{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-24T02:13:50.230Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"sydney","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"unknown","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":2,"coverage":{"cases":2,"countries":1,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":2,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":1,"coreRelations":2,"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":"2025-sydney-school-reported-deepfake-images-police-inquiry","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Article body, retained text line 99: paragraph about digitally altered images.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"ABC reports that digitally altered sexual images using female students' faces circulated online at a Sydney high school.","causal_attribution":"Two ABC reports on one school investigation. Police and commissioner statements remain reported. General statistics or experiences at other schools do not establish this case's individual impacts."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Article body, retained text line 93: paragraph about police complaint and investigation.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Article body, retained text line 101: paragraph about police complaint and investigation.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Families reportedly went to police and NSW Police confirmed an investigation was underway.","causal_attribution":"Two ABC reports on one school investigation. Police and commissioner statements remain reported. General statistics or experiences at other schools do not establish this case's individual impacts."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Article body, retained text line 99: paragraph about eSafety involvement.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The follow-up says the eSafety Commissioner's investigators were in talks with police and the education department about the digitally altered images.","causal_attribution":"Two ABC reports on one school investigation. Police and commissioner statements remain reported. General statistics or experiences at other schools do not establish this case's individual impacts."}],"effects":[{"label":"Reported nonconsensual sexual depictions circulated online","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-16/police-investigate-sydney-school-image-deepfake/105896812","kind":"journalistic","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"original-account-aiid-1234"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-17/deepfake-image-based-abuse-doubles-across-australia/105905152","kind":"journalistic","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"original-account-aiid-1234"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","privacy"],"unknowns":["The first creation date, generation method and number of affected students are unknown.","The identities of creators and any investigation or disciplinary outcome remain unknown."],"geography":{"basis":"Both reports explicitly locate the affected students at a Sydney high school. The school's name is withheld.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["AU"],"affected_person_countries":["AU"]},"publication":{"basis":"Inspected local reporting describes a concrete school image-abuse event and case-specific official responses. Students and school are not named. The record remains undated and does not borrow distress claims from other schools or general statistics.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-30"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"ABC describes the case as deepfake image-based abuse and reports the eSafety Commissioner's involvement. The reviewers have not inspected the images, tools or a forensic determination.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Sydney schoolgirls reportedly targeted with deepfake images circulated online","summary":"ABC News reports that digitally altered sexual images using the faces of girls from a Sydney high school circulated online. Families went to police, who confirmed an investigation, while the school and education department said they were working with police. A follow-up report says the eSafety Commissioner was also in talks with investigators. The school is not identified, and the number of affected students, creation date and later inquiry outcome are unknown.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2025-10-16","aiSystem":"Reported deepfake image-generation tools","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","aiCompany":"Unknown","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The reports describe nonconsensual sexual depictions of schoolgirls circulated online and families seeking police help. No separate clinical or educational outcome is attributed to these particular students.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"unquantified","affectedCountEvidence":"The sources refer to female students and several families without a reliable numeric count. Zero is an unknown-count placeholder and does not mean no one was harmed.","victimAgeRange":"minor","platformType":"other","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-16/police-investigate-sydney-school-image-deepfake/105896812","primarySourceLabel":"ABC News, 16 October 2025, police inquiry into Sydney school deepfake images","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-30T01:10:39.838754+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:58:17.276886+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":[]},{"id":"2025-sydney-school-reported-ai-sexual-images-of-female-students","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"has been reported to police after allegedly using artificial intelligence platforms to create pornography featuring other students","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The student is alleged to have created explicit deepfake images of female students and circulated them using fake social media accounts.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The senior student is accused of allegedly using artificial intelligence to create deepfake pornographic images of female students and making fake social media profiles.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"A high school student in Sydney was reported to police after allegedly using AI platforms to create explicit deepfake images of female students and circulating them using fake social media accounts.","causal_attribution":"Allegations relayed by two outlets from police and department statements. The police statement quoted refers only to inappropriate images. The images, the AI tool and the alleged creator's role were not verified by the reviewer. ABC and Information Age describe the fake social media profiles as depicting students, and the Guardian describes fake accounts used to circulate the images."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"began an investigation on 6 January after reports of inappropriate images being produced and distributed online.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"NSW Police confirmed they had commenced an investigation after receiving a report on Monday","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"NSW Police began an investigation on 6 January 2025 after a report that inappropriate images were being produced and distributed online.","causal_attribution":"One NSW Police statement carried by two outlets. It dates the investigation and the report, not the creation of the images."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Authorities believe the images were created at home during the school holidays, and not on school grounds.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Authorities were reported to believe the images were created at home during the school holidays and not on school grounds.","causal_attribution":"A belief attributed to unnamed authorities by one trade-press outlet. No source states when the holidays began or on what date the images were created."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"We are helping affected students with appropriate wellbeing support and will do so as long as required.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"We are helping affected students with appropriate wellbeing support and will do so as long as required.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"The incident had also been referred to the eSafety commissioner.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The NSW Department of Education said it was helping affected students with wellbeing support and would do so as long as required, and the incident was referred to the eSafety Commissioner.","causal_attribution":"Department statements as relayed by two outlets. No affected student is quoted and no individual effect on a student is described."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"But there will be disciplinary action for the student.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The NSW education minister said there would be disciplinary action for the student.","causal_attribution":"A ministerial statement of intended action. It does not establish what the student did."}],"effects":[{"label":"Female students reportedly depicted in AI-generated sexual images circulated online, with education department wellbeing support for affected students","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/09/sydney-high-school-ai-deepfake-porn-scandal-ntwnfb","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"nsw-police-and-education-department-statements-2025-01"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-09/sydney-high-school-deepfake-images-other-students/104799338","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"nsw-police-and-education-department-statements-2025-01"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/sydney-teen-allegedly-made-explicit-deepfakes-of-students.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Trade-press report. It cites the ABC report for the minister's remarks and quotes a department statement given to it that repeats the Guardian and ABC wording. The \"created at home during the school holidays\" sentence appears only here.","independence_group":"nsw-police-and-education-department-statements-2025-01"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","privacy"],"unknowns":["The event start date is unknown. Creation is reported as during the school holidays, and no cited source says when the holidays began. The only dated fact is the police report and investigation start on 6 January 2025, so creation may have been in December 2024.","The AI tool or platform, the platforms on which the images were shared and the number of images are not reported.","The number of affected students is not reported by any inspected source.","The ages of the affected students are not stated. The student alleged to have created the images is described as a senior student and a teenage boy.","How individual students were affected is not described beyond the offer of wellbeing support.","The outcome of the police investigation and of any disciplinary action is not reported in the inspected sources."],"geography":{"basis":"The sources describe a Sydney high school, NSW Police, the New South Wales Department of Education and the NSW education minister. No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["AU"],"affected_person_countries":["AU"]},"publication":{"basis":"Three January 2025 reports (Guardian, ABC, Information Age) that rest on one NSW Police statement and one Department of Education statement, plus one unattributed belief of authorities reported only by Information Age. All claims are reported. The school, the students including the student alleged to have created the images, and the police command are not named, and no image detail is given. The event date is unknown (only the 6 January 2025 police report is dated), so the case is published undated and outside the 2025 event-year count.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Outlets report, as an allegation, that a student used AI platforms to create explicit deepfake images. The police statement quoted refers only to inappropriate images produced and distributed online. No tool is named and the images were not seen by the reviewer.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Female students at a Sydney high school reportedly depicted in AI-generated sexual images circulated online","summary":"On 9 January 2025 outlets reported that NSW Police had begun an investigation on 6 January after a report that inappropriate images were being produced and distributed online. The Guardian reported the allegation that a student at a Sydney high school used AI platforms to create explicit deepfake images of female students and circulated them through fake social media accounts. The Department of Education said it was helping affected students with wellbeing support and referred the matter to the eSafety Commissioner. The creation date, the AI tool, the number of affected students and the outcome of the investigation are not reported.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2025-01-09","aiSystem":"Unspecified AI image-generation platforms","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","aiCompany":"Unknown","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Outlets report that AI-generated sexual images of female students were circulated online and the Department of Education said it was helping affected students with wellbeing support. No affected student's own account and no count of victims is reported.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"unquantified","affectedCountEvidence":"No inspected source gives a number of affected students. Zero is a placeholder and does not state that nobody was harmed.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","platformType":"other","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/09/sydney-high-school-ai-deepfake-porn-scandal-ntwnfb","primarySourceLabel":"The Guardian, 9 January 2025, Sydney teenager allegedly used AI to create deepfake pornography of students","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T14:02:55.016858+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:17.361092+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":[]}]}