Just one day after Elon Musk’s social media platform X (formerly Twitter) blocked searches for Taylor Swift over the circulation of fake/nasty AI-generated images, Victorian Animal Justice Party MP Georgie Purcell took to the platform to call out Nine News for creating and using a digitally altered photo of her. The edited snap used during a story on duck hunting made Purcell’s breasts appear larger and her clothing more revealing. Using a side-by-side of the fake next to the original, Purcell said the incident had not been on her “bingo card”, and she couldn’t “imagine this happening to a male MP”. Nine apologised, saying the changes resulted from an “automation by Photoshop” and that no staff were involved. Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan labelled the incident concerning, calling on people to “think about the message that it sends particularly to young women” who see “distorted images” day after day.