People across all levels of society, all around the world, are feeling the impact of the artificial intelligence revolution, and while it can boost productivity, for many people it has unlocked a new technological horror.
That is, the ability for anyone to take your likeness and create a sexualized deepfake with just a basic knowledge of AI. And in the past couple of years, this has become a serious problem for everyone from the Prime Minister of Italy to female school students across the country.
Earlier this week, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni shared one such deepfake on her X account, saying that these AI images ‘can deceive, manipulate, and strike anyone’ while warning that ‘today it happens to me, tomorrow it can happen to anyone’.
But despite anonymous internet users having access to a large number of image-generating tools for years now, lawmakers have struggled to crack down on this new wave of technological misogyny, until this week.
X’s AI tool Grok has previously come under fire for allowing users to create sexually explicit content on the platform.
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