When the Grok chatbot was shown to be generating pornographic deepfakes of women and children without their consent or knowledge, tech juggernaut Elon Musk rushed to defend his machine and frame the scandal as a byproduct of users’ free will.
For me the scandal was personal. My own image was among the first to be manipulated. My clothes were digitally removed. My face was plastered into sexual situations I had no control over and no desire to be involved in. I remember looking at it and feeling exposed in a way that was difficult to explain to anyone who had not experienced it. It did not matter that the image was fake. The sense of violation was real.
