DeepfakeHigh
Reported Use of AI Apps to Create Sexualized Deepfake Images of High School Students at Cascade High School in Iowa
- Occurred
- Mar 25, 2025
- Published
- Apr 29, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Students of the Western Dubuque Community School District in Iowa reported that classmates allegedly used AI-enabled applications to generate sexualized deepfake images depicting fellow students. According to local reporting and the Dubuque County Sheriff's Office, the fabricated images were created and shared without consent. The school district reportedly held a public session to address policy gaps and student support following the incident.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic image generation technology developers
Deployers
- Unnamed students at Western Dubuque Community School District
- Students
Harmed parties
- Unnamed students at Western Dubuque Community School District
- Students
- Minors
- Families of unnamed students at Western Dubuque Community School District
- Epistemic integrity
- Educational communities
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Non-consensual sexualized deepfake images of minors created and shared, involving law enforcement and school policy response.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8