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Topics: Twitter, Social Media, Education, UK News
Britt Jones
Topics: Twitter, Social Media, Education, UK News
In light of Elon Musk’s AI bot Grok coming under fire for its explicit content, a teacher has revealed how an eight-year-old student was able to create deepfake porn of her with other teachers at the school.
X’s owner, Musk, has been called out following reports that users had been using his Grok AI tool on the platform to undress underage girls.
The 54-year-old recently responded, revealing he is ‘not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok. Literally zero’.
However, it’s not just Grok that people have to be wary of.
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According to this teacher’s account, a very young student created indecent content of her after finding an image online of her, innocently posing by a mountain.
The teacher revealed that the young girl had shared with her an image she had found of the teacher online, and while innocent at the time, it would lead to something disturbing.
The teacher wrote for iNews that she had worked at a primary school in London, UK, for five years, and had taught the girl ‘in previous years’.
Calling her 'quite a strange character,’ she went on to claim she knew the teacher well, and ‘seemed older than her age’, and ‘like she knew a lot more than the others.’
One day, she was alerted to an explicit video circulating in a WhatsApp group that the school children use, which allegedly included her and two colleagues, prompting the teacher to find out through the grapevine that the student in question had generated the material.
Revealing that the eight-year-old ‘showed no remorse’ when confronted, and even smirked, the teacher shared that due to a lack of support from the school, she eventually had to leave her job.
The teacher wrote: "She was just sniggering in the school meetings with her parents; it was all very strange. What was most disturbing was how incredibly young she was: eight or nine years old. To even know what a threesome is at that age is shocking enough, never mind creating a deepfake."
While she didn’t see the video as it had been wiped from the child’s device, other discussions between the child and her mother with school staff revealed there was other explicit material on her device.
But despite the evidence, the two men who were involved in the video didn’t want to take it further, leaving the teacher feeling isolated.
She revealed: "The assistant head, who was also featured in the video, didn't want to involve the union. The other teacher, a male teacher, also didn't want to push it; it was really just me following it up.
"Some schools are cautious when things like this happen. They don't want drama or any bad press leaking out. This meant the girl wasn't excluded (not even just for the day), and she wasn't encouraged to apologise. There were no real consequences for her at all. There was just a single meeting with her mum."
She went on to say: "'They're just children', they told me. I found that really upsetting; what they had done was wrong. Without much rigmarole, then, I was back in class again, teaching all the children who had seen the video. It was very awkward and uncomfortable.
"I got advice from the union, who said that what had happened was illegal and that the school should have followed it up properly. I had another meeting with the school, but they didn't want to pursue it any further. A year later, I left the school. I just felt very alone."
Now, she’s backing campaigns to create legislation to make it illegal for children under the age of 16 to use social media.