Purported Deepfake Explicit Images of Middle School Students Allegedly Created and Circulated Using Mobile App in Goffstown, New Hampshire

October 7, 2025

In the quiet town of Goffstown, New Hampshire, a troubling incident has surfaced at Mountain View Middle School. Unnamed eighth-grade boys reportedly utilized an AI-powered app to create and disseminate deepfake images and videos of female classmates in sexualized contexts. This unfortunate event underscores the importance of promoting trustworthy AI practices and emphasizes the need for effective AI governance through projects like HISPI Project Cerebellum TAIM.

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Alleged deployer: unnamed-students-at-mountain-view-middle-school
Alleged developer: unknown-image-generator-developers, unknown-deepfake-technology-developers
Alleged harmed parties: unnamed-students-at-mountain-view-middle-school, students, minors, families-of-unnamed-students-at-mountain-view-middle-school, epistemic-integrity

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1348

Data source

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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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