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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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[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 266 points 2 days ago (15 children)

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

[–] smeg@infosec.pub 236 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 102 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 51 points 1 day ago

That would affect the economy, and profits, which as we know are much more important than morals, so unfortunately, we must allow it.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Trump Administration is trying to make preventing this illegal.

[–] RustyShackleford@piefed.social 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

He'll insist on being added to the text chain.

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 29 points 1 day ago

I fear you're underestimating his depravity.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 74 points 2 days ago (6 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.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Unless they can pull out their gun and shoot at something or someone ... or tackle someone ... they aren't very good at doing anything else.

[–] cyberwitch@reddthat.com 15 points 1 day ago

Literally verbatim what an officer said when we couldn't get a hold of animal control and he got sent over instead...

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 day ago

At the end of the day, these are children, there is no punishment meaningful that ends with just these boys punished. Justice would be finding the source of who created these images. I'm honestly highly doubtful it was these kids alone. This really should bring into suspect any adult in the life of these boys. An investigation that stops at punishing children for child sexual abuse material is not at all a thorough investigation.

It's possible these boys were able to generate these images on their own (meaning not with help from anyone in their real life interactions). But, even if that was the case, the investigation should not stop there.

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[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 25 points 1 day 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.”

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh, shit! Did they shoot the computer?

[–] drzoidberg@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

I think that one’s okay. It’s not black.

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Must be a majority republican police department.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

It's Louisiana, what do you think?

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 47 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 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."

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago (11 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.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 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.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Perhaps the cops are the proper investigative arm, but the school system had an obligation to assist in that investigation, and not ignore it, then deny it, then cover it up.

The entire leadership of the school should be fired, and the principal should be prosecuted.

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[–] klugerama@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago

What? RTFA. 2 boys were charged by the Sheriff's department. They didn't face any punishment from the school, but law enforcement definitely investigated.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 days ago

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.

I think you may have read the wrong article.

[–] juko_kun@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, law enforcement doesn't have enough resources to go after people making real CP.

What makes you think they can go after everyone making fake CP with AI?

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

They do have resources, especially in the US. They do go after real cp and people go to jail on a near daily basis for it.

This too, could have been investigated better, which is kind of the point of the article

Why are you so okay with child pornography? Checking your message history really shows you being completely fine with CP, yet you really have it out for the victim

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