SHAH ALAM, Oct 19 — More than 300 female students at a secondary school in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan, are believed to have fallen victim to the creation of AI-generated nude images using their faces.
Harian Metro reported that the manipulated images were believed to have circulated among students at the school and were allegedly sold through the Telegram messaging application.
Lawyer Ng Kian Nam said the incident first came to light on August 12 when a Form Two student found an unlocked smartphone at the school surau and discovered explicit images stored on the device.
"During the August 12 incident, the Form Two student subsequently sent the images to her 17-year-old sister's Instagram account.
"The images showed the faces of students from the school, which had been manipulated using AI to depict them without clothing.
"It is understood that the student returned the phone to its original location before it was collected by the school's discipline teacher," he was quoted as saying by Harian Metro yesterday.
Ng said the smartphone was subsequently confirmed to belong to a Form Five student at the school.
Following the discovery, five police reports were lodged on August 20, including by the parents of the student who found the phone.
He added that a meeting was subsequently held between parents and the school's board of governors, during which both parties agreed to contact the Negeri Sembilan State Education Department.
"On September 15, a meeting was held involving parents, representatives of the parent-teacher association (PTA), the school's board of governors, school authorities and officials from the state education department.
"During the meeting, the school acknowledged and confirmed that more than 300 students were victims of the AI-generated nude image manipulation," he said.
According to Ng, the male student believed to be involved was suspended from school, while the school authorities had taken action in accordance with procedures established by the education department.
However, he alleged that parents had not been informed about the status of the images involving their children or the full circumstances surrounding the incident.
"The parents of the student who found the phone were also dissatisfied that their two children had been asked to sign a letter of undertaking not to disclose the incident, failing which action could be taken against them," he said.
In response, Ng said a letter had been sent to the Jalan Campbell police station seeking a more comprehensive investigation into the incident.
Meanwhile, Negeri Sembilan police chief Datuk Alzafny Ahmad said police had received five reports from parents concerning the circulation of manipulated images featuring the faces of female students between August 20 and 23.
