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
- Unidentified image and video tool
- Occurred
- Dec 2024
- Reported
- 27 July 2025
- Event location
- Spain
- What the AI did
- Depicted or impersonated the person
- Reported harm
- Exploitation or AbusePsychological DistressReputational Harm
- Whose AI use
- Someone else’s AI use
- Setting
- Education · Privacy · Justice
- Evidence
- AI involvement reported · Causal attribution supported · 1 source
- 1 claim: 1 reported. 3 open questions
- People reported harmed
- 16 people
AI system as recorded: AI image and video manipulation tools (not named; police examined a website advertising AI image-modification services)
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.
Outcome
OngoingDecember 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.
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.
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.
1 claim: 1 reported. What the statuses mean
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.
- theguardian.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
'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'.
Sources
1 source inspected. Sources that repeat one account do not corroborate each other.
- The Guardian, 27 July 2025: Spanish teenager investigated over AI-generated nude videos of 16 schoolmates (Guardia Civil statement)(opens in new tab)
s1 · theguardian.com · News report · English · Inspected · 27 July 2025 · Primary
How the sources were read, and where the events happened
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. Applies to s1.
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.
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. (2026). 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. AI incidents. https://nope.net/incidents/2025-valencia-spain-deepfake-school
BibTeX
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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 = {2026},
howpublished = {AI incidents},
url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2025-valencia-spain-deepfake-school}
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