A 15-year-old former Riverview High School student in Florida has been charged after using artificial intelligence to create a fake Instagram post threatening a mass shooting at the school and frame her ex-boyfriend. On October 16, Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office deputies responded after school administrators received an email containing an AI-manipulated screenshot designed to appear as an Instagram threat of violence. Detectives immediately interviewed the male student whose identity appeared in the fabricated post, who denied creating any threat. The investigation led authorities to his former girlfriend, a 15-year-old no longer enrolled at the school, who admitted to generating the AI-altered image and sending it to school administrators. The teen confessed during questioning that she knowingly used artificial intelligence to manipulate the content before transmitting it via email.
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