{"id":288826,"date":"2026-01-17T06:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T06:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/288826\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T06:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T06:56:12","slug":"catherine-prasifka-internet-has-evolved-from-an-empathy-machine-to-an-echo-chamber-where-weird-men-use-ai-to-undress-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/288826\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine Prasifka: Internet has evolved from an empathy machine to an echo chamber where weird men use AI to undress women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">As furore grows over Grok, it becomes ever clearer that the online world has lost its way\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Elon Musk, owner of X and staunch supporter of its AI assistant, Grok. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/115191746.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Elon Musk, owner of X and staunch supporter of its AI assistant, Grok. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It happened so slowly, it is hard to pinpoint the exact moment our phones went from being amusing time sinks to addictive psychosis machines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But, if I had to put my finger on a point of no return, it would be right now, with Grok, X\u2019s AI, flooding our feeds with artificially generated, non-consensual, sexualised images of women and children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As furore grows over Grok, it becomes ever clearer that the online world has lost its way Elon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,3498,290,97876,18,877,19,17,1721,82,4709],"class_list":{"0":"post-288826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-catherine-prasifka","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-facebook","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-mark-zuckerberg","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-x-formerly-twitter"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115909137737931826","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}