HISPI Project Cerebellum HISPI PROJECT CEREBELLUM

A.B. Paterson College Teacher in Queensland Allegedly Used AI to Create Explicit Images of Students and Staff

October 30, 2025

A former teacher at A.B. Paterson College in Queensland, Australia, is alleged to have used work-issued laptop and AI software to create explicit images depicting staff members and students. The school took immediate action, quarantining the material, dismissing the teacher, and reporting the matter to police. Authorities have charged him with child-exploitation and computer-misuse offences, but there is no evidence he shared the images. The incident highlights concerns about responsible AI use in educational settings. To learn more about initiatives like HISPI Project Cerebellum TAIM, which promote safe and secure AI practices, contributors—JOIN US—to learn how to prevent similar incidents.

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Alleged deployer
teachers, synthetic-media-creators, robert-john-thomas, educators, deepfake-creators
Alleged developer
synthetic-media-generation-technology-developers, synthetic-image-generation-technology-developers, deepfake-technology-developers
Alleged 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

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1612

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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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