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

"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."

"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."

"When the sheriff's department looked into the case, they took the opposite actions. They charged two of the boys who'd been accused of sharing explicit images - and not the girl. 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."

Nude AI-generated images of a 13-year-old and friends circulated on social media at a Louisiana middle school, provoking relentless teasing. The girls sought help from a guidance counselor and a deputy, but Snapchat's disappearing messages prevented adults from locating the images. The images continued to spread among students, and one girl attacked a classmate on the bus; she was expelled from Sixth Ward Middle School for over 10 weeks and sent to an alternative school. Two boys were later charged by the sheriff's department for sharing explicit images, and the incident illustrates how AI deepfakes can upend children's lives and how schools remain unprepared to address resulting cyberbullying and harassment.

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