Special Edition: ‘Deepfake Nudes’ - A New Threat to Our Kids
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
3.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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As generative AI tools become more widely used, teens are now facing a growing, disturbing trend. We’re talking about so-called “deepfake nudes” — fake, sexually explicit images of real people, often minors. The nonprofit Thorn, a group dedicated to protecting kids from online sexual exploitation, says one in eight teens knows someone who has been targeted.
Today, I’m speaking with the organization’s vice president of research and insights about the risks kids are facing right now, and what families, schools and tech companies could do to better respond.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Saturday, May 3rd. As generative AI tools become more widely used, teens are now facing a growing, disturbing trend. |
| 0:08.0 | We're talking about so-called deep fake news, fake sexually explicit images of real people, often minors, created using AI tools. |
| 0:15.7 | In a new survey, the nonprofit Thorn found one in eight teens knows someone who has been targeted. |
| 0:22.0 | It comes as Congress just this week passed the bipartisan bill called the Take It Down Act, addressing intimate images, |
| 0:26.7 | real or fake, posted online without consent. Coming up, we'll talk about that policy change, |
| 0:31.7 | but also the very real risks kids are facing right now and what families, schools, and tech |
| 0:36.4 | companies could do to better respond. |
| 0:38.8 | Melissa Strobel is the vice president of Research and Insights at Thorn, a nonprofit dedicated to |
| 0:43.3 | protecting kids from online sexual exploitation. She explains just how prevalent this problem is |
| 0:47.9 | right now, why anyone can be vulnerable to it, and what to say to kids before a crisis happens. |
| 0:57.3 | Welcome, welcome to the Newsworthy special edition Saturday when we sit down with a different expert or celebrity every Saturday |
| 1:01.3 | to talk about something in the news. Don't forget to tune in every Monday through Friday for our regular |
| 1:05.8 | episodes where we provide all the day's news in 10 minutes. I'm Erica Mandy. It's now time for today's |
| 1:11.2 | special edition Saturday. Melissa Strobel, thank you so much for joining us here on The Newsworthy. |
| 1:18.7 | Thanks for having me. So I know one of Thorne's recent reports found one in eight teenagers, |
| 1:24.9 | ages 13 to 17, personally know someone who's been victimized by so-called |
| 1:29.3 | deep fake nudes. So first, can you describe for our audience what does that mean a deep fake nude? |
| 1:34.9 | And what was your reaction to the results of this latest survey? |
| 1:39.0 | Put simply, these are explicit images of someone that have been created, in part, using generative |
| 1:47.0 | AI technologies. You're spot on with that data point, that one in eight of the young |
| 1:53.0 | people that we spoke with already knew of someone who had been personally targeted using this type of technology. |
| 2:00.0 | And unfortunately, we actually saw as many as one and 17 |
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