The theory of non-Hermitian systems and the theory of quantum deformations have attracted a great deal of attention in the last decades. In general, non-Hermitian Hamiltonians are constructed by a ad hoc manner. Here, we study the (2+1) Dirac oscillator and show that in the context of the κ-deformed Poincaré-Hopf algebra its Hamiltonian is non-Hermitian but having real eigenvalues. The non-Hermiticity steams from the κ-deformed algebra. From the mapping in [Bermudez et al., Phys. Rev. A 76, 041801(R) 2007], we propose the κ-JC and κ-AJC models, which describe an interaction between a two-level system with a quantized mode of an optical cavity in the κ-deformed context. We find that the κ-deformation modifies the Zitterbewegung frequencies and the collapse and revival of quantum oscillations. In particular, the total angular momentum in the z-direction is not conserved anymore, as a direct consequence of the deformation.