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Mara Wilson Warns of AI-Driven Exploitation After Revealing Her Image Was Used in CSAM

Her Guardian essay renews calls for legal accountability alongside stronger safeguards for platforms and AI tools.

Overview

  • Wilson writes that before she was in high school she was featured on fetish websites, photoshopped into pornography, and targeted with inappropriate messages.
  • She argues generative AI now makes it "infinitely easier" to produce explicit images of real children, putting millions at risk of similar harm.
  • Following user prompts to undress images of 14-year-old Stranger Things actor Nell Fisher, X said its Grok tool would no longer allow editing images of real people in revealing clothing.
  • Wilson urges companies to be held accountable and calls for technological protections, while advocates and some lawmakers promote bills such as the Defiance Act and the Take It Down Act.
  • She cautions parents to limit sharing children's photos online and to warn older kids that posted images could be used in child sexual abuse material.