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Pennsylvania's Lancaster Country Day School Students Allegedly Used AI to Create Hundreds of Sexualized Deepfake Images of Girls
- Occurred
- Nov 1, 2023
- Published
- Aug 28, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
From November 2023 through May 2024, two Lancaster Country Day School students in Pennsylvania allegedly used AI tools to create and exchange hundreds of sexualized deepfake images depicting female classmates and other girls. Authorities later identified 60 victims, 59 of them minors. The students were adjudicated delinquent in juvenile court, and families later sued the school and unnamed AI companies over the incident.
Developers
- Synthetic video generation technology developers
- Synthetic media generation technology developers
- Synthetic image generation technology developers
- Deepfake technology developers
Deployers
- Two unnamed Lancaster Country Day School students
- Synthetic media creators
- Students
- Minors
- Deepfake creators
- AI-generated CSAM creators
Harmed parties
- Women and girls
- Victims of deepfake child abuse
- Victims of deepfake abuse
- Students
- Privacy
- Minors
- Lancaster Country Day School students
- Lancaster Country Day School
- Girls
- Families of Lancaster Country Day School students
- Epistemic integrity
- Educational communities
- Victims of child sexual abuse material
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Students used AI to create sexualized deepfake images of minors, leading to juvenile court adjudication and lawsuits.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8