A 13-year-old girl at a Louisiana middle school got into a fight with classmates who were sharing AI-generated nude images of her
The girls begged for help, first from a school guidance counselor and then from a sheriff’s deputy assigned to their school. But the images were shared on Snapchat, an app that deletes messages seconds after they’re viewed, and the adults couldn’t find them. The principal had doubts they even existed.
Among the kids, the pictures were still spreading. When the 13-year-old girl stepped onto the Lafourche Parish school bus at the end of the day, a classmate was showing one of them to a friend.
“That’s when I got angry,” the eighth grader recalled at her discipline hearing.
Fed up, she attacked a boy on the bus, inviting others to join her. She was kicked out of Sixth Ward Middle School for more than 10 weeks and sent to an alternative school. She said the boy whom she and her friends suspected of creating the images wasn’t sent to that alternative school with her. The 13-year-old girl’s attorneys allege he avoided school discipline altogether.
For years [decades even] I’ve sought (inadequately) to avoid cameras, aware (in part from my art and special effects aptitude and education) this sort of thing and more, were coming. And now it’s here. And maybe now more mice will realise, in the trap, that it’s a trap. :/ Wasn’t an easy thing to try to warn people about, when so many were incapable of conceiving of the threat. Let alone to get sufficient awareness in sufficient people to affect good change to avert such. Though, mostly I’d only considered the threat from government & corporations. Here now it’s in the hands of almost anyone. And far faster and easier. What “fun”. :-|
I didn’t really think about it until Nano Banana Pro became a thing, before I knew it was possible but it would be so obvious AI. But now? It’s not obvious now. I even consider creating a digital avatar that I use instead of my own face.
Yup:
The notion has popped into my thoughts many times.
Like a no-skill puppet to hide behind to preserve privacy while still putting stuff out there.
Yes exactly!
It somehow feels more doable now since avatars on other sites are becoming more common, I mostly think of Facebook/Meta and Snapchat. But also generated images that have been trending, “me as action-figure”, “me in ghibli style” etc. and even filters that people use consistently.
I think people are getting more used to seeing different types of avatars.