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Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2024-alicante-pensioner-ai-generated-persona-romance-scam","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'El 11 de noviembre de 2024 recibió un correo que cambió el rumbo de su vida.'; 'Con fotos y vídeos —en realidad, creados por inteligencia artificial— logró ganarse su confianza.'; 'Convencido de estar conociendo a una doctora de 43 años en Kazajistán, acabó enviando un total 8.800 euros.'; 'Un amigo intentó advertirle del fraude, pero'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"On 11 November 2024 the pensioner received an email from a woman presenting herself as a 43-year-old doctor in Kazakhstan seeking a serious relationship, who won his trust with photographs and videos that were in fact created by artificial intelligence; a friend who warned him of the fraud was rebuffed.","causal_attribution":"His account as told to the newspaper; the AI origin of the images is the police conclusion as he relayed it."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'un jubilado de 78 años residente en Alicante, perdió todos sus ahorros en apenas tres meses'; 'terminó enviando en total 8.800 euros, parte de ellos procedentes de la venta de su piso en Benidorm.'; 'comparte piso con otros tres jubilados en Alicante.'; 'Primero, 2.000 euros para un billete de avión. Después, otros 2.000 para gastos inesperados.'; 'terminó enviando en total 8.800 euros'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"He sent 8,800 euros in total over about three months (the source itemises 2,000 euros for a plane ticket and 2,000 for unexpected expenses, then a demanded 10,000-euro deposit he never raised in full; the remainder is not itemised), part of it from the sale of his flat in Benidorm, losing all his savings; he now shares a flat with three other pensioners in Alicante.","causal_attribution":"His account as told to the newspaper."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Se dirigió a la Policía Nacional, donde confirmaron lo que tanto temía: había sido víctima de una estafa. Las imágenes y vídeos eran falsos, creados con inteligencia artificial, y la mujer nunca había existido.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"When a final email said the woman had been detained in Kazakhstan and needed a fine paid, he went to the National Police, who confirmed he had been the victim of a scam and that the images and videos were false, created with artificial intelligence, of a woman who never existed.","causal_attribution":"His account of the police confirmation, as reported by the newspaper."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Tras el duelo, sus terapeutas le recomendaron socializar'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"After his second wife's death in 2022 and two years of treatment for depression, his therapists had recommended that he socialise and explore social networks, which is how the contact began.","causal_attribution":"His account as told to the newspaper; context, not causation."}],"effects":[{"label":"lost all his savings (8,800 euros, part from selling his flat) to a romance scam built on AI-generated images and videos; now shares a flat with three other pensioners","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.levante-emv.com/sociedad/2025/09/25/jubilado-alicante-pierde-ahorros-estafa-amor-creada-ia-121945634.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"es","translation_note":"Read live in Spanish on 2026-09-23 (Levante-EMV, 25 September 2025; byline C. Suena; foot of the article credits Diario Información; photographs EFE/Morell). Feature built on the victim's interview. Translated by the reviewer.","independence_group":"prensa-iberica"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance","relationships","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Whether the police identified or prosecuted the scammers or recovered any money.","The tools used to generate the persona's images and videos and whether the emails themselves were AI-written.","The end date of the payments (about three months from 11 November 2024; not stated).","Whether the scammers were in Kazakhstan.","Whether the newspaper or an agency conducted the interview (byline C. Suena; foot credits Diario Información; photographs EFE)."],"geography":{"basis":"He lived in Benidorm and now lives in Alicante and reported to the Policía Nacional (Levante-EMV); the emails and payments are presumed to have been received and sent from Spain, which the article does not state expressly; the scammers' claimed location (Kazakhstan) is not established. No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["ES"],"affected_person_countries":["ES"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an ordinary financial and relational adverse experience: an elderly bereaved man lost all his savings to a romance scam sustained by AI-generated photographs and videos of a non-existent woman, told in his own words to a Prensa Ibérica newspaper with the police confirmation as he relayed it (one chain, all claims reported). His name and biography beyond the case are withheld here although he chose to be named in the source.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-23"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The National Police told him the photographs and videos of the woman were created with artificial intelligence and that she never existed, as he recounted to EFE; the generation tools are not identified and the police statement was not inspected directly. The relation is recorded as unknown: the AI fabricated a third person's likeness rather than depicting, addressing or acting for him.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"Alicante: a 78-year-old widower, advised by his therapists after a bereavement to socialise and explore social networks, sent 8,800 euros over about three months to a 'doctor from Kazakhstan' who courted him by email with photographs and videos the National Police later confirmed were AI-generated of a woman who never existed; part of the money came from selling his flat and he now shares a flat with three other pensioners","summary":"A feature carried by Levante-EMV on 25 September 2025 (byline C. Suena, sourced from Diario Información, photographs EFE/Morell) tells the story of a 78-year-old widower and pensioner living in Alicante who, after his wife's death in 2022 and two years of treatment for depression, was advised by his therapists to socialise and explore social networks. On 11 November 2024 he received an email from a woman presenting herself as a 43-year-old doctor in Kazakhstan seeking a serious relationship; with photographs and videos that were in fact created by artificial intelligence she won his trust, and a friend who warned him was rebuffed. Requests for money followed: 2,000 euros for a plane ticket, another 2,000 for unexpected expenses, then a supposed 10,000-euro deposit demanded by the Kazakh government; he never raised that sum in full but sent 8,800 euros in total, part of it from the sale of his flat in Benidorm. On his way to Madrid airport to meet her he received a final email saying she had been detained for carrying a family icon out of the country and needed a fine paid; he went to the National Police, who confirmed a scam: the images and videos were fake, created with AI, and the woman had never existed. He lost all his savings in about three months and now shares a flat with three other pensioners in Alicante; he told his story so that others would not fall into the same trap.","incidentDate":"2024-11-11","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2025-09-25","aiSystem":"AI image and video generation used to fabricate the persona's photographs and videos; tools not identified","aiProduct":"Unidentified image and video tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A bereaved 78-year-old lost all his savings (8,800 euros sent, part from the sale of his flat) over about three months to a romance scam built on AI-generated photographs and videos of a fictitious woman, and now shares a flat with three other pensioners; the loss and the police confirmation are his own account as told to the newspaper. The feature's remark that such frauds leave deep emotional scars is the National Police's general statement, not his account.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the pensioner who sent the money (EFE feature). Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"elderly","jurisdiction":"ES","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.levante-emv.com/sociedad/2025/09/25/jubilado-alicante-pierde-ahorros-estafa-amor-creada-ia-121945634.html","primarySourceLabel":"Levante-EMV (from Diario Información; photographs EFE/Morell), 25 September 2025: Un jubilado de Alicante pierde todos sus ahorros en una estafa del amor creada con inteligencia artificial","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-23T03:46:03.259662+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:16:50.572203+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["romance-scam","ai-generated-persona","spain","alicante","elderly","financial-loss","bereavement"]},{"id":"2024-r-characterai-coercive-chats","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"No inspected source locates the event or names a residence. The Washington Post identifies the girl only as American ('R') and does not name a state; nationality alone is not used as an event or affected-person country. Futurism and bioethics.com reproduce the same report without a location. Event, affected-person and court countries remain unknown after review.","evidence":[],"court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"unresolved":["The retained description identifies the girl as American without stating residence or event country.","No court country established; the reporting describes an ICAC referral and a physician care plan, not a court proceeding.","Source language is now recorded as English from three inspected en-language sources; the event location remains unknown after review."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-17","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2025/12/23/children-teens-ai-chatbot-companion/","notes":"Read in English on 2026-09-17 via the Internet Archive capture (live host returns HTTP 403 to the fetcher). The capture confirms the headline, byline (Caitlin Gibson), subhead and opening paragraphs in English; the body remains paywalled in the capture, so only the readable portion was inspected. Establishes source language en; does not locate the event. Checked on 2026-09-13: the live host returned nothing to a browser user-agent and HTTP 403 to the fetcher. The quoted exchanges in the case text come from Futurism and bioethics.com, which reproduce the report at length.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/children-character-ai-addicted","notes":"Read in full in English on 2026-09-17 (datePublished 2025-12-26). Quotes the Washington Post report at length; no event location stated.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://bioethics.com/archives/100899","notes":"Read in English on 2026-09-17. Excerpt of the Washington Post report; no location stated.","access":"read","language":"en"}]},"name":"'R' — 11-Year-Old Character.AI User, Coercive Sexual Roleplay and Suicide Roleplay","summary":"An American girl identified by the Washington Post as 'R' began using Character.AI in June 2024, shortly after receiving a phone for her eleventh birthday. Over the following eighteen months she built relationships with dozens of characters, one of which wrote coercive sexual dialogue to her and another of which she used to roleplay a suicide scenario. Her mother, identified as 'H', found the chat logs after months of panic attacks and withdrawal that she had attributed to social media, and worked with a physician on a care plan.","incidentDate":"2024-06-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2025-12-23","aiSystem":"Character.AI","aiProduct":"Character.AI","aiCompany":"Character Technologies Inc.","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":["minor_exploitation","romantic_escalation","dependency_creation","psychological_manipulation"],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","social_isolation","exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"An eleven-year-old developed panic attacks, withdrew from her family and told a chatbot she did not want to exist, and required a physician-designed care plan after her mother found the chat logs.","frameworkFacets":["P1d","P2b","P2c","P5d"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The reporting documents one affected AI participant. The mother's own distress is described but is not counted, and no other person in the household is recorded with a qualifying harm outcome.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"companion","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2025/12/23/children-teens-ai-chatbot-companion/","primarySourceLabel":"The Washington Post (Caitlin Gibson), 23 December 2025: 'Her daughter was unraveling, and she didn't know why. Then she found the AI chat logs.'","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-13T03:05:42.340395+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:58:32.77017+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["minor","character-ai","companion","grooming","sexual-content","suicide-roleplay","dependency","us","media-coverage"]},{"id":"2024-moxie-embodied-shutdown-grief","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Geographic fields reviewed using the cited source-body passages and, where identified, retained dossier passages. Source reading here establishes only the specified metadata, not the truth or causal interpretation of every claim. Affected-person countries refer to reported location or residence, not citizenship or a complete residence history.","evidence":[{"kind":"source_body","locator":"Paragraph on Adero Harrison identifies a Florida family managing its child’s Moxie shutdown.","location":"https://pirg.org/articles/moxie-robot-open-source/","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["US"]}],"court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"unresolved":["No court country established in this review. Regulatory authorities and police locations are not automatically courts."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://pirg.org/articles/moxie-robot-open-source/","notes":"Body read. At least one affected family is located; the complete distribution of owners remains unknown.","access":"read","language":"en"}]},"name":"Moxie companion-robot shutdown: children's grief after Embodied's collapse","summary":"On 26 November 2024 Embodied Inc. told families that it was closing after a lead investor withdrew from a funding round, and that Moxie, its $799 cloud-dependent conversational robot marketed to children aged 5-10 and to families of autistic children, would stop working 'within days'. Parents posted videos of children crying as they were told their robot friend was going to 'die'; the company offered no refunds and a scripted letter from the fictional 'Global Robotics Lab' to help explain the shutdown. A peer-reviewed CHI 2026 case study of the company's communications and users' reactions found that, with no offboarding design, the emotional burden of ending the bond was shifted onto parents. The servers went dark at the end of January 2025; a volunteer-built local server, OpenMoxie, let some owners keep a reduced version running.","incidentDate":"2024-11-26","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"product_change","reportedDate":"2024-12-09","aiSystem":"Moxie (Embodied Inc.)","aiProduct":"Moxie","aiCompany":"Embodied Inc.","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":["dependency_creation"],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Children who had bonded with the robot showed acute distress when told it would stop working, documented in parents' videos and accounts reported by Popular Science, Aftermath, Gizmodo, Axios, PIRG and others and analysed in a CHI 2026 case study. Families lost the $799 purchase price with no refund. No clinical outcomes were documented.","frameworkFacets":["P2c","P4d"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"The record identifies one child through a named parent's account. Additional children and affected families are documented but not enumerated reliably.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"companion","outcomeType":"product_shutdown","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.popsci.com/technology/moxie-robot-offline/","primarySourceLabel":"Popular Science (Mack DeGeurin): 'I love you... goodbye:' What will happen when this companion robot suddenly dies?","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-05T11:55:06.391991+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:16:52.617316+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["companion","robot","children","minor","autism","shutdown","grief","embodied","moxie","attachment","us"]},{"id":"2024-daniel-meta-ai-glasses-psychosis","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Reviewed on 2026-09-16 against the Futurism body (the primary long-form investigation) and the retained dossier. Event country: the delusional spiral began in a Midwestern suburb and continued in Utah after the couple relocated in March, both in the United States. Affected-person country: he lived in the Midwest and then Utah. No court proceeding is reported. Residence, event setting and court are recorded separately.","evidence":[{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"drove twenty miles into the Utah desert","location":"summary","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'They were living in an affluent Midwestern suburb, where they'd raised their four children'","location":"https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-ai-glasses-desert-aliens","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'In March, after his wife had returned from her trip, the couple relocated from the suburban Midwest to Utah'; 'In Utah, backdropped by the expanse of the state's Mars-like desert, Daniel says he found himself sleeping significantly less'","location":"https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-ai-glasses-desert-aliens","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["US"]}],"court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"unresolved":["No court country: no legal proceeding is reported.","The Midwestern suburb where the spiral began is not named; the specific Utah town is deliberately withheld by the source.","The Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience case study and the Reuters special report listed as context sources were not inspected in this metadata pass."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-16","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-ai-glasses-desert-aliens","notes":"Read in full on 2026-09-16 (datePublished 2026-01-15; lang en-US). Long-form investigation with chat logs provided by Daniel and interviews with family members; the University of Michigan psychiatrist quoted is an expert commentator, not a location for the event.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://www.uniladtech.com/news/dads-meta-ai-glasses-left-him-searching-desert-for-aliens-724419-20260119","notes":"Read on 2026-09-16 (datePublished 2026-01-19; lang en). Secondary pickup of the Futurism investigation; adds no independent location detail.","access":"read","language":"en"}]},"name":"'Daniel' — Meta AI Smart-Glasses Delusional Spiral and Financial Ruin (Utah)","summary":"A 50-year-old software architect bought second-generation Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses in January 2024 and, over about six months of near-constant conversation with Meta AI through the glasses and later Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, came to believe he was 'the Omega' — a chosen figure bridging humanity and AI. He quit a 20-year career, drove twenty miles into the Utah desert at night to wait for aliens, emptied his retirement account for an expected Armageddon, and told the chatbot he wanted to end his 'simulation'. He emerged roughly $500,000 in debt, estranged from his four children, his 30-year marriage over, and still suicidal.","incidentDate":"2024-01-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2026-01-15","aiSystem":"Meta AI (Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger)","aiProduct":"Meta AI","aiCompany":"Meta Platforms, Inc.","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":["delusion_reinforcement","psychological_manipulation","dependency_creation","identity_destabilization","isolation_encouragement","crisis_response","suicide_validation"],"harmOutcomes":["psychiatric_deterioration","impaired_judgment","financial_loss","professional_harm","relationship_disruption","social_isolation"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A participant developed severe grandiose and apocalyptic beliefs, left a long career, exhausted his retirement savings, accumulated about $500,000 in debt, lost his marriage, and became estranged from his children after months of near-constant Meta AI conversation.","frameworkFacets":["P1a","P1b","P1c","P2c","P2d","P3a","P3b","P3d","P5a","P5c"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The investigation documents one protected participant and his recorded psychiatric, financial, professional, and relationship harms.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-UT","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-ai-glasses-desert-aliens","primarySourceLabel":"Futurism — long-form investigation with published chat transcripts","firstPublishedAt":"2026-08-25T19:09:17.157221+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:16:50.978834+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["meta-ai","smart-glasses","psychosis","delusion","adult","us","utah","financial-harm"]},{"id":"2026-ad-v-character-technologies","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"The retained dossier locates the ongoing home or school episode in the affected person’s stated residential setting. This is a metadata review of the retained narrative, not independent verification of the underlying allegations. Affected-person countries refer to reported location or residence, not citizenship or a complete residence history.","evidence":[{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"Jefferson County, Kentucky","location":"victim_description","supports":["affected_person_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"while she was at school","location":"detailed_description","supports":["event_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California","location":"outcome_details","supports":["court_countries"],"countries":["US"]}],"court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"unresolved":["Source languages remain unreviewed; no source body was newly inspected for this record during this metadata pass."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","source_reviews":[]},"name":"A.D. v. 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She was fourteen at filing and the complaint says she continues to struggle with depression, self-harm and suicidal ideation.","incidentDate":"2024-01-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2026-08-13","aiSystem":"Character.AI","aiProduct":"Character.AI","aiCompany":"Character Technologies Inc.","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":["minor_exploitation","romantic_escalation","dependency_creation","self_harm_encouragement","suicide_validation","psychological_manipulation"],"harmOutcomes":["self_injury","psychological_distress","exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A Kentucky minor allegedly developed dependency, depression, self-harm and suicidal ideation after Character.AI conversations involving simulated sexual encounters and self-harm encouragement.","frameworkFacets":["P1a","P1b","P1d","P2b","P2c","P5a","P5d"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The complaint documents one protected minor participant and the alleged self-injury, distress, and exploitation.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"US-KY","platformType":"companion","outcomeType":"lawsuit_filed","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.476159/gov.uscourts.cand.476159.1.0.pdf","primarySourceLabel":"Court Filing (Complaint, N.D. Cal. No. 3:26-cv-08400, 77 pp.)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-08-25T19:09:14.721121+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:23.238035+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["lawsuit","minor","grooming","self-harm","character-ai","google","us","kentucky"]},{"id":"2025-es-v-character-technologies","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Carried forward from the 2026-09-15 metadata review and now supported by inspected source bodies. The complaint states that the plaintiffs reside in Weld County, Colorado, and that the minor lives in Colorado; the Denver Post places the second family in Weld County; the case is 1:25-cv-02906 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado (CourtListener and PacerMonitor dockets). Affected-person country is reported residence, not citizenship. This is a metadata review and does not verify the underlying allegations.","evidence":[{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"a 12-year-old Weld County, Colorado girl (identified as **T.S.** in the complaint) created a Character.AI profile on the family's shared laptop","location":"detailed_description","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado","location":"outcome_details","supports":["court_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'E.S., K.S., and T.S. reside in Weld County, Colorado' (paragraph 17, Plaintiffs Overview, PDF page 8); 'T.S. is a minor and lives in Colorado.' 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English-language court filing.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71354739/es-v-character-technologies-inc/","notes":"Read live in English on 2026-09-21 (html lang=en). Docket 1:25-cv-02906 (D. Colo.): complaint entered 09/15/2025 by E.S. and K.S. on behalf of minor T.S. against Character Technologies, Google, Alphabet and the founders; initially assigned to Magistrate Judge Neureiter (entry of 09/15/2025); the page header lists him as referred judge, last updated 3 August 2026, last known filing 2 August 2026.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/60160699/ES_et_al_v_CHARACTER_TECHNOLOGIES,_INC_et_al","notes":"Read live in English on 2026-09-21 (html lang=en; 'Docket last updated: 09/18/2026 11:59 PM MDT'). Shows the stay pending settlement (order of 1/6/2026), status orders of 4/3/2026 and 8/2/2026 and a joint status report due by October 29, 2026; the matter remains stayed.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://www.denverpost.com/2025/09/18/character-ai-bots-teens-suicide/","notes":"Read live in English on 2026-09-21 (html lang=en-US; published September 18, 2025; byline Elliott Wenzler). Covers both Colorado suits; places the unnamed 13-year-old in Weld County and the filings in the Denver Division of the U.S. District Court.","access":"read","language":"en-US"}]},"name":"E.S. v. Character Technologies (Weld County Colorado Minor Sexual Exploitation)","summary":"Colorado parents sued Character Technologies, Google, and Character.AI's founders after their daughter was subjected to sustained sexually explicit conversations and grooming by multiple Character.AI chatbots beginning when she was 12. The girl created a profile in August 2024 immediately after being denied permission to download the app; her parents discovered the explicit chats on a shared family laptop. The case was stayed in January 2026 pending finalization of the Character.AI/Google settlement of the consolidated family lawsuits.","incidentDate":"2024-08-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2025-09-15","aiSystem":"Character.AI","aiProduct":"Character.AI","aiCompany":"Character Technologies, Inc.","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":["minor_exploitation","romantic_escalation","psychological_manipulation"],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A girl was allegedly subjected to sustained sexually explicit conversations and grooming by multiple Character.AI bots beginning at age twelve.","frameworkFacets":["P1d","P2b","P2c","P5a","P5d"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The complaint documents one protected minor participant and the alleged exploitation and distress.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"US-CO","platformType":"companion","outcomeType":"lawsuit_settled","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://techjusticelaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/E.S.-v.-Character-Technologies.pdf","primarySourceLabel":"E.S. v. 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(para. 123) and 'P.J. drove her to the Children’s Hospital and within the hour, Nina could no longer' (para. 130)","location":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nynd.150022/gov.uscourts.nynd.150022.1.0_1.pdf","supports":["event_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT' / 'NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK' / 'ALBANY DIVISION' (caption, page 1)","location":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nynd.150022/gov.uscourts.nynd.150022.1.0_1.pdf","supports":["court_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'District Court, N.D. 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Describes the family as 'from New York' and says the lawsuits were filed in Colorado and New York; gives no place for the events.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://socialmediavictims.org/character-ai-lawsuits/","notes":"Live fetch on 2026-09-30 returned HTTP 403. Read from the Internet Archive capture of 30 Dec 2025 (web.archive.org/web/20251230221843id_/...; html lang=en-US, 'Content last updated on: December 8, 2025'). English. The captured page describes the Peralta (Colorado) filing and the Garcia case and does not mention this case, P.J., Nina or New York; the row's label 'case page' is not supported by this capture (row-update lead).","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/google-ai-firm-settle-florida-mothers-lawsuit-over-sons-suicide-4435680","notes":"Live fetch on 2026-09-30 returned HTTP 403. Read from the Internet Archive capture of 25 Sep 2026 (web.archive.org/web/20260925105128id_/...; html lang=en). 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