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Trigger Warning: This article contains contexts of sexual violence and sexually clear materials.
“I am receiving pornographic pictures of hijabi women in my Twitter DM, since my follower’s count has started increasing. People who send these messages threaten me that they can also mortgage my images if they want. Now AI equipment has become so advanced, so also the messages with such images have increased,” Nabia Khan, a worker and poet say.
Nabia Khan was one of the several major Muslim women activists and journalists, whose names and photos were placed in 2021 for “fake auction” by alleged Hindutva supporters on an app called “Suli Deal” on Githib.
In recent times, the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) -Power Image Generation Tools has made a major spread of pages that posted half -Popernographic images of Muslim women on the Internet.
Such pages are posting memes on platforms such as Facebook and Instagram for some time and posting photoshopped images with such fantasies. However, AI tools have made these images more sophisticated and easy to produce, which helps to increase the amount of such materials manifold.
In this piece, we will examine the underlying subjects in these images and try to decod the mentality that runs their popularity.
