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Two 16-year-old students in Greece reportedly arrested over AI-edited nude or semi-nude images of classmates

On 21 February 2025 Greek outlets reported a Hellenic Police statement saying two 16-year-old students had been taken in from their school on 19 February 2025. According to the statement, they exchanged online photographs of classmates that they had processed with an AI program so the classmates appeared nude or semi-nude, and the photographs came from social media or were received without consent. A case file was formed against the students for child sexual abuse material and against their parents for neglect of supervision. The number of classmates depicted, the creation date and the outcome are not reported.

AI system
Unidentified image tool
Unknown
Occurred
Event date unknown
Reported
21 February 2025
Event location
Greece
What the AI did
Depicted or impersonated the person
Reported harm
Exploitation or Abuse
Whose AI use
Someone else’s AI use
Setting
Education · Privacy · Relationships
Evidence
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 4 sources, 2 underlying accounts
5 claims: 5 reported. 6 open questions
People reported harmed
Not reliably quantifiable from the sources

AI system as recorded: Unspecified AI image-processing program

Reported harm

The police statement describes classmates depicted without their consent in AI-processed nude or semi-nude images that were exchanged online. No depicted student's own account of the impact is reported.

What remains unknown

  • When the images were created and first exchanged is not stated. The police give only the date the students were taken in (19 February 2025), so the event start date is unknown and the case is outside the 2025 event-year count.
  • The number of classmates depicted is not stated by the police statement. It is not counted.
  • The AI program is not named and the extent of online circulation is not stated in the police statement.
  • iefimerida also relays quantities from an unnamed student and a television report. The police statement gives no such figures, and they were not adopted.
  • The Ekathimerini article listed by the archive returned HTTP 403 (also via relay and Wayback) and was not read.
  • No depicted student's own account of impact is reported. The outcome of the case file is not reported.

What the evidence supports

AI involvement: reported. The Hellenic Police statement says the photographs were processed with an artificial intelligence program. The program is not named and the images were not seen by the reviewer.

5 claims: 5 reported. What the statuses mean

Reported The Hellenic Police reported that two 16-year-old students were taken in on 19 February 2025 from their school, and that a case file was formed against them for child sexual abuse material and against their parents for neglect of supervision.

Causal attribution. A police statement establishes only its own contents. Charges are accusations, and the outcome is not reported.

  • cnn.gr(opens in new tab) supports · Greek
    Οι ανήλικοι προσήχθησαν από αστυνομικούς της Άμεσης Δράσης, μεσημβρινές ώρες της 19-2-2025 από το σχολείο όπου φοιτούν στην ανωτέρω υπηρεσία.
  • cnn.gr(opens in new tab) supports · Greek
    Σε βάρος των ανηλίκων σχηματίστηκε δικογραφία για πορνογραφία ανηλίκων και σε βάρος των γονέων τους
  • skai.gr(opens in new tab) supports · Greek
    Συνελήφθησαν δύο 16χρονοι για διαδικτυακή ανταλλαγή φωτογραφιών συμμαθητριών τους
Reported According to the Hellenic Police statement, the two students exchanged online photographs of classmates that they had processed with an artificial intelligence program so that the classmates appeared nude or semi-nude.

Causal attribution. One police statement relayed by three outlets. The program is not named and the images were not seen.

  • cnn.gr(opens in new tab) supports · Greek
    οι δύο συλληφθέντες προέβαιναν σε διαδικτυακή ανταλλαγή φωτογραφιών συμμαθητριών τους, τις οποίες είχαν επεξεργαστεί μέσω προγράμματος τεχνητής νοημοσύνης, ώστε να εμφανίζονται γυμνές ή ημίγυμνες.
  • ethnos.gr(opens in new tab) supports · Greek
    τις οποίες είχαν επεξεργαστεί μέσω προγράμματος τεχνητής νοημοσύνης
Reported According to the police statement, the photographs had been taken from social media platforms or received by the two students without the consent of the people depicted, and the students' phones were seized for forensic examination.

Causal attribution. Police statement as relayed. The number of classmates depicted is not stated.

  • cnn.gr(opens in new tab) supports · Greek
    Τις φωτογραφίες τις είχαν αποσπάσει από πλατφόρμες κοινωνικής δικτύωσης ή τις λάμβαναν οι ίδιοι δίχως τη συγκατάθεση των θυμάτων.
  • skai.gr(opens in new tab) supports · Greek
    Τα κινητά τηλέφωνα των δύο 16χρονων κατασχέθηκαν και θα διενεργηθεί εργαστηριακός ψηφιακός έλεγχος.
Reported iefimerida reports that a school staff member said the two students told staff they were trying an AI application out of curiosity and apologised.

Causal attribution. A single outlet relaying an unnamed staff member's account of what the students said. Unverified.

  • iefimerida.gr(opens in new tab) supports · Greek
    Μου είπαν ότι προσπαθούσαν να κάνουν μια εφαρμογή τώρα από περιέργεια, η εφηβεία; Να παίξουν με μία εφαρμογή τεχνητής νοημοσύνης. Ζήτησαν συγγνώμη
Reported According to CNN Greece's summary of the Hellenic Police statement, the classmates' photographs were used without the consent of the victims. No depicted student's own account of the impact is reported in the inspected sources.

Causal attribution. The word victims is CNN Greece's wording; the statement text says without their consent. No individual harm beyond the non-consensual sexualised edited images is documented.

  • cnn.gr(opens in new tab) supports · Greek
    δίχως τη συγκατάθεση των θυμάτων
  • cnn.gr(opens in new tab) supports · Greek
    Τις φωτογραφίες τις είχαν αποσπάσει από πλατφόρμες κοινωνικής δικτύωσης ή τις λάμβαναν οι ίδιοι χωρίς τη συγκατάθεσή τους

Sources

4 sources inspected, from 2 underlying accounts. Sources that repeat one account do not corroborate each other.

How the sources were read, and where the events happened

Read in Greek by the reviewer. CNN Greece prints the Hellenic Police statement in full. Locators are verbatim Greek; assertions are the reviewer's English translation. Applies to s1.

Read in Greek by the reviewer. Locators are verbatim Greek; assertions are the reviewer's English translation. Applies to s2, s3.

Read in Greek by the reviewer. Opening paragraphs repeat the police statement. The remainder relays television reporting and an anonymous school staff member. Locators are verbatim Greek; assertions are the reviewer's English translation. Applies to s4.

Event countries: Greece. Affected-person countries: Greece. Court countries: Unknown.

The statement is issued by the Hellenic Police (national force) through a unit of its Attica directorate, which took the students in at their school. No court proceeding is reported.

Reviewed for publication 2026-09-29: Three Greek reports of 21 February 2025 reproduce one Hellenic Police statement, and a fourth outlet adds an unnamed school staff member's account. All claims are reported. The students, their parents, the school and the neighbourhood are not named, and the images are not described beyond AI-edited nude or semi-nude images. The event start date is unknown, so the case is published undated and outside the 2025 event-year count.

People reported harmed in this case

Not reliably quantifiable from the sources

The police statement refers to classmates in the plural without a number. Numeric zero is a placeholder because no reliable count exists. Figures relayed by a television report and an unnamed student are not adopted.

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

Cite this case

Compiled per our published methodology: verification statuses, sourcing standards, and corrections process.

APA

NOPE. (2026). Two 16-year-old students in Greece reportedly arrested over AI-edited nude or semi-nude images of classmates. AI incidents. https://nope.net/incidents/2025-greece-two-students-arrested-over-reported-ai-edited-nude-or-semi-nude-images-of-classmates

BibTeX

@misc{2025_greece_two_students_arrested_over_reported_ai_edited_nude_or_semi_nude_images_of_classmates,
  title = {Two 16-year-old students in Greece reportedly arrested over AI-edited nude or semi-nude images of classmates},
  author = {NOPE},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {AI incidents},
  url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2025-greece-two-students-arrested-over-reported-ai-edited-nude-or-semi-nude-images-of-classmates}
}

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