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"(...) the most lucrative parts of Silicon Valley products – AI recommendation engines, such as Instagram and TikTok’s main feeds or X’s For You tab that grab our attention – are often built on the shoulders of the most vulnerable, including poor youth, women and migrant labourers whose right to live and work in a country is dependent on their job."

"AI is hardly the first digital technology adapted to harass and abuse marginalized groups on the internet. Like so many simpler image-based technologies before it, from hidden webcams to Photoshop and social media, deepfakes have been co-opted by armies of perverts and cowards to invade that most intimate of spaces, our bodies."