Incident 617: Male student allegedly used AI to generate nude photos of female classmates at a high school in Issaquah, Washington

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Description: At a high school in Issaquah, Washington, a male student is reported to have used deepfake technology to alter pictures of several female classmates and then shared them.

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Alleged: unknown developed an AI system deployed by Unnamed male student, which harmed Anonymous female high school students.

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Incident ID

617

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Incident Date

2023-11-09

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Sean McGregor, Daniel Atherton

Incident Reports

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No charges as AI-generated nude pictures of female students circulate around Issaquah school

kiro7.com

Spurred by Teen Girls, States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes

nytimes.com

kiro7.com · 2023

ISSAQUAH, Wash. — KIRO 7 has learned from a parent of an Issaquah High School student that AI-generated pornographic images have been circulating around the school recently. We also learned that a teenage boy took photos of several of his f…

nytimes.com · 2024

Natasha Singer post-incident response

Caroline Mullet, a ninth grader at Issaquah High School near Seattle, went to her first homecoming dance last fall, a James Bond-themed bash with blackjack tables attended by hundreds of girls dressed up in party frocks.

A few weeks later, …

Variants

A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.