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Florida middle-schoolers charged with making deepfake nudes of classmates

AI tool was used to create nudes of 12- to 13-year-old classmates.

Two teenage boys from Miami, Florida, were arrested in December for allegedly creating and sharing AI-generated nude images of male and female classmates without consent, according to police reports obtained by WIRED via public record request. The boys were charged with third-degree felonies—the same level of crimes as grand theft auto or false imprisonment—under a passed in 2022 which makes it a felony to share “any altered sexual depiction” of a person without their consent. Advertisement The first media reports of the Florida case appeared in December, saying that the two boys were suspended from Pinecrest Cove Academy in Miami for 10 days after school administrators learned of allegations that they created and shared fake nude images without consent.

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