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Is AI the New Frontier of Women’s Oppression?
In her new book, feminist author Laura Bates explores how sexbots, AI assistants, and deepfakes are reinventing misogyny and harming women.
Since then, the sexual harassment of women has encroached into online spaces, including Bates’ own experience with being the victim of deepfake pornography, which prompted her to write her new book, The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny, published September 9 by Sourcebooks. For example, we have situations across the US and UK and in Australia we are seeing cases emerging from schools where children are accessing tools and using them to create highly realistic, abusive, pornographic images of their classmates at the age of 10 or 11. The Trump administration is pushing back against it, preventing big tech companies from trying to implement safeguards in their products, [which encourages] other governments around the world to follow suit.
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