Sydney High Schooler Allegedly Generated Deepfakes of Other Students

January 6, 2025

A Sydney student is accused of using AI to create explicit deepfake images of female classmates, which were circulated via false social media accounts. This incident has resulted in distress among the victims and triggered investigations by Campbelltown city police area command and the eSafety Commissioner. Such events underscore the need for responsible AI governance and the prevention of harmful applications. HISPI Project Cerebellum TAIM aims to manage such incidents through its Govern, Map, Measure, and Manage functions.

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MAP 1.6 — similarity 0.644, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MEASURE 2.10 — similarity 0.635, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MAP 4.1 — similarity 0.631, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Alleged deployer: unknown-sydney-area-high-school-student
Alleged developer: unknown-deepfake-technology-developers
Alleged harmed parties: anonymous-sydney-area-high-school-students

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/888

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

When citing the database as a whole, please use:

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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