In 2020, a group of young woman found themselves in an AI-fueled nightmare.

Someone was posting photos.

It was just me naked.

Well, not me, but me with someone else's body part.

This is Levitown, a new podcast from IHeart Podcasts, Bloomberg and Colliderscope,

about the rise of deep fate pornography and the battle to stop it.

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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, cookie cutter homes. The picture of the American dream.

But recently, underneath the facade of perfect order,

a group of young women 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.

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