Scrolling through social media while in the car one late February day Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez saw something that would haunt her: A pornographic image featuring a fake digitized version of herself.
The photo showed a woman generated by artificial intelligence (AI) who appeared identical to the Democrat being forced to put her mouth on another’s genitals.
The image shook the New York progressive and stuck in her head all day.
‘There’s a shock to seeing images of yourself that someone could think are real,’ Ocasio-Cortez told Rolling Stone. ‘There are certain images that don’t leave a person, they can’t leave a person.’
‘It’s not as imaginary as people want to make it seem,’ she continued.
‘It has real, real effects not just on the people that are victimized by it, but on the people who see it and consume it.’
