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AI Used to Spread Fake Nudes of Students at a New Jersey High School

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Tech News, News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The latest form of online harassment is powered by artificial intelligence. WSJ family and tech columnist Julie Jargon joins host Julie Chang to discuss how girls at one New Jersey high school found out that some classmates were sharing fake nude images of them in group chats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:16.0

Welcome to Tech News Briefing.

0:21.0

It's Tuesday November 7th. I'm Julie Chang for the

0:23.8

Wall Street Journal. Online bullying has been widespread for years with

0:30.1

smartphones and their cameras making the damage deeper and longer lasting.

0:35.0

But the latest form of harassment is powered by artificial intelligence.

0:40.0

Our family and tech columnist Julie Jargan will join us later in the show to tell us about the latest uproar at one New Jersey high school.

0:49.0

But starting with some headlines, the CEO of Bumble, Whitney Wolf Heard, is stepping down from the app she founded nearly a decade ago.

1:01.0

She will be succeeded by Liddyani Jones, the current CEO of Slack.

1:05.2

Jones starts as CEO of Bumble on January 2nd. Wolf Heard will remain at the company as

1:10.7

Executive Chair. Our style news reporter Sarah Ashley O'Brien says the

1:15.4

leadership change is coming at a challenging time for the dating app industry.

1:19.3

There are concerns broadly in the industry about whether the market for dating apps is oversaturated and

1:25.2

Bumble has been hit with some of those concerns.

1:27.8

They stem from Tinder, the most popular dating app, which is owned by Match Group, has had a tough time kind of converting its

1:34.6

users into paid users for the app and we saw that last week when they reported

1:39.6

their earnings and their stock took a hit.

1:41.6

Jones says she's excited about how artificial intelligence could be used to bolster Bumble's mission of facilitating positive connections.

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