“AI companion apps are a nonconsensual nightmare”

UW Security Lab PhD student Grace Brigham is quoted in this article from the Indicator (“AI companion apps are a nonconsensual nightmare”) about her research — with collaborators Yoshi Kohno and Lucy Qin — into how ads on Meta’s platforms promote AI companion apps that enable the nonconsensual use of others’ likenesses. More about Grace’s and collaborators’ work here: https://gracebrigham.substack.com/p/how-ai-companion-apps-enable-and