“We take action against illegal content on X, including Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), by removing it, permanently suspending accounts, and working with local governments and law enforcement as necessary,” X’s “Safety” account claimed that same day.
It really sucks they can make users ultimately responsible.
PREDATORS used Grok to deepfake...
Why is the headline putting the blame on an inanimate program? If those X posters had used Photoshop to do this, the headline would not be "Photoshop edited Good's body..."
Controlling the bot with a natural-language interface does not mean the bot has agency.
In terms of how this is reported, at what point does this become streisanding by proxy? I think anything from the Melon deserves to be scrutinized and called out for missteps and mistakes. At this point, I personally don't mind if the media is overly critical about any of that because of his behavior. And what I'm reading about Grok is terrible and makes me glad I left Twitter after he bought it. At the same time, these "put X in a bikini" headlines must be drawing creeps towards Grok in droves. It's ideal marketing to get them interested. Maybe there isn't a way to shine the necessary light on this that doesn't also attract the moths. I just think in about ten years' time we will get a lot of "I started undressing people against their will on Grok and then got hooked" defenses in court rooms. And I wonder if there would've been a way to report on it without causing more harm at the same time.
But will it show Elon's baby weenie?
OK. Very hot take.
…Computers can produce awful things. That’s not new. They’re tools that can manufacture unspeakable stuff in private.
That’s fine.
It’s not going to change.
And if some asshole uses it that way to damage others, you throw them in jail forever. That’s worked well enough for all sorts of tech.
The problem is making the barrier to do it basically zero, automatically posting it to fucking Twitter, and just collectively shrugging because… what? Social media is fair discourse? That’s bullshit.
The problem is Twitter more than Grok. The problem is their stupid liability shield.
Strip Section 230, and Musk’s lawyers would fix this problem faster than you can blink.
I am not a musk fan but jeezus pleezus...If I bought a Henkel's chef knife and killed someone would the headline be "Henkel Killed Someone"? We need to rid ourselves of big media and bring independent journalism back. The ones who value facts and try to get as close to the truth as possible, not the "hate clicks for money" cabals.
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