AI Deepfakes and Child Exploitation

In Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, a 13-year-old girl at Sixth Ward Middle School was expelled for more than 10 weeks and sent to an alternative school after fighting a boy on a school bus who classmates said had shared AI-generated nude images of her and other girls on Snapchat, while two boys were later criminally charged for distributing the explicit deepfakes. The case, which began when the girl and friends reported the images to a guidance counselor and a school resource officer on Aug. 26, highlights how schools and law enforcement are struggling to address AI-enabled sexual harassment and cyberbullying as districts still lack robust policies for non-classroom uses of artificial intelligence.