Pornographic deepfakes are nothing new, but the new iteration making international headlines, enabled by X's @grok, takes place in the replies of a victim's own posts, and can be done with a command as simple as "take off her clothes".
Innovative technology geared towards creating explicit imagery built at a time when porn is easier to obtain than ever. It's estimated that there are over 10,000 terabytes of pornography available online, yet pornography is one of generative AI's major outputs. Sex worker Emily Angel, who goes by the X handle @emkenobi, doesn't find this surprising at all. "It's about humiliation…[men are] trying to say 'we're always going to be here, forcing you to do things you don't want to do'".
