AI-generated naked child images shock Spanish town of Almendralejo - BBC News

More than 20 Spanish girls in the small town of Almendralejo have so far come forward as victims.

2 days agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage caption, María Blanco Rayo's daughter was one of the girls affectedBy Guy HedgecoeBBC News, AlmendralejoA sleepy town in southern Spain is in shock after it emerged that AI-generated naked images of young local girls had been circulating on social media without their knowledge.

The pictures were created using photos of the targeted girls fully clothed, many of them taken from their own social media accounts.

These were then processed by an application that generates an imagined image of the person without clothes on.

So far more than 20 girls, aged between 11 and 17, have come forward as victims of the app's use in or near Almendralejo, in the south-western province of Badajoz.

"One day my daughter came out of school and she said 'Mum there are photos circulating of me topless'," says María Blanco Rayo, the mother of a 14-year-old.