Deepfakes in the classroom: homes raided in Entre Ríos over AI-altered intimate images of classmates

By El Litoral · October 26, 2026.

On Saturday, police in Entre Ríos (Argentina) carried out three raids in Villa Adela, Puerto Yeruá and Calabacilla, near Concordia, and seized 11 mobile phones. The case concerns the alleged use of artificial intelligence to alter photos of three female students at the Escuela Agrotécnica General San Martín so they appeared topless.

According to the newspaper, at least three students from the same school are believed to be the accused. The raids were carried out by officers from the Calabacilla police station, under the direction of gender-crimes prosecutor Agustina Solé and by order of the Family and Juvenile Court. The phones will now undergo forensic analysis to determine whether they contain relevant material and how the images were created and shared.

The incident reportedly took place on Friday morning. According to accounts gathered by El Litoral, the students and their families went to the school to complain, there were tense moments as school buses arrived and left, and police filed a report and invited the families to file a formal complaint. The outlet itself stresses that the acts attributed to the students are under investigation and must be established in court: they are alleged and unproven.

The case is not an isolated one. The same outlet links to another recent case in Ituzaingó, where four students are under investigation for creating fake nude images of classmates, and to a story about a UNICEF figure: one in five adolescents has reportedly suffered digital sexual abuse. That statistic appears in an El Litoral headline, and we have not verified it.

**Our take.** This is the real face of AI's short-term harm, and it should be looked at without either drama or excuses. It doesn't take a superintelligence. A photo “undressing” app, a profile picture and a group chat are enough. The technical barrier has fallen to zero, and the harm falls on the girls, with psychological and reputational consequences that no later takedown can fully undo.

Institutions are also out of step. Schools, families and the juvenile justice system move at a pace the technology has already left behind. The fact that action came after the families complained publicly, rather than through an existing protocol, suggests the system reacts instead of preventing. The alleged perpetrators are also minors, so the response has to combine accountability and education, not just punishment.

Broadly, the solutions lie on three fronts. Providers of image-editing tools should block the generation of nudes from photos of real people. Platforms should remove this material quickly. And digital and relationships education should come into classrooms with the same weight as other subjects. Regulating out of panic doesn't work; going after this specific use, which is provable and harmful, does.

This doesn't change our core view. AI could bring huge advances in health and abundance in the long run, but that transition will only be legitimate if we protect the people who bear its worst effects today. In the meantime, cases like this one measure how mature our institutions are better than any benchmark.