Paris Marx is joined by Kat Tenbarge to discuss the explosion of abusive deepfakes on X, including how Elon Musk is profiting from the sexual exploitation of women and children while his followers use Grok to engage in gender-based violence.
Kat Tenbarge is an independent journalist who writes Spitfire News.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Kyla Hewson.
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Kat has been thoroughly covering the Grok and XAI deepfake and sexual abuse story
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Paris wrote about why the Grok scandal shows we need more comprehensive tech regulation
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The deepfake documentary mentioned was called Another Body
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You can see the result of Megan Thee Stallion’s defamation lawsuit here
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Grok was blocked in Indonesia and Malaysia in response to its generation of explicit images
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