A 13-year-old girl at a Louisiana middle school got into a fight with classmates who were sharing AI-generated nude images of her

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. She said the boy whom she and her friends suspected of creating the images wasn’t sent to that alternative school with her. The 13-year-old girl’s attorneys allege he avoided school discipline altogether.

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[–] 272 points 8 months ago (59 children)

So AI images of underaged nude girls being reported to police does not warrant any form of investigation?

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  • [–] 242 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    And AI generation vendors get a free pass for generating child porn

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  • [–] 34 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    The Trump Administration is trying to make preventing this illegal.

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Easy answer, we make unflattering AI porn of Ivanka. Make it impossible for her dad to enjoy.

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  • [–] 76 points 8 months ago (22 children)

    The article states that the police investigated but found nothing. The kids knew how to hide/erase the evidence.

    Are we really surprised, though? Police are about as effective at digital sleuthing as they are at de-escalation.

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  • [–] 28 points 8 months ago

    The article states that the police investigated but found nothing.

    You should have kept reading.

    "Ultimately, the weeks-long investigation at the school in Thibodaux, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) southwest of New Orleans, uncovered AI-generated nude images of eight female middle school students and two adults, the district and sheriff’s office said in a joint statement.”

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  • [–] 25 points 8 months ago* (13 children)

    The article later states that they continued investigating, and found ten people (eight girls and two adults) who were targeted with multiple images. They charged two boys with creating and distributing the images.

    It’s easy to jump on the ACAB bandwagon, but real in-depth investigation takes time. Time for things like court subpoenas and warrants, to compel companies like Snapchat to turn over message and image histories (which they do save, contrary to popular belief). The school stopped investigating once they discovered the kids were using Snapchat (which automatically hides message history) but police continued investigating and got ahold of the offending messages and images.

    That being said, only charging the two kids isn’t really enough. They should charge every kid who received the images and forwarded them. Receiving the images by itself shouldn’t be punished, because you can’t control what other people spontaneously send you… But if they forwarded the images to others, they distributed child porn.

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  • [–] 48 points 8 months ago* (14 children)

    Your question was answered in the article but you clearly stopped at either the outrage bait headline or the outrage bait summary.

    "Ultimately, the weeks-long investigation at the school in Thibodaux, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) southwest of New Orleans, uncovered AI-generated nude images of eight female middle school students and two adults, the district and sheriff's office said in a joint statement."

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (13 children)

    That was the investigation by the police not the school.

    What we're asking is why the school didn't investigate given that the police had already been contacted.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I mean, the police are the proper individuals to be investigating csam. The school bringing them in immediately would have been the correct action. School officials aren't trained to investigate crime.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    Because a school can't compell Snapchat to release "disappeared" images and chat logs. So perhaps in this case it was best left to the police.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    It wasn't left to the police she'd already gone to the police. It sounds from the story like the school did literally nothing at all.

    Also you don't need to compel Snapchat to release the images they're 13-year-old boys they absolutely have permanent copies on their phones.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (7 children)

    How can the school compel the boys to show the permanent copies then? I think you are overestimating the power of the school in this scenario.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Saying there is nothing they can do is the standard cop-out for lazy administrators.

    They are minors in school, under the legal supervision of the school. There are LOTS of things a school can do, and courts have been finding mostly on the side of schools for decades.

    Without even trying, I can think of a dozen things the school could have done, including banning phones from the suspects until the investigation is over.

    But they chose to do nothing, them punish the victim when she defended herself, after the school refused.

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