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AI corporations creating abuse images is not an inevitability but a business choice

Grok, an AI embedded within Twitter/X, is being used to digitally remove women’s and children’s clothing, and the results are being posted publicly.

The 'Internet Search Engine Services Online Safety Code' Explainer

The Internet Search Engine Services Online Safety Code is another tranche of policy that bars young people accessing ‘harmful content’, this time through search engines. It is unlikely to succeed in its stated ambition of protecting children, and will definitely cause harmful side-effects.

What you need to know about the Social Media Ban

Social media companies harvest vast amounts of personal data and use it to push whatever will keep you engaged, even when that means prioritising attention over accuracy, safety, or wellbeing. This can result in mental health harms for all users, including increased levels of depression, anxiety and body image dissatisfaction. Everyone would benefit from reform that stops personal data being used to feed people content that captures attention at the expense of their wellbeing.

However, rather than address the root causes of this harm the Social Media Ban complicates the landscape and creates additional privacy risks for all of us.

This is your guide to how to navigate this new terrain.