
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Beyond the well-known impacts generative AI has on the environment and the human psyche, it also comes with a tremendous social burden. Deepfakes — digitally altered content that’s indistinguishable from real life — have proliferated off the back of the AI boom, turning the web into a noxious slurry of half-truths and misinformation. It’s also enabled a major rise in digital sex crimes th