I’ve got my eye on you

Two weeks ago, I watched a video on X (formerly Twitter) of a man using AI to digitally undress a hijab-wearing Muslim woman on an Indian train. After clicking pictures of her, his simple one-line command could sexualise her on his device and strip her image of clothes and dignity. The person who recorded the video complained to the Railway Police, who then trashed him. Even watching the video sent shivers down my spine because I knew that I could be at the receiving end of a crime as heinous as this.Poet-author Meena Kandasamy, whose book Fieldwork as a Sex Object deals with this issue, spoke at an event conducted by The Hindu on August 21. She said women’s agency does not exist any more, especially since big tech is inherently misogynistic. The concept of bodily autonomy, particularly fo