If it’s Monday, then it’s time for your constitutionally-required AI news:

AI users have started generating and circulating lewd pictures of women of all ages by inputting photos available online into an AI program, alongside a prompt that allows them to create these images, according to the Washington Post. AI has been a point of conflict since it became available to the public, sparking debates from whether AI-generated art was real art to whether it poses a threat to humanity. The current reality is that the raw computing power now accessible to anyone is putting women and teenagers in very real danger.

Social media influencers were the first to be impacted by this… Gabi Belle, an American YouTuber with almost 600k subscribers, found almost 100 fake photos of herself circulating online, mostly on websites known for hosting AI-generated R-rated content. While Belle was able to get them taken down in July, a new host of depraved images have already surfaced.

…But they won’t be the last. Ordinary women and young girls have already fallen victim to AI-generated R-rated content. Anyone with access to your images can easily plug them into an AI platform with “undressing” tools, or even superimpose your face onto someone in an adult video. The people using these tools aren’t just a few bad apples.

AI-generated R-rated material, enabled by cheap and easy-to-use tools, has seen a 290% rise in the material’s generation in the past five years…

…and there’s nothing you can do about it. Victims don’t have anywhere to turn, as there are no governing laws concerning AI, just yet. Efforts by the G7 summit that took place last week hoped to regulate the development of AI, but the code of conduct is voluntary.

US President Joe Biden signed an executive order to tackle AI risks over this past weekend, but passed no federal law outlawing the use of someone’s likeness without their consent.

Was Elvis a monster? Sofia Coppola’s biopic seems to suggest so, according toLisa Marie Presley. The biopic, based on the 1985 book authored by Priscilla entitled “Elvis and Me” has sparked controversy. After seeing the script, the King’s daughter shared letters prior to her death in 2023 indicating that the film is representing her father negatively and that her mother, Priscilla, has no idea of the impact of this narrative.

In her book, Priscilla wanted to show us Elvis as a man, not just the star. Describing her lifestyle with the legend as difficult, she shares moments which demonstrate Elvis as bent on controlling his partner — from her posture, dress, and her career choices, even before they were married. He treated her as “his living doll,” she shares, even obligating her to wear fake double lashes as she delivered their only daughter, Lisa Marie.

… and it is precisely these incidents that Lisa Marie fiercely objected to, claiming that the film makes her “father only come across as a predator and manipulative” and that even her mother never saw Elvis that way.

But Sofia was intent on sharing Priscilla’s experience as a woman, she said at a press conference, according to Variety. For instance, Priscilla pressed on the fact that Elvis never took advantage of her and waited until their wedding night to become intimate — when she was 21. Elvis was fully aware of the age gap between him and Priscilla, she adds, highlighting that he first met her when she was just 14.

Coppola did openly disagree with Presley’s letters, stating, through a representative, that she hoped that Presley would “feel differently” after seeing the film. In fact, Coppola said that she wanted to honor Priscilla and to show her remarkable love story with Presley’s father from a feminine perspective. But will the film sway Lisa Marie’s opinion? We guess we’ll never really know.

The movie was first released in September in the Venice Film Festival and in the US on November 3, 2023. We still don’t know when it will hit theaters in Om El Donia.

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