'Staying silent? Not an option': family takes fight against deepfake nudes to Washington

In October last year Francesa Mani came home from school in the suburbs of New Jersey with devastating news for her mother, Dorota. Earlier in the day the 14-year-old had been called into the vice-principal's office and notified that she and a group of girls at Westfield High had been the victims of targeted abuse by a fellow student. Faked nude images of her and others had been circulating around school. They had been generated by artificial intelligence. Dorota had been tangentially aware of the power of this relatively new technology, but the ease with which the images were generated took her aback.