WASHINGTON (TND) — A disturbing trend is exploding across the country with a rise in nude pictures and videos of teens and kids that are fake, but use real images through artificial intelligence.

A company that monitors deep fakes found 96% are pornography and 99% target women and girls.

Carl Szabo, VP and general counsel for Netchoice, joined The National Desk’s Jan Jeffcoat Friday morning to discuss if existing laws are sufficient to go after offenders.

“Yeah, I mean, let’s be clear. This is visual slander. This is cruel, this is harassment and it should be stopped. Period. We need to make sure we go after the bad actors. Now there are existing laws to address many of these challenges, like, as I mentioned, harassment law, fraud, defamation, and impersonation, but at the same time, there may be gaps that need to be filled and these can be done,” Szabo said. “Netchoice, my company’s pushing for two pieces of legislation, one to address it on child sexual abuse material and the other to address what are called non-consensual intimate images all created with AI, but at the same time, this needs to be a holistic approach. Workplaces, teachers, principals, schools, everyone can be engaged everyone can take action because if they’re creating a harassing or dangerous environment, in a school, or in a workplace, those bad actors need to be let go and we need to address it at its root with the bad actors. Because at the end of the day, this is harassment.”

Szabo also addressed what someone can do if this happens to them or their child.

“The first thing to do is to notify the services where it’s happening. A lot of the platforms, Facebook just announced the other day, a partnership with something called the Lantern program where you can actually flag content and they will send it out to all the other platforms out there so that if it does pop up again, it can actually be blocked before anyone actually sees it,” he said. “So they can put a digital fingerprint on and make sure that content doesn’t show. So that’s the first thing to do. The next is to notify the school and notify teachers, counselors, principals, so that if there are other students who are sending this around or the in fact perpetrator, we can actually engage, have those conversations and hold the bad actors accountable. And if you’re an adult, talk to your boss, talk to your supervisor. And if it’s somebody in your workplace, that person should be terminated because they are creating a hostile work environment.”