Spanish teenager investigated over AI naked images of classmates
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MADRID – The Spanish police said on July 27 that they were investigating a 17-year-old on suspicion of using artificial intelligence (AI) to deepfake nude images of female classmates for sale.
A total of 16 young women at an educational institute in Valencia, in south-eastern Spain, complained about the AI-generated images of them that were circulating on social media and online.
In December, a teenage girl complained to police that AI-generated video and faked photos resembling her “completely naked” were posted on a social media account started under her name.
“Photos of various people, all of them minors, appeared on this account. All these photos had been modified from the originals, which had been manipulated so that the people in them appeared completely naked,” the Spanish Civil Guard said in a statement on July 27.
A teenage boy is under investigation for alleged corruption of minors.
The Spanish government said in March that it would put forward a law to treat such deepfake sexual imagery created by AI without consent as a crime, but the Bill has so far not been passed by Parliament.
In September 2023, Spain was shocked when 15 minors in Extremadura, in south-west Spain, were investigated for using AI to produce fake naked images of their female schoolmates. They were later sentenced to a year of probation. REUTERS
