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Ten years ago it was sexting and nudes causing havoc in classrooms. Today, advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have made it child's play to generate deepfake nude images or videos, featuring what appear to be your friends, your classmates, even your teachers. This may involve removing clothes, getting an image to move suggestively or pasting someone's head on to a pornographic image.

The headteacher does not know why this particular girl -- a student at her school -- was selected, whether the boy knew her, or whether it was completely random. It only came to her attention because he was spotted by another of her pupils who realised what was happening and reported it to the school.