Ringa Huti Punga

04/02/2026

Mana does not come from appeasing the colonizers.
They want our people dead.

15/01/2026

Imagine your child’s school publishes a photo of your child smiling proudly holding an award.

A day or two later you get a message from a horrified friend - someone has taken the photo and used Twitter’s chat bot to sexualise the image. They’ve used a prompt to strip your child’s clothes.

What do you do? You would think the answer would be easy. Go to the police.

Well we asked the police what parents should do and they told us to do an OIA.

Online, parents have been told to go to Netsafe.

Netsafe’s website tell you to report the image to X which you’ve already done. It asks if you who made the image - you don’t know.

You file a report through Netsafe. Nothing happens. You complain. You get a response offering a call to explain their scope and role.

You go to DIA and report it on their website. You think you’ve done that right but who knows?

Meanwhile the pa******le who did this to your child downloads another image of a child from a media story about their success in sport.

They prompt the chatbot to take their clothes off.

READ: NZ Police don't know what to do about Grok child sexual abuse images https://www.emilywrites.co.nz/nz-police-dont-know-what-to-do-about-grok-child-sexual-abuse-images/

READ: Grok, X/Twitter, and AI deepfakes: An explainer by an NZ expert https://www.emilywrites.co.nz/grok-x-twitter-and-ai-deepfakes-an-explainer-by-an-nz-criminal-law-expert/

Anyone who has a child in their life should be horrified by this.

15/01/2026