Two teenage boys from Miami, Florida, have been arrested in December for allegedly creating and sharing AI-generated nude photographs of female and male classmates with out consent, in accordance with police stories obtained by WIRED by way of public file request.

The arrest stories say the boys, aged 13 and 14, created the photographs of the scholars who have been “between the ages of 12 and 13.”

The Florida case seems to be the primary arrests and felony costs because of alleged sharing of AI-generated nude photographs to come back to mild. The boys have been charged with third-degree felonies—the identical degree of crimes as grand theft auto or false imprisonment—underneath a state law handed in 2022 which makes it a felony to share “any altered sexual depiction” of an individual with out their consent.

The dad or mum of one of many boys arrested didn’t reply to a request for remark in time for publication. The dad or mum of the opposite boy mentioned that he had “no comment.” The detective assigned to the case, and the state lawyer dealing with the case, didn’t reply for remark in time for publication.

As AI image-making instruments have change into extra extensively accessible, there have been a number of high-profile incidents wherein minors allegedly created AI-generated nude photographs of classmates and shared them with out consent. No arrests have been disclosed within the publicly reported circumstances—at Issaquah High School in Washington, Westfield High School in New Jersey, and Beverly Vista Middle School in California—although police stories have been filed. At Issaquah High School, police opted to not press costs.

The first media stories of the Florida case appeared in December, saying that the 2 boys have been suspended from Pinecrest Cove Academy in Miami for 10 days after college directors discovered of allegations that they created and shared pretend nude photographs with out consent. After dad and mom of the victims discovered in regards to the incident, a number of began publicly urging the college to expel the boys.

Nadia Khan-Roberts, the mom of one of many victims, told NBC Miami in December that for all the households whose youngsters have been victimized the incident was traumatizing. “Our daughters do not feel comfortable walking the same hallways with these boys,” she mentioned. “It makes me feel violated, I feel taken advantage [of] and I feel used,” one sufferer, who requested to stay nameless, told the TV station.

WIRED obtained arrest data this week that say the incident was reported to police on December 6, 2023, and that the 2 boys have been arrested on December 22. The data accuse the pair of utilizing “an artificial intelligence application” to make the pretend specific photographs. The identify of the app was not specified, and the stories declare the boys shared the photographs between one another.

“The incident was reported to a school administrator,” the stories say, with out specifying who reported it or how that particular person discovered in regards to the photographs. After the college administrator “obtained copies of the altered images,” the administrator interviewed the victims depicted in them, the stories say, who mentioned that they didn’t consent to the photographs being created.