The Big Story 

Students are quickly learning the ease with which artificial intelligence (AI) can create nefarious content, opening up a new world of bullying for which neither schools nor the law are fully prepared.

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Educators are watching in horror as deepfake sexual images are created of their students, with sham voice recordings and videos also posing a looming threat, our colleague Lexi Lonas reported.

Advocates are sounding the alarm on the potential damage — and on gaps in both the law and school policies.

“We need to keep up and we have a responsibility as folks who are supporting educators and supporting parents and families as well as the students themselves to help them understand the complexity of handling these situations,” said Pati Ruiz, senior director of education technology and emerging tech at Digital Promise.  

At Westfield High School in New Jersey last year, teen boys used AI to create sexually explicit images of female classmates. 

And in Pennsylvania, a mother allegedly created AI images of her daughter’s cheerleading rivals naked and drinking at a party before sending them to their coach, the BBC reported.

Schools are having difficulties responding to these new, vicious uses of AI: The facility in Pennsylvania was unable to determine the images were fake on their own and had to involve police.

Even experts in the field are just starting to wrap their heads around AI’s destructive power in the schoolyard or the locker room.   

Read more in a full report at TheHill.com.

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