"The teasing was relentless. 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."
"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."
AI-generated nude images of a 13-year-old girl and her friends circulated at a Louisiana middle school, triggering relentless teasing and social isolation. The girls sought help from a school guidance counselor and a sheriff’s deputy but adults could not locate the images on Snapchat, and administrators questioned their existence. A student retaliated by attacking a boy on a school bus and was suspended and sent to an alternative school for over ten weeks, while the alleged male creator reportedly faced no school discipline. Law enforcement charged two boys for sharing explicit images. Schools remain unprepared for AI-driven cyberbullying and harassment.
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