{"schema_version":"0.10.0","id":"LR-2026-0562","record_version":1,"title":"Ottawa police charge men over AI deepfakes of dozens of Canadian women","verification":{"human_verified":false,"method":"automated_gate","auto_verified":true,"score":44.7,"score_breakdown":{"source_authority":12.1,"independent_corroboration":7.0,"implicated_party_confirmed":0.0,"citation_integrity":14.0,"specificity":3.0,"completeness":2.24,"unhedged_language":4.17},"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":"8a0ac2fcc1731d3a6083631bf2a12a2f43d3c187275e37d38b2efc39483a63d3"},"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":"2026-05-29","incident_class":"harmful_output","failure_class":null,"agent_involved":null,"secondary_failure_classes":[],"trigger":"unknown","duration":null,"detection_method":"unknown","summary":"Police in Ottawa charged two men after an investigation into the alleged use of AI to create deepfake images of women, taken from their social media profiles. The images placed the women's real faces into generated scenes of violence and sexual acts, and were shared online. The Ottawa Police Service said its investigation began after a report of a woman depicted in harmful online content, and a spokesperson said investigators found more than one possible victim across several jurisdictions. Documents before the court identify up to 25 alleged victims. The charges against one accused cover August 2020 to December 2025. Lowe was arrested in February and Van Beek about two and a half months later, and both remain in custody. The RCMP told victims that known distribution profiles had been removed and a main hosting website taken offline. These allegations have not been proven in court.","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":25,"severity":"major","severity_because":"Test: many third parties, a stated count of two or more affected parties. Fact: court documents identify up to 25 alleged victims.","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.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/ai-deepfakes-charges-9.7215992","publisher":"CBC","date":"2026-05-29","type":"press","title":"AI deepfakes of dozens of Canadian women in violent and sexual images shared online - CBC","archived_url":null,"attachment":"first_report"}],"per_field_confidence":{"impact.third_parties_affected_count":"C","event.incident_class":"D","impact.severity":"D","impact.severity_because":"D","event.summary":"C","system.autonomy_level":"D","system.deployment_context":"D","event.trigger":"D","event.detection_method":"D","context.country":"D","system.developer":"D","event.date_disclosed":"D","context.denominator_available":"D"},"field_citations":{"impact.third_parties_affected_count":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Documents currently before the court identify up to 25 alleged victims."}],"event.incident_class":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Multiple women across Canada say they feel confused, violated and terrified after learning pictures of themselves were allegedly taken from their social media profiles and manipulated using artificial intelligence to generate realistic photos and videos of them engaged in violent scenes and sexual acts."}],"impact.severity":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Documents currently before the court identify up to 25 alleged victims."}],"impact.severity_because":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Documents currently before the court identify up to 25 alleged victims."}],"event.summary":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Multiple women across Canada say they feel confused, violated and terrified after learning pictures of themselves were allegedly taken from their social media profiles and manipulated using artificial intelligence to generate realistic photos and videos of them engaged in violent scenes and sexual acts."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"In a statement to CBC News, the Ottawa Police Service says its investigation began after receiving a report of a woman depicted in harmful online content."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"A spokesperson said investigators soon discovered there was more than one possible victim and that the impact crossed jurisdictional boundaries."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Documents currently before the court identify up to 25 alleged victims."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The charges currently before the courts for Lowe pertain to the time frame between Aug. 1, 2020 and Dec. 30, 2025, but some of the women said they found photos of themselves that were posted many years prior."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Emails show the RCMP has told the women all known profiles used to distribute their images have been removed, and that one of the main websites hosting the content had been taken offline entirely."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Both accused remain in custody."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"These allegations have not been proven in court."}]},"notes_on_gaps":"The sources describe people creating deepfakes with an unnamed tool; no AI system, model, developer, harness or deployment is named, so no system fields are given. No autonomous agent is described, so agent_involved, failure_class and related event fields are omitted. Detection method, responsible party, adversarial actor and root cause are not stated. Dates of occurrence and disclosure are not stated as a single value (the charge period is given, and the CBC article date is not used as a disclosure date). The 2016 date and the month-only dates lack a stated year where the source gives none, so they are kept as stated. The up-to-25 figure is an upper bound from court documents; I used 25 as the stated count. Severity major is my judgement under the many-third-parties test. The controls and remediation mapping (D7) is my judgement from the website's statement about strengthened moderation; the source does not name the control. Links are empty because the sources state no control held, failed or was missing in an AI system. Allegations are unproven; Lowe's involvement is contested by the charges only. Industry is not stated. 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