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Santiago, Chile: appeals court orders a private school to expel pupils over nude images of four classmates that the school says were made with AI

In February 2024 the parents of a 15-year-old pupil at a private school in Santiago, Chile, reported that classmates had taken a photo of her face and inserted it into images of naked bodies; three other girls were also targeted. The school, which described the case as one of images generated with artificial intelligence, placed the pupils involved on conditional enrolment. Parents of the four girls brought protection actions, and in August 2024 the Santiago Court of Appeals found the school's measure illegal and arbitrary, said keeping the aggressors at the school caused the victims psychological harm, and ordered it to cancel four pupils' enrolment for 2025. The school first said it would appeal, then announced it would comply.

AI system
Unidentified image tool
Occurred
Event date unknown
Reported
10 August 2024
Event location
Chile
What the AI did
Depicted or impersonated the person
Reported harm
Exploitation or AbusePsychological Distress
Whose AI use
Someone else’s AI use
Setting
Education · Privacy · Justice
Evidence
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution supported · 3 sources
5 claims: 5 reported. 2 open questions
People reported harmed
4 people

AI system as recorded: Artificial intelligence used to insert classmates' faces into images of naked bodies, according to the school's own statement and the reports of the court case (tool not identified)

What Happened

The images. El Mostrador reports that in February 2024 the parents of a 15-year-old pupil reported that classmates had taken a photo of her face and inserted it into images of naked bodies, a technique known as a deepfake, and that three other girls were also targeted. El Dínamo reports that the school placed the pupils involved (five in second year of secondary and one in eighth grade) on conditional enrolment.

The court. The parents of four girls brought protection actions. The Santiago Court of Appeals found that the school acted illegally and arbitrarily by imposing conditional enrolment where its rules required cancellation, said that keeping the aggressors at the school the girls attend causes them psychological harm, and found that their public exposure through sexual images gravely affected their privacy. It ordered the school to cancel four pupils' enrolment for 2025.

The school. The school described the matter as the case of images generated with artificial intelligence and first said it would appeal to the Supreme Court. In a letter to its community reported on 16 August 2024, it said it would not appeal and would comply with the ruling.

Which tool was used, and whether any criminal proceeding followed, is not reported in the sources read.

Reported harm

According to the parents and the Santiago Court of Appeals as reported, classmates inserted four girls' faces into images of naked bodies; the court said the girls' exposure gravely affected their privacy and that keeping the aggressors at school caused them psychological harm.

Outcome

Resolved

The Santiago Court of Appeals upheld the parents' protection actions (August 2024), declared the school's conditional-enrolment measure of 26 April illegal and arbitrary and ordered it to cancel four pupils' enrolment for the 2025 school year. The school announced an appeal to the Supreme Court and then, in a letter reported on 16 August 2024, said it would not appeal and would comply.

What remains unknown

  • Which tool was used and how the school established it.
  • Whether a criminal complaint was filed and with what result.

What the evidence supports

AI involvement: reported. The school, which investigated and disciplined the pupils, itself called the matter the case of images generated with artificial intelligence (statement relayed by El Mostrador); the parents report that classmates inserted the girls' faces into images of naked bodies, a technique the reports call a deepfake. Those generated images depicting the four girls are the harm the court addressed. The tool and the technical basis are not disclosed, and the court passages read do not themselves mention AI.

5 claims: 5 reported. What the statuses mean

Reported In February 2024 the parents of a 15-year-old pupil reported that classmates had taken a photo of her face and inserted it into images of naked bodies, and three other girls were also targeted.

Causal attribution. Parents' complaint as reported.

  • elmostrador.cl(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    En febrero de este año, los padres de una estudiante de 15 años denunciaron que su hija había sido víctima de un mal uso de su imagen mediante la técnica conocida como deepfake. ... se descubrió que los involucrados tomaron una foto de la cara de la menor y la insertaron en imágenes de cuerpos desnudos. Sin embargo, la estudiante no fue la única afectada, ya que otras tres adolescentes también fueron víctimas de esta práctica
Reported The school described the matter as the case of images generated with artificial intelligence and first said it would appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court.

Causal attribution. School's own statement as relayed from La Tercera.

  • elmostrador.cl(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    como ha trascendido, la Corte de Apelaciones de Santiago decidió acoger los recursos de protección y ha resuelto que debemos sancionar con la cancelación de matrícula para el 2025 a cuatro de los estudiantes involucrados en el caso de las imágenes generadas con inteligencia artificial. ... hemos decidido apelar ante la Corte Suprema
Reported The Santiago Court of Appeals upheld the protection actions of the parents of four girls, found the school's conditional-enrolment measure illegal and arbitrary, and said keeping the aggressors at the girls' school causes them psychological harm.

Causal attribution. Ruling as quoted by the outlet; the ruling itself was not read.

  • eldinamo.cl(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    El tribunal de alzada acogió el recurso de protección interpuesto por padres de cuatro adolescentes y determinó que el colegio no cumplió los protocolos internos. ... “mantener a los alumnos agresores, dentro del mismo recinto educacional al que asisten las afectadas, causa un daño psíquico a las víctimas, hijas de los recurrentes”.
Reported The court found that the girls' public exposure through images of a sexual nature gravely affected their privacy.

Causal attribution. Ruling as quoted by the outlet.

  • eldinamo.cl(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    fueron exhibidas públicamente por medio de fotos de connotación sexual, “impactan gravemente la esfera de su intimidad, exponiéndolas al escrutinio público”.
Reported The school then decided not to appeal and to comply, cancelling four pupils' enrolment for 2025.

Causal attribution. School board letter as relayed from La Tercera.

Sources

3 sources inspected. Sources that repeat one account do not corroborate each other.

How the sources were read, and where the events happened

Read in Spanish by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-22 and translated by the research agent (an AI) into English; no human translator or reviewer was involved. El Dínamo report of 10 Aug 2024 quoting the ruling as published by T13; HTTP 200. Applies to s1.

Read in Spanish by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-22 and translated by the research agent (an AI) into English; no human translator or reviewer was involved. El Mostrador report of 11 Aug 2024 quoting the school's statement as given to La Tercera; HTTP 200. Applies to s2.

Read in Spanish by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-22 and translated by the research agent (an AI) into English; no human translator or reviewer was involved. El Dínamo report of 16 Aug 2024 quoting the school board's letter as reported by La Tercera; HTTP 200. Applies to s3.

Event countries: Chile. Affected-person countries: Chile. Court countries: Chile.

The girls and the pupils attend a school in Vitacura, Santiago, and the protection actions were decided by the Santiago Court of Appeals, so the event, the girls and the court are in Chile.

Reviewed for publication 2026-10-22: Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): the school called the matter a case of images generated with AI, classmates inserted four girls' faces into images of naked bodies, and the Santiago Court of Appeals found psychological harm and ordered the school to cancel four pupils' enrolment.

People described

Four girls at a private school in Santiago, including a 15-year-old, whose faces were inserted into images of naked bodies by classmates

People reported harmed in this case

4 people

0 AI participants · 4 other people harmed

Four girls: El Mostrador reports four affected adolescents (a 15-year-old and three others), and the parents of four girls brought the protection actions the court upheld (El Dínamo).

Counted once within this case. The same person may appear in other cases. This count does not establish AI causation.

Tags

#ai_image_tool#sexualised_images#school#court_ruling#chile

Cite this case

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APA

NOPE. (2026). Santiago, Chile: appeals court orders a private school to expel pupils over nude images of four classmates that the school says were made with AI. AI incidents. https://nope.net/incidents/2024-santiago-chile-appeals-court-orders-school-to-expel-pupils-over-ai-made-nude-images-of-four-classmates

BibTeX

@misc{2024_santiago_chile_appeals_court_orders_school_to_expel_pupils_over_ai_made_nude_images_of_four_classmates,
  title = {Santiago, Chile: appeals court orders a private school to expel pupils over nude images of four classmates that the school says were made with AI},
  author = {NOPE},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {AI incidents},
  url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2024-santiago-chile-appeals-court-orders-school-to-expel-pupils-over-ai-made-nude-images-of-four-classmates}
}

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