. >> reporter: anna mcadams has always kept a close eye on her 15-year-old daughter elliston berry'seporter: did you see this coming? >> no. not at all. >> reporter: hard to imagine who would've when the monday morning after homecoming in aledo, texas, 15 months ago... >> she came in our bedroom crying, just going, mom, you won't believe what just happened. >> reporter: a classmate had taken this picture from elliston's instagram, run it through an app like this one, that, using artificial intelligence, appeared to remove her dress, then sent it around on snapchat. what are you looking at? >> child porn. it was horrifying. >> reporter: there was nothing about it that looked fake? >> no. no. >> just school and the environment is so different. >> reporter: six weeks into her freshman year of high school, elliston berry was confronting something sinister. >> i had psat testing and i had volleyball games and football games, and the last thing i needed to focus and worry about is fake nudes of mine going around the school. those images were up and floating around snapchat for nine months.

. >> reporter: anna mcadams has always kept a close eye on her 15-year-old daughter elliston berry'sle. >> yes, yes. >> reporter: did you see this coming? >> no. not at all. >> reporter: hard to imagine who would have on the monday morning after homecoming in aledo, texas, 15 months ago. >> she came into our bedroom crying, just going mom, you won't believe what just happened. >> reporter: a classmate had taken this picture from elliston's instagram, ran it through an app like this one that using artificial intelligence appeared to remove her dress, and then sent it around on snapchat. what are you looking at? >> child porn. it was horrifying. >> reporter: there was nothing about it that looked fake? >> no, no. >> just school and the environment is so different. >> reporter: six weeks into her freshman year of high school, elliston berry was confronting something sinister. >> i had psa testing and volleyball and football games. and the last thing i need to focus and worry about is fake nudes of mine going around the school. those images were up and floating around snapchat for nine m

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elliston berry joins us now.oung to be able to speak with our lawmakers in front of ted cruz your senator in texas. thank you for coming on with us. tell us what happened to you if people aren't familiar with your story thank you for having me on. i was a victim of ai crimes. last year i fake ais. a classmate took photo off instagram and but it through ai tool and stripped my clothing off and it went aren't the entire school. >> ainsley: your classmates thought you posted a nude picture of yourself? >> it was kind of -- they kind of supported me. i mean, that i was trying to go to the school. a lot of my friends were also targeted a lot of my friends and classmates were able to recognize the original picture. because it happened to so many of the girls in my grade, able to tell these were fake and go to the school and hopefully try to do something about it. >> ainsley: it could ruin someone's reputation. >> ainsley: let me tell folks at home about take it down act. force social media companies to swiftly remove g