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Trigger Warning: This article has references to sexual violence and sexually explicit content.
“I have been receiving pornographic images of Hijabi women in my Twitter DM ever since my follower count began growing. The people who send these messages threaten me that they can also morph my images if they want. Now AI tools have become so advanced, so the messages containing such images have also increased,” says Nabiya Khan, an activist and poet based in Delhi.
Nabiya Khan was one among many prominent Muslim women activists and journalists whose names and photos were put up for “mock auction” by alleged Hindutva supporters on an app called “Sulli Deals” on GitHub in 2021.
The emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered image generation tools in the recent past, has led to a massive proliferation of pages posting semi-pornographic images of Muslim women on the internet.
Such pages have been around for some time now on platforms like Facebook and Instagram, posting memes and crudely photoshopped images containing such fantasies. However, AI tools have made these images more sophisticated and easy to produce, thereby helping increase the volume of such content manifold.
In this piece, we will examine the underlying themes in these images and try to decode the mentality driving their popularity.
source: https://www.thequint.com/news/politics/artificial-intelligence-muslim-women-hindutva-soft-porn-images-facebook-instagram
