Teenagers each given a year’s probation after creating and spreading faked images of female classmates in south-west Spain

Teenagers each given a year’s probation after creating and spreading faked images of female classmates in south-west Spain

A court in south-west Spain has sentenced 15 schoolchildren to a year’s probation for creating and spreading AI-generated images of their female peers in a case that prompted a debate on the harmful and abusive uses of deepfake technology.

Police began investigating the matter last year after parents in the Extremaduran town of Almendralejo reported that faked naked pictures of their daughters were being circulated on WhatsApp groups.

The mother of one of the victims said the dissemination of the pictures on WhatsApp had been going on since July.

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    231·
    4 months ago

    Each of the defendants was handed a year’s probation and ordered to attend classes on gender and equality awareness, and on the “responsible use of technology”.

    That’s a surprisingly reasonable sentence. I wish we could get that kind of thing here in the US. Currently, the best we’ve got is hand-wringing about how this specific thing isn’t illegal, when we’ve got plenty of applicable harassment laws.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    171·
    4 months ago

    A year’s probation and classes seems like a fitting punishment for a minor doing this. I realize it’s horrible to the girls they did it to, but in the U.S., they would be in a cell. Unless their parents were rich, obviously.