Elon Musk Profits Off Non-Consensual Deepfakes w/ Kat Tenbarge
01 29 26
Paris Marx is joined by Kat Tenbarge to discuss the explosion of abusive deepfakes on X, including how Elon Musk is profiting from the sexual exploitation of women and children while his followers use Grok to engage in gender-based violence.
Kat Tenbarge is an independent journalist who writes Spitfire News.
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Kat has been thoroughly covering the Grok and XAI deepfake and sexual abuse story
Paris wrote about why the Grok scandal shows we need more comprehensive tech regulation
The deepfake documentary mentioned was called Another Body
You can see the result of Megan Thee Stallion’s defamation lawsuit here
Grok was blocked in Indonesia and Malaysia in response to its generation of explicit images