Jul 10, 2024 16:36:00

15 students who created and shared nude images of classmates using AI are given one year of probation

With the development of generative AI, it has become easy to generate nude images (deepfake pornography) using

deepfakes , which are fake images created by AI, and harassment by deepfake pornography has already become a social problem in countries around the world. In an incident that occurred in Spain, 15 students who were indicted for generating and sharing deepfake pornography of their classmates were sentenced to one year of probation.

Spain sentences 15 schoolchildren over AI-generated naked images | Spain | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/09/spain-sentences-15-school-children-over-ai-generated-naked-images

The Guardian, a major British daily newspaper, reported on an incident involving AI-generated deep fake pornography that occurred in the town of Almendralejo in southern Spain in March 2024. The 14-year-old daughter of Miriam Al-Adib, who lives in the town, had deep fake pornographic images of herself created by an AI pornography app called 'ClothOff' and spread for several weeks in a WhatsApp group created by other students.

In addition to Al-Adib's daughter, several other girls were victims of similar deepfake pornography. The victims refused to go to school, suffered panic attacks, were blackmailed, and were bullied. Prosecutors were considering prosecuting children involved in the creation and distribution of deepfake pornography.

For more details about this incident, please read the article below.

Who is behind the AI porn app 'ClothOff' that strips clothes from photos of girls being sexually assaulted? - GIGAZINE

Subsequent police investigations revealed that children between the ages of 13 and 15 were involved in the creation and distribution of a series of deepfake pornography. On July 9, the Badajoz Juvenile Court found a total of 15 children guilty of '20 counts of creating child abuse images of minors' and '20 counts of crimes against moral integrity toward victims.'

'It is established that the minors used artificial intelligence applications to extract the faces of the girls from their social media profiles and superimpose the images onto naked female bodies, thereby obtaining the doctored images. The doctored images were then shared in two WhatsApp groups,' the court said in a statement.

The defendants were each given a year of probation and required to attend rehabilitation courses on gender and equality awareness and the 'responsible use of technology.' Some of the perpetrators were children under the age of 13, who cannot be prosecuted under Spanish law, but they may also be referred to child protection services and ordered to attend rehabilitation courses.