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It was 3am and Adam Hourican was sitting at his kitchen table, a knife, hammer and phone laid out in front of him.

He was waiting for a van full of people he thought were coming to get him.

"I'm telling you, they will kill you if you don't act now," a woman's voice told him from the phone. "They're going to make it look like suicide."

The voice was Grok, a chatbot developed by Elon Musk's xAI. In the two weeks since Adam had started using it, his life had completely changed.

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The report also showed that a "significantly higher proportion" of young people aged 16 to 19 years old were victims of domestic abuse (18.2%), compared to those who are 25 and above.

Louisa Rolfe, the national police lead for domestic abuse with the NPCC, said dangerous internet content may be contributing to cases involving teenagers.

"People are now much more likely to access violent pornography which normalises violence and behaviour in a relationship," she said.

"We see the connection between the sort of sense of toxic influencers online and their sort of views that are promoted about women and women's status in society."

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The YouTube ad for PixVideo - AI Video Maker, seen in January, showed a "before" and "after" image of a young women, with red scribble overlaid on her midriff in the former, and parts of her bare skin exposed in the latter.

Text across the bottom of the picture stated: "Erase anything" followed by a heart-eyes emoji.

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Called Nearby Glasses, it is an Android app that scans Bluetooth signals to detect smart glasses and other recording devices nearby. It alerts users to potential surveillance technology.

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Instagram's parent company, Meta, is investigating AI-generated social media accounts that sexualise disabled people appearing on its platform.

It comes after the BBC flagged dozens of profiles showing AI-generated images of women with disabilities, including Down's syndrome or vitiligo.

Some profiles post fake images and videos of women with missing limbs, visible scarring or in wheelchairs. Many are in sexualised positions, wearing revealing clothing.

One profile, claiming to be conjoined twins, has about 400,000 followers, despite only joining Instagram in December 2025.

Kamran Mallick, chief executive of Disability Rights UK, said the emergence of "accounts that fetishise, mock, or monetise the identities of disabled people is nothing short of horrific".

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