We chat about Laura Bates’ incredible (and incredibly depressing) new book, The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies are Reinventing Misogyny. Between deepfakes and nonconsensual image abuse, the child predators propping up the metaverse, and AI “companions” being explicitly marketed as women who can’t fight back… the AI industry is even darker than we thought. In Falcon Mode, we lighten it up a bit with an idea around learning foreign languages through level-appropriate book recommendations. 

Content Warning: This topic is a heavy one, and we reference r*pe fantasies and virtual assault, including some involving children. A more detailed explanation of content warnings starts at 1:05 in the episode.

Links:

The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies are Reinventing Misogyny by Laura Bates

Laura Bates’ website

Resources:

Cyber Civil Rights Initiative’s “Get Help Now” page has step by step advice for victims

StopNCII.org for non-consensual intimate image abuse

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