Teen distributes AI-generated nude pictures of Issaquah students
A teenage boy used AI to generate nude images of his female classmates and a member of staff at Issaquah High School, Seattle, and sent them round the school. The images were created with an unnamed web-based nudification app, which automatically edits photos of women to make them appear naked. A student reportedly discovered the app on TikTok and then posted some of nudified photographs on Snapchat or showed them to other students over lunch at the school. The school referred the incident to the local police force, which launched an investigation. Media reports later indicated that no charges had been levelled against the perpetrator. The incident was seen to highlight the ease with which harmful deepfake images can be made and circulated. It also underscored the lack of local or federal US laws directly addressing the creation and distribution of deepfake images intended to harass or otherwise harm other people. System 🤖 Unknown Operator: Issaquah High School stud ents Developer: Country: USA Sector: Education Purpose: Harrass/intimidate/shame Technology: Deepfake - image; Generative adversarial network (GAN); Neural network; Deep learning; Machine learning Issue: Accountability; Safety
- Date it happened
- 2023-10-01
- Organisation involved
- School student
This incident was imported from AIAAIC and is used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Our additions to it — the structured fields, the translation, the checks against other reports — are published under the same licence.
This is a record of what was reported, not a finding that anyone broke the law. If it names your organisation and you believe it is wrong, the corrections process is free and open to everyone.