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Deepfake Images: Tech Companies Choose Profit Over Safety
AI image manipulation crosses the line when your photo becomes someone else's weapon. Someone screenshots your Instagram. Runs it through Grok. Removes your clothes without permission. The fake spreads across platforms while you sleep. This isn't hypothetical anymore.
Tech journalist Kris Abel walks Shane through the Grok controversy that prompted Indonesia to ban the feature entirely and Canada to fast-track Bill C-16, which adds deepfake creation to the criminal code. Elon Musk frames content restrictions as censorship, but governments aren't waiting for voluntary compliance. The…
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