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Incident 888: Sydney High Schooler Allegedly Generated Deepfakes of Other Students

Description: 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.

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Alleged: Unknown deepfake technology developers developed an AI system deployed by Unknown Sydney area high school student, which harmed Anonymous Sydney area high school students.
Alleged implicated AI system: Unknown deepfake apps

Incident Stats

Incident ID
888
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2025-01-06
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Applied Taxonomies
MIT

MIT Taxonomy Classifications

Machine-Classified
Taxonomy Details

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.
 
  1. 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

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Incident OccurrenceSydney teenager allegedly used AI to create deepfake pornography of students
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Sydney teenager allegedly used AI to create deepfake pornography of students

Sydney teenager allegedly used AI to create deepfake pornography of students

theguardian.com

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Sydney teenager allegedly used AI to create deepfake pornography of students
theguardian.com · 2025

A teenage boy at a south-western Sydney high school has been reported to police after allegedly using artificial intelligence platforms to create pornography featuring other students.

The student is alleged to have created explicit deepfake…

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A "variant" is an AI incident similar to a known case—it has the same causes, harms, and AI system. Instead of listing it separately, we group it under the first reported incident. Unlike other incidents, variants do not need to have been reported outside the AIID. Learn more from the research paper.
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