02/09/2026
Out of the same concern for the safety and dignity of our students, we have implemented additional policies for our organization’s social media accounts. As with the abhorrent abuses on various gaming platforms, we were alarmed to learn of abuses involving an AI chatbot integrated into platform X (formerly Twitter). The AI has apparently been used to digitally undress and sexualize millions of images of women and children.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/asking-grok-to-delete-fake-nudes-may-force-victims-to-sue-in-musks-chosen-court/
While NOLA_CODE has an inactive Twitter account, we have never posted images of students there, and it has since been deleted in light of this abuse. We did, until last week, have video of our students at Homer Plessy Community School on Instagram, presenting their digital animation projects from Spring 2025. We have no reason to believe our students were exploited by nude-generating AI, and we have reason to doubt that they were. We post sparingly on the platform. Our posts have been seen by only a handful of users. Furthermore, despite Meta Corporation routinely permitting the abuse and endangerment of children in numerous ways, it has not integrated a “nudifying” AI on Instagram or any of its other platforms, and our board of directors doubts it will.
Nonetheless, out of an abundance of caution, we have removed the Spring 2025 project presentations at Plessy and all other full-length images of our students. Henceforth, any image of a student we make visible anywhere on the internet will be from the chest up, or otherwise cropped or obscured, with their faces turned away from the camera, or otherwise reduced in visibility to eliminate the potential for such abuse.
