Teenager Makes Deepfake Pornography of 50 Girls at Bacchus Marsh Grammar School in Australia

June 7, 2024

An incident involving a teenager creating deepfake pornography of 50 girls, aged 9 to 12, at Bacchus Marsh Grammar School in Victoria, Australia, underscores the need for safe and secure AI practices. The images were allegedly uploaded to Instagram, with others sharing them on Snapchat. This incident serves as a stark reminder of the potential harm that can result from irresponsible use of AI. To help prevent such occurrences and govern AI in a responsible manner, consider joining Project Cerebellum and our efforts to shape HISPI Project Cerebellum TAIM (Govern).

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Alleged deployer: unnamed-adolescent-male, instagram-users, snapchat-users
Alleged developer: unknown-deepfake-technology-developers
Alleged harmed parties: bacchus-marsh-grammar-students, bacchus-marsh-grammar-girls

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/797

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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