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Deepfaked & Doomed: Sextortion Bots, Cyber Shadows & the New AI Underworld artwork

The Grind with Art Grindstone

Deepfaked & Doomed: Sextortion Bots, Cyber Shadows & the New AI Underworld

JUN 4, 2025 • 45 MIN • SEASON 1, EPISODE 14

A geomagnetic storm rocks the planet as supervolcanoes stir and nations scheme in silence—but tonight’s darkest threat isn’t natural or nuclear. It’s synthetic. In this explosive episode of The Grind, Art Grindstone takes you from solar storms and...

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A geomagnetic storm rocks the planet as supervolcanoes stir and nations scheme in silence—but tonight’s darkest threat isn’t natural or nuclear. It’s synthetic.

 In this explosive episode of The Grind, Art Grindstone takes you from solar storms and secret military ops straight into the unfiltered horror of AI-powered sextortion bots.

We trace how Telegram channels, crypto cashouts, and LLM-powered phishing kits have built a growing black market of non-consensual deepfakes—many targeting minors.

We’ll explore:

  • Whether solar flares can trigger tectonic chaos
  • China’s quantum leap into AI dominance
  • NATO’s knife-edge tensions with Russia
  • The anatomy of an AI sextortion ring
  • The truth behind the Take It Down Act—and what it actually changes

Conspiracy or catastrophe? In the final act, we separate the hysteria from the hard evidence.

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The Grind with Art Grindstone
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14 of 29
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1
Released
Jun 4, 2025
Runtime
45:22

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The Grind with Art Grindstone

From the smoke-filled bunker studio of renegade broadcaster Art Grindstone comes The Grind—a no-holds-barred dive into the strange, the ominous, and the straight-up mind-bending sides of science, history, and world events.

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