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https://www.wired.com/story/teachers-deepfake-ai-students-content/
Aug 24, 2026 1:08 PM
Kyzyl
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https://www.wired.com/story/teachers-deepfake-ai-students-content/
DianNaoChong
I remember this plot from Picket Fences in the 90s
KitteyWolf
Gotta love that teachers who willingly have onlyfans or other such secondary employment get fired out of a canon immediately. but now kids and other people can just fake it. A: to get off on/harass them, and B: to try and get them fired for having such materials.
RemarkableChains
Just a reminder, these "children" are tomorrows "leaders".
The future is stupid.
yourdesiredusernameisnotavailable
Sounds like a textbook case of workplace sexual harassment.
SergeyPrkl
The solution is, that the company pulls it off, notifies authorities who the publisher is AND pays 100 million dollars to a well scrutinized state owned fund as crime victim charge. The person gets modest compensation. (Like in Finland)
meowingintensifies
comments: "DoN'T hAvE sOcIaL mEdIa". uh kids take pics of people in public spaces with phones. victims are unaware until it goes viral.
rockmanx853000
Besides how insane and terrible this is I can’t stress don’t have a public opened social media profile. Make it private and only circulate with people you actually know. Trusting middle school/high schoolers is dangerous enough when one of them wants to bully you.
RUFingKiddingMe
This falls squarely on the tech companies and anyone who shares the images. The punishments for the distribution of this stuff should be swift and painful. This is the kind of crap that ruins lives. Even if the image is found out to be faked, in many cases the damage is already done.
WarThunderLeakedMySpecs
The tech won’t be regulated and the people creating and sharing it are kids. You could push for juvie, but IMO that just makes outcomes worse. You could hold parents accountable, but we finally got that in a school shooting after a decade so I’m not gonna hold my breath.
beesnee
What is wrong with humanity?
Thorketil
They use only a portion of their abilities for constructive purposes. They invest the rest in destruction.
StarmineRendezvous
While this is a problem, it is a social problem. Do not take this as a reason to think more surveillance is good. Just a heads-up.
WarThunderLeakedMySpecs
To me, this is a parenting failure. I would put it on the GenAI, but I’d also just burn that whole ‘industry’ so we’re skipping over that.
Parents have a responsibility for their child’s behavior. Kids should not have unfettered internet access and there are tools to keep them out of this kind of trouble. Failure to employ those tools is as much the parent’s fault as if they had let the kid ride without a seatbelt.
WarThunderLeakedMySpecs
“…while working his second job at a coffee shop…” Republicans are really getting the uneducated future of their dreams. Teachers get no pay, physical and social harassment, and half the parents cuss them out for being ‘woke’. Our society is fucking unraveling and thanks to social media we can watch it all in real time.
Trimule
Amen, Brother! The only good thing about being old is that I won't have to see or live through the absolute shitstorm that is now inevitable. Trump is just the point where the crack in the dam starts to crumble and make a hideous noise -the worst is yet to come. Good luck, kids, You'll need it.
WarThunderLeakedMySpecs
Thanks for the reminder of why I’d like to cuss my old man out.
I know there’s plenty of people over 60 that don’t support the fascists but if you put a ‘kill all the olds’ button in front of me I’d think about it a LOT longer than I should.
MCNewYorkLives
To be fair, wasn't that the guy who was a substitute teacher? So he may not have a consistent workload (based on the absences of the teachers).
Also, not to talk bad about subs but....they really aren't doing much within the classroom
Zero3Quarter
We. Are. So. Fucked.
WarThunderLeakedMySpecs
In a myriad of fascinating ways.
eion85
Tech companies will only agree this is a problem and discover they can fix it if it affects them directly.
FaeVikingPrincess
Or if they can make a profit on selling a fix
slopwizard
Subscribe to get AI monitoring and removal of unwanted content using your images. We just need face scans, voice samples, and a photo ID!
DianNaoChong
now now thats unfair, they will also happily sell you a solution to the problem they created.
Daliena06
For only $19.99 a month, we will add you to our generator's forbidden list which will make sure* it won't generate degeneracy featuring you without your express approval!
But also this is only for this single one, and you'll have to pay separately for all the other techbros' pet projects to be protected from them too.
*Surety not actually guaranteed, it'll probably be pretty easy to break the safeguards anyway if someone bothers trying.
igetit41
This is the same for all corporate entities. They have no moral compass except their bottom line. We must enact laws to provide them the guardrails necessary for them to not do evil because avoidance of evil does not come naturally to them.
doctorId
This is why there's so much talk about deregulation and small government. If corporations hadn't been bribing the government to keep tech regulations down then AI probably would've already been some leashes. But now it's out there and you can't put that genie back in the bottle.
FlatPlutoSociety
Yeah, the AI companies are not going to make meaningful attempts to fix this unless they're legally compelled to. These companies are not run by people who care about the concept of consent in any way.
Stefnos87
Could always make AI content of the CEO's of AI company >.>.... fight AI with AI
Toqom
They'd be proud of it, they're so disgusting that anyone actually wanting to sexualize them would be a compliment.
filiuspelei
This is terrible and it puts school admin in a tough place. Besides punishing the perpetrator (if you find them) there is not much you can do
morrighan42
Bring back corporal punishment. Not joking and don't care how many people think it's a terrible thing to say. Also sue the parents, they're generally liable for things their kids do.
Omnimorph2112
Surely it's a hostile work environment and if the school isn't doing enough to prevent it or combat it then they become liable.
SarcasticComment
Easier said than done. Good luck finding the personal device used to make this off campus without engaging in illegal espionage of devices connected to campus wifi. Same roadblock "stop illegally downloading music" labels faced, finding the ones doing it broke laws.
filiuspelei
But what can a school really do? In this article the one kid who was caught got an ISS and the other sounds like they were expelled or something, but that really wont stop the images from circulating.
Omnimorph2112
True. The punishment for these things isn't great, children seem to know they can do things and face only mild consequences
HandsomePenguin
Ots almost like AI use needs to be regulated at the top level instead of just leaving it for everyone else to cleanup.
spontaneous9
The takeaway message I'm getting here is, don't post pics of yourself to the web. Period. As if, for most of us, that cat isn't already out of the bag.
meowingintensifies
You have little shits taking pictures of people in public spaces and do this. It's not always the person's fault.
spontaneous9
It's never the person's fault, was my point. People have been slathering their own selfies all over the web ever since the first pixel camera hit the open market. That ship has long since sailed.
The question now is, what to do about it.
StormBurnX
Staff of corporations often have their photos taken, both professionally and non, and posted to the corporate websites - schools almost always have photos of their staff for example. Like I looked up the Los Banos school district website and it's plastered with dozens if not hundreds of photos of teachers, children, parents, and other staff. It's not just about "keep yourself off social media", it's far far worse.
spontaneous9
my point precisely
BrokenAnimal
I dunno if this needs repeating, but here it is anyway:
Corporations have NO morals. Not bad morals. Not good morals. NO morals.
Their ONLY obligation is to make the most money possible for the shareholders, up to and including cutting corners and fucking everyone else over. And if doing the illegal thing cost less than the profit they make from doing the illegal thing, they WILL do the illegal thing.
Again, they have NO morals.
ButtblasterMcAssmaster
No, that's just the capitalist fantasy, not reality. Corporations are run by people, people with agendas, and they make decisions based on their (usually evil) beliefs.
Elon Musk didn't turn twitter into a right-wing haven for profit, he did it because he's a Nazi and he wants to promote fascism globally.
aducksayswhat
An addition to this is that rules are often made reactively, usually after some delay from when a problem shows up, and even when there are regulations you need detection and enforcement. One characteristic of tech is how fast it moves compared to regulation, and when the wheels start to turn for an established practice the big firms do "woe is us" PR and lobbying
Vempire
No morals sounds like bad morals to me
BrokenAnimal
If corporations were people, ‘no morals’ would mean bad morals.
But corporations aren’t people (no matter what Citizens United says).
They’re profit‑maximizing systems with no psychology or conscience.
They don’t respond to moral arguments, only incentives.
If you want them to act 'good', you need laws, fines and regulations with actual teeth that make harmful behaviour unprofitable. It's the only thing that works.
SergeyPrkl
Many EU countries have such laws and regulations. Like the Nordics for example.
BrokenAnimal
Indeed. EU regulations are getting good, and in Norway (where I'm from) things work fairly well.
SometimesOthertimesAnytime
I would have immediately consulted an attorney to see what type, if any, lawsuit I could have filed.
Miller16of16
Is there any basis for suing the kid's parents?
HashMaster9k
Totally. Seeing as most minors cannot be directly sued, unless in specific circumstances— emancipated minor, minor running a business, liability lawsuits, or Wrongful Death— the usual go-to for those lawsuits is to sue their parent or guardian for "vicarious liability". However, the burden of proof is on the plaintiff to show the parents knew that the minor was committing the crimes/heinous acts and did nothing and/or encouraged it, plus the laws on how liable the parents are varies by state.
SergeyPrkl
In the Nordics a minor is liable to pay for the damage but under 15yo will not get a criminal record or a sentence. But they will be paying the compensation immediately when they get their first income. Typically a third of the net income. Like these kids who burned a medieval church, they will be paying hundreds of thousands to insurance company. For multi-million damage.
dirtylerker
Which is where a cease and desist letter from a lawyer comes in. It explicitly informs the other party of the actions and typically threats legal action if the actions/behavior continues.
At that point, you have all the proof you need to show they knew about it. However, to your point, what type of liability they have for it is likely jurisdictional. But the threat of legal action scares most people. Even if they don't really have a case, defending against it is not cheap.
dirtylerker
We are talking about teachers though. Hiring a lawyer isn't cheap and they don't make a lot of money. Unless you can find a lawyer or group to do it pro-bono, this kind of stops dead.
But if you can make it an employment issue, the local labor bureau might take it on. If you can make it a civil rights issue, the local ACLU might take it.