Dad speaks out after students allegedly share explicit deepfake of his daughter

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A Louisiana household is outraged implicit the effect to deepfake nude images of their 13-year-old girl and different girls that allegedly circulated among antheral students astatine her mediate school.

"It's disturbing. Those pictures are horrible. They're highly explicit, and they look real. You cannot archer the difference," the father, Joseph Daniels, said.

Daniels' girl was expelled from schoolhouse successful August aft she confronted 1 of the boys allegedly sharing the images connected a autobus and deed him. Daniels says she felt she had nary prime due to the fact that the schoolhouse hadn't acted connected the reports of the images earlier that day. The household says it plans to record a national suit against the schoolhouse district.

Lafourche Parish School District refutes the allegation that the schoolhouse did not respond, saying Sixth Ward Middle School administrators and a schoolhouse assets serviceman began an contiguous probe aft the complaints.

"Consistent with established policy, respective students were interviewed and parents were contacted during the people of the time regarding the allegations," a joint statement from the Lafourche Parish sheriff and superintendent said. "Despite everyone's champion efforts, by the extremity of the schoolhouse day, investigators had not been palmy successful locating immoderate representation oregon immoderate grounds of the beingness of the images."

The altercation connected the autobus happened aft dismissal the time the images were reported, the connection said.

While investigating that incident, "juvenile detectives and schoolhouse assets officers discovered A.I. generated nude images of 8 pistillate mediate schoolhouse students and 2 adults," according to the sheriff and superintendent.

One antheral pupil was charged a fewer weeks aft the incidental for 10 counts of unlawful dissemination of images created by artificial intelligence, the sheriff's bureau said. Additional arrests oregon charges were possible, the bureau said.

The antheral pupil was ne'er expelled oregon suspended, but alternatively transferred to a antithetic schoolhouse aft the incidental took place, according to the family's attorney.

"In investigations involving schoolhouse incidents, transgression charges can, but bash not necessarily, play a origin successful disciplinary actions," the territory said.

The miss was allowed to instrumentality to schoolhouse past week, but she remains connected probation until astatine slightest January, preventing her from participating successful schoolhouse dances, sports oregon different extracurricular activities.

Daniels said the expulsion has had a toll connected his daughter.

"She's tough, but, you know, mentally it does play connected her. She dealt with depression, you know, anxiety," helium said. "To me, her eighth people twelvemonth was beauteous overmuch ruined, which is her past twelvemonth successful mediate school."

According to a caller survey by Thorn, a nonprofit kid advocacy group, 1 successful 17 children nationwide person fallen unfortunate to A.I. deepfake pornography.

The family's attorney, Greg Miller, aims to bring attraction to the casual entree teenagers person to the exertion to marque deepfakes.

"There's nary uncertainty that this is going to beryllium a increasing inclination due to the fact that we unrecorded successful a satellite wherever 13-year-olds tin get entree to these benignant of software, and successful a heartbeat, bash this to their peers, and the nationalist needs to beryllium made alert of this due to the fact that it's increasing and it's going to get worse and worse," helium said.