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AI is shockingly good at making fake nudes and causing havoc in schools

Several states have passed laws penalizing the dissemination of nonconsensual AI-generated deepfake nudes, but when the deepfakes are discovered, what happens next in schools varies depending on the state.

“We’re pushing lawmakers to update [laws] because most protections were written way before AI-generated media,” Ronn Nozoe, CEO of the National Association of Secondary School Principals, said in an interview. In Washington, Democratic state Sen. Mark Mullet told POLITICO he introduced legislation after deepfake nudes were made of his high school daughter’s classmates using photos taken of them at their homecoming dance last fall. Mullet said after his daughter told him about the incident, he sponsored a measure that expands criminal penalties under Washington state child sex abuse laws to include when a minor’s “identifiable” image is used to digitally generate explicit content.

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