Deepfake AI App and Face Swapper
Someone can take your daughter's photo and make a fake nude of her. Then kids send it around every group chat. This really happened in New Jersey, and it came out in October 2023. Some boys made fake nudes of over 30 of their classmates. Someone could do the same thing with your daughter's photos just as easily. Is her face in a group chat tonight? By the end, you'll know exactly how to protect her.
Schools across the US saw an estimated 225,000 of these fakes. And that's in just one school year.
Tech Policy Press reported on the whole case. Some boys put girls' photos into an app. Then students shared the fakes in their group chats.
15% of students know about a fake made at their own school. And that's in just the past year.
Her photo is already online somewhere. Nobody needs her permission to use it. Her whole school could see the fake.
Somebody only needs one ordinary photo to make a fake.
By October 2023, kids had already passed the fakes around. Francesca Mani was one of those girls. Afterward, Francesca spoke out in public.
Somebody only needs one photo from her yearbook. Her Instagram photos work just as well.
Someone puts her photo into an app, and they get the shape of her eyes and jaw. Then they get another body bent to fit her face. Her face ends up on someone else's body.
UNICEF says 1.2 million kids have had fakes made of them. Could your kid be one of them?
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You'd think the school could just delete it. But any kid in that chat could have saved a copy.
Companies that sell fake-spotting tools say they're right 90% to 96% of the time. But they only get those numbers in a lab. The people who make these apps keep changing them so the tools can't spot the fakes. Those girls couldn't have been saved by any of those tools.
A few years ago, you needed a computer degree to make one. Now anyone can learn how from a 15 minute video. A classmate only needs a laptop.
Kids passed one fake through lots of group chats. Each kid sent it on to the next.
The girls went through humiliation and deep distress. Their names stayed tied to those fakes.
Apps that make fake nudes get sold as face swap apps. A face swap sounds like harmless fun. But boys used one app to undress over 30 real girls.
The school didn't know how to respond. Nobody can pull a fake back out of a group chat once it's there. The kids see it before any adult does. Only your daughter can tell you first.
Tonight, tell her she can always come to you. Tell her a fake is never her fault.
Delete every face swap app on the phones at home. Write down who sent the fake and when they sent it. Then report it to the school and the police.
When she speaks up, you find out about the problem. When you report it, the school and police get involved.
She sees the fake in a group chat. She comes to you before she does anything else. You write down the names and the times. Then the school and the police step in.
The CaraComp write-up goes deeper into all of this. On that page, you can see how face swaps work.
But there's a catch when you delete an app. Your face can stay with the company that made the app. But once you delete it, they can't take any more.
Keep her profiles private this week. Ask her school what its plan is for fake photos like these. Tell her friends' parents what you've learned.
This case helped push Congress toward a federal law. Congress passed the TAKE IT DOWN law in 2025. Now it's a crime to share these fakes.
Anyone can make a fake out of any photo of her. But now you know what to do.
Sit down with her after dinner tonight. Promise her you'll never be angry at her. Ask her to show you any fake she sees.
Kids can spread a fake before breakfast. But you can talk to her first, tonight.
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