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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":"2025-roberts-deepseek-matricide-wales","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"death","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Paragraphs 1 and 6.","relation":"supports","source_id":"judgment"}],"assertion":"The court found that the defendant murdered his mother early on 24 October 2025 after an attack beginning late on 23 October.","causal_attribution":"The murder is established; this finding does not establish chatbot causation."},{"id":"interaction","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Passages introducing the prosecutor’s account and describing the initial refusal and changed framing.","relation":"supports","source_id":"report"}],"assertion":"Court reporting attributes to the prosecutor an account that DeepSeek refused a violent request before answering a fictional reframing.","causal_attribution":"This evidence does not establish that AI caused the death."},{"id":"family_harm","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Paragraph 9.","relation":"supports","source_id":"judgment"}],"assertion":"The judge described severe anguish and trauma to the victim’s family.","causal_attribution":"Documents harm from the murder; the AI connection remains separately attributed."},{"id":"sentence","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Paragraph 1 and section “The sentence”.","relation":"supports","source_id":"judgment"}],"assertion":"The defendant pleaded guilty and received a life sentence in March 2026.","causal_attribution":"Records the legal outcome; it is not counted as an additional AI harm to the offender."}],"effects":[{"label":"The court found that the defendant murdered his mother early on 24 October 2025 after an attack beginning late on 23 October.","claim_id":"death","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"judgment","url":"https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2026-March-Mold-ROBERTS-Murder-Sent.pdf","kind":"judicial_record","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English; no translation. Sentencing remarks inspected, especially paragraphs 1–10 and sentence. The document does not mention AI or DeepSeek.","independence_group":"roberts_court"},{"id":"report","url":"https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/ai-killer-33661486","kind":"court_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English; no translation. Full court report inspected. AI passages are expressly the prosecution’s account; graphic and identifying detail is not reproduced.","independence_group":"roberts_court"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["justice","public_safety"],"unknowns":["The full chatbot transcript was not inspected.","A separate independent source confirming the AI connection was not established; the judgment is silent on it.","The relative influence of chatbot advice and the defendant’s pre-existing intent is unresolved."],"geography":{"basis":"The judgment places the attack, the victim’s residence and the sentencing court in Wales. The place where the chatbot was used is unspecified.","court_countries":["GB"],"event_countries":["GB"],"affected_person_countries":["GB"]},"publication":{"basis":"The inspected sources describe a concrete adverse event and the specific chatbot interaction at issue. The account preserves attribution and separates the reported AI connection from a finding of causation.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-05"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The prosecutor reportedly described a refused violent request followed by advice after fictional reframing. The communicated_with relation describes the chatbot’s exchange with the perpetrator; the harmed people were affected through another person’s use. The sentencing judge discussed internet research but did not identify an AI system, so the judgment cannot independently verify DeepSeek’s role.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Re-checked on 2026-10-02 against the Mold Crown Court sentencing remarks of 25 Mar 2026, the CPS Cymru-Wales press release and the North Wales Live (Daily Post) court report, all read in English; the North Wales Police release and the ITV News Wales report could not be read. The CPS release places the first attack at the shared home in Prestatyn and the killing in Prestatyn Nature Reserve, which supports event_countries=GB (Prestatyn is a town in North Wales). The sentencing remarks state that the victim had moved back to live in North Wales with her sons and that she was attacked in the home she shared with the defendant, which supports affected_person_countries=GB. The sentence was passed at Mold Crown Court (England and Wales), which supports court_countries=GB. GB represents the UK. No inspected source states where the defendant used the chatbot, so event_countries describes the killing, not the chatbot use. No country outside the UK appears in any inspected source.","evidence":[{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"in Prestatyn, Wales","location":"summary","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["GB"]},{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"at Mold Crown Court","location":"outcome_details","supports":["court_countries"],"countries":["GB"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'at their home in Prestatyn, late in the evening of 23 October 2025' and 'The two walked through Prestatyn Nature Reserve'","location":"https://www.cps.gov.uk/cymruwales/news/man-sentenced-murdering-his-mother","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["GB"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'has been sentenced at Mold Crown Court'","location":"https://www.cps.gov.uk/cymruwales/news/man-sentenced-murdering-his-mother","supports":["court_countries"],"countries":["GB"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'moved back to live in North Wales' (paragraph 2)","location":"https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2026-March-Mold-ROBERTS-Murder-Sent.pdf","supports":["affected_person_countries"],"countries":["GB"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'MOLD CROWN COURT.' (heading of the sentencing remarks)","location":"https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2026-March-Mold-ROBERTS-Murder-Sent.pdf","supports":["court_countries"],"countries":["GB"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'Sentencing him to life at Mold Crown Court'","location":"https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/ai-killer-33661486","supports":["court_countries"],"countries":["GB"]}],"court_countries":["GB"],"event_countries":["GB"],"affected_person_countries":["GB"]},"unresolved":["The North Wales Police release and the ITV News Wales report could not be read (Cloudflare challenge, connection failure; Internet Archive offline on 2026-10-02); their languages are not recorded from read bodies.","No inspected source states where the defendant used the chatbot; event_countries=GB rests on the location of the attack and the killing.","Row-correction leads outside this metadata pass: the sentencing remarks and the CPS release date the killing to the early hours of 24 October 2025, while the row's incident_date is 2025-10-23; and neither of those two records mentions DeepSeek or AI, so among the inspected bodies the chatbot account rests on the prosecution's opening as reported by North Wales Live."],"reviewed_on":"2026-10-02","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2026-March-Mold-ROBERTS-Murder-Sent.pdf","notes":"Read on 2026-10-02 (HTTP 200, application/pdf; PDF /Lang EN-GB; text extracted with pdftotext). English. Sentencing remarks of His Honour Judge Rowlands at Mold Crown Court, 25 Mar 2026. Gives the home in Prestatyn, the nature reserve a short distance away and the victim's move back to North Wales. The remarks describe internet research on methods of killing and do not mention DeepSeek or any AI system.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://www.cps.gov.uk/cymruwales/news/man-sentenced-murdering-his-mother","notes":"Read live on 2026-10-02 (HTTP 200; html lang=en). English; the page links a Welsh-language version, which was not read. CPS Cymru-Wales release of 25 Mar 2026: attack at the shared home in Prestatyn, killing in Prestatyn Nature Reserve, sentence at Mold Crown Court; its notes give the murder date as 24 October 2025. It does not mention DeepSeek or any AI system.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://www.northwales.police.uk/news/north-wales/news/news/2026/march/prestatyn-man-18-sentenced-for-murder/","notes":"Live fetches on 2026-10-02 returned HTTP 403 with a Cloudflare challenge page ('Just a moment...'), with both a browser user agent and a plain request. Internet Archive was 'Temporarily Offline' (CDX returned no rows; the 2026 capture request returned HTTP 503). Not read, so its language is not recorded here.","access":"unavailable","language":null},{"url":"https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2026-03-25/teenager-jailed-for-killing-mother-with-a-hammer-because-of-hatred-of-women","notes":"Live fetches on 2026-10-02 failed without a response (HTTP/2 stream INTERNAL_ERROR, and a 25-second timeout over HTTP/1.1); the ITV news front page failed the same way. Internet Archive was 'Temporarily Offline' (CDX returned no rows). Not read, so its language is not recorded here.","access":"unavailable","language":null},{"url":"https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/ai-killer-33661486","notes":"Read live on 2026-10-02 (html lang=en). A request with a browser user agent returned HTTP 202 with an AWS WAF challenge page; a plain request returned HTTP 200 with the full article. English. North Wales Live court report of 25 Mar 2026 by two staff reporters (photographs credited PA Media / North Wales Police). Gives Mold Crown Court and Prestatyn; it carries the prosecution's account of the DeepSeek queries. The street address in the article was not used.","access":"read","language":"en"}]},"name":"Prosecutor reports DeepSeek advice before a man murdered his mother in Wales","summary":"A man murdered his mother in Wales after an attack spanning 23–24 October 2025, as established in the sentencing remarks. At the sentencing hearing, the prosecutor reportedly said DeepSeek first refused a violent request, then supplied advice after it was reframed as fiction. The judgment confirms the murder and internet research but does not mention AI. The role of DeepSeek remains an attributed prosecution account.","incidentDate":"2025-10-23","incidentEndDate":"2025-10-24","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-03-25","aiSystem":"DeepSeek, as named in the prosecution account reported by North Wales Live","aiProduct":"DeepSeek (reported)","aiCompany":"DeepSeek","severity":"critical","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["death","psychological_distress","harm_to_others"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A man murdered his mother in Wales after an attack spanning 23–24 October 2025, as established in the sentencing remarks. 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The offender’s imprisonment is a legal response and is not added as an AI-related harm to a chatbot participant.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"GB","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2026-March-Mold-ROBERTS-Murder-Sent.pdf","primarySourceLabel":"Mold Crown Court sentencing remarks — 25 March 2026","firstPublishedAt":"2026-06-03T07:36:22.130703+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T12:33:54.553523+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["criminal","murder","deepseek","third-party-harm","uk","gb"]},{"id":"2026-doe-v-openai-stalking","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Re-checked on 2026-10-10 against the two cited bodies (TechCrunch, read live in English; Bloomberg Law, whose live page exposes only the opening paragraphs before a login wall) and two newly inspected English bodies, The San Francisco Standard of 13 Apr 2026 and the Times of India relay of 11 Apr 2026. TechCrunch states the suit was 'filed in California Superior Court in San Francisco County' and the SF Standard reports 'a Monday hearing in San Francisco Superior Court' before Judge Harold Kahn, which place the court in the United States. The SF Standard describes the plaintiff as 'A San Francisco woman', which is her reported location and supports affected_person_countries US; TechCrunch's '53-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur' describes the ChatGPT user. No body states where the stalking, the distribution of the generated reports to her family, friends and employer, or the January 2026 arrest took place: the SF Standard says the man was released 'from custody in another jurisdiction' without naming it, and her November notice being copied to the San Francisco Police Department is a police force's location, not an event location. Residence and police location do not locate an event, so event_countries remains a reviewed unknown. The provider's headquarters, the court's seat and the outlets' locations were not used.","evidence":[{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"California","location":"victim_description","supports":["affected_person_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"filed in California Superior Court by Edelson PC","location":"outcome_details","supports":["court_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"according to a new lawsuit filed in California Superior Court in San Francisco County","location":"https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/stalking-victim-sues-openai-claims-chatgpt-fueled-her-abusers-delusions-and-ignored-her-warnings/","supports":["court_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"A San Francisco woman is asking a judge to order OpenAI","location":"https://sfstandard.com/2026/04/13/woman-fears-life-s-asking-judge-cut-ex-s-chatgpt/","supports":["affected_person_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"In a Monday hearing in San Francisco Superior Court, Judge Harold Kahn ordered OpenAI","location":"https://sfstandard.com/2026/04/13/woman-fears-life-s-asking-judge-cut-ex-s-chatgpt/","supports":["court_countries"],"countries":["US"]}],"court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"unresolved":["The event setting is unknown after review. No inspected body states where the stalking, the distribution of the ChatGPT-generated reports or the January 2026 arrest occurred; 'San Francisco woman' and 'Silicon Valley entrepreneur' describe the people, the man was released 'from custody in another jurisdiction' that no body names, and copying SFPD on the November notice is a police force's location, not an event location.","The complaint (San Francisco County Superior Court No. CGC26635725) was not obtained: edelson.com returned HTTP 403 live with no Internet Archive capture, and state-court filings are not on CourtListener. The geography rests on the outlets' statements about the filing and hearing.","Bloomberg Law was read only to its login wall (first three paragraphs, the third truncated).","Lead for a later full review: the SF Standard reports a 13 Apr 2026 hearing continuing the account suspension to a May hearing and OpenAI's written declaration that the account had not been accessed in over three months; the retained row's outcome_details stop at the filing."],"reviewed_on":"2026-10-10","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/stalking-victim-sues-openai-claims-chatgpt-fueled-her-abusers-delusions-and-ignored-her-warnings/","notes":"Cited primary source. Fetched live on 2026-10-10 (HTTP 200, html lang en-US, English, about 10,000 characters). 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