Post #3844801

2026-07-15 23:00 UTC

And in today's edition of staring into the abyss in growing horror; "On Monday, Ashley St Clair, the mother of one of Musk’s children and a victim of Grok deepfakes, told the Guardian she felt 'horrified and violated' after Musk’s fans undressed pictures of her as a child. She felt she was being punished for speaking up against the billionaire, from whom she is estranged, describing the images as revenge porn." #AmeliaGentleman, #HelenaHorton, 2026 https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/11/how-grok-nudification-tool-went-viral-x-elon-musk #Grok #ElonMusk

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@spocko@mastodon.online 2026-07-15 23:11

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz I saw a very insightful video about the #MAGA cult #ElonMusk & how the right uses fear & bribes to keep people in, & punish people who leave Wajahat Ali: Ashley, why are the women part of this? Ashley: [people] say with their full chest "Why didn't you leave sooner?" While simultaneously saying these are violent tyrants who are shooting people in the streets. That's exactly why you don't leave, because they make examples out of people. https://open.substack.com/pub/thelefthook/p/how-elon-musk-and-the-maga-hate-machine

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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz 2026-07-16 00:04

It seems obvious to me that citizens have some inherent rights over how images of ourselves are used. Rights that need to be recognised in law. OTOH creating a carte blanche "IP" monopoly over it could create unintended consequences. So any legal recognition needs carve-outs like a clear public interest test for the use of someone's image in journalism, and some equivalent to the 'freedom of panorama' for taking photographs or video of crowds. I'm curious what @civillibertynz@mastodon.social thinks of this.

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