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What Next TBD: How Deepfake Porn Infected a School

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Slate

Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Girls at a New Jersey high school were early victims of a novel and growing problem: their images were taken from social media without consent to create “deep-fake pornography.”  Guest: Julie Jargon, Wall Street Journal family and tech columnist. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I made you think you was real.

0:02.0

My name is Caden Sinclair.

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0:17.0

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0:22.7

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0:28.9

Prime Video.

0:35.2

Last month, some of the girls at Westfield High School in New Jersey noticed that the boys at their school were acting kind of strange.

0:43.3

A lot of the girls were noticing that their male classmates were quieter than normal and kind of whispering among themselves.

0:51.3

So they suspected something was going on and were starting to ask questions.

1:00.0

That's Julie Jargon, a columnist at the Wall Street Journal who writes about the intersection of family and technology.

1:06.0

And then eventually, later in that week, one boy told some of the girls what all the whispering

1:12.5

was about.

1:14.0

It turns out at least one student had created AI-generated images of several female classmates

1:20.9

to create fake pornographic images using the girls' real photos that he had found online.

1:27.8

When the girls at Westfield found out, there an uproar, they were horrified.

1:32.9

These were pornographic images that weren't real, that they didn't consent to, and that

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