BATON ROUGE - The Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office is charging a middle school student with allegedly sharing explicit photos of other students created by artificial intelligence.

Since the story broke, there have been plenty of questions surrounding AI use, including who can be held responsible in a case where the material is AI-generated.

"Is it protected speech and art, or is it illicit? The legislature has said it's illicit, and is it illegal, and is it a felony, and what do we do with that if it's a conviction?", Attorney Franz Borghardt said.

Borghardt says this case out of Lafourche Parish is not the first AI explicit imagery case or the last.

"A photograph can be innocent and turn into something very much not innocent," Borghardt said.

Borghardt says AI use

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