Deep Fakes have landed in schools.

From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty Karino. We know from various studies that young people are unsurprisingly using generative AI tools like chatbots and

image generators. Sometimes for homework, sometimes for fun, and sometimes unfortunately for malicious purposes.

A recent survey from the Center for Democracy and Technology

found AI is being used among high school students to create non-consensual intimate imagery or sexually

explicit deep fakes. That's according to Elizabeth Laird, the organization's director of Equity

in Civic technology.

39% of the students who we surveyed and our survey is

nationally representative said that they have heard of NCI that

depict someone associated with their school, that is of both authentic and

deep fake NCI, so it could fall into either of those categories.

Specifically, when it comes to deep fake non-consensual intimate imagery or NCII,

15% of students who we surveyed said that they have heard of this happening.

To put that in terms of real numbers and real students who are

affected by that, that's 2.3 million high school students. This is a significant

issue that is confronting K-12 schools.

And when we're talking about people associated with their school that are being depicted,

was it largely other students, was it teachers?

That's a great question.

It was definitely one that we definitely wanted to answer and we did find that students are both the most likely people

to be sharing NCI and students are also the most likely to be depicted.

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