Five Beverly Hills middle school students are EXPELLED for using AI to create ... trends now
A group of Beverly Hills middle school students have been expelled after they made AI generated fake nude pictures of their classmates.
The five unnamed eighth graders attended Beverly Vista Middle School in California's infamously fancy neighborhood.
Explicit images shared through messaging apps in February depicted their classmates' faces superimposed on artificially generated naked bodies.
The victims of the fake pornographic images were 16 eighth-grade students, who would have been aged 13-14, whose genders have not been confirmed.
On Wednesday evening, The Beverly Hills Unified School District board of education voted at a special meeting to approve stipulated agreement of expulsion with the five teens, aged 13-14.
A group of Beverly Hills middle school students have been expelled after they made AI generated fake nude pictures of their classmates
The images showed faces of students at Beverly Vista Middle School (pictured) superimposed on artificially generated nude bodies.
Neither the students or their parents contested the punishment and the hearing was held.
The agreements are confidential, but such agreements outline how long a student is expelled for and the terms of their return to school.
According to Supt. Michael Bregy, the five students who were the focus of its investigation were the 'most egregiously involved' in the creation and sharing of the images, LA Times reported.
The Beverly Hills Police Department and the Los Angeles County district attorney's office are still investigating the incident, but there haven't yet been any arrests or charges.
AI-generated nudes can be made using several free apps. In 2020, researchers discovered a 'deepfake ecosystem' on the messaging app Telegram.
The bot-generated images typically used images of women taken from their social media accounts and turned them into pornographic images which were circulated on the messaging app.
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