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Jess Asato: “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…”

On the recordJune 4, 2026
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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Jess Asato
Labour Party

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Commenting on the impact of AI-generated images.

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