President Claudia Sheinbaum asked this Tuesday to classify digital sexual violence with artificial intelligence (AI) as a crime before the trial of a student from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), accused of altering thousands of photos of his classmates with AI to sell them.
“It is a new form of violence, which is the use of artificial intelligence to try to modify images of a woman with sexual content. So, we must also classify this crime because they are new forms of violence that have to be addressed by judges,” the president said in her morning conference.
Sheinbaum spoke in this way about the case of Diego ‘N’, a Mexican student who is detained but was acquitted last week of two of eight complaints for crimes against sexual intimacy, in which he used AI and aggravated by the relationship of trust that existed between the students and him.
In October 2023, the young man was detained in possession of a digital device with real and manipulated intimate photographs of at least 1,000 women, as well as 166,000 images modified with AI and 20,000 videos.
So far, eight victims have denounced Diego ‘N’, who also faces charges of human trafficking in the form of child pornography, a file in charge of the Mexico City Prosecutor’s Office, which is already awaiting oral trial.
The resolution of the first trial against Diego ‘N’ last Wednesday has provoked indignation among women’s groups, since the judge considered that there was not “sufficient” evidence, despite the more than 160,000 videos and images found on a device he owned. , including child sexual content.
The former student of the Higher School of Commerce and Administration (ESCA) downloaded the photographs of his classmates without permission and used them to generate ‘deepfakes’, that is, nudes with AI that he later sold on platforms.
Given this, the governor pointed out that her Government will always support women who experience some type of violence.
“Yes, we are going to support them in everything they need and we ask Citlalli herself (Hernández, head of the Women’s Secretariat) to contact them (those affected),” she emphasized.
With information from EFE.
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