"As she reeled from the discovery of a pornographic website featuring AI-generated images of herself naked, the prominent Italian journalist and writer Francesca Barra said the question that struck her the most came from her young daughter. She asked me: how do you feel?', Barra, 47, said. But what I heard was another more subtle question that my pre-adolescent daughter perhaps didn't have the courage to ask, and that was: If it happened to me, how would I handle it?'."
"It follows Mia Moglie (My Wife), a now-shuttered Facebook group where men exchanged intimate photos of their wives, and a website called Phica, a misspelt play on a slang word for vagina in Italian, where doctored images accompanied by obscene comments of dozens of high-profile women, including the prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, were published. Phica has since been removed by Italian prosecutors and the man who operated the site is under investigation, while Social Media Girls is being investigated amid calls to close it down."
AI-generated nude images and doctored photos of high-profile Italian women have circulated on large online forums and groups. Social Media Girls, with more than seven million subscribers, includes sections dedicated to Italian nude VIPs. Other platforms, including a now-shuttered Facebook group Mia Moglie and the removed Phica site, have shared intimate photos and obscene commentary targeting dozens of women, including the prime minister. Prosecutors removed Phica and are investigating its operator, while Social Media Girls faces investigation amid calls for closure. Dozens of journalists, actors, influencers and female politicians have described the content as virtual rape and spoken out; Francesca Barra lodged a legal complaint after discovering AI-generated images of herself.
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