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Limassol, Cyprus: court convicts two lyceum pupils who it found used AI apps to put classmates' and a teacher's faces into pornographic images

Alphanews.live reported on 21 March 2026 that a court had convicted two lyceum pupils in Limassol, Cyprus, who, according to the court, used artificial intelligence applications to make pornographic photographs onto which they placed the faces of classmates and of a teacher. The images circulated in groups of their peers, causing an uproar at the school and strong distress among parents and teachers. The incident was reported the previous November. The court imposed prison sentences of 12 and 9 months, suspended for three years, placed the minors under strict supervision and ordered 120 hours of community service.

AI system
Unidentified image tool
Occurred
Event date unknown
Reported
21 March 2026
Event location
Cyprus
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
Evidence
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution supported · 1 source
3 claims: 3 reported. 3 open questions
People reported harmed
At least 1 person

AI system as recorded: Artificial intelligence applications used to make pornographic photographs carrying the faces of real classmates and a teacher, according to the court as reported by Alphanews.live (applications not identified)

What Happened

The conviction. Alphanews.live reported on 21 March 2026 that the conviction of two lyceum pupils in Limassol had caused shock. According to the court, the pupils used artificial intelligence applications to make photographs with pornographic content, onto which they placed the faces of classmates and of a teacher. The photographs circulated in groups of their peers, causing an uproar within the school and strong distress among parents and teachers. The incident was reported the previous November.

The sentence. The court imposed prison terms of 12 and 9 months, suspended for three years, placed the minors under strict supervision and ordered 120 hours of community service.

What is not known. The report does not name the court, the offences, the date of the judgment, the applications used, how many classmates were depicted, or how the depicted pupils and the teacher were affected beyond the distress described at the school.

Reported harm

According to the court as reported by Alphanews.live, two pupils used AI applications to place the faces of classmates and a teacher into pornographic photographs that circulated among their peers; the outlet reports an uproar at the school and strong distress among parents and teachers.

Outcome

Resolved

The court imposed sentences of 12 and 9 months' imprisonment, suspended for three years, placed the two minors under strict supervision and ordered them to perform 120 hours of community service (Alphanews.live, 21 March 2026). The court, the offences and the date of the judgment are not stated in the report read.

What remains unknown

  • Which court decided the case, under which offences, and on what date.
  • Which AI applications were used and when the images were made.
  • How many classmates were depicted and how they were affected.

What the evidence supports

AI involvement: reported. Alphanews.live reports the court's finding that the two pupils used artificial intelligence applications to make pornographic photographs onto which they placed the faces of classmates and a teacher; those AI-made images are what circulated among their peers. The court examined the case and convicted them; the applications and the court's technical evidence are not described in the report.

3 claims: 3 reported. What the statuses mean

Reported According to the court, two lyceum pupils used artificial intelligence applications to make photographs with pornographic content onto which they placed the faces of classmates and of a teacher.

Causal attribution. The court's finding as relayed by one outlet; the judgment itself was not read.

  • alphanews.live(opens in new tab) supports · Greek
    Σύμφωνα με το Δικαστήριο, οι μαθητές χρησιμοποίησαν εφαρμογές τεχνητής νοημοσύνης και έφτιαξαν φωτογραφίες πορνογραφικού περιεχομένου, στις οποίες τοποθέτησαν τα πρόσωπα συμμαθητών τους αλλά και ενός εκπαιδευτικού, σε σκανδαλώδες υλικό.
Reported The photographs circulated in groups of the pupils' peers, causing an uproar in the school and strong distress among parents and teachers.

Causal attribution. Outlet's account.

  • alphanews.live(opens in new tab) supports · Greek
    Οι φωτογραφίες κυκλοφόρησαν σε ομάδες συνομηλίκων τους, προκαλώντας σάλο εντός της σχολικής μονάδας κι έντονη αναστάτωση σε γονείς και καθηγητές.
Reported The court imposed prison sentences of 12 and 9 months suspended for three years, placed the minors under strict supervision and ordered 120 hours of community service; the incident had been reported the previous November.

Causal attribution. Outlet's report of the sentence; the judgment was not read.

  • alphanews.live(opens in new tab) supports · Greek
    Το Δικαστήριο επέβαλε ποινές φυλάκισης 12 και 9 μηνών, με τριετή αναστολή. Οι ανήλικοι τέθηκαν υπό αυστηρή επιτήρηση και διατάχθηκε όπως εκτελέσουν 120 ώρες κοινοτικής εργασίας. ... Το σοβαρό συμβάν καταγγέλθηκε τον περασμένο Νοέμβριο.

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 Greek 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. Alphanews.live report of 21 Mar 2026; direct fetch blocked by a Cloudflare challenge (403), read in full from an Internet Archive capture (web.archive.org/web/2026id_/). Applies to s1.

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

The report places the convicted pupils at a lyceum in Limassol, Cyprus, and describes the images circulating among their peers and causing an uproar within the school, so the event country and the depicted classmates' and teacher's country are Cyprus. The court that convicted the Limassol pupils and sentenced them to suspended terms is reported by the Cypriot outlet as a domestic conviction; it is not named.

Reviewed for publication 2026-10-22: Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): according to the court, as reported by Alphanews.live, two pupils used AI applications to place the faces of classmates and a teacher into pornographic images that circulated among their peers, and the court convicted and sentenced them.

People described

Classmates of the two pupils and a teacher, whose faces were placed into pornographic images that circulated among the pupils' peers (number of classmates not reported)

People reported harmed in this case

At least 1 person

0 AI participants · 1 other person harmed

Additional affected people are described without a reliable count.

One teacher whose face was placed in the images (court account relayed by Alphanews.live). Classmates were also depicted but their number is not reported, so they remain unquantified.

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#conviction#cyprus

Cite this case

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APA

NOPE. (2026). Limassol, Cyprus: court convicts two lyceum pupils who it found used AI apps to put classmates' and a teacher's faces into pornographic images. AI incidents. https://nope.net/incidents/2025-limassol-cyprus-court-convicts-two-pupils-who-used-ai-apps-to-make-pornographic-images-of-classmates-and-a-teacher

BibTeX

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  title = {Limassol, Cyprus: court convicts two lyceum pupils who it found used AI apps to put classmates' and a teacher's faces into pornographic images},
  author = {NOPE},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {AI incidents},
  url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2025-limassol-cyprus-court-convicts-two-pupils-who-used-ai-apps-to-make-pornographic-images-of-classmates-and-a-teacher}
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