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.
Not really a fair comparison. And sadly he has a point. This is only going to get worse as the software gets better and easier to obtain. Identifying who actually spread it is also going to keep getting harder unless you allow the government to have full access to anything you do on your phone and such. Which would have a lot of very bad side effects.
I do disagree with the person on the ignore it part. It shouldn’t be ignored. It should be sought out and punished heavily as you suggest. But you need a two prong approach where trying to stop it is one, and working to build confidence in our daughters so that they can better deal with this inevitably increaseing activity. I honestly worry more about people using such generated imagery to extort girls into doing things they don’t want to do. And only confidence in themselves can protect them from that. But in this world, it’s hard to build confidence in much of anything.