Teenagers are using AI-fueled ‘smear pages’ to mock their teachers

The video opens With the school principal Lip sync to a love songBut he’s not the only performer.

Created by artificial intelligence A copy of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein Join him on the song – a pasting of Will Joseph Cook’s “Be About Me” and a rewrite of the song by Beth McCarthy on TikTok— with Epstein mouthing the words, “Oh my God, did he call her a baby, maybe?”

The clip was posted on the Instagram account @thewyliefilesIt has been liked more than 107,000 times. The caption reads like an overview of a large language model for the Wylie Independent School District in Collin County, Texas, where the singing supervisor previously worked, boasting of “strong academics” and “wide range of extracurricular programs.” One of the top comments says: “Gem alarm!” Suggesting that passers-by have struck gold in their daily scroll.

The sitcom is just one example of what’s new AI video meme trend on Instagram and Tik Tok It was invented by students to mock school faculty and sometimes attack their reputations, apparently in order to spread the virus. These largely student-run accounts have earned the nickname “smear pages” online. It’s a digital twist on a standard high school prank, but potentially with much higher stakes.

“Defamation Page” posts use slang terms sourced from unsavory parts of the Internet. “Looksmaxxing” language, which Comes from manosphere forums Which teaches men how to be more attractive, is Commonly used In these memes, including words like “mog“, which means controlling another man with his appearance, and”sub5“, which was coined to refer to ugly people without humanity.

Some “defamatory” videos use the Viggle AI image-to-video tool, which gives creators the ability to insert any person depicted in any reference video, as well as animate a still image in a lip-sync video format. Viggle AI was described as a “new frontier in creating spontaneous extremist propaganda” by the Global Network on Extremism and Technology, the academic research arm of King’s College London, in 2018. Recent blog post. The platform It has more than 40 million users As of February. Viggle AI did not respond to a request for comment.

In one since-removed “slanderous” video using Viggle AI that was posted on TikTok, a teacher’s face was superimposed on someone shivering in the bathroom. The overlaid caption of the text reads, “Take your breath or be useless,” describing the seizure as a fentanyl high.

The posters behind these pages also use mutant extremist symbols. In one example, some teachers were allowed into the imaginary world of Agartha, a fantasy world The main setting is in neo-Nazi occultism Where everyone is white and blond. Faculty members in the adaptation were depicted with glowing white eyes to indicate that they were allowed into Agartha or were given red eyes to show that they were rejected.

In the case of Crandall High School in Crandall, Texas, the situation has become even more dire. Memes by a viral TikTok account called @crandall.kirkinator I broke containment from the local Crandall user base, Inspiring TikTokers With hundreds of thousands of followers — and no apparent ties to the school — to amplify the “slur” against Crandall teachers. Viral videos They even enacted scenarios in which administrators reprimanded students who made such posts.

Officials at Crandall High School declined to comment on the situation, but at the end of January, all content on the @crandall.kirkinator TikTok account was scrubbed and deleted. It has been replaced by a statement Acknowledging that the synced Instagram account has been deleted. “My Instagram account was not blocked, it was voluntarily deleted… Some teachers were harassed, spammed or emailed by random people, which was never our intention… The account was created as a joke and was not intended to escalate to this extent,” the statement read. Days after publishing the statement, the account began posting again on TikTok. Last week, it was completely deleted.