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Ribera Alta, Valencia: a 17-year-old was investigated for making AI-generated nude images and videos of 16 schoolmates, impersonating a girl on fake accounts and advertising the images for sale

In December 2024 a female student in the Ribera Alta area of Valencia province reported to the Guardia Civil that a social-media account had been created in her name featuring an AI-generated video, and later a second account in her name, other accounts showing AI-generated nude videos, and a webpage advertising the images for commercial purposes; the Guardia Civil said the photos, all of minors, had been manipulated so that the people in them appeared completely naked. After 15 other minors came forward with similar complaints, officers traced IP addresses and account emails to the home of a 17-year-old schoolmate, who is being investigated on suspicion of corrupting minors under a Valencia youth court. The Guardia Civil announced the investigation on 27 July 2025.

AI System

AI image and video manipulation tools (not named; police examined a website advertising AI image-modification services)

Occurred

Dec 2024

Reported

27 July 2025

Event location

Spain

Platform

other

What the evidence supports

AI involvement: reported. The Guardia Civil statement, as quoted by the Guardian, describes AI-generated videos and AI-modified photos and a website advertising AI image-modification services; no forensic detail is published. The artifacts depicted the minors and impersonated one girl by name.

AI-to-person relation

  • Depicted or impersonated the person

Core relations are communication, acting on someone’s behalf, and depiction or impersonation. Decision and claim relations are retained as contextual cases.

Someone else’s AI use. Settings: Education, Privacy, Justice.

Claim status: Reported

From December 2024 a girl in the Ribera Alta area reported fake accounts in her name with an AI-generated video and AI-manipulated nude photos of minors, plus a webpage advertising the images commercially; 15 other minors complained; the Guardia Civil traced the accounts to a 17-year-old schoolmate, now investigated for corrupting minors under a Valencia youth court.

Causal attribution: Guardia Civil statement as reported by the Guardian; single chain.

  • News report (supports): 'began investigating in December last year after a female student reported the creation of a social media account in her name that featured an AI-generated video'; '"All these photos had been modified from the originals, which had been manipulated so that the people in them appeared completely naked"'; 'a webpage devoted to advertising the images for commercial purposes'; 'After 15 other minors came forward with similar complaints'; 'a 17-year-old boy was being investigated on suspicion of corrupting minors'.

What remains unknown

  • The outcome of the youth-court proceeding is not known.
  • The AI tools and the platforms hosting the accounts are not named.
  • Whether any images were actually sold is not stated.
Source reading, translation and location

News report · en · Source inspected

Read in English on 2026-09-18 (The Guardian, 27 July 2025). Reports and quotes the Guardia Civil's statement of 27 July 2025; the Spanish original of the statement was not read.

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

Guardia Civil officers in the Ribera Alta area of Valencia province investigated; the victims are the suspect's schoolmates there; a youth court in Valencia oversees the case (Guardian).

Reviewed for publication 2026-09-18: Restored under the 2026-09-15 charter as a harmful-artifact case involving identified (unnamed) depicted minors, an impersonation and a police investigation under a youth court. One chain read; claims recorded as reported. Original ID and first-publication timestamp preserved; incident date corrected to the first complaint.

What Happened

The Guardian's report of the Guardia Civil statement: the investigation began in December 2024 after a female student reported a social-media account created in her name that featured an AI-generated video; the Guardia Civil said photos of various people, all minors, appeared on the account, modified so that the people appeared completely naked. The same girl reported a second account in her name, other accounts showing AI-generated nude videos, and a webpage devoted to advertising the images for commercial purposes. After 15 other minors came forward, officers suspected a schoolmate; by trawling social-media posts, contacting hosting companies and examining a website advertising AI image-modification services they obtained user and access information, including IP addresses, that led to the home of one of the complainants' schoolmates, and confirmed the emails used to create the accounts belonged to the same person. The Guardia Civil said a 17-year-old boy was being investigated on suspicion of corrupting minors, with a youth court in Valencia overseeing the case. The historical record dated the event to July 2025; the first complaint was in December 2024, so the incident date is corrected here.

Reported harm

Sixteen minors were depicted in AI-generated nude images and videos published on fake accounts, with one girl also impersonated by name, and the images were advertised for sale; a schoolmate is under youth-court investigation.

Exploitation or AbusePsychological DistressReputational Harm

Outcome

Ongoing

December 2024: first complaint to the Guardia Civil; 15 further minors complained. Investigators trawled social-media posts, contacted hosting companies, examined a website advertising AI image-modification services and obtained user and access data including IP addresses that led to a schoolmate's home; the emails used to create the accounts belonged to the same person. 27 July 2025: Guardia Civil statement that a 17-year-old boy is being investigated on suspicion of corrupting minors, with a Valencia youth court overseeing the case. No later outcome was found in this review.

People described

16 minors, schoolmates of the suspect at a school in the Ribera Alta area of Valencia province; one girl's name was also used on fake accounts. None is named.

People reported harmed in this case

16 people

0 AI participants · 16 other people harmed

One complainant plus 15 other minors who came forward with similar complaints (Guardian, quoting the Guardia Civil): exact count of 16 depicted minors.

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. (2025). Ribera Alta, Valencia: a 17-year-old was investigated for making AI-generated nude images and videos of 16 schoolmates, impersonating a girl on fake accounts and advertising the images for sale. NOPE: AI and people. https://nope.net/incidents/2025-valencia-spain-deepfake-school

BibTeX

@misc{2025_valencia_spain_deepfake_school,
  title = {Ribera Alta, Valencia: a 17-year-old was investigated for making AI-generated nude images and videos of 16 schoolmates, impersonating a girl on fake accounts and advertising the images for sale},
  author = {NOPE},
  year = {2025},
  howpublished = {NOPE: AI and people},
  url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2025-valencia-spain-deepfake-school}
}

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