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February 27, 2025

Meet the eight startups using AI to fight malicious AI

The founders defending humans from AI bots, copyright theft, disinformation and deepfakes


Éanna Kelly

4 min read

The team behind Duckduckgoose

Rupert Small calls superhuman-level AI “the ticking time-bomb at the centre of the internet”. 

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