WESTFIELD, NJ --- Westfield High School Principal Mary Asfendis sent a letter to parents Friday afternoon about what she said was "widespread misinformation" that resulted in "significant worry and concern amongst the student body of Westfi…

"AI pornographic images were circulated of your 14-year-old daughter," the WHS principal informed me on Friday. "This has been confirmed by four people, but not to worry, the person who did it is gone."

"We have it under control, the images…

When girls at Westfield High School in New Jersey found out boys were sharing nude photos of them in group chats, they were shocked, and not only because it was an invasion of privacy. The images weren't real.

Students said one or more clas…

WESTFIELD, N.J. -- Parents and students at Westfield High School in New Jersey say students used an app or website to make AI-generated pornographic images of their classmates.

Parents recently got an email from the principal, warning of th…

WESTFIELD, N.J. - Reports indicate that male students at Westfield High School utilized Artificial Intelligence to produce explicit images of female students using their original photos during the summer.

"We were so mad. A lot of girls wer…

AI-generated pornographic images of female students at a New Jersey high school were circulated by male classmates, sparking parent uproar and a police investigation, according a report.

Students at Westfield High School — located in Westfi…

WESTFIELD, NJ — Students at Westfield High School made and distributed fake pornographic images of other female students at the school, sparking concern among some parents and prompting officials to investigate the claims, according to offi…

An investigation is underway after teen girls at a New Jersey high school discovered that their male classmates had used artificial intelligence websites to create fake nudes of them, which the teen boys then shared and circulated.

Parents …

WESTFIELD, NJ --- Westfield parents, students and community members are demanding action after word got out at Westfield High School that at least one boy from the school had created and shared pornographic images using photos of the faces …

This October, boys at Westfield High School in New Jersey started acting "weird," the Wall Street Journal reported. It took four days before the school found out that the boys had been using AI image generators to create and share fake nude…

A New Jersey high school has been plunged into crisis after male students were caught sharing AI-generated nudes of their female classmates. 

Some male students in the sophomore class of Westfield High School in New Jersey used an AI-powere…

NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) – Boys from New Jersey’s Westfield High School shared fake, AI-generated nude photos of female classmates in group chats over the summer, 1010 WINS/WCBS 880 confirmed.

According to students, one or more of thei…

Westfield High School in Westfield, New Jersey, dates back to 1864, but it’s been a fixture on Dorian Road since 1951. With nearly 2000 students enrolled today, the district has dealt with all kinds of issues over the years, but perhaps few…

AI-generated pornographic photos of female students at a New Jersey high school and distributed among their male classmates has sparked outrage among parents and school officials and prompted an investigation by police, according to a repor…

A phone, a few photos and artificial intelligence have stirred controversy and shattered the privacy of several teens at a New Jersey high school after they learned that nude images of them --- created via AI --- were circulated in group ch…

The dangers of artificial intelligence technology have been brought home in Westfield after fake pornographic images of female students were circulated at the local high school.

The images were created using real photos from social media on…

Students at a New Jersey high school are terrified after learning that one of their classmates allegedly used AI to create sexually explicit images of them without their permission.

Westfield High School student Francesca Mani said that she…

Teen boys used artificial intelligence (AI) to make deepfake nude photographs of their female classmates at a high school in the U.S.

An investigation is now underway after teenage girls at Westfield High School in Westfield, New Jersey, di…

A high-profile incident in which high school students shared artificial intelligence-generated pornographic images of underage classmates has drawn attention to the lack of legal resources for victims of such "deepfakes."

Although deepfakes…

WESTFIELD, N.J. (WCBS) – Some New Jersey high school students are accused of sharing AI-generated nude photos of their classmates.

The incident happened over the summer but was just recently brought to the attention of administrators at Wes…

A school community in New Jersey was shocked when images of nude female students began circulating at Westfield High School. Even more shocking, someone had actually created pornographic photos using AI images. Sophomore boys allegedly acte…

(NewsNation) — A nude photo controversy has a New Jersey community demanding answers.

High school students say they were stunned to learn inappropriate photos of them were circulating among their classmates — and that the images were comple…

After AI-generated nudes of teen girls began circulating in a New Jersey high school, neither parents, school officials nor even local law enforcement have been able to figure out how to deal with it.

As the Wall Street Journal reports, gir…

The sharing of explicit AI-generated images of high school students has triggered an uproar in an affluent New York City suburb and left the teens, parents, school, and police wondering how they can address the violations given what the Wal…

High School AI Scandal Prompts Police Investigation and Calls for Legal Reform

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

• AI-generated fake nudes at a New Jersey high school trigger police investigation and legal action.

• Students and faculty at Westfield High advo…

(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Girls at Westfield High School in New Jersey were left shocked when they discovered boys were circulating fake nude photos of them, according to a Thursday report from The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

The inci…

A student at a New Jersey high school is calling for federal legislation to address AI generated pornographic images after she says photos of her and other female classmates were manipulated and possibly shared online over the summer.

Westf…

Deepfake porn is running rampant, and a New Jersey high school is one of the latest epicenters.

Police are investigating after boys at Westfield High School circulated AI-generated images that showed the faces of their female classmates on …

WESTFIELD, NJ — A group of Westfield High School students are the subject of an ongoing investigation after allegations surfaced of them using artificial intelligence to create and distribute pornographic images depicting peers. The princip…

Parents and students of Westfield High in New Jersey are speaking out after a male student or students allegedly used an AI generator to create fake nude images using the faces of female classmates and distributed them in a group chat.

Fran…

Alessandra Kellermann is a mental health counselor, behavior specialist and owner of Gentle Insight, LLC.

Before we lose another student to suicide, let's face the mental health crisis and issues as they arise, head on, without fear. 

As a …

WESTFIELD, NJ — A Westfield High School student accused of using artificial intelligence to make fake pornographic images of female students at the school was suspended but has since returned to school, one of the victims and her mother tol…

A New Jersey high school has been rocked by scandal after male students reportedly used AI to create fake nude photos of female students.

Last month, some teen girls at Westfield High School learned that fake nude images of them had been ci…

A teen girl and her mother are speaking out after a high school student allegedly used artificial intelligence to create nude images of her and other girls, which were then shared with a group of classmates.

Francesca Mani, 14, learned abou…

School officials at Westfield High School in Westfield, New Jersey are trying to figure out who was behind "deepfake" photos meant to look like nude photos of female students. The AI-generated images were passed around by boys at the high s…

WESTFIELD, N.J. (WCBS/CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - High school students were accused of circulating AI-generated explicit photos of their classmates.

The incident happened over the summer in Westfield, New Jersey, but was only recently brought…

Last week, an undisclosed number of girls at a New Jersey high school learned that one or more students at their school had used an artificial intelligence tool to generate what appeared to be nude images of them. Worse, those images, which…

A New Jersey Westfield High School student, Francesca Mani, has come forward with her mother, Dorota, to address AI-generated pornographic images that she says were manipulated and shared of her and other female classmates over the summer.

Teenage girls in the U.S. who are increasingly being targeted or threatened with fake nude photos created with artificial intelligence or other tools have limited ways to seek accountability or recourse, as schools and state legislatures st…

A mother and her 14-year-old daughter are advocating for better protections for victims after AI-generated nude images of the teen and other female classmates were circulated at a high school in New Jersey.

Meanwhile, on the other side of t…

A mother and her 14-year-old daughter are advocating for better protections for victims after AI-generated nude images of the teen and other female classmates were circulated at a high school in New Jersey.

Meanwhile, on the other side of t…

It could eventually be a federal crime to share digitally-altered nude images of real people.

Rep. Joseph Morelle (D., N.Y.) on Tuesday re-proposed the "Preventing Deepfakes of Intimate Images Act," which would outlaw the nonconsensual shar…

A teenage victim of nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfakes joined Rep. Joe Morelle, D-N.Y., on Tuesday to advocate for a bipartisan bill that would criminalize sharing such material at the federal level. 

In May, Morelle introduced the P…

“Imagine a girl waking up and finding an explicit photo or video that looks like her but it isn’t her,” Dorota Mani told The Post.

That’s what happened to Mani’s 14-year-old daughter, Francesca, who discovered in October that classmates at …

WESTFIELD, NJ --- Government institutions, including the police, failed to protect girls in Westfield High School from being "violated and exploited" by the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to make fake nude pictures, asserts a lawsuit b…

WASHINGTON, DC --- Francesca Mani, a Westfield High School sophomore who has been advocating for stronger laws surrounding AI-generated pornography, attended President Biden's State of the Union Address Thursday night as the guest of Congre…

In October last year, Francesca Mani came home from school in the suburbs of New Jersey with devastating news for her mother, Dorota.

Earlier in the day the 14-year-old had been called into the vice-principal’s office and notified that she …

On October 20, 2023, a then-14-year-old New Jersey high school sophomore learned that one of her own classmates had used an online service to create an artificially-generated image with her face on a nude woman's body. And she wasn't the on…

Westfield Public Schools held a regular board meeting in late March at the local high school, a red brick complex in Westfield, N.J., with a scoreboard outside proudly welcoming visitors to the "Home of the Blue Devils" sports teams.

But it…

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Victims of A.I. deepfake pornography Elliston Berry and Francesca Mani speak out about how they were victims of fake images circulated online and how this impacted their personal lives, i…

Last October, 15-year-old New Jersey high school student Franceseca Mani learned that boys in her class had used AI software to fabricate sexually explicit images of Mani and her female classmates. Since then, she has been on a mission to p…

WESTFIELD, NJ --- Out of adversity comes opportunity, Benjamin Franklin once said, and today, a Westfield teenager is proving the adage once again: Francesca Mani, a Westfield High School sophomore who has been advocating for stronger laws …

WESTFIELD — A New Jersey high school student who is the victim of deepfake pornography is now one of the most influential people in artificial intelligence, according to Time.

Francesca Mani is a 15-year-old sophomore at Westfield High Scho…

The Korea Times Editor's Note: This article is the second in a three-part series on deepfake sex crimes at schools. The crimes, involving the manipulation of photos and videos to create explicit content, cause distrust and strain relationsh…

Francesca Mani, a high school student from Westfield High School, New Jersey, was a victim of an emerging form of cybercrime that involved artificial intelligence (AI) and deepfake technology in October 2023. The 14-year-old revealed that s…

As members of Parliament in the UK launch a bid to legally ban smartphones in schools, to safeguard children from the potential harm of social media, a teenager in the US is sharing her story after AI nude images of her ended up circulating…

The TAKE IT DOWN Act, an online safety legislation, is gaining steam in Washington, D.C., as first lady Melania Trump expressed her support Monday.

The big picture: The bipartisan bill aims to bolster protections against the non-consensual …