{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-31T07:32:31.088Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"virtual-presenter","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":0,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":1,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":1,"lawsuits":1,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":1,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-qatar-court-orders-news-channel-to-compensate-woman-whose-photos-it-turned-into-ai-virtual-presenter","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"انتهت محكمة الاستثمار والتجارة إلى إلزام قناة إخبارية بأداء تعويض لسيدة استغلت القناة صورها الشخصية دون إذنها في إنتاج شخصية افتراضية ظهرت بوصفها مذيعة رقمية تحت اسم حركي، بثتها القناة على منصاتها الإعلامية وحساباتها على مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي. ... تعود وقائع الدعوى إلى قيام القناة الإخبارية بمعالجة صور سيدة ومقاطعها المرئية بتقنيات الذكاء الاصطناعي، واستخلاص شخصية افتراضية منها قدّمتها كمذيعة، ثم استمرارها في استعمال تلك الصور والمقاطع ونشرها والترويج لها على منصاتها دون إذنٍ أو موافقةٍ من صاحبتها","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Al-Sharq reports that a news channel processed a woman's photos and video clips with AI to create a virtual character it presented as a digital news presenter under an assumed name, without her permission.","causal_attribution":"Newspaper account of the court case; the AI processing is the courts' and parties' description, not disputed by the channel."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"وكانت القناة الإخبارية قد أطلقت هذه الشخصية الافتراضية بوصفها مذيعة تقدّم برنامجاً إخبارياً بتقنيات الذكاء الاصطناعي، وأعدّت لها سلسلة من البرامج والمواد الترويجية على منصات التواصل الاجتماعي، كما نظّمت مؤتمراً إعلامياً ضخماً للترويج لها ... فاستجابت القناة وأزالت المادة المتضمنة المذيعة الافتراضية عن جميع منصاتها، إلا أن الضرر المادي والأدبي الذي لحق بالسيدة جرّاء التعدي حداها إلى إقامة دعواها للمطالبة بالتعويض.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The channel launched the character as a news-programme presenter with programmes, promotional material and a large press conference, and removed the material from all its platforms after the woman's lawyer sent a legal warning.","causal_attribution":"Newspaper account."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"كما أثارت المدعية أنّ ما بثّته تلك الشخصية من أخبارٍ في برامجها لا يتوافق مع قناعاتها الشخصية، ولا مع الآراء السائدة في بلدها الأم، بما نُسب إليها على غير الحقيقة وضاعف من الضرر الواقع عليها.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The woman argued that news delivered by the character did not match her personal convictions or the prevailing views in her home country, attributing positions to her falsely.","causal_attribution":"The plaintiff's argument as reported."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"وقدمت القناة دفاعاً أنّ العمل عمل فني مبتكر مستقل ويختلف اختلافاً تاماً عن الصور الأصلية. ... وقد ندبت المحكمة خبيراً مختصاً في الملكية الفكرية، وانتهى في تقريره إلى أن المادة التي تقدّمها المذيعة الافتراضية لا تحمل إساءةً للشخصية الحقيقية للمدعية، وأن العمل الفني الناتج عن معالجة صورها بالذكاء الاصطناعي عمل قائم بذاته ومستقل تماماً عنها.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The channel argued that the AI output was an independent original work, and a court-appointed intellectual-property expert concluded that the material carried no offence to the woman and that the AI-generated work was independent of her.","causal_attribution":"Defence argument and expert conclusion as reported; the court did not follow the expert."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"واستخلصت المحكمة من أوراق الدعوى أن القناة استغلت صور المدعية ومحاكاتها بالذكاء الاصطناعي ونشرها دون إذنها، وهو ما يشكل اعتداءً على حقها في صورتها وخصوصيتها وحقوقها الشخصية","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The court found that the channel exploited the woman's images and an AI simulation of her and published them without permission, violating her rights to her image, privacy and personal rights.","causal_attribution":"Court finding as reported by the newspaper; the judgment was not read."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"وقامت محكمة الاستئناف بتعديل مبلغ التعويض المحكوم به أول درجة من 700 ألف ريال قطري إلى 100 ألف ريال قطري شاملاً جابراً للأضرار المادية والأدبية ... وتقدمت القناة بطعن على الحكم إلا أن محكمة التمييز قضت بعدم قبول الطعن، وألزمت القناة الطاعنة بالمصروفات مع مصادرة الكفالة، فأصبح الحكم نهائياً وباتاً.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The appeal court reduced the award from 700,000 to 100,000 Qatari riyals for material and moral harm, and the Court of Cassation declined the channel's appeal, making the judgment final.","causal_attribution":"Outcome as reported; the judgments were not read."}],"effects":[{"label":"woman's images turned into an AI virtual news presenter without permission","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"courts found violation of image and privacy rights and awarded compensation","claim_id":"c6","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://al-sharq.com/article/25/06/2026/%D8%A5%D9%84%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%85-%D9%82%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A9-%D8%A5%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D8%AA%D8%B9%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B6-%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D8%B9%D9%86-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%AE-%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%A7-%D9%83%D9%85%D8%B0%D9%8A%D8%B9%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B6%D9%8A%D8%A9","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ar","translation_note":"Read in Arabic by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-31 (HTTP 200, published 25 Jun 2026). Translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translator. The article quotes and appears to draw on the plaintiff's law firm; the judgments themselves were not read.","independence_group":"al-sharq-qatar-virtual-presenter-ruling"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["The identity of the news channel and the woman.","When the virtual presenter was broadcast and when each ruling was given.","Which AI tool was used and how the channel obtained her images.","The text of the judgments."],"geography":{"basis":"The rulings were given by the Investment and Trade Court, an appeal court and the Court of Cassation applying Law No. 7 of 2002 on copyright and related rights, with the award in Qatari riyals, as reported by the Doha newspaper al-Sharq. Where the channel broadcast from and where the woman lives are not stated; the article refers only to her home country.","court_countries":["QA"],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published because a national newspaper reports final court rulings finding that a news channel used a woman's images and an AI simulation of her as a virtual presenter without permission, and awarding her compensation; the account is attributed to al-Sharq.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-31"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Al-Sharq reports that the channel processed the woman's photos and video clips with artificial-intelligence techniques to derive the virtual presenter it broadcast, which the channel itself defended as an AI-generated work, and that the court found the channel had exploited her images and an AI simulation of her without permission. The AI-generated likeness shown as a presenter is the depiction the courts compensated. The tool is not identified.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Qatari courts order news channel to compensate woman whose photos it processed with AI into a virtual news presenter, newspaper reports","summary":"Al-Sharq reported on 25 June 2026, in an article quoting the woman's lawyers, that the Investment and Trade Court, in what the paper called the first case of its kind, ordered a news channel to compensate a woman whose personal photos and video clips it had processed with artificial intelligence, without her permission, to create a virtual character presented as a digital news presenter under an assumed name. The channel had launched the presenter with programmes, promotional material and a press conference, and removed the material after the woman's lawyer sent a legal warning. She also argued that news delivered by the character conflicted with her own convictions, which attributed views to her falsely. A court-appointed intellectual-property expert found the AI output to be an independent work, but the court held that the channel had exploited her images and simulated her with AI, violating her rights to her image and privacy. The appeal court reduced the award from 700,000 to 100,000 Qatari riyals, and the Court of Cassation declined the channel's further appeal, making the judgment final. The woman and the channel are not named, and the dates of the broadcasts and rulings are not given.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-06-25","aiSystem":"AI processing of a woman's photos and video clips by a news channel to create a virtual news presenter shown on its platforms (tool not identified)","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["reputational_harm","other_material_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Al-Sharq reports that the courts found a news channel had used the woman's images and an AI simulation of her without permission, violating her image and privacy rights, and awarded her 100,000 Qatari riyals for material and moral harm on appeal.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One counted: the woman whose images were used and who won compensation (al-Sharq).","victimAgeRange":"adult","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"lawsuit_settled","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://al-sharq.com/article/25/06/2026/%D8%A5%D9%84%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%85-%D9%82%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A9-%D8%A5%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D8%AA%D8%B9%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B6-%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D8%B9%D9%86-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%AE-%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%A7-%D9%83%D9%85%D8%B0%D9%8A%D8%B9%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B6%D9%8A%D8%A9","primarySourceLabel":"Al-Sharq (Doha), 25 Jun 2026: news channel ordered to compensate woman over cloning her image as a virtual presenter","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-31T03:12:43.752272+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-31T03:12:43.752272+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["virtual-presenter","image-rights","privacy","court-ruling","compensation","broadcaster"]}]}