{"id":29954,"date":"2026-01-17T18:20:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?p=29954"},"modified":"2026-01-17T18:20:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:20:19","slug":"bishop-steven-looks-at-grok-x-and-creation-of-deepfakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?p=29954","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Steven looks at &#8220;Grok, X and\u00a0creation of deepfakes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Grok, X and&nbsp;creation of deepfakes<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>From a perspective of Christian faith, all the major world faiths, and civil society, the unleashing of this capacity in Grok by X is truly appalling. The sexualised deepfakes of real individuals used without their consent is immensely damaging to the individual&#8217;s dignity and the dignity of our society.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anglican.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=14501d5eebc3e98fa3015a290&amp;id=1c3bc9e32c&amp;e=2732fe43d4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">In his latest&nbsp;Substack<\/a>, Bishop Steven looks at the capacity for harm from deepfakes, drawing on his experience chairing an interdisciplinary Westminster seminar on the subject, and urges people to read<em> The New Age of Sexism<\/em> by Laura Bates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grok, X and&nbsp;creation of deepfakes From a perspective of Christian faith, all the major world faiths, and civil society, the unleashing of this capacity in Grok by X is truly appalling. The sexualised deepfakes of real individuals used without their consent is immensely damaging to the individual&#8217;s dignity and the dignity of our society.&#8221; In&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":29615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,372,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-diocesan-news","category-news","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29955,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29954\/revisions\/29955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}