Florida Middle Schoolers Arrested for Allegedly Creating Deepfake Nudes of Classmates
Source: Wired
Two teenage boys from Miami, Florida, were arrested in December for allegedly creating and sharing AI-generated nude images of male and female classmates without consent, according to police reports obtained by WIRED via public record request.
The arrest reports say the boys, aged 13 and 14, created the images of the students who were “between the ages of 12 and 13.”
The Florida case appears to be the first arrests and criminal charges as a result of alleged sharing of AI-generated nude images to come to light. The boys were charged with third-degree felonies—the same level of crimes as grand theft auto or false imprisonment—under a state law passed in 2022 which makes it a felony to share “any altered sexual depiction” of a person without their consent.
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As AI image-making tools have become more widely available, there have been several high-profile incidents in which minors allegedly created AI-generated nude images of classmates and shared them without consent. No arrests have been disclosed in the publicly reported cases—at Issaquah High School in Washington, Westfield High School in New Jersey, and Beverly Vista Middle School in California—even though police reports were filed. At Issaquah High School, police opted not to press charges.
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Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/florida-teens-arrested-deepfake-nudes-classmates/
Ran across this story thanks to a tweet from the journalist
Link to tweet
and the replies to her tweet included these:
I'm wondering why there's no responsibility for the makers of these apps or sites that distribute them that minors are using.
Arresting a 13 yo for using an app instead of the app creator...
The services who actually generated it should be held accountable as well. They manufactured the material regardless of who prompted it.
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Although not at the same time. Point being, it's unremarkable to hold all sides to account, if to different degrees (I ended up with some embarrassment, the senior who gave me the vodka got probation). The kids' lives shouldn't be ruined, but they need consequences…perhaps AI nudes of them, with tiny tiny penises? 
