Perp Walk A Spanish court has sentenced 15 teenagers to one year of probation for using AI to create fake nude images of female classmates, The Guardian reports. The perpetrators, all aged 13 to 15, were convicted in Badajoz, Spain on 20 counts of creating child abuse images and 20 counts of “offenses against their victims’ moral integrity,” according to the Guardian. They were tried as minors, and their collective conviction marks one of the first in a growing pool of cases involving minors and the creation and dissemination of nonconsensual, AI-driven deepfake pornography in middle and high schools. “The sentence notes that it has been proved,” the court told the Guardian in a statement, “that the minors used artificial intelligence applications to obtain manipulated images of [other minors] by taking girls’ original faces from their social media profiles and superimposing those images on the bodies of naked female bodies.” Case by Case News of the incident surfaced last September when the Spanish newspaper El Pais reported that a cohort of school-aged girls had discovered that classmates had created sexually explicit AI-generated images of them and circulated those photos throughout four schools via two WhatsApp groups. “Mom, they say there’s a naked photo of me going around,” one impacted student told her mother, as quoted by El Pais. “That they did it with an artificial intelligence app. I’m scared.” At the time of the El Pais report, prosecutors were still investigating whether AI-generated nude images of minors, also generated by minors,…Schoolchildren Sentenced for AI-Generating Nudes of Their Classmates