Warning: this episode contains strong language, descriptions of explicit content and sexual harassment A disturbing new problem is sweeping American schools: Students are using artificial intelligence to create sexually explicit images of their classmates and then share them without the person depicted even knowing. Natasha Singer, who covers technology, business and society for The Times, discusses the rise of deepfake nudes and one girl's fight to stop them. Guest: Natasha Singer, a reporter covering technology, business and society for The New York Times.
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From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisi, and this is the daily a disturbing new problem is sweeping american schools.
Students are using artificial intelligence to create sexually explicit images of their classmates and then share them without them even knowing.
Today, my colleague Natasha Singer, on the rise of deepfake nudes and one girls fight to stop them.
Its Friday, June 7.
So, Natasha, for the past year youve been reporting on artificial intelligence in american schools.
And your most recent reporting has uncovered a pretty new and very disturbing trend involving AI.
Tell me what youve been finding.
It's been a really striking year on my beat because we're seeing kind of a rapidly spreading new form of peer sexual exploitation and harassment in schools, which is called deepfake nudes.
And what that means is that we're seeing middle and high school boys across the United States using these widely available nudification apps to allow people to surreptitiously take clothed photos of girls and women and without their knowledge or consent, use these apps to remove their clothes.
And so it looks like a simulated nude of a 9th grader who, you know, has posed for a photo at, say, a high school football game or her high school prom in a dress.
Except when these boys use these apps, it looks like the girls have posed for these nude photos at these events.
Right.
And the thing is that boys have been sexually harassing girls online for decades, including using Photoshop to make fake nude pictures.