High school classmate said she wrote a book and the artwork seems very ai but. When I asked who…

In November 2025, 14-year-old Grace Mancini was informed by peers at Hingham Middle School that an eighth-grade classmate had created and distributed an AI-generated naked image of her. Despite the student admitting to the act in a text message and confirming it to school officials, the district declined to issue formal disciplinary action, citing a lack of jurisdiction over the circumstances of the distribution.

What happened

The incident involved the creation of a nonconsensual, AI-generated, sexually explicit image of a student. The creator shared the deepfake with at least two friends, one of whom distributed the image further by showing it to other peers in school hallways and via a screenshot taken during a Snapchat call. Following the discovery, the victim’s mother, Megan Mancini, reported the event to local police and filed a Title 9 sexual harassment complaint with the school district.

An internal investigation by the school confirmed the boy’s role in creating the image. However, the district’s interim director of student services stated that the school was precluded from taking disciplinary action because there was insufficient evidence that the image was shared in locations or circumstances over which the school exercised substantial control. At the time of the incident, the Hingham school district policy on AI was limited to plagiarism and did not address sexual harassment or the creation of harmful deepfake imagery. This response highlights a broader systemic issue where schools often lack specific policies to address AI-generated harassment, frequently resulting in a lack of accountability for offenders and leaving victims without institutional support.