Description: New South Wales police in Australia launched an investigation after parents reported that purported AI-generated sexually explicit images of female students from a Sydney high school had been created and circulated online. The reported manipulated images, produced without consent using deepfake tools, prompted school involvement and a criminal probe under new state laws banning such content.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Unknown deepfake technology developers developed an AI system deployed by Unknown actor(s) creating deepfake nudes of Sydney high school students, which harmed Unnamed Sydney high school students and Families of unnamed Sydney high school students.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Unknown deepfake technology and Nudify apps
Incident Stats
Risk Subdomain
A further 23 subdomains create an accessible and understandable classification of hazards and harms associated with AI
4.3. Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation
Risk Domain
The Domain Taxonomy of AI Risks classifies risks into seven AI risk domains: (1) Discrimination & toxicity, (2) Privacy & security, (3) Misinformation, (4) Malicious actors & misuse, (5) Human-computer interaction, (6) Socioeconomic & environmental harms, and (7) AI system safety, failures & limitations.
- Malicious Actors & Misuse
Entity
Which, if any, entity is presented as the main cause of the risk
Human
Timing
The stage in the AI lifecycle at which the risk is presented as occurring
Post-deployment
Intent
Whether the risk is presented as occurring as an expected or unexpected outcome from pursuing a goal
Intentional
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
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Police are investigating reports that digitally altered explicit images using the faces of female students from a Sydney high school have been circulated online.
The ABC understands a number of families attended Eastwood Police Station on W…
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Reports of deepfake image-based abuse have doubled in the country over the past 18 months, with at least one incident emerging out of Australian schools each week.
The figures were revealed on Friday by Australia's eSafety Commissioner and …
Variants
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