What can technology do to stop AI-generated sexualised images?

By Simon Thorne, Senior Lecturer in Computing and Information Systems, Cardiff Metropolitan University

The global outcry over the sexualisation and nudification of photographs – including of children – by Grok, the chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI, has led to urgent discussions about how such technology should be more strictly regulated.

But to what extent can technology also be used to prevent this explosion in the generation and sharing of deepfake content of real people, without their knowledge or consent?

On January 10, Indonesia became the

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