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Chile: students at a Puente Alto secondary school find AI-made fake nude images of female classmates; the school suspends the students involved and the Education Superintendency confirms a formal investigation of the school

Teletrece reported on 3 October 2026 that on 10 July 2026 female students at a secondary school in Puente Alto, Chile, found fake sexual images of themselves and other students on a classmate's phone. Families say the images were made with AI tools from ordinary photos the girls had posted on Instagram, that four students took part in obtaining, editing and circulating them, and that the material reached other students. Some of the girls had panic attacks, according to their parents. The school suspended the students identified as responsible for 15 days; after their return, parents say, they mocked the girls, a fight followed, and a parent accuses the father of one of the students involved of threats and of loitering near the school, after which she says they filed reports with the PDI. The Superintendencia de Educación confirmed a formal investigation of the school.

AI system
Unidentified image tool
Occurred
10 Jul 2026
Reported
3 October 2026
Event location
Chile
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 alleged · 2 sources, 1 underlying account
6 claims: 6 reported. 5 open questions
People reported harmed
At least 3 people

AI system as recorded: Unnamed AI tools used to alter students' social-media photos into fake nude images (per families' account to Teletrece)

What Happened

Reportajes Teletrece (T13, 3 October 2026) reconstructs the case from families' accounts. Ordinary photos that some female students had posted on their own Instagram profiles were taken and altered with AI tools into false depictions of them naked; the material was gathered for distribution, shared through digital platforms and reached other students. Families say four students took part, from collecting the photos to circulating the material. The case came to light on 10 July 2026 when students found the material in the photo gallery of one of the involved students' phones; one mother describes her daughter calling her in tears. The affected girls were in primero to cuarto medio. Parents say some of the girls had panic attacks. The school suspended the students identified as responsible for 15 days. On their return, according to a parent, they mocked the affected girls at the first break and three of the girls hit them; the parent says the father of one of the students involved then threatened the girls, loitered near the school and posted a threatening WhatsApp status, and that families filed reports with the PDI. Families criticise the school for giving little information or support and for stressing that the images were fake. The Superintendencia de Educación confirmed it has opened a formal investigation into the school. The school's management and the parents' and students' associations did not respond to Teletrece.

Reported harm

AI-made fake nude images of female secondary-school students circulated among their schoolmates; parents report panic attacks, and the case led to suspensions, a physical fight, threats and a regulator's investigation of the school (families via Teletrece).

Outcome

Ongoing

The school suspended the students identified as responsible for 15 days. The Superintendencia de Educación confirmed a formal investigation of the school and said it gave the case maximum priority. A parent says they had to file reports with the PDI (investigative police) because the father of one of the students involved, whom she accuses of threats, was loitering near the school. Teletrece does not report any criminal complaint over the images themselves; the school's management did not answer Teletrece.

What remains unknown

  • When the images were made and first shared; 10 July 2026 is the date students found them.
  • Which AI tool was used.
  • How many students were depicted.
  • Whether a criminal complaint was filed over the images themselves, and any prosecutor action.
  • The outcome of the Superintendency's investigation.

What the evidence supports

AI involvement: reported. Teletrece, citing the families' account, says the students' photos were altered with AI tools to create the false images. No tool is named and no forensic or official finding on AI use is reported.

6 claims: 6 reported. What the statuses mean

Reported Ordinary photos that female students had posted on Instagram were altered with AI tools into fake nude images, which circulated among other students; the case came to light on 10 July 2026 when students found the material on a classmate's phone.

Causal attribution. Families' account as reported by Teletrece; no official finding on how the images were made is reported.

  • t13.cl(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    'Luego, las imágenes eran intervenidas mediante herramientas de inteligencia artificial, con las que se modificaban para generar las representaciones falsas.'; 'Las imágenes comenzaron a compartirse mediante plataformas digitales y terminaron llegando a otros estudiantes del establecimiento.'; 'La situación se conoció el 10 de julio, cuando un grupo de estudiantes encontró el material en la galería del celular de uno de los involucrados.'
  • t13.cl(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    'encontraron en el celular de uno de sus compañeros imágenes sexuales falsas de ellas mismas y otras estudiantes del establecimiento'; 'Las fotografías habían sido creadas mediante inteligencia artificial a partir de imágenes comunes y corrientes obtenidas desde redes sociales.'
Reported According to the families, four students took part in obtaining the photos, altering them and circulating the material.

Causal attribution. Attributed by Teletrece to the families of the affected students.

  • t13.cl(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    'cuatro alumnos participaron en las distintas etapas de este proceso, desde la obtención de las fotografías hasta la circulación del material.'
Reported Some of the affected students had panic attacks, according to their parents.

Causal attribution. Parents' account.

  • t13.cl(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    'Algunas alumnas presentaron crisis de pánico, según relataron posteriormente sus apoderados.'
Reported The school suspended the students identified as responsible for 15 days.

Causal attribution. Reported by Teletrece; the school did not respond to questions.

  • t13.cl(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    'el establecimiento aplicó una suspensión de 15 días a los estudiantes señalados como responsables.'
  • t13.cl(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    'El colegio suspendió por 15 días a los estudiantes señalados por su participación en la creación y difusión del material.'
Reported After the suspended students returned, a parent says they mocked the affected girls, three of the girls hit them, and the father of one of the students involved then made threats; she says they had to file reports with the PDI because the father was then loitering near the school.

Causal attribution. One parent's account to Teletrece; the father's account is not reported.

  • t13.cl(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    'durante el primer recreo los estudiantes comenzaron a burlarse de las jóvenes. Tres de ellas reaccionaron y fueron a golpearlos.'; 'Tuvimos que poner denuncias en PDI y todo el tema porque el padre andaba rondando el colegio'
Reported The Superintendencia de Educación confirmed that the school is under formal investigation over the case and said the matter received maximum priority.

Causal attribution. Superintendency confirmation as reported by Teletrece.

  • t13.cl(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    'El organismo informó que otorgó máxima prioridad al caso'
  • t13.cl(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
    'está siendo sometido a una investigación formal por el caso y señaló que la situación recibió máxima prioridad.'

Sources

2 sources inspected, from 1 underlying account. Sources that repeat one account do not corroborate each other.

How the sources were read, and where the events happened

Read live in Spanish on 2026-10-04 (T13, 3 October 2026, Reportajes Teletrece). Reconstructs the case from families' accounts. Researcher translation. Applies to s1.

Read live in Spanish on 2026-10-04 (T13, 3 October 2026). Same Teletrece reporting; adds the suspension, the fight, the threats and the Superintendency's confirmation. Researcher translation. Applies to s2.

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

The school is in Puente Alto and the case is under investigation by Chile's Superintendencia de Educación (T13). No court proceeding is reported.

Reviewed for publication 2026-10-04: Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a core case: AI-altered fake nude images depicting identifiable minors circulated in their school, with reported distress, school sanctions and a regulator's investigation. The account rests on one Teletrece reporting chain built on families' testimony, with the Superintendency's confirmation. Minors are not named, the school name is withheld from public fields, and the images are not described beyond the source's general description.

People described

Female secondary-school students (primero to cuarto medio) at a school in Puente Alto, Chile; not named

People reported harmed in this case

At least 3 people

0 AI participants · 3 other people harmed

Additional affected people are described without a reliable count.

At least three affected female students are counted: T13 says three of the affected girls confronted the students involved after their return. Teletrece says the material affected students from primero to cuarto medio without giving a number, so more affected students are unquantified. The father's threats are not counted separately.

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

Tags

#deepfakes#ai-generated-images#non-consensual-intimate-imagery#school#chile#superintendencia-de-educacion

Cite this case

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

APA

NOPE. (2026). Chile: students at a Puente Alto secondary school find AI-made fake nude images of female classmates; the school suspends the students involved and the Education Superintendency confirms a formal investigation of the school. AI incidents. https://nope.net/incidents/2026-chile-puente-alto-school-ai-fake-nude-images-classmates-superintendencia

BibTeX

@misc{2026_chile_puente_alto_school_ai_fake_nude_images_classmates_superintendencia,
  title = {Chile: students at a Puente Alto secondary school find AI-made fake nude images of female classmates; the school suspends the students involved and the Education Superintendency confirms a formal investigation of the school},
  author = {NOPE},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {AI incidents},
  url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2026-chile-puente-alto-school-ai-fake-nude-images-classmates-superintendencia}
}

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