Two Miami, Florida, teens are accused of creating and sharing AI-generated nude images of male and female classmates without their consent, according to a police report obtained by WIRED through a public records request. was arrested in May.
The boys, ages 13 and 14, created images of students “between the ages of 12 and 13,” according to the arrest report.
The Florida incident appears to be the first known arrest and criminal charge for allegedly sharing AI-generated nude images. The boys were charged with third-degree felonies, a crime on the same level as grand theft auto and false imprisonment, under a state law passed in 2022. The state law makes it a felony to share “altered sexual depictions” without a person's consent.
The parents of one of the arrested boys did not respond to requests for comment in time for publication. The other boy's parents declined to comment. The detective who worked on the case and the state attorney who worked on the case did not return requests for comment in time for publication.
As AI image creation tools have become more widely available, several high-profile cases have occurred in which minors allegedly created AI-generated nude images of their classmates and shared them without their consent. No arrests have been made in publicly reported incidents, including at Issaquah High School in Washington, Westfield High School in New Jersey, and Beverly Hills Vista Middle School in California, despite police reports being filed. At Issaquah High School, police chose not to press charges.
The first media reports about the Florida incident appeared in December, when two boys were arrested at Miami's Pinecrest Cove School after school administrators learned they had allegedly created and shared fake nude images without their consent. It was reported that he was suspended from the academy for 10 days. After the victim's parents learned about the incident, several began publicly demanding that the school expel the boy.
Nadia Khan Roberts, the mother of one of the victims, told NBC Miami in December that the incident was traumatic for all the families whose children were killed. “Our daughters are nervous about walking the same hallways as these boys,” she said. “It makes me feel violated and taken advantage of. [of] I feel like I'm used to it,'' one victim told the TV station on condition of anonymity.
WIRED obtained arrest records this week showing that the incident was reported to police on December 6, 2023, and that the two boys were arrested on December 22, 2023. The records accuse the two of using “artificial intelligence applications” to create blatantly false images. . The name of the app was not disclosed, but the boys reportedly shared photos with each other.
“This incident was reported to the school administration,” the report states, but does not say who reported it or how that person learned of the images. After school administrators “obtained copies of the altered images,” school administrators interviewed the victims depicted in the images, which revealed that they had not consented to the images being created, according to the report. It is said that there was not.