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Digital Exploitation: Mapping the Scope of Child Deepfake Incidents in the US
['Katherine He', 'Adam Billen']
Tech Policy Press
In one survey of teachers and students in US schools conducted by the Center for Democracy and Technology, 15% of students and 11% of teachers report hearing about deepfake NCII of individuals associated with their school during the 2023-2024 school year. To bridge the gap between news coverage and the actual scale of deepfake abuse, our team at Encode recently created the Child Deepfake Incident Map: a digital tool designed to track and visualize reported cases across the US. To prevent further harm, schools should update their codes of conduct, sexual harassment, and cyberbullying policies to explicitly prohibit the creation and distribution of deepfake sexual imagery, treating such incidents with the same seriousness as real images.