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A teacher in South Carolina generated an AI image showing six-year-old Harper as a 25-year-old nurse as part of a school project, according to the Washington Post report reproduced by Omni. The image was created with AI and presented to the child at school.

Harper’s mother criticized the pedagogical purpose of showing a synthetic future portrait to a six-year-old, saying the child began to focus on appearance rather than her desired profession and quoted her daughter saying, “Maybe I will be this beautiful when I grow up.” The mother shared the episode and a paper cutout the child had made in an Instagram post that circulated widely.