Police in New South Wales are investigating reports of digitally altered explicit images of female students, circulating at a Sydney high school. The ABC understands authorities were alerted when worried parents attended a local police station claiming the school had failed to take action.
00:00Deepfake dangers in the digital age realised at a northern Sydney high school after reports
00:09digitally altered images of female students were created and shared online.
00:14These are deeply concerning reports that I have been briefed on.
00:19I understand that police are investigating this matter as is appropriate.
00:23The ABC has been told parents went to police after a male student who was sent the images reported it to his son.
00:30It's understood a number of families attended the Eastwood police station last night to discuss their concerns.
00:37The education department has asked the ABC not to name the school and says it's investigating.
00:44It says deepfakes present significant new risks to the wellbeing and privacy of students and warned of strong disciplinary action.
00:53Schools are microcosms of what we're seeing in the broader community.
00:57This is a challenge that we are facing across our society.
01:00At least 95%, sometimes as high as 100% of the targets are women.
01:06This is just something that happens almost exclusively to women.
01:10Last month the state government introduced new deepfake pornography laws designed to keep up with emerging technology
01:18and stamp out new methods of sexual exploitation.
01:22But they are yet to come into effect.
01:24Those laws will commence shortly.
01:26It means that if you create a deepfake image of a person on your phone, you can go to jail.
01:33The alleged offences could also fall under commonwealth law as the criminal code covers all forms of real and artificial child abuse material, including AI generated.
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