Nov 1, 2023Confirmed
Two Pennsylvania students allegedly made hundreds of sexualized AI deepfake images of girls; 60 victims identified
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From November 2023 through May 2024, two Lancaster Country Day School students in Pennsylvania allegedly used AI tools to create and share hundreds of sexualized deepfake images of female classmates and other girls. Sixty victims were identified, 59 of them minors. The students were adjudicated delinquent, and families later sued.
What this means for youAI image tools can be used to make fake sexual images of real children from ordinary photos. Schools and parents are now facing this problem, and courts are starting to respond.
Sources
- AI Incident Databasehttps://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1623
Data from the AI Incident Database (incidentdatabase.ai), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. IAAI-21.
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