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Warning for All Schools to Stop This Innocent Student Tradition

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Experts warn that the common practice of posting student photos on school social media accounts creates significant risks as AI tools allow for the harvesting and manipulation of this data to create non-consensual deepfake material. While the article focuses on societal harms and individual privacy, it highlights how improvements in generative AI capabilities are being weaponized for malicious purposes. The findings underscore the need for urgent updates to Australian educational digital privacy policies to mitigate the risks posed by frontier image-generation models. This discussion contributes to the broader context of AI safety by addressing the immediate misuse of AI systems against vulnerable populations.

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