The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Much Worse Than You Thought

The article describes how AI-powered ‘‘nudification’’ and sexual deepfake tools have enabled teenagers and others to create and share explicit manipulated images and videos of victims, causing significant emotional harm. It highlights real-world impacts on school-aged victims, cites responses such as schools removing photos from yearbooks or social accounts, and discusses motivations behind creating such content (curiosity, revenge, humiliation) and the lowered technical barriers that have increased scale and accessibility.