{"id":252487,"date":"2026-01-19T12:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/252487\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T12:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:49:08","slug":"police-investigate-explicit-ai-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/252487\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate ‘explicit’ AI images"},"content":{"rendered":"

A police investigation has begun after a report that AI-generated explicit images were allegedly shared among pupils at a County Armagh school.<\/p>\n

The investigation centres on the Royal School Armagh, which teaches about 800 boys and girls up to the age of 18.<\/p>\n

It’s reported that the images were created using artificial intelligence and the fake pictures were then shared among some students.<\/p>\n

The principal told a Sunday newspaper<\/a> that as soon as the school became aware of the issue it had referred the matter to the authorities.<\/p>\n

In a statement to BBC News NI, principal Graham Montgomery said: “We have robust policies and procedures in place and where concerns are raised we seek and follow advice from educational and other statutory authorities and take all appropriate action as advised. <\/p>\n

“We will continue to do that and the safety and well-being of all our pupils remains our highest priority.”<\/p>\n

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) confirmed to BBC News NI that an investigation is under way.<\/p>\n

Its spokeswoman added that “local officers are also engaging with the appropriate school authorities and the parents\/guardians of the pupils affected”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police investigation has begun after a report that AI-generated explicit images were allegedly shared among pupils at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-252487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}