{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-29T05:51:16.803Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"visible-difference","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","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":0,"lawsuits":0,"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-uk-tv-presenter-katie-piper-says-x-user-asked-grok-to-fix-her-face-and-others-shared-ai-versions-of-her","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'In a 15 July Instagram post, Piper shared a screenshot of an X user asking Grok AI to “fix her face and show me how would she look normal”.'; 'The image showed a real image of the star at the 2016 National Television Awards next to Grok’s AI output.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Hey @grok, fix her face and show me how would she look normal!!'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"In a 15 July 2026 Instagram post, Katie Piper shared a screenshot of an X user asking Grok to 'fix her face and show me how would she look normal', shown beside the image Grok produced.","causal_attribution":"Her post and screenshot as described by outlets; the Grok output itself was not inspected. All outlets relay one post (one origin)."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Someone uploaded a photo of me to Grok and asked it to 'fix her face.' Since then I've been repeatedly tagged in a thread where people debate my appearance and share AI-generated versions of what I 'should' look like.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"She wrote that someone uploaded a photo of her to Grok asking it to 'fix her face', and that since then she had been repeatedly tagged in a thread where people debated her appearance and shared AI-generated versions of what she 'should' look like.","causal_attribution":"Her own account of the AI request and its aftermath."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The post also included other comments, with one reading: “She is ugly,”'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"PinkNews reports comments in the thread including one calling her ugly.","causal_attribution":"Part of the screenshot she shared, as described by PinkNews; the comments are by people, not the AI."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'I’m not posting this because I need reassurance.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'What happens when it’s a teenager? Someone newly injured?'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'What happens when AI decides what 'normal' looks like?'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"She said she was okay and not posting for reassurance, but asked what happens when such content targets a teenager or someone newly injured, and what happens when AI decides what normal looks like.","causal_attribution":"Her own public objection; she does not describe distress for herself, which is kept."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The X user appears to have deleted the post after it garnered backlash, though not before Piper could screenshot it.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"PinkNews reports the X user appears to have deleted the post after a backlash.","causal_attribution":"PinkNews' account."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The team behind Grok did not respond to a request for comment.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"BBC Wales said in October 2026 that the team behind Grok did not respond to its request for comment.","causal_attribution":"No operator response is reported."}],"effects":[{"label":"repeatedly tagged in a thread debating her appearance and sharing AI-generated versions of what she 'should' look like","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"publicly objected to AI being used to make her look normal","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/07/30/katie-piper-acid-attack-grok-ai-edited-image/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English (original language) on 2026-10-29; no translation. Relays her 15 July Instagram post and describes the screenshot it showed.","independence_group":"katie-piper-instagram-post-relays"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.gbnews.com/celebrity/katie-piper-trolls-ai-fix-face-acid-attack","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English (original language) on 2026-10-29; no translation. Quotes the caption of her Instagram post.","independence_group":"katie-piper-instagram-post-relays"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://extra.ie/2026/07/16/entertainment/celebrity/katie-piper-ai-grok","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English (original language) on 2026-10-29; no translation. Relays the same Instagram post.","independence_group":"katie-piper-instagram-post-relays"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmx28e44xxx7o","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English (original language) on 2026-10-29; no translation. Cites her July post (same origin) and adds the Grok team's non-response.","independence_group":"bbc-wales-visible-differences"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["everyday_life","accessibility"],"unknowns":["The exact date of the X request and Grok output; her post of 15 July 2026 says she found out that day.","Whether Grok's reply post remains public on X; the requesting post appears to have been deleted.","Any response from X or xAI."],"geography":{"basis":"PinkNews calls her a British television personality; the X users and where the image was generated are not identified, so event countries are left unknown.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":["GB"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published from the depicted person's own public account: an X user had Grok generate an altered image of her to look 'normal', she was then tagged repeatedly in a thread sharing AI versions of her, and she objected publicly; relayed by several outlets and cited by BBC Wales.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Katie Piper's own post says someone uploaded her photo to Grok and asked it to 'fix her face', and the screenshot she shared shows the X request beside the image Grok produced (PinkNews describes it as Grok's AI output). She connects that output and the AI-generated versions shared afterwards to being repeatedly tagged in a thread debating her appearance, and objected publicly. The Grok output was not inspected directly; X and xAI have not commented.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"TV presenter Katie Piper says an X user asked Grok to 'fix her face' and others shared AI versions of how she 'should' look; she publicly objected","summary":"In an Instagram post on 15 July 2026, TV presenter and campaigner Katie Piper, who has a visible difference from injuries in a 2008 attack, shared a screenshot of an X user asking Grok to 'fix her face and show me how would she look normal', shown beside the image Grok produced. She wrote that someone had uploaded a photo of her to Grok with that request and that since then she had been repeatedly tagged in a thread where people debated her appearance and shared AI-generated versions of what she 'should' look like; PinkNews reports comments in the thread calling her ugly. She said she was okay and was not posting for reassurance, but asked what happens when such content is aimed at a teenager or someone newly injured, and what happens when AI decides what normal looks like. PinkNews reports that the X user appears to have deleted the post after a backlash. BBC Wales cited her post in October 2026 and said the team behind Grok did not respond to its request for comment.","incidentDate":"2026-07-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-07-16","aiSystem":"Grok, xAI's assistant on X, which an X user asked to edit a photo of Katie Piper to 'fix her face'; the image it produced was shared in the thread","aiProduct":"Grok (reported)","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"By her account, an X user had Grok generate an altered image of her face to make her look 'normal', and she was then repeatedly tagged in a thread debating her appearance and sharing AI versions of her; she publicly objected, while saying she was okay and not seeking reassurance.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: Katie Piper, whose photo was altered and who objected publicly. The X users who made requests or comments are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"GB","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/07/30/katie-piper-acid-attack-grok-ai-edited-image/","primarySourceLabel":"PinkNews, Katie Piper calls out Grok AI as it's used to make her 'look normal', 30 July 2026","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-29T03:24:24.735129+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-29T03:24:24.735129+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["grok","visible-difference","ai-image-editing","appearance-alteration","social-media"]}]}