Goffstown School District now prohibits students from making deepfakes, following an incident where middle school students used artificial intelligence to generate inappropriate images of their classmates.

School Board members waived their usual procedures so they could adopt the policy immediately at their Monday meeting. The district’s policy prohibits students from creating deepfakes, especially ones “involving nudity, sexually explicit content, or any media that causes significant reputational, emotional, or physical harm to an individual.”

The policy allows Goffstown school administrators to use their judgment in assigning consequences, but generating deepfakes can result in student suspensions and removal from school activities, co-curriculars and athletics.

Administrators are a

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