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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 hours ago

Paid for by the US taxpayers who keep giving Elmo more money to not do projects, but do this shit instead

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 10 points 6 hours ago

Hey so question, how come we have to push so hard for a child porn machine to be called a child porn machine?

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 hours ago

The Pentagon used OUR Tax Dollars to BUY This tool! How COOL!

-Democrats in Office!

[–] brooke592@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago

We care more about this than we do about school shootings.

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago

Saving the children as usual

[–] glibg@lemmy.ca 9 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

"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.

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 11 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

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

[–] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 32 points 22 hours ago

Please stop using Musk's products. He's a Nazi.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 16 hours ago

MUsk is strongly associated with "ms kung fu" lady, and epstein, so im not surprised.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 14 points 23 hours ago

Elon is a disgusting human being.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

And that's the "leftist propaganda" according to MAGA. PBS and NPR have so overcorrected, and in exchange have gotten nothing but defunded

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago

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.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 points 16 hours ago

it does it to pictures of real 12 year olds and nudes too, not just the nazi bikinis (but also that)

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 day ago

So nazis and child porn huh? Twitter is the ultimate american conservatives wet dream.

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 74 points 1 day ago

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!

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 90 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh man the last three years have been rough on him.

Hopefully the next three are worse.

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 25 points 1 day ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why is Grok not being charged with CSAM generation?

[–] Stabbitha@lemmy.world 16 points 23 hours ago

Have you seen who's in charge of our government? They're probably the ones making the prompts

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Because the US seems to be supportive of it. They lashed out at governments who've said to resolve it or face site bans.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Jumbie@lemmy.zip 44 points 1 day ago

It wasn’t just one salute. Fucker did it twice with gusto.

[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

If people are still on his platform after this and the grok thing, they are stupid, evil, or both.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It's astonishing how many organizations are still using it for their official communications when there are ready alternatives.

[–] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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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[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] kevin2107@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago

Isn't it about 53k per violation?

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago

See, though, there aren't any consequences for illegal actions by the filthy rich. That's why they're better than the poors.

[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Time to start creating and spreading nudes of all these billionaires wives.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 19 hours ago

Weren't they already picking out their wives from public nudes?

[–] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] brooke592@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

I agree.

It's fine if people want to get mad about it, but it's more effective to just learn to live with it because it's not going away.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 points 16 hours ago

Where is Zensuraula when you need her?

[–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago

Imagine going back in time to 2015 and showing this article to someone.

[–] Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago

But I cant even get grok to make a picture of a 3 boobed Sydney Sweeney. Smh

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Hmmm. And this is the work of the 'Genius at Davos', you say? And where was the electricity generated ... that state that ran out of electric for weeks a few years back?

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