Countries worldwide are emphasizing the urgent need to strengthen institutional, educational, and legal mechanisms to prevent, sanction, and eradicate these behaviors in the digital environment. In our country, the Olimpia Law recognizes digital violence as the dissemination of intimate content—real or manipulated—without consent, causing harm to the dignity and integrity of individuals. Thus, the call is not to disappear from the digital world, but to inhabit it with greater human awareness. The violence included defamation, threats, and the sending of violent AI-generated videos involving their children; with a level of cruelty that transcends the digital and inserts itself into structural and gender-based violence dynamics. The three cases illustrate how artificial intelligence and digital technologies can be instrumentalized to amplify violence and hinder access to prompt and effective justice. Of course, it is urgent to build policies and technological practices that place human dignity at the center; however, these measures always arrive late, and while they do, the task falls to us: AI feeds on what we share. Every photo and video is raw material. The victim has denounced her own husband, Christian Ulmen, as the perpetrator, reminding us that much of this violence occurs in relationships of power and trust. In CDMX, Diego “N”, a student at the National Polytechnic Institute, has been reported for using artificial intelligence to manipulate photographs of his classmates and generate sexual images without their consent. To regulate without stifling innovation, to protect without censoring, and to guarantee rights in deeply changing digital environments requires a comprehensive look that articulates technology and human rights. The case sparked student protests and highlighted the ease of access to these technologies, as well as the lack of effective protocols in educational institutions. Here I share three recent cases that illustrate the abjectness of our species with a clarity that should, humanly speaking, make us uncomfortable. Collien Fernandes, an actress and presenter, reported in Germany a campaign of synthetic pornography against her, which intensified in recent times using fake profiles under her name through which sexually explicit images were distributed, simulating her voice, all generated with AI. The victims faced dissemination of the material, revictimization, and public exposure. Meanwhile, lawyer Perla Yazmín Calvillo denounced how “La Tía Paty”, a social network hired by her to give professional publicity to her firm, was in reality an extortion network in Nuevo León. Nevertheless, the speed of technological development continues to outpace the institutional capacity for response. This advance has been key to making visible and sanctioning these behaviors. Hence, we are in an era of extraordinarily positive advances—such as the early detection of diseases like cancer—and of extraordinarily harmful events—such as new forms of extortion and violence, particularly against women, girls, children, and adolescents. Only in this way can the digital environment become a meeting point and not a digital fantasy of alienation. It knows it and moreover uses it without moral filters. Terence, the Roman playwright of the 2nd century B.C., to defend the ability to empathize with the pain of another, gave voice to a character with the manifesto “I am a human being and nothing human is alien to me.” Miguel de Unamuno took up the phrase centuries later to delve deeper: what makes a human being human is not only expansion, but also contraction, the duality in its extension: cruelty, tenderness, deceit, generosity, etc. Thus, in each of us dwells the best and the worst of human existence. And AI knows it.
