Posted on 11/02/2023 11:15:43 AM PDT by Red Badger
After boys shared faked pornographic images made of female classmates, both the school and the local police began investigating
When girls at Westfield High School in New Jersey found out boys were sharing nude photos of them in group chats, they were shocked, and not only because it was an invasion of privacy. The images weren’t real.
Students said one or more classmates used an online tool powered by artificial intelligence to make the images, then shared them with others. The discovery has sparked uproar in Westfield, an affluent town outside New York City.
Digitally altered or faked images and videos have exploded along with the availability of free or cheap AI tools. While celebrity likenesses from Oprah Winfrey to Pope Francis have drawn media attention, the overwhelming majority of faked images are pornographic, experts say.
The lack of clarity on such images’ legality—and how or whether to punish their makers—has parents, schools and law enforcement running to catch up as AI speeds ahead.
The high school confirmed the incident in an email to parents, but a Westfield Public Schools spokeswoman declined to provide details on the number of students involved or to confirm whether any disciplinary action had been taken, citing student confidentiality.
Some Westfield parents said their daughters have felt humiliated and powerless, and worry about damage to the girls should the images surface later. And they are upset that no resolution is forthcoming.
Even among parents, there is no consensus. In a local Facebook group, some called for harsh punishment for whoever created the images. Others deemed it a youthful transgression that should be forgiven.
The debate and its aftermath are likely to continue for months. Westfield police are investigating, and a state senator has asked county prosecutors to look into the case.
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As quality increases, soon no more whores for porn or OnlyFans.
Back to having to sleep with a guy 30 years older for money…
A screen shot isn't very good evidence in a court of law.
“The lack of clarity on such images’ legality...”
There’s no lack of clarity. They are not child pornography. They’re not copyrighted material. They don’t constitute fraud, as long as nobody is charging money for them and purporting them to be real. So they’re not illegal.
The only way they could be illegal is if they are ruled obscene, but if they are, then Playboy, Hollywood, and millions of OnlyFans models are in deep doo doo.
Appropriating a person’s likeness could easily be a tort, but appears not to be criminal, especially if the nude bodies are AI and not actual photographs. It’s certainly not a nice thing to do to a young girl. Harassment laws are frequently used in these cases, although constitutionally dubious. If they never intended the girls to see such images, a case for harassment would likely fail. Criminal laws are no replacement for basic decency and civility.
All I know is a lot of lawyers are going to get rich from all this.
Yeah, when I was a kid we just had to use a pencil and paper to make “fake nudes”. They weren’t as high quality, but that didn’t stop us from getting in trouble if the teacher caught us doing it!
I always wonder what the end game will be.
Will electronic/online sex and perversion be so pervasive and omnipresent that, after much destruction, people rebel against it?
It certainly seems to be an unstoppable wave that is swamping everything.
In away, sex and perversion has always been right at hand, if society chose it. Perhaps its Paul’s statement “God gave them over to their perversions” played out in modern times, and it will the trial/chastisement of our age that separates the sheep from the goats.
Even before AI, what little porn I saw was about as fake anyway as a Vandy offense.
My hope is the next generation will rebel against all this.
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:2 Thessalonians 2:9-11
Yes, I always think it’s in Revelations.
How to they know it was a boy who generated the images?
Free Guy!
The problem is, they look VERY real. The AI tech used to generate deep fake nudes today has come a long ways from the poorly photoshopped fake celebrity nudes of the past.
There are already AI pictures of every major female celebrity that you can think of.
Metadata can be faked as well.
Exactly. And therefore most people know they're BS.
You mean those recent pictures of Taylor Swift are not all real????
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