Two 16-Year-Old Students in Athens, Greece Allegedly Generated Nonconsensual Deepfake Pornography of Their Classmates

February 19, 2025

In Greece, two 16-year-olds were detained for creating nonconsensual deepfakes of their classmates using social media images. The incident underscores the urgent need to establish guardrails for AI and ensure safe and secure practices. For those interested in shaping the future of trustworthy AI, join HISPI Project Cerebellum TAIM as we govern, map, measure, and manage such incidents.

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Alleged deployer: two-unnamed-16-year-old-students-in-athens
Alleged developer: unknown-deepfake-technology-developers
Alleged harmed parties: students-at-a-high-school-in-athens, families-of-students-at-a-high-school-in-athens

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/945

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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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