How the Grok Ate Itself

By Charles McIntyre, CEO at IBIS Capital

It took AI just 18 months to generate as many images as photography produced in 150 years. We now live in a synthetic world where the boundaries between real and artificial blur with each swipe. At first, this may seem harmless - who cares if a photo of a sunset was imagined by an algorithm? But when privacy, manipulation, and sexualisation enter the mix, the stakes rise fast. Society can no longer shrug and scroll on.

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