{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-29T07:31:15.234Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"school-discipline","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"2026","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":1,"languages":2,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":1,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-levis-quebec-pupils-suspended-after-ai-altered-images-of-school-staff-circulated-in-snapchat-group","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Certaines photos de membres du personnel de l’école ont été modifiées par l’intelligence artificielle et ont circulé sur un média social de messagerie, dans un groupe privé portant le nom de l’école, entre le 18 et le 21 octobre'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'Certaines photos de membres du personnel de l’école ont été modifiées par l’intelligence artificielle et ont circulé sur un média social de messagerie, dans un groupe privé portant le nom de l’école'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"According to the CSSDN, some photos of members of the school's staff were modified with artificial intelligence and circulated on a messaging social network, in a private group bearing the school's name, between 18 and 21 October 2026.","causal_attribution":"The school service centre's own statement; its staff viewed the material on the pupils' phones. The AI tool is not named."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Des images générées étaient « de nature offensante, diffamatoire, haineuse ou violente », selon le Centre de services scolaire des Navigateurs'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'were suspended for violating the school’s code of conduct, which prohibits posting any \"offensive, defamatory, hateful, or violent content or images.\"'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Radio-Canada reports the CSSDN saying the generated images were of an offensive, defamatory, hateful or violent nature, and CBC reports the pupils were suspended for breaching the school's code of conduct that prohibits such images.","causal_attribution":"Characterisation by the school service centre, as reported."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Dans la plupart des cas, il s’agissait d’images qui pouvaient être qualifiées de niaiseries'; 'Une photo truquée à caractère violent montrait néanmoins un membre du personnel avec un fusil sur la tempe'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'one of the fake images posted on Snapchat reportedly showed a gun being held to the head of a teacher'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"André Bernier, president of Quebec's school administrators' association, citing information from the school, said most images could be called silly but one violent fake showed a staff member with a gun to the temple.","causal_attribution":"Second-hand account from the association president; CBC says teacher, Radio-Canada says staff member."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'it was other students who first reported the images to school staff because they felt uncomfortable'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'La situation a été dénoncée par des élèves qui ont avisé des membres du personnel'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Pupils who felt uncomfortable reported the images to school staff.","causal_attribution":"CSSDN account as relayed."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'La dizaine d’élèves concernés a été suspendue à l’interne (à l’école) ou à l’externe (à la maison) jusqu’à trois jours'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'Les élèves à l’origine de ces images fabriquées ont été entendus par la direction et la policière-école'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'la mesure concernait une dizaine de jeunes adolescents, surtout de deuxième secondaire'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"About ten pupils were suspended at school or at home for up to three days after they were met by the administration and the school police officer and deleted the material.","causal_attribution":"The school's disciplinary response, from the CSSDN."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'À l’heure actuelle, aucune plainte n’a été déposée auprès de notre service. Il n’y a pas d’élément criminel là-dedans'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'Le CSSDN n’a pas porté plainte à la police et affirme qu’aucun membre du personnel enseignant ne l’a fait non plus'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"A Lévis police spokesperson said no complaint had been filed and there was no criminal element; the CSSDN said neither it nor any teacher had complained to police.","causal_attribution":"Police and school service centre statements about the legal response."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'new Education Minister Joël Arseneau said the school was right to suspend the students'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Quebec's education minister said the school was right to suspend the pupils.","causal_attribution":"Ministerial statement reported by CBC."}],"effects":[{"label":"school staff depicted without consent in AI-altered images the school service centre called offensive, defamatory, hateful or violent; one reportedly showed a gun to a staff member's head","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2295957/ia-eleve-photos-truquees-ecole-secondaire-levis","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in French by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-29; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); locators are the original French. Radio-Canada report quoting a CSSDN written response and an interview with André Bernier.","independence_group":"radio-canada-levis-oct-2026"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/students-suspended-levis-high-school-ai-images-9.7398634","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-29; no translation needed. CBC report written with files from Radio-Canada; treated as dependent on the Radio-Canada reporting.","independence_group":"radio-canada-levis-oct-2026"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.noovo.info/nouvelles/education/article/photos-truquees-par-lia-une-dizaine-detudiants-suspendus-a-levis/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in French by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-29; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); locators are the original French. Noovo Info report quoting a CSSDN email.","independence_group":"noovo-levis-oct-2026"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.lavoixdelest.ca/actualites/education/2026/10/27/des-eleves-de-levis-suspendus-pour-la-production-dimages-ia-inappropriees-IPANRMVEFFC53N6NWM7XGV47M4/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in French by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-29; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); locators are the original French. Le Soleil report republished by La Voix de l'Est, quoting the CSSDN spokesperson and a Lévis police spokesperson.","independence_group":"le-soleil-levis-oct-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","work"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool was used and how the photos were altered.","How many staff members and classmates were depicted.","Whether any image was sexualised: Le Soleil reported unconfirmed descriptions, while Radio-Canada reports that the police and the CSSDN say no sexual fakes of staff circulated.","How the depicted staff members were affected."],"geography":{"basis":"The school is a secondary school in Lévis, Quebec, run by the Centre de services scolaire des Navigateurs, and the images circulated in a group of its pupils (Radio-Canada, Noovo Info, Le Soleil). No court is involved.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["CA"],"affected_person_countries":["CA"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): the school service centre, whose staff viewed the material, says pupils altered photos of staff with AI and shared them in a group, and it called the images offensive, defamatory, hateful or violent. The depicted staff's own reactions are not reported.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Centre de services scolaire des Navigateurs, whose school administration and police officer viewed the material on the pupils' phones, says photos of staff members were modified by artificial intelligence and circulated among pupils; those altered images, which depicted staff in scenes the service centre called offensive, defamatory, hateful or violent, are the harm. The tool and the technical basis for the attribution are not disclosed.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Lévis, Quebec: about ten pupils suspended after school says AI-altered photos of staff, one reportedly showing a gun to a staff member's head, circulated online","summary":"About ten pupils at a secondary school in Lévis, Quebec, were suspended for up to three days in October 2026 after photos of school staff altered with artificial intelligence circulated between 18 and 21 October in a private messaging group bearing the school's name, according to the Centre de services scolaire des Navigateurs (CSSDN). The CSSDN said the material breached school rules against offensive, defamatory, hateful or violent images. The president of Quebec's school administrators' association, citing the school, said most images were silly but one violent fake showed a staff member with a gun to the head. Pupils who felt uncomfortable reported the images; the pupils who shared them were met by the administration and the school police officer and deleted the material, and their parents were also met. Lévis police say no complaint was filed and they see no criminal element. Which AI tool was used is not reported.","incidentDate":"2026-10-18","incidentEndDate":"2026-10-21","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-10-27","aiSystem":"An unnamed artificial intelligence tool that pupils used to alter photos of school staff, according to the Centre de services scolaire des Navigateurs","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"School staff were depicted without their consent in AI-altered images that the school service centre says breached rules against offensive, defamatory, hateful or violent images; one reportedly showed a staff member with a gun to the head (CSSDN; André Bernier via Radio-Canada and CBC).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"One counted: the staff member shown in the violent fake with a gun to the head (André Bernier via Radio-Canada). Other staff members and, per Le Soleil, classmates were also depicted; their number is not stated. The suspended pupils who made or shared the images are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"CA-QC","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2295957/ia-eleve-photos-truquees-ecole-secondaire-levis","primarySourceLabel":"Radio-Canada, 27 October 2026: IA : une dizaine d'élèves suspendus pour des photos truquées dans une école de Lévis","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-29T03:08:42.013904+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-29T03:08:42.013904+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-altered-images","school-staff","school-discipline","quebec"]}]}