{"id":252691,"date":"2026-01-19T16:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T16:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/252691\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T16:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T16:07:10","slug":"psni-inquiry-after-explicit-ai-images-shared-in-ni-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/252691\/","title":{"rendered":"PSNI inquiry after explicit AI images shared in NI school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The PSNI has launched an investigation after reports that explicit AI-generated images have been shared among pupils at a school in Co Armagh.<\/p>\n<p>The headmaster of the Royal School Armagh confirmed &#8220;that a matter involving some of our pupils was brought to our attention and referred to the appropriate authorities&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; , Graham Montgomery said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will continue to do that and the safety and well-being of all our pupils remains our highest priority&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A PSNI spokesperson said: &#8220;Police have received a report that AI-generated explicit images had been shared amongst pupils at a County Armagh school.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An investigation is under way and local officers are also engaging with the appropriate school authorities and the parents\/guardians of the pupils affected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Social media website X has been heavily criticised after reports its AI chatbot, Grok, was facilitating the creation of sexualised images of women and children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The PSNI has launched an investigation after reports that explicit AI-generated images have been shared among pupils at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-252691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252691","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=252691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}