Written by Emily Shearer at the nineteenth

Last October, a A 13 -year -old boy in Wisconsin Use a photo of his colleague in the chapter, celebrating its Mitzifa’s striker to create a deep naked and then share it on Snapchat.

This is not an isolated accident. During the past few years, there was issue after issue Of school -age children use Deepfakes to joke or bully their classmates. And it continues to get the easiest to do it.

When they are Online Eight years ago, it was initially difficult to make Deepfakes. Nowadays, progress in technology, through obstetric artificial intelligence, has provided tools for the masses. here, 19 It highlights a disturbing result: DeepFake applications among young users spread.

“If we had talked five or six years ago about revenge porn in general, I don’t think you will find a lot of perpetrators from the palace,” said Rebecca Delphino, a law professor at the University of Liola Marimont, who is studying Devix.

Federal lawmakers and states have sought to treat the abuse of intimate images (NCII), which is sometimes referred to as “revenge porn”. Although defenders prefer the previous term. Laws that criminalize the non -sectarian distribution of intimate images – of authentic images, at least – in effect In every American state and Washington, DCLast month, President Donald Trump signed a similar procedure in the law, Known as taking it.

But unlike the federal measure, many state laws do not apply to the explicit Deepfakes that were created from artificial intelligence. There are still fewer wrestling directly with the fact that the Deepfake perpetrators are often minors.

Fifteen per cent of students have reported to know explicit images created from artificial intelligence for a classroom, According to a survey It was released in September by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), a center -left research center. Students also stated that girls were more likely to photograph at Deepfakes.

According to CDT, the results show that “NCII, Aseeh and Deepfake, an important problem in public schools K-12.”

Delphino said: “The behavior we see the minors who participate in everything that differs from the pattern of cruelty, humiliation, exploitation and bullying that young people have always done with each other.” “The difference is not only the use of technology to implement some of this behavior, but also the ease of which it is published.”

Delphino said that policy makers at the government and federal level came to the perpetrators of the sex -based sexual assault “difficult and fast,” regardless of their age. She said the reason is clear: The distribution of non -sectarian images can have long -term damage to mental health to the goal of abuse.

Victims can be forced to withdraw from life online due to the spread of extraordinary images. Photo -based sexual assault Similar negative mental effects Survivors like those who have suffered from sexual violence.

Delphino said that under most of the current laws, the perpetrators of young perpetrators are likely to treat similarly to minors who are committing other crimes: they can be charged, but the prosecutors and courts are likely to take into account their age to get rid of punishment.

However, some countries have developed punitive symbols that are held by the perpetrator in their punishment, including by imposing gradual penalties trying to spare criminals for the first time or perpetrators from prison, and most of them do not do so. Although most of them agree that there must be consequences for young crime perpetrators, there is less consensus on what these consequences should be – and pushed to re -teach on maximum charges.

Prison time provides answers – and questions

A Survey 2017 By the CPA Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI), a non -profit institution that combats abuse via the Internet found that people who committed a sex -based sexual assault reported the threat of prison as one of the strongest deterrence against crime. Mary Ann Franks, a professor of law at George Washington University, who leads this initiative, said this is why the organization’s policy recommendations have always been criminalized.

Many countries She sought to address the issue of sexual assault materials on artificial intelligence children, which cover the depths of people under the age of 18, by amending the current laws that prohibit what is known as law as pornography of children. These laws tend to have more severe penalties: criminal instead of misdemeanor, minimum prison time or large fines. For example, Louisiana imposes a prison sentence for at least five years Regardless of the age of the perpetrator.