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.

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    11 days ago

    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.

    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.

    • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
      35·
      11 days ago

      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.

      • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
        81·
        11 days ago

        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.

      • GreyEyedGhost@piefed.caEnglish
        5·
        10 days ago

        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.