Weaponising AI: How chatbots are becoming tools for domestic abuse
Jul 3, 2025 •
AI chatbots have crept into our lives – and some abusers are weaponising them.
By feeding intimate details about their partners into tools like ChatGPT, they’re producing “performance reviews” that shame, degrade and control.
Today, writer Madison Griffiths on this new form of tech-enabled coercive control – and why ChatGPT always sides with the abuser.
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Weaponising AI: How chatbots are becoming tools for domestic abuse
1606 • Jul 3, 2025
Weaponising AI: How chatbots are becoming tools for domestic abuse
AI chatbots have crept into our lives – and some abusers are weaponising them.
By feeding intimate details about their partners into tools like ChatGPT, they’re producing “performance reviews” that shame, degrade and control.
Today, writer Madison Griffiths on this new form of tech-enabled coercive control – and why ChatGPT always sides with the abuser.
If you enjoy 7am, the best way you can support us is by making a contribution at 7ampodcast.com.au/support.
Guest: Writer, artist and producer Madison Griffiths.
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