The Atlantic

High School Is Becoming a Cesspool of Sexually Explicit Deepfakes

AI-Generated Child-Sexual-Abuse Images Are Flooding the Web

The Center for Democracy and Technology, a nonprofit that advocates for digital rights and privacy, released a report on the alarming prevalence of nonconsensual intimate imagery (or NCII) in American schools. In the past school year, the center’s polling found, 15 percent of high schoolers reported hearing about a “deepfake”—or AI-generated image—that depicted someone associated with their school in a sexually explicit or intimate manner.

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