In 2020, a group of young woman found themselves in an AI-fueled nightmare.

Someone was posting photos.

It was just me naked.

Well, not me, but me with someone else's body parts.

This is Levitown, a new podcast from IHeart Podcasts, Bloomberg and Collidercope,

about the rise of deep fate pornography and the battle to stop it.

Listen to Levitown on Bloomberg's Big Take podcast.

Find it on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

From KERA in Dallas, this is Think.

I'm John McKay, sitting in for Chris Boyd.

It was the celebrated author William Faulkner, who, in his book, Requiem for a Nun,

penned the oft-quoted phrase,

The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs

spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence,

of history and eternity. From the beginning of the Republic, America's founders believed a well-informed and educated

citizenry fundamental to survival as a democracy. But lately, the idea of a right to an

education has been battered, and my guest this hour argues, for one group of people in one

section of the country in particular, it is another chapter in an old conflict.

Derek W. Black is the Ernest F. Hollings Chair in Constitutional Law at the University of

South Carolina School of Law. He also directs the law school's constitutional law center.

His new book is Dangerous Learning, the South's Long War on Black Literacy. In it, he

details two centuries of back-and-forth struggle over supporting literacy among African-Americans.

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