Renee Chopping

27/08/2026

25/08/2026

Post from 👉🏽 Trusted news for Adelaide and SA EXCLUSIVE: A top Aussie teen surf brand has stood by its controversial marketing after critics claimed its provocative ads show young women in “s*xualised poses”.⁣
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📌 Read the full story at the link in bio.

21/08/2026

The use of generative AI is making it easier than ever to produce misogynistic narratives at scale - and social media algorithms are helping distribute them.

Short AI-generated videos featuring talking fruit, animals, food and objects are racking up views across social media.

They look absurd.

Pregnant bananas. Cheating strawberries. Talking fruit caught up in bizarre relationship dramas.

It would be easy to dismiss it all as harmless AI slop. But look beyond the cute characters and some very familiar messages about women emerge.

S*xual violence. Forced pregnancy. False s*xual assault allegations. Body shaming. Women trading s*x for money or career advancement. Women portrayed as s*xually promiscuous, manipulative and deceptive.

This isn’t actually harmless at all.

Keep reading about what’s hiding inside AI ‘fruit dramas’ - link in comments.

20/08/2026

“The women standing before you today are exhibit A in the failure of the system to protect women who are subjected to serious harm – including threats to their lives - for fighting for women’s safety in the digital public square.” – Melinda Tankard Reist, Movement Director

“After months and months of sustained daily attack and so many doors closed in our face we came to the realisation that the systems in place could not protect us.” – Coralie Alison, Operations Director

“There were times I no longer felt safe in my own community. I found myself wondering whether the men around me had taken part in the attacks.”
– Renee Chopping, Campaigns Strategy

“What quickly became apparent is that our abusers believed we deserved it. We deserved to be r***d, killed, humiliated, and to live in fear. And that made it okay – even justifiable. Even righteous.” – Caitlin Roper, Campaigns Manager

Last week we launched two major reports into the global coordinated attack against us over the last year. The event took place at Parliament House in Canberra, with report author Dr Patrick Scoyler-Gray, and a few members of our team speaking.

We’ve published selected excerpts from our speeches.

Pictured (L-R): Dr Patrick Scolyer-Gray, Renee Chopping, Melinda Tankard Reist, Coralie Alison, Caitlin Roper.

20/08/2026

The AI Fruit Drama Is Not a Joke. It Is a Case Study in Algorithmic Misogyny - Kirra Pendergast

'The fruit drama trend is not a moment of internet silliness we will laugh about in six months. It is the moment the misogyny-industrial complex acquired an infinite content-generation pipeline, wrapped it in a Pixar-type aesthetic that slips past every filter a parent, a teacher or a platform is currently running, and pointed it at children.'

Most of us have not slowed down. We have scrolled past it a hundred times and filed it under silly.If you have been anywhere near TikTok, Instagram Reels, or YouTube Shorts in the last six months, you have seen them. AI-generated soap operas starring fruit people.A strawberry cheats on her husband w...

18/08/2026

Some great tips in this article on how to open up conversations with kids about their use of AI...

Important topics to discuss with teens include:

👉🏻 Chatbots don’t “know” people; in interactions, they are predicting responses based on patterns in the chat. Therefore, any sense of understanding, connection or empathy – however convincing – is simulated, not real .

👉🏻 Chatbots can make mistakes or entirely make things up – called “hallucinations” in the AI field – while showing great confidence in these inaccuracies.

👉🏻 Chatbots are “tuned” by their creators to be agreeable and they tend to tell people what they want to hear , which can make their outputs less trustworthy or less useful in real-life contexts.

👉🏻 Chats with chatbots are not private or privileged, and conversations may be stored, used to train future models, reviewed by humans or surfaced in a data breach.

It’s 2 a.m., and a teenage girl, worrying about a friend issue, lies awake. Rather than wake her parents, she picks up her phone, opens an AI app and

17/08/2026

13/08/2026

*Content warning* Threats of r*pe, murder and deepfake p**n used against Collective Shout: Our team featured on ABC

A year ago, Coralie Alison woke to find her personal phone number, date of birth and passwords had been posted online.

In the hours that followed, she received horrific deepfake images of herself.

"Images of my throat slit, my body burned alive, decapitated, stripped of my clothing and minced alive," she said.

Ms Alison was one of five members of the women's rights group Collective Shout who found themselves the target of violent abuse after the group successfully campaigned to remove video games depicting r*pe, inc*st and violence towards women and girls from online platforms.

The women detailed the abuse they received in a report released on Wednesday, while the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) was also commissioned to write a report on their experience.

The report found the targeted abuse was fuelled by misogyny and disinformation that tech platforms were unwilling or unable to stop.

Melinda Tankard Reist said the coordinated abuse was intended to "humiliate, threaten and endanger our safety."

"The system [that was] supposed to protect us did not."

Caitlin Roper said, "The reality is that many of our abusers are 'regular men', who threatened to r*pe us, hunt us down and kill us from their actual social media accounts, showing them smiling alongside their wives and sometimes daughters."

"My greatest hope for this report is that the next woman who speaks out against male violence is protected, not punished for refusing to be silenced," said group member Renee Chopping.

13/08/2026