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Jess Asato: It is like somebody has digitally stripped me without my consent.

On the recordJune 4, 2026
It is like somebody has digitally stripped me without my consent.
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Jess Asato
Labour Party

Editor's note · Context

Expressing her feelings about the AI-generated images.

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Nobody would be able to walk up to me in the street and strip me and put me in a bikini, and I don’t see why anybody should be able to do that to me online, because the feeling, while it is not quite the same, is very similar.

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