Five years ago, this was a vast checkerboard of potato farms on New York's Long Island.

Today, this is Levittown, one of the most remarkable housing developments ever conceived.

Levitown, New York, America's first suburb.

Row after row after row after row of cookie cutter homes.

The picture of the American dream.

But recently, underneath the facade of perfect order, a group of young woman found themselves in an AI-fueled nightmare.

Someone was posting photos of many of the girls that we had gone to school with.

There was one picture of me in a bathing suit

and I didn't have a bathing suit on anymore.

It was just me naked.

Well, not me, but me with someone else's body parts

that looked exactly like my own.

Over the last few years, rapid breakthroughs and machine learning

have made it a lot easier and cheaper to make real-looking photos or videos

of pretty much anything you can think of.

But innovation comes at a price.

I felt gross.

I felt like I needed to take a shower.

I felt like I wanted to cry.

I wanted to throw up.

I wanted to scream.

This is a story about a technology

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