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A.B. Paterson College Teacher in Queensland Allegedly Used AI to Create Explicit Images of Students and Staff
- Occurred
- Oct 30, 2025
- Published
- Jul 24, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Queensland police in Australia allege that former A.B. Paterson College teacher Robert John Thomas used a work-issued laptop and AI software to create explicit images depicting staff members and students. The school discovered and quarantined the material in October 2025, dismissed Thomas, and reported the matter to police. Authorities said there was no evidence he shared the images; he was charged with child-exploitation and computer-misuse offences in July 2026.
Developers
- Synthetic media generation technology developers
- Synthetic image generation technology developers
- Deepfake technology developers
Deployers
- Teachers
- Synthetic media creators
- Robert John Thomas
- Educators
- Deepfake creators
Harmed parties
- Victims of non-consensual deepfakes
- Victims of deepfake child abuse
- Victims of deepfake abuse
- Teachers
- Students
- School employees
- Privacy
- Minors
- Epistemic integrity
- Educators
- Educational communities
- A.B. Paterson College students and staff depicted in alleged AI-generated explicit images
- A.B. Paterson College
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 95%
Rationale: AI-generated explicit images of students and staff constitute deepfake misuse with criminal charges filed.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8