A new report offers a troubling look at the latest digital threat to young people.

Deep fake nudes.

These are realistic photos and videos that have been altered using AI technology to depict the subjects in sexually explicit situations and then spread online.

Stephanie Sye spoke with Melissa Strobel.

She's vice president of Research and insights at Thorn,

a nonprofit dedicated to protecting children online.

Melissa, thank you so much for joining us. Before we get to these findings, could you start by

just explaining what deep fake nudes are? Absolutely. So deep fake nudes are synthetic media creations that depict a real

person in a sexually suggestive or explicit situation or activity. What were the main findings in this

report? Who was impacted the most by the creation and spread of these deep fakes?

So what we heard from young people in this survey, and we surveyed about 1,200, 13 to 20-year-olds

is unfortunately this is becoming all too common of an experience within their landscape and growing up.

In particular, one in eight told us that they knew someone who had been particularly

targeted, specifically targeted by and impacted by deep fake nudes. On top of that, we heard that

one in 17 themselves had been targeted by deep fake nude abuse. Now, sometimes that number can feel a little

bit small. One in 17,

that's a small percentage. But when we think about what 17 looks like in our communities,

that's the size of our kids' classroom. That's the size of their soccer team. So this is really

far too high a number for kids to be experiencing this type of victimization.

The other important thing that came through here was about the availability of this technology.

And for the kids who told us that they had created deep fake news of someone else, the technology

is really readily available.

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