Jess Asato: “I hope my case will also open up a debate about 'what consent means in the online space'.”

Me going public is so that we can invite people who may have been victims of AI photo manipulation on Grok to come forward and to seek legal help … to give people a sort of sense that they’re not alone when this happens.

And what we are seeing is women standing up and saying ‘we have had enough, we are not going to let this stand’.

She said the support she had received had been “astonishing” and “very heartwarming”.

If you think about any other products, like a car, for example, that might have been manufactured with a fault, it doesn’t matter if, you know, the cars get recalled and the faults are fixed and no more harm is done.