Jun 25, 2024 · Last October, 14-year-old Elliston Berry woke up to a nightmare. The teen’s phone was flooded with calls and texts telling her that someone had shared fake nude images of her on Snapchat and...

Elliston Berry woke up on a Monday morning last October to some alarming text messages. Friends were asking if she had seen nude photos of herself that were circulating among students at her...

Jun 21, 2024 · DALLAS — Going into her sophomore year at Aledo High School, Elliston Berry is healing from what happened to her last year. In October 2023, a student took her Instagram photos and plugged them...

Jun 19, 2024 · Fourteen-year-old Texas cyber exploitation victim Elliston Berry, her mother Anna McAdams and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, relayed the horrors of AI nude deepfakes spreading across the web.

Dec 19, 2024 · A classmate took a picture from Elliston's Instagram, ran it through an artificial intelligence program that appeared to remove her dress and then sent around the digitally altered image on...

Jun 20, 2024 · A Texas teenager was a victim of AI porn after a classmate made nude deepfake pictures of her and shared them on social media.

Jun 20, 2024 · A bipartisan bill has been introduced in the U.S. Senate to address the type of terrible situation that a high school girl from Texas experienced when she said a fellow student created deepfake...

Jun 21, 2024 · Berry revealed that one of her male classmates carried her deepfake images and the whole incident. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal , he took two pictures from her Instagram account and transformed them into a naked image using AI software.

Jun 18, 2024 · Elliston Berry, a victim of deepfake image abuse, speaks at a news conference where Sen. Ted Cruz unveils the Take It Down Act to protect victims against non-consensual intimate image abuse, on... Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images.

For deepfake pornography victims like 15-year-old Elliston Berry, the measure would be long overdue. The Texas high school student is working with lawmakers to get the bill passed to protect victims like herself.