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High school defends staying silent while boys made AI nudes of 59 classmates (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 months ago by velma@sh.itjust.works to c/wildfeed@sh.itjust.works

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Girls suing the school argued that at least 59 girls were traumatized by “an extended, catastrophic institutional failure.” They claimed that they “were forced to go to high school while ‘deepfake’ nude images of them were circulating within the school community,” and that appallingly, Lindsay Deibler-Wallace, assistant head of Upper School, took no action to protect them after telling parents that “boys will be boys.”

The victims alleged that the school never suspended the students even after “the LCDS upper school was in a state of acute panic and disruption related to the AI-generated images.” Instead, the school allegedly discouraged girls from going to police, while withholding information from parents and obstructing efforts to investigate the distribution of AI-generated child sex abuse materials (CSAM), such as by refusing to respond to detectives seeking a yearbook photo for comparison.

Two male students have since pleaded guilty to 59 felony counts of sexual abuse of children, and their victims are hoping the court will rule that LCDS was required to report the incident to police, both by law and by “reasonable institutional practice.”

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[–] ClipperDefiance@piefed.social 72 points 3 months ago (14 children)

Let's do some rough math for a moment. The article says there's less than 600 students in the school, but let's use that number anyways. About half that number will be girls, so let's say 300. Now assuming there are similar numbers of students per grade, we're going to divide this by 13 to get an average of 23 girls (rounded down) per grade. Another article (linked to in this one) says the perpetrators are both 16 years old. If we assume that they only targed girls that are close in age, so let's say high school aged girls (9th-12th graders), we get 92 girls in that range. So to get to the actual point, based on previous estimates 59 out of 92 girls in those grades had explicit pictures generated. That's approximately 64% of girls in the 14-18 age group at that school.

So anyways, that's my angry math. And the part that makes me angriest it that these two are getting off with a smack on the wrist.