California school districts are employing AI in classrooms to ready students for tomorrow, but early experiments have already triggered controversy.

In December 2025, a fourth-grade class at an elementaryschoolin the Los Angeles Unified School District received a homework assignment asking students to create a book cover of Pippi Longstocking. One of the fourth-grade students asked the program to generate an image of “long stockings, red haired girl with braids sticking out.” But the image produced for the student was explicitly sexual.

The tool used by the students was Adobe Express for Education, a graphic design software program. Julie, a LAUSD parent, told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the program was downloaded through a learning management system calledSchoology. Julie noted that Schoology is the district’s platform for its approved K-12 content.

It is unclear whether students were explicitly instructed to use the AI tool, but Julie stated they weren’t discouraged from using it.

In three of the four photosgivento the student, a woman in a tight short skirt with long black stockings could be seen standing in the picture. A fourth image showed the woman in what appears to be black lingerie, with stockings and heels.

“Other parents were able to replicate that on their kids’ Chromebooks. So they basically took the same prompt that the girl had entered, and they were also getting highly sexualized images. So it’s not like this was like an edge case, a one-off,” Julie told the DCNF.

“My take is that it feels really sneaky. Basically, Google Gemini just happened to be in the Google suites that all students with Chromebooks had access to, and that was never explicitly stated to any parents. I don’t even know if it was explicitly stated to any teachers. So it just suddenly was there,” Julie said.

In 2023, California schools began todiscussimplementing artificial intelligence into classrooms after the rise inuseof ChatGPT. The California Department of Education released an initialguidancein 2023 titled “Learning with AI, Learning about AI,” which focused on AI benefits and its ethical use in classrooms.

Structures and pilotsrolled outthe following year, and the CDE released itslatest guidancejust last year on the safe and effective use of AI in schools, supporting districts in implementation with ongoing professional learning and resources.

LAUSD did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

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