{"slug": "singaporean-man-traumatised-over-ex-schoolmates-ai-photos-of-them-as-family", "title": "Singaporean man traumatised over ex-schoolmate’s AI photos of them as family", "summary": "A Singaporean man, identified only as Luke, filed a police report after discovering a former schoolmate used AI to generate fake photos depicting them as a family, including images of a pregnancy and newborn. The man, who had not seen the schoolmate in 15 years, said the incident traumatized him and prompted him to make his social media accounts private.", "body_md": "# Singaporean man traumatised over ex-schoolmate’s AI photos of them as family\n\nThe man, who says he hardly knew the schoolmate, has filed a police report and set all his social media accounts to private\n\n[Singapore](https://www.scmp.com/topics/singapore?module=inline&pgtype=article). There were photos of the couple during their school days and on dates, the woman pregnant and the man holding their supposed newborn with a caption that read: “My boys”.\n\nExcept the family did not exist – the images were all AI-generated.\n\nThe man in the photos did not even know about them until a friend alerted him in December last year, The Straits Times reported on Sunday. In real life, he was not married or in a relationship.\n\n“It is traumatising to learn that your pictures were used in such an elaborate narrative,” said Luke, who asked for a pseudonym to protect his identity.\n\nA few weeks after the administrative assistant saw the photos, he realised who the woman in them was: a former schoolmate he had last seen 15 years ago.\n\nThe woman had posted the photos on her Instagram account. A check by The Straits Times shows that her account has been deactivated.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/singaporean-man-traumatised-over-ex-schoolmates-ai-photos-of-them-as-family", "canonical_source": "https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3357916/singaporean-man-traumatised-over-ex-schoolmates-ai-photos-them-family?utm_source=rss_feed", "published_at": "2026-06-22 08:36:53+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-22 08:46:35.977426+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-ethics", "ai-safety"], "entities": ["Luke", "The Straits Times", "Instagram"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/singaporean-man-traumatised-over-ex-schoolmates-ai-photos-of-them-as-family", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/singaporean-man-traumatised-over-ex-schoolmates-ai-photos-of-them-as-family.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/singaporean-man-traumatised-over-ex-schoolmates-ai-photos-of-them-as-family.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/singaporean-man-traumatised-over-ex-schoolmates-ai-photos-of-them-as-family.jsonld"}}