Singaporean man traumatised over ex-schoolmate’s AI photos of them as family

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.

Singaporean man traumatised over ex-schoolmate’s AI photos of them as family The man, who says he hardly knew the schoolmate, has filed a police report and set all his social media accounts to private 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”. Except the family did not exist – the images were all AI-generated. The 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. “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. A 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. The woman had posted the photos on her Instagram account. A check by The Straits Times shows that her account has been deactivated.