Attorneys protesting a 13-year-old girl’s expulsion from a Louisiana middle school at a heated school board meeting this month felt they had a compelling argument: The student, who was punished for starting a fight on a school bus, was trying to knock away a boy’s phone, they said. He had been sharing fake nude images of her generated by artificial intelligence.

“What’s going on here, I’ll be quite frank, is nothing more than disgusting,” Matthew Ory, an attorney for the girl, said at the meeting.

“Her image was taken by artificial intelligence and manipulated and manufactured to be child pornography,” he added.

The exchange about the incident at Sixth Ward Middle School in Thibodaux, Louisiana, highlighted the growing national problem of AI-powered abuse. It also led parish authorities

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