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The uncomfortable truth behind deepfakes

Otago Daily Times Online News·Saturday, 16 May 2026·17 days ago
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AI-facilitated fakery can do real damage, but it also exposes the existing structures and attitudes that degrade women, writes Eva Wiseman. I have been thinking about fakery. My daughter doesn’t have a phone, so I said she could join her friends’ WhatsApp group on mine. Very quickly, I realised, these girls were able to ignore the fact it’s my name rather than hers, and that it’s my phone buzzing with all their gossip, that it’s me – a middle-aged lady with skin in the game — who will first see their secrets. I enjoy occasionally responding to messages as her, both for the linguistic education and intimate opportunity to perform. It reminds me of the early days of the internet, huddled over a chatroom with a friend while we pretended to be busty, or 16, or French. From across the room my daughter will call, "Write ‘cute’, but with five ‘e’s on the end." I’m getting good at it. Worryingly good.…

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