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.
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And there ought to be, I think, a real understanding that people cannot make money off the back of harm to women and children.
This is a product that has been developed without any concern for the social harms it might create. This is a product for profit.
We want to show that tech companies cannot act without impunity, they need to build safeguards into their products so that people's images cannot by used or manipulated by AI, to sexualise them without their consent.
I think there need to be guardrails to protect women and children from harm and I know that Silicon Valley says that they want to go fast and break things, but just like any product, if it causes harm, there need to be routes for ordinary…
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