Description: Delhi police alleged that a man named Keshav Bansal used photographs from a college acquaintance's private social media account with AI image-generation and editing tools to create obscene morphed images and upload them to anonymous Discord servers. The woman reported fake accounts and threatening messages intended to humiliate and harass her. Police arrested Bansal and said the investigation was ongoing.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Synthetic image generation technology developers , Deepfake technology developers and Synthetic media generation technology developers developed an AI system deployed by Keshav Bansal , Synthetic media creators and Deepfake creators, which harmed Individuals subjected to sexual exploitation imagery , Victims of deepfake abuse , Women and girls , Women , Privacy , Epistemic integrity and Victims of non-consensual deepfakes.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Synthetic image generation technology , Synthetic media generation technology , Deepfake technology , Discord , Instagram and Social media platforms
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1683
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2026-09-09
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
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A 22-year-old man was arrested for allegedly using photographs of a college acquaintance taken from her private social media account to create obscene AI-generated images and circulate them through fake social media accounts, police said on…
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New Delhi: A college grudge culminated in online harassment after a 22-year-old man misused a woman’s private photographs on social media to create obscene AI-generated images. Police arrested Keshav Bansal, a B.Tech graduate from East Punj…
Variants
A "variant" is an AI incident similar to a known case—it has the same causes, harms, and AI system. Instead of listing it separately, we group it under the first reported incident. Unlike other incidents, variants do not need to have been reported outside the AIID. Learn more from the research paper.
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