Description: In October 2023, an unnamed male student at Aledo High School outside of Fort Worth, Texas generated and distributed deepfake nude pictures of classmate Elliston Berry and six other female students in her friend group via social media. Berry's mother, Anna McAdams, spoke with Senators Ted Cruz and Amy Klobuchar, who consequently drafted the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks (or TAKE IT DOWN) Act.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Unknown deepfake technology developer developed an AI system deployed by Unnamed male student, which harmed Elliston Berry and Aledo High School students.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
799
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2024-06-18
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Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
wsj.com · 2024
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Elliston Berry woke up on a Monday morning last October to some alarming text messages. Friends were asking if she had seen nude photos of herself that were circulating among students at her Texas high school.
One sent a screenshot. She was…
foxbusiness.com · 2024
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A sinister cyber exploitation scheme turned Texas 14-year-old Elliston Berry's life upside down last October after she discovered deepfake nude images of herself circulating across social media one morning.
To make matters worse, many of he…
Variants
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