A group of mothers Almendralejo (Badajoz) have denounced the use of images of their minor daughters made with Artificial Intelligence and that have been distributed on social networks where they supposedly appear naked through several photographic montages in which the faces of several minors are used along with images of naked bodies. The dissemination would have been carried out on internet portals such as Onlyfans or pornographic pages, according to the first complaints made, and has its origin in a WhatsApp group made up of students from different schools in Almendralejo. The images have gone viral in recent days in the Tierra de Barros region. The National Police has confirmed that it has already opened an investigation. So far, around twenty minors could be affected, although so far less than half have filed a complaint at the police station. Some minors could have even been financially blackmailed in exchange for removing the doctored images, as revealed by another of the mothers of the affected minors.
The gynecologist and teacher raised the alarm through a video Miriam Al Adib -with thousands of followers on social networks- when he discovered a photo with the face of his own 14-year-old daughter, superimposed on a naked body of another person: “The montages are super-realistic, it is very worrying and truly outrageous.” She found out about it when she got home from a trip: “One of my daughters, with tremendous disgust, told me: ‘Look what they’ve done to me.'” She is another 17 and although they have also told her that they have used her image, at the moment she has not been able to verify it.
The affected families are considering the possibility of filing a collective complaint about the events. Al Adib has warned the authors that their montages represent a “very serious crime” and has sent them a direct message: «You are not aware of the damage you have done to all the girls. You are not aware, furthermore, of the crime you have committed, stop now.”
“To the funny people who have thought of this, if you are a little intelligent, collaborate in repairing all this that you have set up,” he adds, while remembering that with the rapid dissemination currently offered by social networks “we still do not know the reach that is going to have all this.” The complainant herself assures that some people who have to do with the montages have already given statements at the police station: “This is not going to stay like this.”
In parallel, the doctor has also asked those people who are receiving the images of the teenagers not to contribute to their dissemination by sharing said photos through WhatsApp. “There are many mothers who are protecting their daughters,” stressed Al Adib, who also asked the affected girls “not to be afraid to report such acts” and to tell their families: “You do not have the fault of what has happened, we know that there are girls who do not dare to tell their parents because they can tell them that this happens to them for having social networks and uploading things to the internet, but they are going to help you, you do not have to shut up or shame, you are the victims.