Last October, Eeliston Berry was heading into her final week of school before fall break.

At the time, she was 14, a freshman at Alito High School in Texas.

I had just had my homecoming dance and it was peak volleyball season and I had a game the next day.

So can you tell me about the day it happened? I had woken up on that Monday morning with a whole bunch of calls and text messages

from one of my really, really good friends, and she had told me that these photos of her and I,

as well as another one of our friends, was going around.

And at first, I was completely shocked.

The photos of Elyston and her friends were fake nude

photos and a classmate had made them using artificial intelligence. In total,

there were pictures of nine girls.

One of the photos showed Eliston naked on a cruise ship.

Another girl appeared to be naked at the beach.

They were doctored versions of real photos that had been taken from their social media profiles.

It was terrifying knowing that these were going and I had no idea and the photos were realistic. I hate to admit it, but at first glance if you hadn't seen the original

photo, it's very, very realistic.

Could you tell how much these images were spreading around online?

Um, I wasn't really able to know who had seen them. I was told that the entire school had seen them and my my freshman class alone is 600 kids so in the entire high school that just

sounded awful so it was really scary and to this day I have no idea who all has

seen them.

Elliston was victim to a growing trend of AI photo manipulation

as the tools that make these images have become more accessible.

And for many parents, schools, and the government,

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