By 9now.nine.com.au
Publication Date: 2026-05-17 10:15:00
Not only is it probably the stupidest thing artificial intelligence can do, it’s also one of the most frightening and certainly obscene.
With the push of a button on a keyboard, any photo of a person, any innocent, happy snapshot, can now be instantly transformed into pornography.
For women in particular, AI deep-fake technology is unleashing a new wave of violence around the world.
As Dimity Clancey reports, there can be no doubt: this is not harmless computer fun, but a form of serious abuse.
And worryingly, anyone can be targeted, even the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children.
Kate Bell, Australian film and soap star, who discovered that her former partner had created AI-generated explicit images of her, found a trove of AI images of friends and colleagues in his computer:
“This is the quickest way to dehumanize a woman,” she said.
“You don’t need to slander her or whisper…
