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.
So AI images of underaged nude girls being reported to police does not warrant any form of investigation?
The article states that the police investigated but found nothing. The kids knew how to hide/erase the evidence.
Are we really surprised, though? Police are about as effective at digital sleuthing as they are at de-escalation.
Unless they can pull out their gun and shoot at something or someone … or tackle someone … they aren’t very good at doing anything else.
When the sheriff’s department looked into the case, they took the opposite actions. They charged two of the boys who’d been accused of sharing explicit images — and not the girl.
Oh, shit! Did they shoot the computer?
I think that one’s okay. It’s not black.
No it doesn’t say that.
What? RTFA. 2 boys were charged by the Sheriff’s department. They didn’t face any punishment from the school, but law enforcement definitely investigated.
When the sheriff’s department looked into the case, they took the opposite actions. They charged two of the boys who’d been accused of sharing explicit images — and not the girl.
Must be a majority republican police department.
I think you may have read the wrong article.
No! Are you trying to get the perpetrator hired into Trump’s cabinet?!
I mean, law enforcement doesn’t have enough resources to go after people making real CP.
What makes you think they can go after everyone making fake CP with AI?
They do have resources, especially in the US. They do go after real cp and people go to jail on a near daily basis for it.
This too, could have been investigated better, which is kind of the point of the article
Why are you so okay with child pornography? Checking your message history really shows you being completely fine with CP, yet you really have it out for the victim
Correct. They will not investigate it further than threatening the victims with persecution. The goal is that the victim doesn’t pursue it further.
They don’t know how to properly investigate it, and they are not interested in knowing. The see it as both ‘kids being kids’ and ‘if this gets out it will give our town a bad name’.
I’m glad the kid and her family aren’t letting this go!
Louisiana has effectively fully privatized its public school system through the charter school model. Everything’s been stripped down and sold off. As a result, parents and students are reduced to the status of at-will clients of a given campus and can be kicked out for any reason or no reason at all.
Add to that, the Louisiana system is also at the forefront of the School to Prison Pipeline, a bureaucratic model that seeks to segregate the population by class cohort and heavily criminalize the behavior of the lower income traunchs in order to maximize its prison population.
Louisiana also happens to have the second largest incarceration rate in the nation. Louisiana prisons also happen to have been heavily privatized, with many of the profits going directly into the pockets of the public leaders and their mega-donor allies.
Shithole country
Yeah but bbq is pretty good, so you win some you lose some
Best swamp critter rice filled intestines too. Haven’t been to Nola since gluten diagnosis. I miss le monde :(
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.
When the sheriff’s department looked into the case, they took the opposite actions. They charged two of the boys who’d been accused of sharing explicit images — and not the girl.
the images were shared on Snapchat, an app that deletes messages seconds after they’re viewed, and the adults couldn’t find them
If the Sheriff couldn’t get the images, it’s because he didn’t bother to. It’s a well known fact that Snapchat retains copies of all messages
Is the allegation of CSAM enough to get a warrant? If the Sherrif saw it once then absolutely, but without that?
Edit: I do imagine if a child testified to receiving it that would be enough to get a warrant for their messages, which would then show it was true, which could then lead to a broader warrant. No child sharing it though would testify to that.
Why is the government allowing CP generating AI’s to exist?
Because money is the only thing we, as a country, truly care about. We’re only against things like CP and pedos as long as it doesn’t get in the way of making money. Same reason Trump sharing Larry Nassar and Jeffrey Epstein’s love of “young and nubile” women, as Epstein put it, didn’t kill his political career – he’s the pro-business candidate who makes the wealthy even wealthier
The orange Nazi could be raping a 12 yr old girl on national tv, but say it’s the libs and drag queens who are the rapists, and his cult with put their domestic terrorist hats back on
You say this as if the US is the only place generative AI models exist.
That said, the US (and basically every other) government is helpless against the tsunami of technology in general, much less global tech from companies in other countries.
I’m saying why is it so easy for like 12 year olds to find these sites? Its not exactly a pirate bay situation - you can’t generate these kind of AI videos with just a website copied off a USB and an IP address.
These kind of resources should be far easier to shutdown access to than pirate bay.
Snapchat, an app that deletes messages seconds after they’re viewed
Says smooth brain idiots who don’t recall the Snappening.
You can call them idiots but it is you who misremembers. Snapchat’s role in the snappening was a failure to crack down on 3rd party clients.
Snapchat didn’t store the photos (that we know of), a 3rd party app’s server did
I can’t misremember if I never read the original story about what happened, lol. But you are technically correct, it looks like it was from a third party saving the data.
The actual shortsightedness is thinking that data transmitted from any device is temporary. Snapchat would have logs at the very least. Probably chat messages, if not just everything.
This problem won’t stop until law enforcement starts treating deepfakes of minors as possession of child pornography with all the legal ramifications that come with it. Young boys need to understand that their actions have consequences.
In the meantime, no one under 18 should be on social media. I wish AI, deepfakes or in general, could just be illegal, but laws aren’t catching up and people are being victimized.
“I bet it’s the south”
Louisiana
Yup
Guidance Counselors, teachers and administrators don’t like listening to kids anywhere. I use to get in trouble for fighting my bullies when the bullying happened right in front of the teacher.
Also, they will be razor focused on preserving authority over making things right.
When they make a mistake, well no they didn’t because to admit a mistake is to acknowledge being fallible and to be fallible is to undermine your authority.
In this case they still torpedoed her shot at extracurricular activities even after amending in the face of overwhelming data that the girl reasonably felt zero recourse after doing everything the right way to start.
I hope the kid that created these gets the shit beat out of him.
The boy probably has networked parents, gonna be the future Mark Zuckerberg
That’s how this school shit goes, zero tolerance really means zero critical thought. You were involved in a fight? That’s school violence!
I always tell my personal story when this comes up. In high school I was beefing with my friend over some stupid shit. One day he put me in a headlock and started to fight me. With a free hand I reached up (very big guy btw, I was very small) and grabbed his glasses off his face and squeaked out to let go of me or I’d jam it into his eye. He spun me around and tried to knee me in the nuts (luckily missed) and then yelled at me. We both got suspended for fighting when all I did was get beat up by the guy.
It would be great if the SEO gods forever associated the names of the superintendent and principal with their public positions of support for child pornographers.
Just like that rapist Brock Turner.
Yeah like the rapist Brock Turner.
I dont recall what he changed it to, but the rapist Brock Turner is going by a different name now.
Nothing is real or can be considered real anymore. We are going to need new frameworks to handle a world where video of illegal or embarrassing things can be trivially created by anyone.
People saying the Ai vendor should be liable, but that’s short-sighted for a world where anyone can do this at home with largely anonymous distribution.
All the staff at that school who were involved should be charged with child pornography.
Create deep fakes of the staff and faculty. Email it to them and their spouses. See if they understand how damaging it is after that. I’m sure they’ll want to give you a knuckle sandwich. Fuck them! If it were my child I would have stood by her decision
Get sentenced to jail while the original person creating the deepfake of the student goes unpunished.
If I were serious I wouldn’t be showing it to them in person 🤨
Your heart is in the right place, but this is the deep south. That action by a local would likely end in the sheriff’s office kicking in your door with a no-knock raid, shooting your dog and maybe also you.
When powerless people (like the girl in this article) complain they are dismissed and treated with suspicion by the authorities.
When the authorities complain their peers respond rapidly and with excessive force.
This is commonly called authoritarianism, but in the US they prefer the euphemism ‘weak governance’ because ‘-ism’ words are unpopular.
It’s as I told the other guy: if I were serious (and I’m not), it’s not like I would hand deliver the contraband
I’m sure this would fall under child por n federal laws. But since you to 40% of law enforcement are self admitted domestic violence abusers, they may not want to investigate themselves
