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Pennsylvania's Lancaster Country Day School Students Allegedly Used AI to Create Hundreds of Sexualized Deepfake Images of Girls

November 1, 2023

From November 2023 through May 2024, two Lancaster Country Day School students in Pennsylvania allegedly used AI tools to create and exchange hundreds of sexualized deepfake images depicting female classmates and other girls. Authorities later identified 60 victims, 59 of them minors. The students were adjudicated delinquent in juvenile court, and families later sued the school and unnamed AI companies over the incident.

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Alleged deployer
two-unnamed-lancaster-country-day-school-students, synthetic-media-creators, students, minors, deepfake-creators, ai-generated-csam-creators
Alleged developer
synthetic-video-generation-technology-developers, synthetic-media-generation-technology-developers, synthetic-image-generation-technology-developers, deepfake-technology-developers
Alleged harmed parties
victims-of-deepfake-child-abuse, victims-of-deepfake-abuse, victims-of-csam, students, privacy, minors, lancaster-country-day-school-students, lancaster-country-day-school, girls, families-of-lancaster-country-day-school-students, epistemic-integrity, educational-communities, women-and-girls

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Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1623

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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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