Two teenage boys from Miami, Florida, had been arrested in December for allegedly creating and sharing AI-generated nude photos of female and male classmates with out consent, in accordance with police studies obtained by WIRED by way of public report request.
The arrest studies say the boys, aged 13 and 14, created the pictures of the scholars who had been “between the ages of 12 and 13.”
The Florida case seems to be the primary arrests and felony prices because of alleged sharing of AI-generated nude photos to return to mild. The boys had been charged with third-degree felonies—the identical stage of crimes as grand theft auto or false imprisonment—beneath a state regulation handed in 2022 which makes it a felony to share “any altered sexual depiction” of an individual with out their consent.
The mum or dad of one of many boys arrested didn’t reply to a request for remark in time for publication. The mum or dad of the opposite boy mentioned that he had “no comment.” The detective assigned to the case, and the state lawyer dealing with the case, didn’t reply for remark in time for publication.
As AI image-making instruments have grow to be extra extensively accessible, there have been a number of high-profile incidents by which minors allegedly created AI-generated nude photos of classmates and shared them with out consent. No arrests have been disclosed within the publicly reported instances—at Issaquah High School in Washington, Westfield High School in New Jersey, and Beverly Hills Vista Middle School in California—although police studies had been filed. At Issaquah High School, police opted to not press prices.
The first media studies of the Florida case appeared in December, saying that the 2 boys had been suspended from Pinecrest Cove Academy in Miami for 10 days after faculty directors discovered of allegations that they created and shared faux nude photos with out consent. After mother and father of the victims discovered in regards to the incident, a number of started publicly urging the college to expel the boys.
Nadia Khan-Roberts, the mom of one of many victims, instructed NBC Miami in December that for all the households whose kids had been victimized the incident was traumatizing. “Our daughters do not feel comfortable walking the same hallways with these boys,” she mentioned. “It makes me feel violated, I feel taken advantage [of] and I feel used,” one sufferer, who requested to stay nameless, instructed the TV station.
WIRED obtained arrest information this week that say the incident was reported to police on December 6, 2023, and that the 2 boys had been arrested on December 22. The information accuse the pair of utilizing “an artificial intelligence application” to make the faux express photos. The identify of the app was not specified and the studies declare the boys shared the images between one another.
“The incident was reported to a school administrator,” the studies say, with out specifying who reported it, or how that particular person discovered in regards to the photos. After the college administrator “obtained copies of the altered images” the administrator interviewed the victims depicted in them, the studies say, who mentioned that they didn’t consent to the pictures being created.