confirmed that an investigation is under way.<\/a><\/p>\nIt has been reported that the images were created using artificial intelligence and the fake pictures were then shared among some students.<\/p>\n
In his letter, Montgomery said the number of teenagers affected is in the “single figures” after reports that “potentially dozens of girls” had been targeted. <\/p>\n
He said that while that does not lessen the impact of what has happened to the victims, he hoped it would “contain any sense of panic among the wider school community”. <\/p>\n
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The Royal School Armagh teaches about 800 boys and girls up to the age of 18<\/p>\n
‘Safety and well-being’<\/p>\n
Montgomery said the school first became aware of the circulation of images on Thursday 8 January, and subsequently referred the matter to the “appropriate authorities”.<\/p>\n
He said he wanted to “reassure all members of the school community that procedures are in place for the safeguarding and well-being of pupils”. <\/p>\n
The PSNI said “local officers are also engaging with the appropriate school authorities and the parents\/guardians of the pupils affected”.<\/p>\n
‘Refrain from speculation’ <\/p>\n
Montgomery told parents that “this has been a particularly difficult time for the pupils of whom manipulated images were created”.<\/p>\n
He urged people to be “mindful that we are dealing with teenagers” and “refrain from comment and speculation where possible, including on social media”. <\/p>\n
He said the safety and well-being of all pupils remains a “key concern”. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Royal School Armagh Graham Montgomery is the principal of the Royal School Armagh The principal of a County…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-246373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Royal School Armagh<\/p>\n