LA School District Investigates After Manipulated Images of Students Circulate
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Inappropriate, digitally manipulated images of students circulated at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles via a third-party messaging app. The district has launched an inquiry.
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This follows similar incidents involving inappropriate images at Laguna Beach High School and Beverly Vista Middle School. Students were expelled from the latter.
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The term "deepfakes" refers to AI-generated media that replaces a person's likeness with another's. The images are often highly realistic.
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Rep. Ocasio-Cortez recently recounted seeing a traumatic deepfake pornographic video of herself online.
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Ocasio-Cortez has introduced federal legislation allowing victims of nonconsensual deepfakes to take civil action against creators and distributors.