Cybercrime and Online Harassment

An Associated Press report details how U.S. schools and law enforcement are confronting a rapid rise in students using AI tools to turn classmates’ photos into sexually explicit deepfakes, prompting new state laws and criminal prosecutions. The article highlights a Louisiana middle-school case believed to be the first charged under the state’s new deepfake statute, notes that at least half of U.S. states passed deepfake-related laws in 2025, and cites National Center for Missing and Exploited Children data showing reports of AI‑generated child sexual abuse images exploding from 4,700 in 2023 to 440,000 in just the first six months of 2025.