A mother and her 14-year-old daughter are advocating for better protections for victims after AI-generated nude images of the teen and other female classmates were circulated at a high school in New Jersey.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, officials are investigating an incident involving a teenage boy who allegedly used artificial intelligence to create and distribute similar images of other students – also teen girls - that attend a high school in suburban Seattle, Washington.
The disturbing cases have put a spotlight yet again on explicit AI-generated material that overwhelmingly harms women and children and is booming online at an unprecedented rate. According to an analysis by independent researcher Genevieve Oh that was shared with The Associated Press, more than 143,000 new deepfake videos were posted online this year, which surpasses every other year combined.
Why should it haunt them? Even if the images were REAL, why should it haunt them? I’m so tired of the puritanical shame women are supposed to feel about their bodies. We all have the same basic equipment. If a guy makes a deep fake, it is HE who should feel shame and humiliation for being a sick pervert. Girls need to be taught this. Band together and laugh these idiots off campus. Name and shame online. Make sure HE will be the one haunted forever.
I don’t mean psychologically haunt them, I mean follow them for the rest of their lives affecting things like jobs and relationships. It doesn’t matter whether or not they’re fake if people don’t think they’re fake.
Naming and shaming who did this to them will not stop them from being fired from their schoolteaching job in 15 years when the school discovers those images. Do you think “those were fake” is going to be enough for the school corporation if it’s in, for example, Arkansas?
The more common this becomes the more easily it will be dismissed.