After five teen girls were targeted by AI-generated child sexual abuse material, Radnor Township High School in Pennsylvania has become a case study in how schools and police around the country grapple with how to response to deepfake crimes involving children.
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atrielienz@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
They really dropped the ball by just not being prepared for the time sensitivity of such a situation and clearly not having the technical skills or equipment to properly investigate it.
I have questions about why they didn’t subpoena the app maker for any data that they might have on images generated for a paid account.
I also have questions about the fact that if the kid who allegedly created the images had his tech investigated they didn’t charge him with deletion of evidence. Because I strongly suspect that either he or his parents deleted the evidence given that he claims they took his phone.
The school district should have called the police and not told anyone until the police had seized assets to verify that the claims were real and the evidence couldn’t be deleted to save face or protect the perpetrators.
They tried to treat this like regular bullying (which they are already bad at handling), and it’s very clear it’s not the same.