exploitation material","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A police detective said the incident involved production, possession and distribution of child exploitation material.","causal_attribution":"A detective characterisation at a press conference. It is not a charge or a court finding."}],"effects":[{"label":"Female students depicted in AI-generated sexual images circulated online, with school wellbeing support offered","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.easternriverinachronicle.com.au/story/8898831/victorian-school-scandal-after-sexually-explicit-ai-images-shared/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Syndicated regional copy of Australian Community Media reporting on a Victoria Police press conference. The body was read in full (a subscription prompt follows the first sentence and the full text is present).","independence_group":"victoria-police-press-conference-2025-02-21"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","privacy"],"unknowns":["When the images were created and first circulated is not stated. The source gives no date, so the event start date is unknown.","The AI tool or platform used and the platforms on which the images were shared are not reported in the cited source.","The number of affected students is unknown. Police were still establishing it, and other uncited coverage quotes a police detective saying as many as 60 students could be impacted. That upper bound is not counted.","How individual students were affected is not described beyond the offer of wellbeing support.","The identity of those who created and circulated the images is not established. The outcome of the police investigation is not reported."],"geography":{"basis":"The source describes a Victorian school, Victoria Police, the Victorian Department of Education and the Victorian Premier. No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["AU"],"affected_person_countries":["AU"]},"publication":{"basis":"One February 2025 regional news report of a Victoria Police press conference and a Department of Education statement. All claims are reported. Other outlets covering the same press conference are not cited because their URLs contain the school name. The school, students and suspended students are not named and no image detail is given. The creation date is unknown, so the case is published undated and outside the 2025 event-year count.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The outlet reported, in its own voice after Victoria Police statements, that the images had been inappropriately manipulated using AI technology and released online. No tool is named and the images were not seen by the reviewer.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Female students at a Victorian secondary school reportedly depicted in AI-generated sexual images circulated online","summary":"In a report published on 21 February 2025 about a Victoria Police press conference, an Australian regional outlet stated that sexually explicit AI-manipulated images of teenage girls had been circulated online and that two Year 11 students had been suspended. Police were quoted saying the images allegedly involved formal photos of female students. Police were still working to establish how many students were victims. The Department of Education said wellbeing support had been offered to students who needed it. The creation date, the AI tool, the number of affected students and the outcome of the investigation are not reported in the cited source.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2025-02-21","aiSystem":"Unspecified AI image-manipulation tool","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","aiCompany":"Unknown","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The outlet reports that AI-manipulated sexually explicit images of female students were circulated online, and the Department of Education said wellbeing support had been offered to students who needed it. No affected student's own account and no count of victims is reported.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"unquantified","affectedCountEvidence":"The cited source says police were still working to establish the number of victims. Other coverage read by the reviewer and not cited (its URLs contain the school name) quotes a police detective saying as many as 60 students could be impacted. That is an upper bound with no stated minimum and is not counted. Zero is a placeholder and does not state that nobody was harmed.","victimAgeRange":"minor","platformType":"other","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.easternriverinachronicle.com.au/story/8898831/victorian-school-scandal-after-sexually-explicit-ai-images-shared/","primarySourceLabel":"Eastern Riverina Chronicle (Australian Community Media), 21 February 2025, school students suspended after sexually explicit AI images released online","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T14:02:58.289243+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:20.242208+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":[]},{"id":"2026-norway-barnevakten-chatgpt-teen-mode-applied-to-adult","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'En av Barnevaktens medarbeidere fikk plutselig beskjed fra Chatgpt om at kontoen nå var i tenåringsmodus.'; 'Systemet skrur det på hvis oppførselen til brukeren indikerer at alderen er under 18 år.'; 'Denne gangen var det altså en voksen person som opplevde at tenåringsmodus ble slått på uten å ha bedt om det.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"One of Barnevakten's staff members, an adult, was suddenly told by ChatGPT that their account was now in teen mode, which the system switches on when a user's behaviour indicates an age under 18 and which reduces sensitive content; the switch happened without a request because age is estimated afterwards from conversation topics and times of use.","causal_attribution":"Organisation's own account of a colleague's experience; the age-estimation mechanism is the organisation's description of the provider's pages."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Hvis voksne opplever å havne i tenåringsmodus som de ikke ønsker, kan de gå gjennom en alderskontroll for å bevise at de er over 18 år.'; 'Chatgpt benytter selskapet Persona til å bekrefte alderen din.'; 'Opp til tre år nevnes som en mulighet.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The described way out of teen mode is an age check run by Persona that, depending on the country, asks for a real-time selfie and a government-issued ID; Barnevakten considers the process's privacy protections unclear, noting Persona's terms mention retention of up to three years.","causal_attribution":"Organisation's account and assessment; Persona's terms were not inspected."}],"effects":[{"label":"an adult's ChatGPT account was switched into teen mode by an automated age estimate, restricting content, with an identity check through a third-party verifier as the described way out","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.barnevakten.no/chatgpt-skrudde-pa-tenaringsfilter-for-en-voksen-person/","kind":"other","access":"read","language":"nb-NO","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-24 (Barnevakten, published 23 September 2026, categories Alderskontroll, KI, Sosial på nett; html lang=nb-NO). Norwegian; passages quoted in the original and paraphrased in English by the reviewer.","independence_group":"barnevakten"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["everyday_life","privacy"],"unknowns":["Whether the staff member completed the identity check or remained in teen mode, and for how long.","What the account holder had discussed that triggered the estimate.","Whether the switch caused any concrete loss beyond the content restriction.","Where the staff member lives or was when the account was switched (not stated; the organisation's country is not used).","When the account was switched into teen mode; the article of 23 September 2026 gives no date."],"geography":{"basis":"Unknown after review. The account is published by Barnevakten, a Norwegian organisation, about one of its own staff members, but the article states neither where the staff member lives nor where they were when the account was switched. The organisation's country is not used as the event or residence location. No proceeding.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a low-severity everyday-assistance case in which an AI product made a decision about a person: an automated age estimate placed an adult in a restricted mode and the route out required an identity check. Single organisational source (the publisher's own account of its staff member), claims recorded as reported; the staff member is not named.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-24"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The account reports ChatGPT's own message that the account was now in teen mode, and describes the provider's stated behaviour-based age estimation; the message and the mode are the product's own actions as described by the account holder's organisation.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["made_decision_about","communicated_with"]},"name":"A Norwegian child-safety organisation reports that ChatGPT's behaviour-based age estimation switched an adult staff member's account into teen mode without a request, restricting content and offering an identity check through a third-party verifier as the way out (Barnevakten, 23 September 2026)","summary":"Barnevakten, a Norwegian child-safety organisation, reported on 23 September 2026 that one of its staff members was suddenly told by ChatGPT that their account was now in teen mode. ChatGPT's own pages, as described by Barnevakten, say the system turns the filter on when a user's behaviour indicates an age under 18, reducing sensitive or potentially harmful content (graphic violence, viral challenges, sexual or violent role-play, extreme beauty ideals) and offering parental controls and a study mode. Because there is no age check at sign-up, the system estimates age afterwards from conversation topics and times of use, and Barnevakten notes that such guesses can be wrong. An adult who wants out of teen mode can go through an age check run by the company Persona, which depending on the country asks for a real-time selfie and a government ID; Barnevakten questions whether that process is privacy-safe (Persona's terms mention retention of up to three years) and advises using only age checks one trusts. The account's own experience is limited to the unexpected switch and the verification route; no further consequence is described.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-09-23","aiSystem":"ChatGPT: behaviour-based age estimation and teen-mode content restrictions; age verification through Persona","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["other_material_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"An adult's ChatGPT account was placed in a restricted teen mode by an automated age estimate the account holder had not asked for, and the described route back to full access was an identity check with a third-party verifier which, depending on the country, asks for a real-time selfie and a government ID, whose data-retention terms the organisation considers unclear. The account describes no further consequence.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: 'En av Barnevaktens medarbeidere' (one of Barnevakten's staff members). Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"unknown","platformType":"chatbot","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.barnevakten.no/chatgpt-skrudde-pa-tenaringsfilter-for-en-voksen-person/","primarySourceLabel":"Barnevakten, 23 September 2026: Chatgpt skrudde på tenåringsfilter for en voksen person","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-24T03:50:32.226789+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:47.10961+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["chatgpt","age-verification","teen-mode","norway","automated-decision","privacy","persona"]},{"id":"2026-brazil-influencer-ai-sexualized-minors","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'O desabafo foi feito ao g1 por uma jovem evangélica de 16 anos que teve a própria imagem manipulada por um influenciador digital com uso de inteligência artificial (IA) (veja vídeo acima). A Polícia Civil de São Paulo investiga o caso.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Um influenciador digital é investigado pela Polícia Civil de São Paulo sob suspeita de usar inteligência artificial para manipular imagens de jovens evangélicas, sem consentimento, criando vídeos com conteúdos sexualizados. As manipulações eram divulgadas em perfis nas redes sociais.'; 'Segundo a SSP (Secretaria da Segurança Pública), diligências estão em andamento.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'O Metrópoles apurou que a investigação é feita por meio de um inquérito policial'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"São Paulo civil police are investigating a social-media creator on suspicion of using AI to turn photographs of young women and girls from a church congregation, taken without their consent, into sexualised videos that he published on his social-media profiles.","causal_attribution":"g1's own reporting from the victims and the delegada; Folha's own confirmation with the state public security department; Metrópoles's own check of the inquiry. The suspicion has not been tried."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'aí eu jogo na IA, a IA faz dançar.'; 'admitiu usar fotos de jovens evangélicas da'; 'e ferramentas do TikTok para animar e manipular as imagens, transformando-as em vídeos.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Pego a foto, as irmãs postando de costas, e jogo na IA. A IA faz dançar'; 'Disse que retirou as imagens de perfis públicos em redes sociais e que não sabia que algumas das pessoas retratadas eram adolescentes.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"In a video he posted, the creator described taking congregants' photographs and putting them into an AI that makes them dance. In his police statement, g1 reports, he admitted using congregants' photographs and TikTok tools to animate and manipulate the images into videos, and said he had taken the photographs from public social-media profiles.","causal_attribution":"The suspect's own recorded words and his police statement as reported by g1 (one reporting chain). He disputes any sexual or criminal intent (c6)."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Ele pegou a minha foto sem autorização e fez uma montagem com inteligência artificial, com as mulheres sensualizando na frente e [comigo] junto a elas'; 'Eu sou muito envergonhada, então não queria ter sido exposta. Eu tomo cuidado e também fico com medo disso afetar meu convívio social'; 'Eu não tirei mais nenhuma [fotografia].'; 'O caso veio à tona em fevereiro, quando a jovem e os pais procuraram a'; 'A família entrou com ação na Justiça pedindo indenização por dano moral.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'após uma adolescente de 16 anos, vítima do influenciador em uma das publicações, denunciar o caso à'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"A teenage girl told g1 that her photograph had been used without her permission in an AI montage showing women posing sensually with her among them, that she had not wanted to be exposed and feared for her social life, and that she had stopped taking photographs of herself. She and her parents went to the police in February 2026, and her family filed a civil claim for moral damages.","causal_attribution":"The girl's and her family's account to g1; Metrópoles independently reports that her complaint started the police inquiry. Her distress is her own account."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'A gente está investigando esse caso de deepfake. Houve uma simulação dessas imagens dessas meninas, algumas delas adolescentes'; 'mas pede que outras jovens expostas pelo influencer também procurem à delegacia.'; 'conforme o artigo 241-C do Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente (ECA), cuja pena varia de 1 a 3 anos de reclusão, além de multa. A polícia também apura se ele cometeu difamação em relação a outras jovens expostas.'; 'O pedido foi feito pelo Ministério Público (MP).'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'que foi direcionado às autoridades de'; 'por determinação judicial.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"The investigating delegada told g1 that the police were investigating a deepfake case in which images of girls, some of them adolescents, had been simulated, and asked other affected young women to come forward. g1 reports that the inquiry concerns the child-protection statute's offence of simulating sexual scenes with minors by digital means (article 241-C) and possible defamation, and that at the prosecutors' request a court transferred it to the district where the suspect lives.","causal_attribution":"The delegada's own words to g1; the offence and the transfer as reported by g1, with Metrópoles's own check of the judicial transfer. The delegada did not disclose a technical basis for the deepfake description."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'O boletim de ocorrência mais recente foi registrado em 30 de abril, pela mãe da adolescente, na'; 'o influenciador também utilizou, sem autorização, fotos da jovem retiradas de suas redes sociais para produzir montagens de cunho sexual, publicadas em perfis dele no Instagram, no TikTok e no YouTube.'; 'A divulgação na internet afetou a garota psicologicamente.'; 'já que há vítimas adultas que aparecem nos vídeos manipulados com deep fake.'; 'o número total de vítimas ainda está sendo apurado.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"On 30 April 2026 the mother of a second adolescent registered a police report. g1 reports that, according to that report, he used her photographs from her social-media accounts without authorisation for sexual montages posted on his Instagram, TikTok and YouTube profiles, that the online exposure affected her psychologically, that he is also investigated for defamation because adult women appear in the manipulated videos, and that the total number of victims was still being established.","causal_attribution":"g1's report of the second complaint (one chain); the psychological effect is g1's statement without an attributed speaker."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'A defesa enfatiza que as publicações realizadas em suas redes sociais tinham o intuito estrito de sátira e crítica de costumes, inseridas em um contexto de humor. Em nenhum momento houve a intenção de promover exploração sexual, pornografia ou qualquer ato que atentasse contra a dignidade sexual das pessoas mencionadas'; 'Não possuía conhecimento sobre a idade das pessoas retratadas nas imagens públicas utilizadas'; 'Eu peço perdão a todos que se sentiram ofendidos. Eu prometo ser mais cauteloso'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'negou ter vinculado a imagem da adolescente a fotografias de mulheres com pouca vestimenta ou a qualquer conteúdo sexualizado ou pornográfico'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'alegou que as publicações foram feitas em um “contexto de humor”, sem a intenção de atentar contra a dignidade sexual das vítimas.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"Through a note from his lawyer, the creator said the posts were satire and criticism of customs made in a context of humour, denied any intention of sexual exploitation or pornography, and said he did not know the ages of the people depicted. In his police statement he denied linking the adolescent's image to sexualised content, and after his statement he posted a video apologising to those who felt offended.","causal_attribution":"The defence note was sent to both g1 and Metrópoles, so it is one origin; the denial in the police statement and the apology video are reported by g1."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'O TikTok informou adotar tolerância zero para exploração sexual infantil e remover conteúdos desse tipo. O YouTube disse que retirou vídeos que violavam suas diretrizes.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Os materiais foram apagados após a divulgação da investigação.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"TikTok said it has zero tolerance for child sexual exploitation and removes such content, YouTube said it had removed videos that violated its guidelines, and Folha reports that the material was deleted after the investigation became public.","causal_attribution":"The platforms' statements to g1; Folha's own statement on deletion."}],"effects":[{"label":"a teenage girl whose photograph was used without permission in an AI montage described embarrassment and fear about the exposure and stopped taking photographs of herself","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"},{"label":"a second adolescent was reported to be affected psychologically by the montages made from her photographs","claim_id":"c5","direction":"negative"},{"label":"young women and girls of a church congregation inserted without consent into sexualised videos published on social media","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://g1.globo.com/sp/sao-paulo/noticia/2026/04/22/pegou-foto-sem-autorizacao-diz-evangelica-de-16-anos-vitima-de-influencer-que-usou-ia-para-sexualizar-sua-imagem-em-igreja.ghtml","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"pt","translation_note":"Read live in Portuguese on 2026-10-19 (g1 São Paulo, 22 April 2026, updated 23 April). Own reporting: interviews with the first adolescent complainant and her parents, another congregant, the investigating delegada and the family's lawyer, plus the suspect's own posted videos and his police statement. Translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translator.","independence_group":"g1"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://g1.globo.com/sp/sao-paulo/noticia/2026/04/24/influencer-investigado-por-videos-sexualizados-de-evangelicas-com-ia-diz-que-usou-humor-para-criticar-roupas-usadas-por-jovens-em-igreja.ghtml","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"pt","translation_note":"Read live in Portuguese on 2026-10-19 (g1 São Paulo, 24 April 2026). The defence lawyer's note to g1, the suspect's police statement and his own recordings and apology video, and platform responses. Same g1 reporting chain as s1. Translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translator.","independence_group":"g1"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://g1.globo.com/sp/sao-paulo/noticia/2026/05/15/nova-vitima-de-17-anos-registra-bo-contra-influenciador-que-usa-ia-para-sexualizar-jovens-evangelicas.ghtml","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"pt","translation_note":"Read live in Portuguese on 2026-10-19 (g1 São Paulo, 15 May 2026). The second adolescent's police report of 30 April 2026 and the state of the investigation. Same g1 reporting chain as s1. Translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translator.","independence_group":"g1"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/cotidiano/2026/04/influenciador-e-investigado-sob-suspeita-de-criar-videos-sexualizados-de-jovens-evangelicas-em-sp.shtml","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"pt","translation_note":"Read live in Portuguese on 2026-10-19 at the .shtml path (Folha de S.Paulo, 22 April 2026). Folha says the case was first reported by g1 and confirmed by Folha, and carries a statement from the São Paulo state public security department (SSP). Translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translator.","independence_group":"folha"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.metropoles.com/sao-paulo/influencer-acusado-de-sexualizar-adolescentes-usando-ia-alega-humor","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"pt","translation_note":"Read live in Portuguese on 2026-10-19 (Metrópoles, 24 April 2026). The defence lawyer's note as sent to Metrópoles and Metrópoles's own check of the inquiry's transfer. Translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translator.","independence_group":"metropoles"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["everyday_life","privacy","justice","religion"],"unknowns":["When the videos were first posted: the first girl's photograph was taken in 2025 and her complaint was made in February 2026.","The age of the first complainant: 16 per g1 on 22 April 2026, 'também de 17 anos' per g1 on 15 May 2026.","Which police station took the first complaint: g1 on 22 April and Metrópoles name one women's police station, g1 on 15 May another.","How many people were depicted; the police were still establishing the number in May 2026.","Which AI tool was used beyond the TikTok tools he named to the police.","Whether the suspect has been charged and the status of the civil damages claim; nothing after 16 May 2026 was found on 19 October 2026.","When the apology video was posted: g1's 22 April report dates an apology video to 5 April 2026 and says it does not mention the deepfakes, while g1's 24 April report describes an apology posted after his police statement."],"geography":{"basis":"The complaints were made to São Paulo civil police, the inquiry was transferred by a São Paulo court to the district of São Paulo state where the suspect lives, and the first girl's family filed a civil claim (g1; Folha; Metrópoles).","court_countries":["BR"],"event_countries":["BR"],"affected_person_countries":["BR"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): g1 interviewed the first adolescent and her family and the investigating delegada, Folha and Metrópoles confirmed the investigation, and the creator acknowledged in his own video and police statement that he animated congregants' photographs with AI; he disputes criminal intent. The girls, their families and the adult suspect are not named, and his town, trade and online persona are omitted.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-19"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The creator said in his own posted video that he puts congregants' photographs into an AI that makes them dance, and g1 reports that in his police statement he admitted using their photographs and TikTok tools to animate and manipulate the images into videos (an admission). The investigating delegada described the case as deepfake and said images of girls, some of them adolescents, had been simulated; Folha reports the same suspicion from the investigation. The specific tool is not named. The AI output depicted the girls and women; no AI system interacted with them.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Brazilian police investigate creator over sexualised videos made from congregants' photos he says he animated with AI; two teenage girls filed reports","summary":"São Paulo police are investigating a social-media creator over sexualised videos he made from photographs of young women and girls in a church congregation, which he said he animated with AI. Two teenage girls filed police reports, and one described embarrassment and fear about the exposure. The creator, through his lawyer, says the posts were humour and denies criminal intent; no charge has been reported.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-04-22","aiSystem":"An AI tool, not named, that animated still photographs into dancing videos; in his police statement the creator said he used TikTok tools to animate and manipulate the images, and in a posted video he said he puts the photographs into an AI that makes them dance","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress","reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Young women and adolescent girls of a church congregation were inserted without consent into AI-animated sexualised videos posted to the creator's social-media profiles. A teenage girl described embarrassment and fear about the exposure, and g1 reports that a second adolescent was affected psychologically. The creator acknowledges making the videos with AI and disputes any sexual or criminal intent.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"Two adolescent girls who filed police reports (the first in February 2026, g1 22 April and Metrópoles; the second on 30 April 2026, g1 15 May) are counted. Other depicted congregants, adult and adolescent, are described ('o número total de vítimas ainda está sendo apurado', g1 15 May) but not counted. Partial: 2 counted plus an unquantified number.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"BR","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://g1.globo.com/sp/sao-paulo/noticia/2026/04/22/pegou-foto-sem-autorizacao-diz-evangelica-de-16-anos-vitima-de-influencer-que-usou-ia-para-sexualizar-sua-imagem-em-igreja.ghtml","primarySourceLabel":"g1 São Paulo, 22 April 2026","firstPublishedAt":"2026-06-14T11:18:13.776891+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-19T03:06:44.552383+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","ai-generated-video","sexualised-imagery","minor","brazil","police-investigation","depicted"]}]}