{"schema_version":"0.10.0","id":"LR-2026-0480","record_version":1,"title":"BART police sergeant's AI-generated bigoted deepfake video of a Sikh officer","verification":{"human_verified":false,"method":"automated_gate","auto_verified":true,"score":42.1,"score_breakdown":{"source_authority":12.1,"independent_corroboration":7.0,"implicated_party_confirmed":0.0,"citation_integrity":14.0,"specificity":0.0,"completeness":1.92,"unhedged_language":5.0},"checks":{"schema_valid":true,"every_field_cited":true,"quotes_verbatim":true,"source_fetched":true,"distinct_incident":true,"dates_plausible":true,"sources_agree":true,"source_describes_incident":true,"severe_backed_by_source":true,"record_integrity":true,"eligible":true,"about_this_case":true},"gate_version":"gate-2026-10-18.7","cross_check_model":null,"cross_check_agreement":null,"duplicate_of":null,"verified_by":null,"verified_at":"2026-11-01","extraction_run_id":null,"evidence_level":{"level":"preliminary","reason":"Publisher not yet named · subject to change","original_document":null,"reports_total":1,"reports_independent":0,"reports_derivative":0,"developing":false,"disputed":false,"rules_version":"evidence-2026-10-29.1","computed_at":"2026-11-01","history":[{"date":"2026-11-01","from_level":null,"to_level":"preliminary","reason":"Publisher not yet named · subject to change"}]},"sources_hash":"64f079d27677a1d1a8071e317168183b97dad1c85d01c155f103e065dbe9d86d"},"system":{"model_name":null,"model_version":null,"developer":"unknown","harness":null,"tools_granted":[],"permissions_scope":null,"autonomy_level":"unknown","guardrails_present":[],"deployment_context":"unknown","tier":null,"lifecycle_stage":null,"integration_type":null,"intended_use":null,"safeguard_state":null,"production_intended":null},"event":{"date_occurred":null,"date_disclosed":"2026-03-05","incident_class":"harmful_output","failure_class":null,"agent_involved":null,"secondary_failure_classes":[],"trigger":"unknown","duration":null,"detection_method":"unknown","summary":"A sergeant at the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police department used generative AI to make a short video showing a real BART officer, a Sikh, with a pistol found inside his turban, and the real chief depicted. The video circulated by text message among officers over the holidays, and an officer sent it to a group text that included a Sikh officer. The sources say an officer reported it up the chain, and a sergeant then admitted making and sharing it. The department placed him on administrative leave for several weeks. The sources say the department opened an internal investigation, ordered officers to refrain from harassing colleagues and announced department-wide training. The results of the investigation are not stated in the sources.","tags":[],"date_detected":null,"near_miss":null,"root_cause":null,"root_cause_detail":null,"failure_class_detail":null,"responsible_party":null,"adversarial_actor":null,"input_provenance":null,"time_to_contain":null,"operations_paused":null,"remediation":null,"precursor_events":null},"impact":{"direct_loss_usd":null,"remediation_hours":null,"records_exposed":null,"third_parties_affected_count":null,"severity":"moderate","severity_because":"Test: data or systems of others touched with a bounded scope stated. Fact: the likeness of a real BART officer and the real BART chief was used in a video that circulated among officers of the BART police force; scope is stated as officers of that force.","harm_class":[],"affected_description":null,"protected_class_involved":null,"data_categories_exposed":[],"loss_range_usd":null,"reversibility":null,"downstream_exposure_count":null},"evidence":{"sources":[{"url":"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/ai-video-bart-police-21345758.php","publisher":"San Francisco Chronicle","date":"2026-03-05","type":"press","title":"A BART police officer made a bigoted AI deepfake about a Sikh colleague. 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No exact date of occurrence is stated (only over the holidays and over Thanksgiving), so date_occurred is omitted. date_disclosed uses the Chronicle article date 2026-03-05 as the disclosure date, a judgement. agent_involved is set to false because the sources describe a human sergeant making the video and no autonomous agent. No control is reported as held, failed or missing, since the sources do not describe any; links is empty. Detection method, responsible party and root cause are omitted because the sources do not state them clearly; the officer's upward report is not a review. Severity moderate is a judgement from the real officer and chief likeness used and the stated scope of officers of the force; no affected-party count is stated. Investigation outcome, discipline and the sergeant's and officer's current status beyond what is quoted are unknown. The sergeant's identity is not given beyond his rank. [case created by the backfill: read by claude-haiku-5-5, backfill-2026-11-01.2, 2026-11-01; not yet reviewed] [2026-11-01: evidence level set: Preliminary (Publisher not yet named · subject to change)]"},"context":{"industry":null,"org_size_band":null,"country":"unknown","denominator_available":false,"denominator":null,"related_incident_ids":[],"systemic_exposure":null,"shared_model_id":null,"upstream_incident_id":null,"incident_evidence":null,"regulatory":null,"coverage":null}}