To education news now and Elite Perth private school St Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls has vowed to erase all identifiable images of its students from its social media platforms over concerns they could be used to create deepfakes.
The school posted to their website on Tuesday afternoon announcing the change and said that they were taking “bold, future‑focused steps to protect the privacy, dignity, and digital wellbeing of our girls”.
The step is preventative, with the school confirming they were not aware of any student images being used or altered via artificial intelligence.
“With the rise of artificial intelligence, photo manipulation and deepfake technology have become increasingly sophisticated, creating risks for young people that did not exist even five years ago,” the school wrote.
“Around the world, there have been cases where school images were taken from public social media pages, altered using AI, and turned into harmful deepfakes.
“Once a photo is shared publicly, anyone can download it, manipulate it, or distribute it, and the school or family may never know.“
Parents will still be able to access photos through a password-protected gallery, while any images posted to social media will be of feature side profiles, silhouettes, backs of heads, distant group shots, creative filters, or approved stock photography.
The school said this shift tied in with the new social media ban for under-16s.
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