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Teens Share Nightmare Created by AI-Generated Explicit Images

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced a bipartisan bill to make it crime to post nonconsensual intimate images, including AI-generated images, on websites.
Teens Share Nightmare Created by AI-Generated Explicit Images
The Snapchat messaging application on a phone screen on Aug. 3, 2017. Thomas White/Reuters
Darlene McCormick Sanchez
Darlene McCormick Sanchez
Senior Reporter
6/27/2024|Updated: 6/27/2024
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DALLAS—On a Monday morning this past October, Texas high school freshman Elliston Berry remembers waking up to a barrage of phone messages.

Her friends in the small town of Aledo, Texas, were sounding the alarm, and it was not good.

Darlene McCormick Sanchez
Darlene McCormick Sanchez
Senior Reporter
Darlene McCormick Sanchez is an Epoch Times reporter who covers border security and immigration, election integrity, and Texas politics. Ms. McCormick Sanchez has 20 years of experience in media and has worked for outlets including Waco Tribune Herald, Tampa Tribune, and Waterbury Republican-American. She was a finalist for a Pulitzer prize for investigative reporting.
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