Residents of a Spanish city are in shock and misery after a number of AI-generated bare pictures of native women have been circulating on-line. According to a BBC report, AI-generated bare pictures of younger women in Almendralejo, some as younger as 11 and as much as 17 years previous, have been circulating on social media platforms with out their data or consent.

Notably, the images had been principally taken from the ladies’ social media accounts, after which processed by an AI app that created a faux picture of the individual with out garments. Almost 20-30 women aged 11 to 17 have come ahead as victims.

María Blanco Rayo, the mom of a 14-year-old, informed the BBC, “One day my daughter came out of school and she said ‘Mum there are photos circulating of me topless’. I asked her if she had taken any photos of herself nude, and she said, ‘No, Mum, these are fake photos of girls that are being created a lot right now and there are other girls in my class that this has happened to as well.”

Dr Miriam Al Adib, mother of one of the victims said in an Instagram video that the morphed pictures look realistic and quite unsettling for everyone, especially her 14-year-old daughter.

”If I didn’t know my daughter’s body, this photo looks real. You (the culprits) are not aware of the damage you are causing. Using images to create this disgusting material and distributing them is a very serious crime,” she said. 

“Girls, do not be afraid to report such acts. Tell your moms. Affected moms, inform me so that you could be within the group that we created,” she added.

The local law enforcement is now dealing with 11 complaints from victims, all of whom are minors. The parents of the affected children have also set up a support group to help them through the ordeal. 

As per BBC, at least 11 local boys have been identified as having involvement in either the creation of the images or their circulation via the WhatsApp and Telegram apps. They are also looking into a claim that an attempt was made to extort one of the girls by using a fake image of her.

Speaking to AFP, a spokesperson from the local police said that the people responsible for these ”manipulated photos of underage girls”, superimposed their harmless faces onto the “bodies of other people” in different pictures. 

As per EuroNews, these deep faux nude pictures had been created utilizing an AI software referred to as MaterialOff.