Schoolboy arrested after allegedly posting fake explicit images of female students

A teenage boy has been arrested after fake explicit images were allegedly circulated on social media of about 50 female students from a private school in regional Victoria.

The principal of Bacchus Marsh Grammar, Andrew Neal, told the ABC about 50 girls had been targeted.

Police said the teenage boy was arrested in relation to the incident, but has been released pending further enquiries.

It comes after a student from Salesian College, a Catholic boys school in Chadstone in Melbourne, was expelled after he used artificial intelligence to produce explicit images of a female teacher.

The federal government announced in May it would introduce legislation to ban the creation and sharing of deepfake pornography as part of measures to combat violence against women.

But Queensland Nationals senator Matt Canavan said there was a broader cultural problem that needed to be addressed.