drutt Posted June 16 Posted June 16 On 11/06/2026 at 10:04, steveg said: We had a meeting about this this week. Our website and social media will have faces changed by ai now so real looking but not actually real children. What AI model will you be using to achieve this?
steveg Posted June 16 Posted June 16 10 minutes ago, drutt said: What AI model will you be using to achieve this? Annoyingly, not sure now. We used co-pilot to trial this before agreeing it as a policy - took a few photos of our team and it changed the faces to other realistic looking faces that weren't us with no problem. Started trying to do it on our website this week and it now says that is not something it can do, and only offers cartoon style or blurring. One option is the site linked earlier in this thread, but its quite expensive, so we are currently looking at other options. 1
Jobos Posted June 16 Posted June 16 I've already had our website provider trying to sell us banks of AI generated children's photos in the school uniform. 2
eSchoolsEd Posted June 16 Posted June 16 As a school website provider, it's also been a bit of a conundrum for us. It's fairly easy to do things like disabling the right-click, but that doesn't really help a lot these days as plenty of other ways to scrape an image. We just built a watermarking tool into our CMS but will continue to look out for any other methods, so I'll be monitoring this thread with interest in case anyone stumbles upon a magic formula! It's a shame a very small minority in society have caused this to be an issue.
pete Posted June 16 Posted June 16 ^ Wait, a school website provider who isn't creating a "For Xmas, you could change all their heads to elves/reindeer/whatever in conjunction with 'snow mode'" option?
Rob_D Posted June 16 Posted June 16 Our website provider has come up with something that blurs the site media if the site isn't active (mouse browser in focus with mouse pointer over the content). https://www.hazlegrove.co.uk/ (not our website, the one the provider showed us).
DrCheese Posted June 16 Posted June 16 17 minutes ago, Rob_D said: Our website provider has come up with something that blurs the site media if the site isn't active (mouse browser in focus with mouse pointer over the content). https://www.hazlegrove.co.uk/ (not our website, the one the provider showed us). That seems useless tho as you can still screenshot/save media & access the image files direct/in cache. It's similar to those old "Right click disabled!!" things websites used to do... 10 hours ago, steveg said: Annoyingly, not sure now. We used co-pilot to trial this before agreeing it as a policy - took a few photos of our team and it changed the faces to other realistic looking faces that weren't us with no problem. Started trying to do it on our website this week and it now says that is not something it can do, and only offers cartoon style or blurring. One option is the site linked earlier in this thread, but its quite expensive, so we are currently looking at other options. This is also a bit of a weird one as by uploading images into Ai to hide them from other Ai, it's being uploaded to Ai in the first place.. (Catch 22!)
SteveM555 Posted June 16 Posted June 16 1 hour ago, Rob_D said: Our website provider has come up with something that blurs the site media if the site isn't active (mouse browser in focus with mouse pointer over the content). https://www.hazlegrove.co.uk/ (not our website, the one the provider showed us). Not sure what that actually achieves? what are they saying that helps with? except for annoying a legitimate visitor. Literally a few seconds into looking at the site you can see it adding a .blurred-images CSS class to the root html. 1 line patch to the CSS or JS override renders it useless and anything automated will be looking directly at the page source to scrape the img src anyway, which isn't protected from direct linking on that website. I don't think there's currently a purchasable solution to fit the new guidance, just got to be careful going forward what to publish, angles of photos, not posting high quality full resolution photos, identifying details etc.
steveg Posted June 17 Posted June 17 11 hours ago, DrCheese said: This is also a bit of a weird one as by uploading images into Ai to hide them from other Ai, it's being uploaded to Ai in the first place.. (Catch 22!) I'd hope it's slightly better uploading them to copilot which we have done a dpia for than someone taking pictures off the website and blackmailing us with deepfakes though. There does seem to be this weird situation where AI is becoming the solution to some of the problems which AI has created, maybe eventually they will just fight it out themselves and humans wont be involved..... 🙂 1
MYK-IT Posted June 23 Posted June 23 (edited) For those using Cloudflare (including Free Edition) for their DNS, website etc, may also be worth looking at your Domain's Ai Crawl Control > Security Section and blocking all AI Crawlers, AI Search and AI Assistant as you deem appropriate. (Perhaps, even most Search Engine Crawlers - except BingBot and GoogleBot??) Ultimately, if you don't want images being captured, (mis)used etc then the simplest solution is not to post them online in the first instance, or anonymise the images accordingly. Whether that is by blurring, image manipulation, use of stock images etc. It's certainly a tough one, and not straight forward and needs consultation at all levels (e.g. Governors, SLT, Safeguarding, Parents etc) as to how a school proceeds with use of student (and staff) images within photos and (promotional) videos moving forwards. Edited June 23 by MYK-IT 1
jthompson Posted June 23 Posted June 23 This is a fascinating/inevitable/horrible thread to read through. Using images that aren't of real people seems like an achievable response. Maybe just do what the tech companies do and use ghastly Corporate Memphis images everywhere?
TechMonkey Posted June 23 Posted June 23 5 hours ago, MYK-IT said: For those using Cloudflare (including Free Edition) for their DNS, website etc, may also be worth looking at your Domain's Ai Crawl Control > Security Section and blocking all AI Crawlers, AI Search and AI Assistant as you deem appropriate. (Perhaps, even most Search Engine Crawlers - except BingBot and GoogleBot??) Ultimately, if you don't want images being captured, (mis)used etc then the simplest solution is not to post them online in the first instance, or anonymise the images accordingly. Whether that is by blurring, image manipulation, use of stock images etc. It's certainly a tough one, and not straight forward and needs consultation at all levels (e.g. Governors, SLT, Safeguarding, Parents etc) as to how a school proceeds with use of student (and staff) images within photos and (promotional) videos moving forwards. I'd be careful doing this as it isn't going to prevent people going to your site and grabbing images or people finding you have them, but it will affect your placement for AI based search and could well have the effect of unintended consequences for the future. AI search is a big thing and although state schools don't have to be as aware or on top of it, you may want to at least have a low-level understanding of what you are potentially doing by changing those kinds of settings.
Davit2005 Posted June 24 Posted June 24 On 17/06/2026 at 07:56, steveg said: I'd hope it's slightly better uploading them to copilot which we have done a dpia for than someone taking pictures off the website and blackmailing us with deepfakes though. There does seem to be this weird situation where AI is becoming the solution to some of the problems which AI has created, maybe eventually they will just fight it out themselves and humans wont be involved..... 🙂 Rise of the machines 🙂
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