News Summary

• The use of the AI tool Grok to remove women’s clothing in images brought the issue of so-called technology-facilitated abuse to the fore.
• Our own research has confirmed that technology misuse has increased and that its harms are significant.
• But governments and the tech sector are doing little to combat it – despite numerous examples of how tech can enable abuse.
• Mitigating risks must be embedded at the design stage to prevent these images being created in the first place.
• The rise of romantic and sexual chatbots means this has become more urgent.