AI-Generated Nude Images of 16 Female Students Circulated at Valencia Institute
Spanish police are investigating a 17-year-old student who allegedly used artificial intelligence to create deepfake nude images of 16 female classmates and circulated them on social media without consent. The investigation followed complaints beginning in December, with police tracking IP addresses to the suspect's home. The Spanish government has proposed but not yet passed legislation to criminalize such non-consensual AI-generated sexual imagery.
What happened
A 17-year-old student at an educational institute in Valencia, Spain, is under investigation on suspicion of using artificial intelligence to create deepfake nude images of female classmates for sale.
Sixteen young women at the institute came forward to complain that AI-generated images of them were circulating on social media and the internet. The first complaint was lodged in December by an adolescent who said an AI-generated video and faked photos resembling her 'completely naked' were posted on a social media account started under her name.
Police tracked the IP addresses used to create the bogus accounts, which led them to the home of the 17-year-old now under investigation for suspected corruption of minors.
Reported impact
Sixteen young women, all minors, were targeted with non-consensual AI-generated nude images that were manipulated from originals so that the people in them appeared completely naked.
Index analysis
The Spanish government said in March it would put forward a law to treat deepfaked sexual imagery created by AI without consent as a crime, claiming it would be the first such law in Europe, but the bill has not yet been passed by parliament.
This is not the first such case in Spain; in September 2023, 15 minors in Extremadura were investigated for using AI to produce fake naked images of their female schoolmates and were later sentenced to a year's probation.
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