How Deepfake Porn Infected a School
Slate Daily Feed
Slate
3.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
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.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Last month, some of the girls at Westfield High School in New Jersey noticed that the |
| 0:10.1 | boys at their school were acting kind of strange. A lot of the girls were |
| 0:15.1 | noticing that their male classmates were quieter than normal and kind of |
| 0:19.9 | whispering among themselves. So they suspected something was going on and |
| 0:25.0 | we're starting to ask questions. |
| 0:27.0 | That's Julie Jargan, a columnist at the Wall Street Journal who writes about the |
| 0:34.4 | intersection of family and technology. And then eventually, later in that week, |
| 0:39.5 | one boy told some of the girls what all the whispering was about. |
| 0:44.3 | It turns out at least one student had created AI generated images |
| 0:49.6 | of several female classmates to create fake pornographic images using the girls real photos that |
| 0:56.1 | he had found online. |
| 0:58.5 | When the girls at Westfield found out there was an uproar, they were horrified. These were pornographic images |
| 1:04.6 | that weren't real, that they didn't consent to, and that they hadn't even seen. |
| 1:10.6 | De Rode Amani, a mother of one of the victims, |
| 1:13.1 | describe what her daughter experienced to CBS. |
| 1:16.0 | She started crying, and then she was walking in the hallways |
| 1:18.5 | and she's seen other girls of Westfield High School crying. |
| 1:22.8 | Some of them victims, |
| 1:23.7 | some of them just friends of the victims |
| 1:25.9 | that just felt for them. |
| 1:28.2 | The school sent an email to parents. |
| 1:33.6 | Westfield Police are investigating. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Slate and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

