A teenage boy has been arrested, questioned and released after fake nude images of at least 50 school girls were circulated online. Bacchus Marsh Grammar School believes the girls' faces were taken from their social media accounts and then manipulated using artificial intelligence.
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00:00Some of the more than 50 students at Bacchus Marsh Grammar were among those who first raised
00:06the alarm earlier this week.
00:08Police say the images were sent to someone in the Melton area, which is northwest of
00:13Melbourne, on Friday.
00:15Investigators have arrested a teenager who has since been released pending further inquiries.
00:20The principal of Bacchus Marsh Grammar, Andrew Neill, has labelled the conduct of those responsible
00:24appalling.
00:26He says it's something that strikes at the heart of students, particularly girls growing
00:29up at this age.
00:31He believes at least 50 girls in years 9 to 12 have been targeted.
00:35The images taken from social media profiles before an AI tool was used to make explicit
00:40obscene images.
00:42All students are being supported by the school while it works with police to get the images
00:46removed and for those responsible to be taken into custody.
00:50Now it comes as the Albanese government prepares to introduce new legislation to tackle this
00:55very issue.
00:56The proposed laws would ban the sharing of deepfake pornography and impose a six-year
01:01prison term.
01:02Now if the person also created the deepfakes and also shared it with our consent, then
01:07that prison term would increase to up to seven years.
01:09Now the new offences will only apply to deepfake material involving adults.
01:15Anything involving child abuse material will be covered by existing laws.