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Sydney High Schooler Allegedly Generated Deepfakes of Other Students
- Occurred
- Jan 6, 2025
- Published
- Jan 8, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A Sydney high school student allegedly used AI platforms to create explicit deepfake images of female classmates, which were then distributed through fake social media accounts. The incident reportedly caused significant distress among the victims, leading to an investigation by Campbelltown city police area command and involvement from the eSafety Commissioner.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic media generation technology developers
- Synthetic image generation technology developers
Deployers
- Students
- High school students
- Students in Australia
- Synthetic media creators
- Deepfake creators
- Men and boys
- Boys
- Adolescent boys
Harmed parties
- Students
- Minors
- High school students
- Girls
- Epistemic integrity
- Educational communities
- Women and girls
- Adolescent girls
- Privacy
- Students in Australia
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Incident involves AI-generated explicit images of students causing distress and police investigation.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8