LANCASTER, PA – It’s hard to describe the city of Lancaster as anything other than quaint. Its vibrant but small downtown is peppered with coffee shops, bookstores and friendly locals. It has charm in abundance. The same can be said for the upscale Lancaster Country Day School, a K-12 private school in the area that hosts just over 600 kids. They frolic around in matching uniforms and play on crisp green grass once school lets out.
Perhaps that’s why the AI-generated sexual abuse scandal that recently rocked this town came as such a shock. No one saw it coming.
Only that’s not exactly true. Students did.
One student, in particular, was sent a pornographic deepfake of his upper school classmate on the communications app Discord, apparently in error. He deleted the photo, left the group chat, and filed an anonymous report…
Pa. teens get probation after using AI to create fake nudes of classmates (WHYY 25 Mar 2026)
Teens who made deepfake porn of classmates were just sentenced. Will it make a difference? (USA Today 25 Mar 2026)
TBD restitution, two years probation, 60 hrs community service, and possible expungement in two years. However, the felonies will always hang over their heads as adults and can be sentencing enhancers if they error again.
Forgive me if this sounds insensitive, but I don’t see what the big deal is. Look, if anybody can take a picture of anybody else and use AI to put a fake nude body on them. And then even create videos of that fake nude body having sex, then that is just, unfortunately, how life is right now.
It said in the article that the victims were worried about people seeing these images in the future. But it seems to me like all they would have to do. Is quietly explain that some horrible person made in AI fake of them.
Certainly no one would hold that against the victim. In fact, I would think that it would sort of open doors for them. After all, one would think that people would sort of give them a break once they knew about their victimhood.
Again, I’m not trying to be insensitive, just practical.
It seems to me that an awful lot of this victimhood equals lawsuits which equals money. It seems to me the professional victimhood abounds these days!