Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. After a fight, she was the one expelled

"Nude images of a 13-year-old girl and her friends, generated by artificial intelligence, were circulating on social media and had become the talk of a Louisiana middle school. 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."

"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 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 Louisiana episode highlights the nightmarish potential of AI deepfakes. They can, and do, upend children's lives at school, and at home. And while schools are working to address artificial intelligence in classroom instruction, they often have done little to prepare for what the new tech means for cyberbullying and harassment. Once again, as kids increasingly use new tech to hurt one another, adults are behind the curve, said Sergio Alexander, a research associate at Texas Christian University focused on emerging technology."

AI-generated nude images of a 13-year-old girl and her friends circulated on social media and became the focus of relentless teasing at a Louisiana middle school. The girls sought help from a guidance counselor and a school sheriff's deputy, but the images were shared on Snapchat and could not be retrieved, leaving some adults skeptical of their existence. One girl attacked a classmate on a school bus and was removed from her regular school for over 10 weeks. School discipline and law-enforcement responses diverged, with police charging some accused boys while the girl faced lengthy exclusion. Schools have made little preparation for AI-driven cyberbullying, leaving adults behind the curve.

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