That high school incident raises an interesting legal point. The girls should sue. The 1A does not apply here. And that’s because no government would be going after those boys. The girls would be.
Contrast that with those folks who want the government to step in, and make a law prohibiting fakes. They are trying to criminalize what should be a civil matter.
The high school story is also a little bit different.
I've seen some of the Taylor Swift deepfakes and the ones I've seen were cartoonishly over-the-top and whole AI manufactured.
The high school case had a slightly different application of AI. It used a technology marketed as "deepnude" and what this does is it takes any regular photograph and removes the clothing. And it does so in a way where the new "declothed" photo looks almost indistinguishable from an actual nude photo. The shadows, the lighting, the resolution, etc. make the photo look totally real.
The boys at the school had taken clothed photos of the girls from their various social media sites, declothed them with the "deepnude" AI app, and then circulated them around the school. So instead of a cartoonishly fake over-the-top images like we have with Swift, there were what I assume were very real-looking pics of these young girls (I did not see these photos in particular but I've seen the "deepnude" app and it's very convincing).