Let's be clear here: It is not Grok. Grok is a software developed by employees of Elon Musk that is capable of generating child porn and deep fakes of ordinary people. That software doesn't have the saveguards to prevent this and was released to the public. Elon Musk, the whole leadership of X.com and their employees there were made aware that this is happening and did nothing for several days. So let's not pretend that some "Grok" was doing it.
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Paid for by the US taxpayers who keep giving Elmo more money to not do projects, but do this shit instead
Hey so question, how come we have to push so hard for a child porn machine to be called a child porn machine?
The Pentagon used OUR Tax Dollars to BUY This tool! How COOL!
-Democrats in Office!
Please stop using Musk's products. He's a Nazi.
Saving the children as usual
We care more about this than we do about school shootings.
Why does it say that Grok is doing this? Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that real people are using Grok as a tool to create this shit? Like place the blame where it belongs.
This is what I want to know. It doesn't do anything unless someone tells it to. Why aren't the people telling it to make child porn being held accountable? My 3D printer can make guns, but they won't send the printer to jail if I decide to tell it to make one.
"Twitter users use child porn machine to make millions of images of child porn." Would be accurate imho. Legally though AI generated works are owned by no one because the machine made it but cant own it.
The blame kinda rests with the creators of the tool as well as the "content" creators, no? And isn't it more important to inform people about what a service is allowing than pointing out what specific users are doing? This is ultimately a reflection of X as well as X users.
btw if you or anyone still uses X, it's fair to assume you're a pedo and or a nazi.
X is for nazi pedos
I LOVE how we're giving this CHILD PORN CREATION TOOL BILLIONS of US Tax Payer Dollars while ALSO Spending US Tax Payer Dollars on PROTECTING JEFFREY EPSTEIN and ALSO Spending US Tax Payer Dollars on ARMED MEN KIDNAPPING CHILDREN TO PLACES WERE NOT ALLOWED TO SEE!
Limited liability companies are "limited" in the sense that there are limitations on the responsibilities of the members of the corporation. The CEO can't be held personally liable for the actions of the company, for example; their underlings could have been responsible and kept the leader in the dark.
However, there's this interesting legal standard wherein it is possible to "pierce the corporate veil" and hold corporate leadership personally liable for illegal actions their company took, if you can show that by all reasonable standards they must or should have known about the illegal activity.
Anyway Elon has been elbow-deep in the inner workings of Xitter for years now, by his own admission, right? Really getting in there to tinker and build new stuff, like Grok and its image generation tools. Seems like he knows an awful lot about how that works. An awful lot.
Oh man the last three years have been rough on him.
Hopefully the next three are worse.
Having giant growths in your bladder that mean you can't pee when you want to, and can't stop peeing when you don't want to, will wear ya down.
I hear he's doing ketamine about it, which may not be the best idea because ketamine got him there...
I thought he was the giant growth on his bladder.
The CEO can’t be held personally liable for the actions of the company, for example; their underlings could have been responsible and kept the leader in the dark.
The onus should be on the company to prove their employees kept the CEO in the dark, not the other way around.
Funnest part about this is that muskrat is renowned for shoving his dick into the business workings
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So nazis and child porn huh? Twitter is the ultimate american conservatives wet dream.
It wasn’t just one salute. Fucker did it twice with gusto.
If people are still on his platform after this and the grok thing, they are stupid, evil, or both.
Or not very in tune with everything. I learned about all this couple months ago from shitty upbringing keeping me isolated for long time. Depends what kept people knowing about all this. There are some people I know that never heard of all this too because they just focus on living their life day by day
There's always room for exceptions, no doubt, everyone's only human after all
Yup but still we got this!! Lets keep doing, informing, and mobilizing more people where we can!! We the people have the power!!!!
It's astonishing how many organizations are still using it for their official communications when there are ready alternatives.
After Elon wrecked everything, not-logged in users can't even see the recent tweets of an account. So those orgs are not only using a nazi-childporn platform, nobody can see their tweets
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Elon is a disgusting human being.
This is a fucking nightmare. Twitter has effectively become a sexual exploitation generator.
I have argued extensively with people on lemmy about why having AI porn generated of you without your consent is deeply traumatizing and a violation of your rights and privacy. Actual entire threads of people telling me that AI deep fake porn was perfectly fine and that we're being too sensitive to not want our male peers and random strangers making AI deep fake porn of us. Wonder where those people are now.
I don't watch PBS News Hour but my parents do and I have to listen to it from time to time. They characterized this issue as one of Grok creating "explicit" AI images and artificially generating pictures of real women (not "girls") in "bathing suits". Not exactly an accurate characterization of CSAM.
And that's the "leftist propaganda" according to MAGA. PBS and NPR have so overcorrected, and in exchange have gotten nothing but defunded
In my opinion, the rightward correction has gotten even worse since the defunding. For a long time now they've run a graphic showing their corporate sponsors before each broadcast (Meta and oil companies often show up there). They love to say it's "viewers like you" that make them possible, but I think the corporate sponsors are a lot more important. It's been a very long time since the government funding has even been that big a chunk of their income.
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See, though, there aren't any consequences for illegal actions by the filthy rich. That's why they're better than the poors.
Why is Grok not being charged with CSAM generation?
Have you seen who's in charge of our government? They're probably the ones making the prompts
Because the US seems to be supportive of it. They lashed out at governments who've said to resolve it or face site bans.
MUsk is strongly associated with "ms kung fu" lady, and epstein, so im not surprised.
Isn't it about 53k per violation?
If even Grok shut down completely, it doesn't mean anything. Pandora's box is open and AI generated porn is here to stay. There are soooooooooooooooo many websites that exist just to generate deepfake nudes and AI porn. You take down one, another 100 pop up. It's a futile game of whackamole.
Even if we passed laws banning this shit, the technology that enables it to be a thing is free, open source, and can very easily be modified to do precisely this. Anybody can run these models locally at any time, and nobody can do a thing about it. Basically what I'm trying to say is that we're cooked.
I mean, yeah, but it's one thing if some perv's running it on their own box after reading 5 guides vs. elon musk having a tiwtter bot that does it for you without even trying to stop it from doing that even after knowing it's doing it. the former is unavoidable, the latter is a choice he's made for some fucking reason
I mean agree that we should prevent it in such obvious cases like this, I was just making the point that this is going to be a very persistent issue.
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Imagine going back in time to 2015 and showing this article to someone.
Don't worry, I've heard they limited this wonderful feature to paid accounts.
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