Supreme Court Upholds School's AI Image Manipulation Sanctions
Four students at a Chilean private school used AI to create manipulated nude images of female classmates. A lower court had ordered their expulsion, but Chile's Supreme Court on 19 February 2025 reversed that decision, ruling the school acted within its constitutional autonomy in applying a lesser sanction of conditional enrollment.
What happened
Four students at Saint George's College used artificial intelligence to manipulate images of female classmates, making them appear nude, which violated the privacy and integrity of the affected girls and adolescents.
The Corte de Apelaciones de Santiago had ordered the expulsion of the four students in May after accepting two protection resources filed on behalf of seven affected students. On 19 February 2025, the Corte Suprema de Santiago reversed this decision, upholding the school's choice to apply conditional enrollment status instead of expulsion, ruling the decision fell within the school's constitutional autonomy and teaching freedom.
Reported impact
The incident affected multiple female students at the school, creating a grave violation of their privacy. The Superintendencia de Educaci贸n found that the school failed to guarantee students' right to have their physical and moral integrity respected.
Index analysis
The Corte Suprema determined that the school's disciplinary measure, based on its internal regulations, was neither illegal nor arbitrary, and that the court should not intervene in the disciplinary decisions of private educational institutions. The ruling established a precedent on the autonomy of private schools in applying disciplinary measures in cases of high social significance.
Governance controls
The Superintendencia de Educaci贸n had previously sanctioned Saint George's College in July with a fine exceeding 13 million Chilean pesos for 'inactions' in handling the case, finding that the school 'did not correctly apply its internal regulations and/or protocol for addressing reports of sexual aggression or acts of sexual connotation that violate student integrity.'
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