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.