When called down to the principal’s office last October, high school student Francesca Mani learned that someone had taken online pictures of her and used artificial intelligence to generate fake nudes that were then shared on social media.
The teen was understandably shell-shocked, yet as she made her way through the halls and saw the clusters of crying fellow classmates also affected (while others laughed), anger and a sense of purpose replaced her own tears.
“I came home to tell my mom … ‘We need to do something about this,’ because I didn’t think it was fair,” said the Grade 10 student from New Jersey. “I
