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ARTIFICIAL REALITIES VICTORIA College is due to expand its PSHE curriculum to include lessons on deepfake abuse, following a JEP investigation into the use of AI to generate sexual images. The secondary school for boys said the topic would be covered in greater depth during Relationships and Sex Education lessons alongside wider discussions about consent, online behaviour and digital responsibility. Head of PSHE, Gill Silver, said: “In Year 11, students already spend several sessions exploring the impact of pornography on relationships and behaviours. “In light of the JEP research, we will now broaden this further to discuss deepfakes in depth.” Part one of the JEP’s three-day ‘Artificial Realities’ investigation uncovered how any image can be turned into pornography using cheap online “nudify” apps. Police confirmed to this newspaper that they had received reports of “apps being used to create deepfake imagery”, including cases where people’s faces were swapped onto other bodies or made to appear undressed. Ministers are preparing to introduce new legislation that will make it a criminal offence to create or share sexually explicit deepfakes – images or videos digitally altered using AI to depict a person suggestively without their consent. The comments come as a major Scrutiny review into online harms called for stronger “guardrails” to ensure the safe and ethical use of AI. Published on Friday, the Children, Education and Home Affairs Scrutiny Panel’s report also found that some young people were “hesitant to report experiences of exploitation” and urged the government to create a simple, child-friendly system for reporting harmful online content. Responding, Ministers said they recognised the need for “clearer protections against harmful online content” and pointed to work underway to create new offences addressing intimate-image abuse.
