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'Fueling sexism': AI 'bikini interview' videos flood internet

This photo illustration taken in Washington, DC, on July 14, 2025, shows images on the internet and social media of AI bikini-clad women conducting street interviews. (Photo by STAFF / AFP)

The videos are strikingly lifelike, featuring bikini-clad women conducting street interviews and eliciting lewd comments -- but they are entirely fake, generated by AI tools increasingly used to flood social media with sexist content.

Such AI slop -- mass-produced content created by cheap artificial intelligence tools that turn simple text prompts into hyper-realistic visuals -- is frequently drowning out authentic posts and blurring the line between fiction and reality.

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