DeepfakeHigh
Aledo High School Student Allegedly Generates and Distributes Deepfake Nudes of Seven Female Classmates
- Occurred
- Oct 15, 2023
- Published
- Apr 22, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
In October 2023, an unnamed male student at Aledo High School outside of Fort Worth, Texas allegedly generated and distributed deepfake nude pictures of classmate Elliston Berry and six other female students in her friend group via social media. Berry's mother, Anna McAdams, spoke with Senators Ted Cruz and Amy Klobuchar, who consequently drafted the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks (or TAKE IT DOWN) Act.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic image generation technology developers
Deployers
- Unnamed male student
- Unnamed male student at Aledo High School
Harmed parties
- Elliston Berry
- Aledo High School students
- Epistemic integrity
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Incident involves creation and distribution of non-consensual deepfake nude images, triggering legislative response.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8