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.
The only new thing here—from a societal standpoint—is a student being expelled for a single incident of fighting (zero tolerance policies).
Bullying and blackmailing people using manipulated images dates back to the invention of the camera.
https://petapixel.com/2025/11/29/113-years-ago-the-us-tried-to-outlaw-fake-photographs/?hl=en-US#%3A~%3Atext=Reports+from+the+era+describe%2CPhoto+Pushed+Washington+Too+Far
I remember when Photoshop started to become easily pirated (via AOL, LOL). Around that time, kids we using it to paste girls faces on to other naked women’s bodies. I also remember news articles from when Facebook was still new, with people creating fake profiles of people and sharing similarly-manipulated images.
What we need is for kids to be taught (in school) the first rule of porn: IT IS FAKE. Bullying will never cease but at the very least we can teach kids not to react so strongly to fake, transient nonsense about them.
They need to be reminded that when someone does something like generating a deepfake of them, it has no bearing on their life until it is distributed. They need to be taught how to gather evidence and the correct places to report such things.
We don’t teach kids such things in school because schools want discretion. Since schools are so obviously failing to NOT abuse their powers of discretion with zero-tolerance policies, perhaps we should take that away.
She was being sexually harassed, not bullied. Bullying is serious, sexual harassment is a crime. Whether the images are real or not is immaterial, it would still be sexual harassment if they were passing around a drawing of a nude stick figure with her face pasted on it.
Allowing children to be sexually harassed by their peers and then expelling them for trying to stop the sexual harassment is insane, and so is the idea that you need to teach them to shut up and take it as a way to deal with it.
Sexual harassment is a crime at work. Outside of that, it’s just another form of bullying/harassment.
Assholes will catgall girls as they walk past but that’s not illegal. It’s no different than shouting explitives at minorities. It’s a dick move, but it’s not illegal. Not in the US, anyway (because of the First Amendment).
I’d also like to point out that she didn’t get expelled for “trying to stop” the bullying. She got expelled for violence (against the bullies). That is why I think it’s the zero-tolerance policies that are a huge part of the problem.
If a girl slaps a boy that’s harassing her, there’s very little actual consequences from that. The boy might be sore for a day or two but he might leave her alone after that. Yet our policies forbid this in the most extreme way possible. It’s like being put to death for trampling flowers.
If what the boys did wasn’t illegal why did the sheriff’s office charge them with a crime but not her?
Do you have any idea what Title IX is or how sexual harassment falls under it?
Also, she did try to stop the bullies by reporting it to the adults in charge at the school. They have a duty to act, and they failed her. Stopping them with force was the only option left to her that would actually stop the sexual harassment, and it was a completely reasonable path to take. If more teenage boys got fuckin popped one for sexually harassing their peers maybe they’d think twice about it.
You’re suggesting that people can only be sexually harassed at work?
Lol what?
Tell me you don’t have kids without telling me you don’t have kids.
Or tell me you’re so old you forgot what being a middle schooler was like.
I would 100% support my daughters if they punched someone over this. I’m very passive generally, but I would burn the earth these abusers stand on because of my own life experiences. I’d struggle not to overstep my kids’ wishes.
Not from 13 year olds… what has changed now is the ability to create hyper realistic porn from a picture in seconds with one button click… that is very, very different from the past and glazing it over like this has existed forever is disingenuous.
Blaming the technology is useless and unhelpful. It’s like blaming Photoshop for letting people remove their faces from obvious CSAM.
Kids need to be taught about this stuff! Bitching and trying to regulate the tech is a pointless waste of time. Teaching children how to deal with it is the only realistic thing that can be done.
You not addressing my point is showing how weak your argument is, just an fyi.
Ah yes, make no regulatory framework and just the the kids sort it out without any possible help from the system, sounds brilliant.
The kids seem to know about this stuff just fine. It’s not some lack of knowledge that was the problem here.
Good god this take…
Someone needs to remind you how to fucking read, because the images were being distributed and that was why the girls went to the guidance counselor and the police before resorting to violence.
Yes. I read that. I also said what I said.
I’m failing to see the issue.
People freak TF out because things like deepfakes exist. We need to be rational about stuff like this. Manipulating photos and videos isn’t going away. The only point where we can reasonably do something about it is at the point of distribution.
I don’t think you read it. You said " it has no bearing on their life until it is distributed." It was being distributed! You said " They need to be taught how to gather evidence and the correct places to report such things." They did that too, they went to the school and the police. What the fuck else were they supposed to do? Steal their phones to gather evidence? Get real.
It was only when they beat these little pigglets’ asses that the police actually got serious, now the boys are facing charges.
We can reasonably search the phones of teenagers that are trading child porn. It just didn’t happen because, I guess, the school and police didn’t care about what is essentially a child porn trading network that was exploiting and hurting young girls.
I can be morally outraged by things that aren’t illegal. I might be morally outraged enough, and have enough people agree with me, to make that thing illegal. People used to get slapped or beaten for saying inappropriate things like this. These boys learned that the rules of polite society may not be upheld if they aren’t also polite.
It’s okay for people to get outraged that other people do shitty things. I don’t think that has much bearing since the kids in question did shitty and illegal things, but keep on holding onto that belief.
Dude is has been casually excusing CP this whole time. Like wtf.
This is trash. All of it.
While that has value, this is also sexual harassment. It wouldn’t be accepted in the workplace without a lawsuit.