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Hannover region: a pupil told a tipster he made AI nude images of female classmates and sent them on Telegram; police confirm the case, FAZ reports

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported on 15 October 2026 that a tipster who monitors abuse of women streamers had traced a schoolboy at a school near Hannover, Germany, who distributed AI-generated nude images of female classmates. According to the tipster, on 20 February 2025 a Telegram user wrote to him privately, said he had made nude images of classmates with artificial intelligence and sent him images unasked. The tipster says the images were made from the girls' Snapchat and Instagram photos and from photos taken of them in the classroom, and showed them nude and in sexual positions. He identified two of the depicted girls online, worked out the boy's school and class, and phoned the headteacher, who confirmed his call to the newspaper. The Hannover police confirmed the facts, said the person identified is a child below the age of criminal responsibility, and said officers held a warning talk with him and explained the possible consequences of his use of digital media. The headteacher says the pupil no longer attends the school and that, on police advice, the girls were not told. The school is not named.

AI system
Unidentified image tool
Occurred
Feb 2025
Reported
15 October 2026
Event location
Germany
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
Evidence
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 1 source
5 claims: 5 reported. 4 open questions
People reported harmed
At least 2 people

AI system as recorded: Unnamed AI tool that, according to the tipster's account of the boy's own statement and of the images he was sent, generated nude and sexualised images of real schoolgirls from their photographs; no tool is named

What Happened

The tip. The FAZ report rests on the account of a video editor who works with women content creators and watches for abuse of them on Telegram and other platforms. He told the newspaper that on 20 February 2025 he opened a Telegram group, and that a user then wrote to him privately and said he had created nude images of female classmates with artificial intelligence. The user then sent him images without being asked. According to the tipster, the originals came from Snapchat and Instagram, and some of the girls had been photographed from a distance in the classroom; with AI the user had made nude photos of them and also showed them in sexual positions. The tipster says he never engaged with the content.

Identifying the school. While continuing the chat, which lasted a little over three hours, he found the user's TikTok and Instagram accounts. Through a student council's post he recognised one of the girls in the images, and he found a second affected girl on TikTok. He says the user eventually told him the school, his class, the girls' names and his class teacher. He documented the chat in screenshots.

School and police. The headteacher, speaking to FAZ on condition that the school is not named, confirms that a tipster phoned her and described the events, and that she asked for his number so that the police could contact him. After a call from the police he uploaded the screenshots to an anonymous tip portal. The Hannover police confirm the facts to FAZ and say the person identified is a child below the age of criminal responsibility. A police spokesperson says officers nonetheless visited him and held a warning talk with him, together with a session on digital media and its possible consequences. The headteacher says the pupil no longer attends the school and that she did not inform the girls because the police advised against it.

What is not known. FAZ does not say which AI tool was used, when the images were first made, how many girls were depicted, how widely the images circulated beyond the tipster, or how the police verified that the images were AI-generated. The AI attribution rests on the boy's own statement and the tipster's description of the images he received.

Reported harm

According to the tipster, AI-generated nude and sexualised images of female classmates made from their photographs were sent to him on Telegram; the police confirm the facts and held a warning talk with the child who made them.

How Harm Occurred

According to the tipster's account, a schoolboy used an AI tool to turn real photographs of female classmates into nude and sexualised images and sent them to a stranger on Telegram.

Outcome

Unknown

The Hannover police confirmed the facts to FAZ, said the person identified is a child below the age of criminal responsibility, and said officers held a warning talk with him together with a session on digital media and its possible consequences. The headteacher says he no longer attends the school. No criminal proceedings are reported. The girls were not informed, on police advice.

What remains unknown

  • Which AI tool was used and when the images were first made.
  • How many girls were depicted and whether the images reached anyone beyond the tipster.
  • How the police verified that the images were AI-generated.
  • Whether the school took further measures beyond the pupil leaving it, and why he left.

What the evidence supports

AI involvement: reported. The boy himself told the tipster he had created nude images of female classmates with artificial intelligence, and the tipster describes the images he was then sent: nude photos and sexual positions generated from the girls' Snapchat, Instagram and classroom photos. The generated images depicting the girls are the reported harm. The Hannover police confirm the facts as described to FAZ and identified the child; FAZ does not say how the police established that the images were AI-generated, and the tool is not named.

5 claims: 5 reported. What the statuses mean

Reported The tipster says that on 20 February 2025 a Telegram user wrote to him privately, said he had created nude images of female classmates with artificial intelligence, and sent him images without being asked.

Causal attribution. The boy's statement is relayed only by the tipster; one origin.

  • faz.net(opens in new tab) supports · German
    'Am 20. Februar 2025 habe er auf Telegram eine Gruppe geöffnet'; 'Daraufhin habe sich ein Nutzer privat bei ihm gemeldet'; 'der Nutzer habe plötzlich davon gesprochen, dass er mit Künstlicher Intelligenz Nacktbilder von Mitschülerinnen erstellt habe.'; 'Der Nutzer habe ihm dann ungefragt Bilder geschickt.'
Reported The tipster says the images were made with AI from the girls' Snapchat and Instagram photos and from photos taken of them in the classroom, and showed them nude and in sexual positions.

Causal attribution. Tipster's description of the images he received; the tool is not named.

  • faz.net(opens in new tab) supports · German
    'Die Originalaufnahmen kamen von Snapchat, Instagram, teilweise waren die Schülerinnen aber auch aus der Ferne im Klassenraum fotografiert worden'; 'Mithilfe von Künstlicher Intelligenz habe der Nutzer auf Grundlage dieser Bilder Nacktfotos von den Mädchen erstellt und sie auch in sexuellen Stellungen gezeigt.'
Reported The tipster says he identified one of the depicted girls through a student council post and found a second affected girl on TikTok.

Causal attribution. Tipster's account; the count of two is his.

  • faz.net(opens in new tab) supports · German
    'eines der Mädchen, von dem die Nacktbilder erstellt worden waren. Auf Tiktok fand er eine weitere Betroffene.'
Reported The headteacher confirms that a tipster phoned her and described the events, says the pupil no longer attends the school, and says she did not inform the girls because the police advised against it.

Causal attribution. Headteacher's statement to FAZ.

  • faz.net(opens in new tab) supports · German
    'dass sich ein Hinweisgeber telefonisch bei ihr gemeldet und den beschriebenen Vorgang geschildert habe.'; '„Der ist heute nicht mehr bei uns auf der Schule.“'; 'Informiert habe sie die Schülerinnen nicht, davon habe die Polizei abgeraten.'
Reported The Hannover police confirm the facts, say the person identified is a child below the age of criminal responsibility, and say officers held a warning talk with him together with a session on digital media and its possible consequences.

Causal attribution. Police statement as reported by FAZ; FAZ paraphrases the confirmation and does not quote the police on the AI element.

  • faz.net(opens in new tab) supports · German
    'Die Polizei der Stadt Hannover, in deren Umgebung die betroffene Schule liegt, bestätigt den Sachverhalt auf Nachfrage. Bei der ermittelten Person handele es sich um ein strafunmündiges Kind.'; 'Trotzdem bekam der Telegram-Nutzer Besuch von der Polizei: Es seien eine Gefährderansprache „sowie eine Sensibilisierung im Umgang mit digitalen Medien und den möglichen Folgen durchgeführt worden“, teilt ein Polizeisprecher mit.'

Sources

1 source inspected. Sources that repeat one account do not corroborate each other.

How the sources were read, and where the events happened

Read in German by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-18 and translated by the research agent (an AI) into English; no human translator or reviewer was involved. FAZ report by Sebastian Eder, 15 October 2026, read in full (including the JSON-LD article body) through an Internet Archive capture of the article URL because faz.net returned a consent redirect (HTTP 302) to the fetcher. Applies to s1.

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

FAZ says the school lies in the area of the city of Hannover, Germany, and the Hannover police handled the case; the girls are pupils at that school.

Reviewed for publication 2026-10-18: Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): the boy told the tipster he had made nude images of female classmates with artificial intelligence, the tipster describes the images he received, and the Hannover police confirm the facts and held a warning talk with the child. The sexual depiction of the girls is the harm. Every claim is reported from one FAZ article; the school, the girls and the child are not named.

People described

Female pupils at a school near Hannover whose photographs were turned into AI-generated nude and sexualised images; at least two were identified by the tipster

People reported harmed in this case

At least 2 people

0 AI participants · 2 other people harmed

Additional affected people are described without a reliable count.

Two girls the tipster identified as depicted (one through a student council post, one on TikTok); FAZ describes nude images of classmates in the plural without a total, so further girls are unquantified.

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

Tags

#ai_generated_image#non_consensual_intimate_imagery#school#telegram#germany

Cite this case

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

APA

NOPE. (2026). Hannover region: a pupil told a tipster he made AI nude images of female classmates and sent them on Telegram; police confirm the case, FAZ reports. AI incidents. https://nope.net/incidents/2025-hannover-region-pupil-told-tipster-he-made-ai-nude-images-of-classmates-police-confirm-case

BibTeX

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  title = {Hannover region: a pupil told a tipster he made AI nude images of female classmates and sent them on Telegram; police confirm the case, FAZ reports},
  author = {NOPE},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {AI incidents},
  url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2025-hannover-region-pupil-told-tipster-he-made-ai-nude-images-of-classmates-police-confirm-case}
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