AI incident #1683 ·

Delhi Man Allegedly Used AI to Create and Circulate Obscene Images of College Acquaintance

Open on the AI Incident Database 2 news reports Synced from the AIID API · record last edited 9 Sep 2026

What happened

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.

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News reports (2)

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Who was involved

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Women and girls Women Victims of non-consensual deepfakes Victims of deepfake abuse Privacy Individuals subjected to sexual exploitation imagery Epistemic integrity
On AIID: Women and girls, Women, Victims of non-consensual deepfakes, Victims of deepfake abuse, Privacy, Individuals subjected to sexual exploitation imagery, Epistemic integrity

AI systems implicated

Synthetic media generation technologySynthetic image generation technologySocial media platformsInstagramDiscordDeepfake technology

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