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Kids Are Making Deepfakes of Each Other, and Laws Aren’t Keeping Up

WISCONSIN, UNITED STATES, JUL 2 – Fifteen percent of students reported knowing about AI-generated explicit images of classmates, highlighting legal gaps and mental health risks in school-age deepfake abuse, experts say.

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This story was originally reported by Jasmine Mithani of The 19th. Meet Jasmine and read more of her reporting on gender, politics and policy. Last October, a 13-year-old boy in Wisconsin used a picture of his classmate celebrating her bat mitzvah to create a deepfake nude he then shared on Snapchat.  This is not an isolated incident. Over the past few years, there has been case after case of school-age children using deepfakes to prank or bully…

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A few days ago, a new report has been published that looks at the rapid increase in deep-fake fraud attempts. Deep-fake fraud attempts have increased by more than 1,300 percent last year. In 2023, companies had on average only one attack per month. Last year, there were already seven – per day. Trend is rising. [...] The article Audio-Deepfakes – increasing AI availability makes fraud attempts rise rapidly appeared first on Netzpalaver #AI #Clou…

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The 19th broke the news in on Wednesday, July 2, 2025.
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