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

South China Morning Post

June 22, 2026

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

At first glance, the images looked like those of a happy family in Singapore. 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...

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