Spain sentences 15 schoolchildren over AI-generated naked images

Each of the defendants was handed a year’s probation and ordered to attend classes on gender and equality awareness, and on the “responsible use of technology”.

That's a surprisingly reasonable sentence. I wish we could get that kind of thing here in the US. Currently, the best we've got is hand-wringing about how this specific thing isn't illegal, when we've got plenty of applicable harassment laws.

A year's probation and classes seems like a fitting punishment for a minor doing this. I realize it's horrible to the girls they did it to, but in the U.S., they would be in a cell. Unless their parents were rich, obviously.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A court in south-west Spain has sentenced 15 schoolchildren to a year’s probation for creating and spreading AI-generated images of their female peers in a case that prompted a debate on the harmful and abusive uses of deepfake technology.

Police began investigating the matter last year after parents in the Extremaduran town of Almendralejo reported that faked naked pictures of their daughters were being circulated on WhatsApp groups.

Each of the defendants was handed a year’s probation and ordered to attend classes on gender and equality awareness, and on the “responsible use of technology”.

Under Spanish law minors under 14 cannot be charged but their cases are sent to child protection services, which can force them to take part in rehabilitation courses.

In an interview with the Guardian five months ago, the mother of one of the victims recalled her shock and disbelief when her daughter showed her one of the images.

“Beyond this particular trial, these facts should make us reflect on the need to educate people about equality between men and women,” the association told the online newspaper ElDiario.es.

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