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Heather Barr
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Women's rights associate director, Human Rights Watch. Alaskan in Cape Town. Queen of typos.
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Theft on top of theft.
“AI is already changing sex work and our future relationships in so many ways”, documentary filmmaker Naomi Pallas tells Dazed. Pallas is the director of the award-winning short film Clankers, which explores the rise of AI sex influencers and the blurring of consent. For the documentary, Pallas made her own pregnant AI sex worker after attending courses run predominantly by men about how to make them and develop a unique niche. What Pallas discovered through attending these courses was that these men were essentially stealing the content of real sex workers and deepfaking their likenesses to make their AI influencers. “When I saw this, I just thought, ‘Oh my God. They are trying to get the means of production back from women’”.
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM