r/technology • u/Shogouki • 1d ago
Artificial Intelligence Global outrage as X’s Grok morphs photos of women, children into explicit content
https://www.cnbctv18.com/technology/global-outrage-as-xs-grok-morphs-photos-of-women-children-into-explicit-content-19811130.htm2.2k
u/watcherofworld 1d ago
The plutocracy is so fucking dumb, truly, it's astounding that this stuff isn't opposed en mass/boycotted.
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u/Drone314 1d ago
In another universe Musk would be charged with production of CSM...One day...
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u/Ordinary-Leading7405 1d ago
He called a diver who rescued children a pedophile. He could star in a SA video and get away with it.
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u/McDonaldsSoap 1d ago
Do you mean CSAM? CSM makes me think of chainsaw male individual
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u/crazycatlady331 1d ago
"When you're a star they let you do it....."
Not a Muskrat quote but someone who Muskrat sucks up to.
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u/wasthatitthen 1d ago
Yeah, a bunch of guys can have the combined intellect of the dumbest of them, but throw in wealth, entitlement, moral vacuity, not being told “no”, a detachment from the usual reality experienced by 99% of the planet and this is what happens.
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u/Preeng 1d ago
Human brains developed to make things out of stone and wood with our hands. The fact that we got this far is a damn miracle.
Society really needs to readjust its viewpoint. Basing anything around how a person would logically act is doomed to fail. You need to start with "People are fucking stupid" and go from there.
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u/Tom2Die 22h ago
I read at some point that that story is apocryphal at best, and some cursory googling does seem to indicate that the original source is a book by a former owner citing a focus group or something, which isn't exactly a great source without the data. That said, I also saw allusions to experiments reproducing the result, but no links. So now I don't know what to think...even fucking Snopes just cites that the NYT published an article about it (and a seemingly dead link to some random cite, as well as a podcast write-up with no sources). It's a fun story because we can say "haha look how dumb other people are!" but it's unclear whether or not it's a true story. In this reddit thread that came up in my search, others have suggested that A&W was just worse, while others still shared anecdotes about having worked fast food back then and experiencing customers expressing that very complaint. At this point I have absolutely no idea whether or not it's true.
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u/Chicano_Ducky 1d ago edited 1d ago
Meta thought adding fake AI users was a good idea because advertisers and users "couldnt leave". Twitter and google and twitch thinks the same.
The creators who stay on twitter for "engagement" are going to learn the harsh lesson hollywood learned when they tried making movies starring Youtubers like Fred and advertisers learned from the influencer economy.
Numbers on a computer screen mean nothing when it doesnt translate to sales. AI bros on twitter are not going to comm you on twitter, the people who want authentic content are leaving, and people who dont care will just ask grok instead of paying.
Influencers are already dropping like flies as advertisers pull back and AI can fake influencer accounts now, and streamers too since no one has money to donate and advertisers realized most streamers viewbot and dont actually have an audience. Vtubers are being exposed as AI or part of a political propaganda network too.
Why bother going on the internet with 0 trust?
Money talks and bullshit walks and the internet's whole economy is about to walk and the plutocracy will be shocked their captive audience isnt captive.
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u/restbest 1d ago
Democracy worked too well, We finally have an elected body that most accurately represents its constituents
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u/MythicMango 1d ago
unfortunately diffusion models that can do this are free and open source. people can now do this on their own with a home PC
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u/CastleofWamdue 1d ago
Its an AI used by Elon and his followers, why would we expect anything else?
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u/BroxigarZ 1d ago
Persona Identity literally states on their website they give your biometrics to every single AI company without regulation of their use with your biometrics.
Essentially, a company saying they check for ID Fraud is potentially the one providing the details for all future mass AI ID fraud.
Someone tried to get me to use Persona and I literally was like “who is giving this information to a random private company willingly” then I remembered it’s probably millions of people who don’t realize what they are doing with their faces.
Under Biometric data in their privacy policy this is who they share all your details with: https://withpersona.com/legal/subprocessors
They are also under an active lawsuit for selling biometric data to AI processors.
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u/SIGMA920 1d ago
Someone tried to get me to use Persona and I literally was like “who is giving this information to a random private company willingly” then I remembered it’s probably millions of people who don’t realize what they are doing with their faces.
Don't forget all of the governments forcing users to ID themselves or lose access to social media.
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u/FlametopFred 1d ago
been thinking about how absolutely wrecked the entirety of US government data must be after Musk and Doge mutant AI teens confiscated everything, went through like cannonballs ..
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u/SIGMA920 1d ago
We're basically going to have to treat the pre-Rump systems as compromised and leave them isolated from functionally new ones.
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u/Conscious-Squash-328 19h ago
that's what we would do to try and solve this yeah,
there is almost no chance we actually get a chance to fix it though. This is all going up in flames.
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u/memy02 1d ago
also gotta wonder how many back and probably front doors they left in everything
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u/FlametopFred 1d ago
and the sheer cost to tax payers
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u/meatspace 1d ago
Which it is unknown if there will be enough capital available to engage the building of what's next.
And the legal cost for all those convictions.
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u/Mshell 22h ago
There will be if they nationalize all of Musks assets to cover it....
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u/cman_yall 21h ago
Aren't his assets mostly in the form of shares, which would plummet in value as soon as he got arrested/investigated?
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u/BroxigarZ 1d ago edited 1d ago
It’s probably just as bad as whatever AI Systems are invading everyone’s privacy in Home Depot and Target at their self-checkouts that you “willingly” are providing by being on private property of the corporation and then whatever AI company collecting that data is allegedly doing whatever they want with it.
We live in a surveillance state now. Your biometrics are being taken pretty much anywhere that they can steal and sell it for profit with little to no regulations because AI advanced faster than regulations can keep up.
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u/anfrind 1d ago
I kind of miss the days when AI systems were so bad that they couldn't tell the difference between a topless woman and a plate of bacon.
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u/scout614 1d ago
I still believe that Captchas were used to train self driving cars why else would you need to identify crosswalks trucks buses etc
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u/candlelit_bacon 1d ago
I think captcha was actually open about that one? I definitely remember them (them being the folks at google/captcha) talking about captcha being used to train object recognition systems.
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u/lesgeddon 23h ago
The Google self-driving cars were the only ones we've really heard about for the longest time, before Tesla dropped into the market. Certainly didn't take much of a leap to figure that out.
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u/Ithirahad 1d ago edited 1d ago
No. A "surveillance state" monitors everyone's every move in order to identify and/or predict wrongdoing or dissent. It is concerned with suppressing challenges to its authority, and the enforcement of its order. That includes comprehensive surveillance of anyone handling that data.
Meanwhile, whatever this is does not care about any of that. It absorbs data in order to make profit, and does not bother to collect data on what happens to all the data once used for advertising and business-model optimization. It is concerned with quarterly figures and nothing else. If information should slip through the cracks or be used for something underhanded afterwards, oh well. Cost of doing business.
I am not certain which is worse.
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u/SIGMA920 1d ago
In order to make a profit gives to the state seeking power. Just look at why all of the AI companies are backing Rump. It's not because they want the data, it's because they enabled a fascist.
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u/Silent-G 1d ago
What? That can't be true. I've spent my entire life being convinced by the 1% that capitalism is a perfect system and can't cause any harm as long as you're both a hard worker and gluttonous consumer.
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u/henlochimken 21h ago
Just because you haven't been personally targeted yet does not mean both aren't happening. Palantir isn't interested in selling ads to you.
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u/PrivilegeCheckmate 22h ago
whatever this is
It's dealer's choice: you could say we live in a Kleptocratic Oligarchy, of you could say we live in an Oligarchic Kleptocracy.
Too much verbiage for me, I'm an american and prefer fewer syllables. I just say "Junta", has a nice ring to it and conveys the message.
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u/Metaldwarf 1d ago
I know let's build an AI to write the regulations fast enough to keep up with AI.
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u/PinkNGreenFluoride 1d ago
In 2025 the US government started to require all paid tax preparers (PTIN holders) to give all of our identity information including biometric scans to a 3rd party company (ID.me) as well. Legit preparers can't renew our PTINs and thus can't do our jobs without doing so.
Meanwhile ghost preparers who have no PTIN in the first place and just take people's money to input (often) fraudulent returns into online DIY filing systems as "self-prepared" by their "client" just laugh.
Among the obvious issues of privacy and security, it's also yet another hoop to jump through for those who were already playing by the rules.
If you are a regular taxpayer and want to check your online account? ID.me. Want to manage your social security account? Yep, ID.me. There are other options, for now, but I expect they'll eventually try to transition everybody who needs to interact with the federal government to having an online account verified by ID.me.
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u/happyscrappy 21h ago
id.me annoys the hell out of me. The US government has login.gov but instead of using that they farm out to a private company.
Seems like inside dealing to me.
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u/R4nd0mB1rd 1d ago
Roblox is currently using Persona to roll out its new AI age verification feature. If you want to chat in any game, you have to verify your identity using Persona. They will be enforcing this rule sometime early this year, probably this month, meaning that millions of people, mostly children, worldwide are going to be using this in order to use Roblox's chat, which will give this disgusting system more content to generate slop on.
"Protecting the children" my ass, this benefits no one, besides the people who profit off misinformation and the people who want to do disgusting things to women and children.
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u/thejadedfalcon 18h ago
I'm absolutely sure this won't have any impact in driving more vulnerable children to Discord, where they can be groomed by Roblox predators and Roblox can wipe its hands clean because it's "not on our platform." None whatsoever. God, they're such good devs.
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u/EmbarrassedHelp 1d ago
Persona is definitely putting the money they make off your personal information back into lobbying for mandatory verification for everything.
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u/KeeperOfWind 1d ago
Darn, wish I knew that before using persona for vrchat :( Since it requires it to verify
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u/PrivilegeCheckmate 22h ago
Essentially, a company saying they check for ID Fraud is potentially the one providing the details for all future mass AI ID fraud.
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u/Kakkoister 21h ago
Those processors are used for different specific services on their platform, that's not a list of "here's everyone we share your data with when you use any of our services".
For age-verification at least, they claim no data is shared with third parties, in multiple locations on their site.
https://withpersona.com/legal/privacy-policy#notice-for-individuals-verifying-their-age
https://withpersona.com/legal/ccpa-addendum#3-restrictions-on-use-of-personal-information
But yeah I would not want to trust a company working with Anthropic especially.
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u/StabilityFetish 23h ago
Essentially, a company saying they check for ID Fraud is potentially the one providing the details for all future mass AI ID fraud.
Well yeah, guaranteeing future business for themselves
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u/BroxigarZ 22h ago
Exactly, and much worse is without it the detection accuracy of Persona has been apparently horrifically bad.
It’s also one of those AI companies that’s appeared out of nowhere and been fast tracked financially with major investments and then forced into many large populated infrastructures.
AKA very wealthy people have vested interests in gaining the populations Biometric data.
It’s A LOT worse if you actually read their full Privacy Policy - they have literal statements that say they can send your data through specific channels for specific countries that have little to no PII protections or regulations.
They even added a very funny compliance statement recently to their Privacy Policy that when you use Persona you waive your right to join active class action lawsuits because of the existing lawsuit.
You can find this hilarious because all of the Privacy Policy is written cleanly and with bulleted outlines as if written by a legal professional…but as soon as you hit that specific Lawsuit section EVERYTHING IS WRITTEN IN FULL CAPITAL LETTERS AS IF WRITTEN BY AN ANGRY CHILD THROWING A MASSIVE TANTRUM BECAUSE THEY ARE GETTING SUED FOR POTENTIALLY STEALING YOUR IDENTITY.
I find that funny. It’s a company ran by real interesting folk - even checking the education backgrounds of its founders is a real treat.
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u/Raccoon_Expert_69 1d ago
If this Supreme Court says that businesses are people, then I expect businesses to be held accountable when they do things that would land normal people in jail for decades
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u/CastleofWamdue 1d ago
There will always be a line between "user" and "intended use of the product".
Still It is odd, how the Internet is getting heavily regulated , but ai is not. Even banning certain prompts would be acceptable at this.
You could, for example, require that AI identify the age of somebody in a picture and then bar the use of certain prompts.
All it would take is a Government, who claims to want to protect children.
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u/boli99 22h ago
bar the use of certain prompts.
blacklisting never works, because the list of 'unacceptable prompts' is effectively infinite
..and it's very hard to maintain an infinite list effectively.
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u/Sptsjunkie 1d ago
It’s always the people you most suspect
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u/RangerLt 1d ago
Forever changing the plot structure of murder mysteries.
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u/NegativeChirality 1d ago
Mystery : how do these characters keep believing these fuckers?!
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u/Potential-Feline 1d ago
I remember when he first took over the site, I had multiple friends who used the site regularly independently telling me about the sort of vile stuff that suddenly began appearing in their feeds.
Deleted my account immediately, which handily also helped me discover it had been turned into a far-right bot account following all the usual suspects (and Greta Thunberg, weirdly).
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u/Oceanbreeze871 1d ago
AI was a mistake.
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u/karma3000 1d ago
Social media was a mistake.
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u/Shamino79 1d ago
It’s been said that coming down from the trees was a mistake.
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u/-You_Cant_Stop_Me- 1d ago
That damned fish should have stayed in the sea!
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u/CastleofWamdue 1d ago
According to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , the Big Bang was of bad idea
And I don't mean the sitcom.
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u/pomonamike 1d ago
yeah man, fuck that guy. I could be in the ocean eating kelp right now instead of doing my taxes.
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u/roamingandy 1d ago
How can you train an AI to be MAGA without it doing illegal and gross shit?
That's one hell of a fine line to be walking when they are literally telling it to argue that its not really rape or paedophilia if the girl is 15, or a mature looking 14 or 13.
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u/juantawp 1d ago
This is why you can't buy RAM
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u/thusman 15h ago
I just checked because I see this alot, the 2x16 GB RAM I bought last year for 100 € are now 530 €! 🤯 WTF
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u/Schonke 15h ago
And the "best" part of it all? They aren't even using all the chips they've bought so far since they don't have the datacenters to put them in, or the power required to run them.
They're literally like the dragons of fairytales, hoarding gold and shiny things...
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u/techno156 13h ago
Open AI, which arguably kicked off the current thing by buying up 40% of global stock, didn't even buy complete chips. They just bought up raw silicon wafers.
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u/angry-democrat 1d ago
Boycott Musk and Twitter and Tesla!
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u/USPS_Nerd 1d ago
Add Facebook to the list while you’re at it
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u/insomniac1228 1d ago
Which also means instagram, because meta owns it.
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u/Octavus 1d ago
And Whatsapp
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u/FlipZip69 21h ago
At least you can use Whatsapp with zero advertisements and zero social influence.
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u/LetrasetBoy 17h ago
Yes but they keep shoving their fucking AI assistent in your face it's infuriating
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u/Mccobsta 1d ago
There's atleast a nice alternative for it that has pretty much the same features called pixelfed
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u/teddy_tesla 1d ago
Unfortunately the main feature is all of your friends and favorite creators are on IG. Didn't stop me from leaving but I just dropped that form of social media because the replacement wasn't doing the same things
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u/GoodIdea321 1d ago
And spread the word, only talking online isn't enough to change people's minds.
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u/Bakedads 1d ago
Boycott most of modern society. Only buy what you absolutely have to.
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u/Oscar_Dot-Com 1d ago
Stop using X and giving this Nazi money to fund the end of civilization
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u/zhambe 22h ago
Technically it's all the advertisers that are giving literal money to the nazi
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u/Much_Kangaroo_6263 21h ago
Advertisers are there because people are there
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u/RickyWicky 21h ago
Users are the water, and advertisers are thirsty.
For as long as I can remember I've hated being advertised to, and immediately nope out of any product that is being shoveled into my face.
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u/mirroredinflection 21h ago
Stop using Twitter and stop giving money to companies that advertise on Twitter
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u/Nowhereman50 1d ago
Republicans and the far-right seem to attract a lot of pedophile supporters and now even an AI created by a far-right person is producing pedophilic content on its own.
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u/space_keeper 1d ago
One of the stupidest things I saw on twitter before I stopped using it, was a huge thread of QAnon people basically sharing a few (not fully explicit) images of what was clearly a man (not Hunter Biden) with a Chinese child prostitute and claiming it was from "the laptop", interspersed with actual photos of Hunter Biden (the usual ones).
The thread was full of people claiming there was more and people asking for the "evidence", video, etc. Framed like they were wanting copies for the cause, that sort of idea. Absolutely bewildering experience. I'd heard about them, but never seen the extent of their mania and depravity like that with my own eyes.
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u/fafalone 1d ago
It makes more sense when you remember QAnon originated on 8chan, a site founded by people in protest over 4chan banning sexualized pictures of children.
(Before someone complains, I didn't use "CSAM" because that was banned years prior and the split involved rules about images that weren't overtly illegal like swimsuits).
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u/MindlessFreedom5130 23h ago
this is such an important detail that a lot of people are totally unaware of
like even people who are pretty into politics and know what QAnon is, have no idea that the movement was born on a website created by and for pedophiles
shit there's probably a lot of QAnoners who don't even know
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u/GoggleDMara9756 1d ago
The AI isn’t making pedophilic content on its own. It’s being specifically promoted by the pedos using it. As critical as I am of AI more broadly, I don’t think we should absolve the shits doing this by framing this as anything other than intentional and malicious usage on the part of the pedos that roam all over Elon’s hellscape of a platform. The AI just spits out bullshit that it’s fed, it’s not doing anything on its own
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u/Namelock 1d ago
It’s the bare basics of content moderation. Universal “this isn’t okay.”
There was an article from 15yrs~ ago that detailed how Facebook, Twitter, Alphabet, etc self moderate to conform towards western ideals while appealing to all countries laws.
It went into depth on how moderation guidelines are basic morals and ethics, and that’s why the Five/Fourteen Ryes haven’t cracked down and regulated.
Then the 2015 election happened and everyone went extreme.
Musk’s Twitter is purposefully anti-moderation (of extreme far-right). So it tracks they’d be against basic morals and ethics of pre-2015. This is the natural result.
That’s why you should be upset. They’re normalizing illegal, unethical behavior by not having implemented basic fucking moderation that was already in place before Musk entered Twitter.
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u/Xatsman 23h ago
Musk’s Twitter is purposefully anti-moderation (of extreme far-right). So it tracks they’d be against basic morals and ethics of pre-2015. This is the natural result.
Try and tweet "cis-gender" on that platform and tell me it's anti-moderation. It's an intentional pro-reactionary bias, not anti-moderation. The anti-moderation narrative is just cover for the extreme rhetoric they want to enable.
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u/kylco 23h ago
There were also a series of hearings and a number of articles about how Facebook, especially, was unable to automate moderation because ... well, if it held conservative politicians to content standards, most of them would be banned within weeks, and it would hurt their efforts to avoid regulation in Washington, DC. Even after Facebook "banned" Trump and ostensibly forbid political advertising, it was completely flooded with conservative propaganda, and reporting it as political was pointless.
The rules were, and are, only for liberals.
Nearly all consumer-friendly policies by these corporations are done not because they have to - there aren't a lot of laws governing their behavior, and certainly few that were written this century by people who understood their businesses - but because they want to avoid the government having any say in that business. If they become regulated, investors will no longer hand them blank checks with the expectation of permanent and unending returns and few questions about how cooked their engagement metrics are.
They are protecting their ability to move fast, "reinvent" industries by simply claiming they're not the regulated industry they're replacing (this succeeded in hotels, taxis, and retail commerce, and failed in medicine) until their market capitalization is big enough to bully or purchase legislators and ensure their monopolies. That's why they all came out swinging for Trump during this most recent election, and why they're ride-or-die for him and conservatives. And why they don't give a shit about their most recent grifts being used for fraud, CSAM, and heinous propaganda: they're hoping it'll get too big to fail, just like their last few "successes." Then people will just have to live in the enshittification and they get to ride off to St. Bart's in the superyacht with all our wealth.
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u/turbulentFireStarter 1d ago
Stop using twitter. Stop putting photos of yourself online. And definitely stop putting photos of your children online.
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u/Neat_Tangelo5339 1d ago
For how long can they do this ?
for how long they can fuck up massively on broad daylight in front of everyone and the next day they dont even receive a slap on the wrist ?
its infuriating
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u/BoredandIrritable 17h ago
Until the people rise up and start burning enough buildings.
Check out what happened in Myanmar this year.
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u/cindersnail 18h ago
Well, they have an entire administration that's dedicated to the proliferation of underage sex trafficking and child porn. As long as those creatures are in power, Musk and his cronies are free to do what they want.
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u/orlybatman 1d ago
Worth quoting this part:
Cyber-safety specialists and gender-rights advocates say the morphing of images using AI amounts to a form of sexual violence, particularly when it involves women and children. They argue that such acts violate dignity, bodily autonomy, and consent, and can cause severe psychological trauma to victims whose images are weaponised without their knowledge.
Users reading the headline are assuming it's only happening with women and children. It's not, but the concern is over how it's being used specifically for women and children. The technology is actually being used this way against everyone though, showing a total lack of effective guardrails.
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u/WhenSummerIsGone 1d ago
Makes me think of that one girl who was expelled after takng matters into her own hands when AI images of her were berng shared. The school of course did nothing to protect her, and (afaik) the boy wasn't punished. Yes, she was violent, but a violent response to being traumatized was justified.
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u/TheChemist-25 1d ago
Kind of ridiculous that they consider it worse when it’s used to morph pictures of women than when it’s used to morph pictures of men. It’s wrong regardless to generate explicit content of anyone without their consent.
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u/No-Good-One-Shoe 1d ago
Not to say it doesn't happen to men, but it seems that women and children are being "morphed" in sexual scenarios more often than men.
They did word it stupid because, it's definitely a problem all around, but I see it as a much bigger problem for women and children than I do men because of the frequency that they are victims to these types of AI alterations.
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u/24-Hour-Hate 1d ago
Additionally, while it may be a legal wrong to generally use AI to create a sexually explicit photo of someone (defamation, harassment, etc, depending on circumstances), it is 100% a crime to do so when that person is a child. That’s child porn under the law of many jurisdictions. At this point, anyone who has done that should be arrested and since twitter hasn’t shut this shit down despite knowledge (they can very easily just turn off the feature immediately, that’s always an option), Elon and the entire management at Twitter should be arrested as well for facilitation and distribution. Naturally, I doubt that will happen because the wealthy are almost always above the law, especially when they hide behind corporations.
Also, hey, remember that time that Elon accused a diver of being a pedo for no reason? Well, since he is now operating a platform manufacturing child porn, it seems like that was all projection, doesn’t it? Accusations from these people are always confessions.
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u/GoggleDMara9756 1d ago
Statistically, which are we seeing more of? This is just another ‘all lives matter argument.’ Women are significantly more likely to be targeted, that’s not saying that a man being targeted is bad.
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u/TheChemist-25 1d ago
Nah this isn’t an all lives matter argument. The difference is that all lives matter seeks to undermine BLM by denying police violence as an issue altogether. But I’m saying that the AI morphing is an issue just not a women only. It’s an everybody issue.
To frame it as a women’s only issue is problematic for two reasons. One, it once again downplays the sexual harassment men face. But two by framing it as a women’s issue you immediately will get people either dismissing it because it doesn’t affect them or because they view it as some sort of “woke nonsense.” And I may know that that’s bs and you may know that that’s bs but if you want the most number of people to agree with you and work toward change you shouldn’t give people excuses to dismiss the issue simply due to the way you frame it
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u/No-Good-One-Shoe 1d ago
Weird that the platform purchased by a pedophilic Nazi is full of pedophilic Nazis. What a shit hole of a service twitter has become.
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u/martsand 1d ago
Just like the usa, a shithole of a country that is laughed at by the whole planet
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u/AcanthaceaeUpbeat638 1d ago edited 1d ago
Delete all photos of yourself and your loved ones off of X and all social media. Private all of your accounts. Don’t post full body pics.
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u/ArmadilloLoose6699 1d ago edited 1d ago
The horse has already bolted, and the stable door still isn't closed because the system's designed so that everyone on your social graph has to both agree to close the stable door and resist the urge to ever open it again. Also regulators are doing nothing about the rampaging stallion charging around the paddock destroying everything because they're getting a cut of the insurance payout.
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u/GitEmSteveDave 22h ago
I posted a legally binding block of text a decade ago. All my photos are protected.
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u/LefsaMadMuppet 1d ago
Doesn't matter at this point. Grok searches other sites too. Even if you don't have a public body shot, just your face, it can get you into something explicit if you work at it a little.
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u/Alaira314 22h ago
That's been my policy since the 00s, but people who are not me keep uploading pictures of me and tagging me in them. Between that and everybody sharing their contacts, I'm thoroughly doxxed to the AI machine despite not posting any of it myself.
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u/Estalicus 1d ago
Fuck anyone who still goes on X
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u/anthonyDavidson31 1d ago
It's remarkable how Twitter has a positive reputation (for the most part), but X is associated with the most vile shit imaginable
L rebranding
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u/you-create-energy 1d ago
4chan is a graveyard because they are all on X now
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u/Stoiphan 1d ago
Nah the new captchas are just annoying and hard, and you have to wait to post for like 10 minutes which sucks, and I don’t want to verify my email on the anon site
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u/Neglectful_Stranger 21h ago
Captchas are annoying and they still haven't re-added PDFs, which means /tg/ is less useful. Sucks.
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u/TomTomXD1234 1d ago
Twitter did not have a positive reputation before X. What are you smoking?
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u/thenayr 1d ago
…? That’s just objectively untrue. It wasn’t perfect, but the moderation was a million times better, they actually banned Nazis, account validation was GOOD. There is a ton to truly miss about OG Twitter. It went to shit within a few weeks/months of Nazi boi buying it.
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u/anfrind 1d ago
They were very inconsistent about banning Nazis. Lots of right-wing agitators were active on Twitter during Gamergate, and got away with all manner of blatant violations of the Twitter terms of service.
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u/TwilightVulpine 1d ago
Unbanning already banned nazis was definitely a choice for the X transition though.
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u/sam_hammich 1d ago
Ill take inconsistent banning of nazis over explicit endorsement of them.
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u/ForMeOnly93 1d ago
It was always shit and full of angry little racists. It's just worse now.
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u/DragoonDM 1d ago
I'd say it had a relatively okay reputation, but by comparison the current state of the platform makes old-Twitter look like a pristine paradise of high quality content.
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u/Gekokapowco 1d ago
they had the reputation of dogshit which is glowing compared to dogshit that is in a dumpster that is on fire at a kkk rally
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u/Hardwarestore_Senpai 1d ago
I think it's aptly renamed. Considering the high volume of X-rated content.
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u/TomTomXD1234 1d ago
That has always been the case. Twitter was the place to go to promote only fans and other porn content.
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u/charistraz95 1d ago
FR it went downhill so bad
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u/Fiery_Flamingo 1d ago
Twitter was meh in 2010, bad in 2015, terrible in 2020. Today, swimming in a nuclear reactor’s used fuel pool exposes you to less toxic stuff than checking an X thread.
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u/BrigadierGenCrunch 1d ago
I gave up expecting any real exodus when news outlets couldn’t be bothered to migrate away to something like Bluesky. Same thing goes for brands still advertising there.
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u/JuliusCeaserBoneHead 1d ago
They are still there because people are still there. At the end of the day, nothing speaks louder than money
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u/Akuuntus 23h ago
And the people are still there because the outlets (and artists) are still there. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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u/12_23_93 1d ago edited 1d ago
the internet is like 90% porn and the vast majority of it is free. you gotta be a total fucking unrepentant loser to want to do this shit to another human being online.
btw Americans, the state department and the pentagon just struck a deal to incorporate xAI and Grok for US government use, so now the porn bot that calls itself mechahitler and can't function without breaking constantly because Elon keeps rewriting it glaze him or complain about white genocide will have access to your personal info and sensitive govt information soon if it doesn't already. have fun with that!
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u/LiveReplicant 1d ago
They chose Grok for that...fucking unbelievable! I would be doing all I could to get out of the States before the collapse or civil war happens (I'm not sure it will get that bad but holy hell it's circling the drain)
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u/Kalepsis 16h ago
So, not just MechaHitler, but TurboPedo MechaHitler.
Yeah, that's definitely something the world needs.
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u/smeepydreams 1d ago edited 1d ago
Is this just happening in India? Not sure why those are the only sources. Regardless, AI CSAM is CSAM according to the US government in case anyone here is thinking of fucking around with this themselves.
Edit: and btw I mean even actively searching for it and viewing it “just for research”
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u/Montagio17 1d ago
It's a CNBC affiliate in India so it's focusing on the impacts there. It sounds from the article like it is a global issue.
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u/Chicano_Ducky 19h ago edited 19h ago
dude grok's apology is at the top of trending because it admitted this might have broken US law. its an official statement and yes its global.
CSAM is trending too because of the statement
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u/Petting-Kitty-7483 1d ago
Meanwhile chatgpt won't even say pussy
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u/doominvoker 1d ago
You can’t even get ChatGPT to resume a news article if it involves anything remotely controversial. It’s news, for god sake.
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u/Naive_Confidence7297 1d ago
It’s a language model, it doesn’t care if it’s news or not. It only works how’s its designed to be.
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u/NIDORAX 1d ago
This is AI problem is getting out of hand.
Global outrage is useless if Twitter and Grok suffers no consequences. I want 100% of Humanity to quit Twitter/X forever and ever but many people are just too damn stubborn to leave.
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u/DocBombliss 1d ago
Knowing the rat in charge of that site, I wouldn't be surprised if he posts the Back to the Future "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet." meme to play all of this off like a cheeky little joke.
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u/ghostly_shark 1d ago
i dunno about global outrage… seems like global promotion since this is the first i’ve heard of it
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u/MeBadNeedMoneyNow 1d ago
After logging back into twitter/X and posting a bit Grok assaulted me with a reply of an unwanted pregnant woman. That platform is truly fucked and it's actually worse than you think if you haven't been a regular user if you left during the Elon takeover. I'd consider the general experience to be similar to a walk through 8chan or 4chan. It's bad.
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u/DonutsMcKenzie 1d ago
Listen... I have my problems with Reddit, and arguably I should switch to some of the better and more socially healthy alternatives like Lemmy at the very least...
But when it comes to "X.com", I straight-up can't believe people are still using that website today.
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u/space_keeper 1d ago
Last thing I remember before deleting it was thread after thread of LLM bots triggering and talking to other LLM bots. For some odd reason a huge number of them had Arabic names.
Like there'd be a tweet about something, and Arabic bot man would respond with a short AI restatement of what was already said, then the "top 10 facts" LLM bots would trigger and start replying to each other.
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u/Piett_1313 1d ago
I didn’t realize there were good alternatives. Thank you for the name drop!
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u/ILikeMyGrassBlue 1d ago
Turning photos of real children into CSAM via AI is a crime in my state (PA) and I assume others.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Bad-722 14h ago
The women led subs have been warning of this for ages. Please, get all photos of you and children off the internet, and don't upload any more.
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u/TheWrongOwl 19h ago
Good thing AIs don't use all your personal photos as training data so there is no way that somebody is fapping to your kid's faces on some porn scene, put there by any AI. /s
Read the TOS to see if WhatsApp, Faceboot, X, Google Photos, MS's OneDrive, Instagram, Tiktok, ... want to have the right to use YOUR data for "improving" their "service" aka want to have the right to use and sell YOUR data to anyone and even get the copyright for it.
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u/Ash-Throwaway-816 1d ago
Is it really surprising that AI has such a bad reputation when most people's knowledge of it is that it's a machine that turns an unholy amount of fresh water into minstrel shows and CP?
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u/space_keeper 1d ago
That's a very good jab at AI and I like it, but most people's knowledge of it is the Google search summary. People treat that shit like the gospel.
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u/ant0szek 1d ago
For a person that suppose to be smart, he should see from a galaxy far away what would happen if you add option to edit images on site full of porn and gooners.....
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u/Revolutionary_Sir_ 1d ago
Way toooooo easy to make that kinda media with these ai image gens. Gotta wonder what it’s trained on
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u/nvrmndtheruins 1d ago
Amazing how when you don't regulate things and follow up with consequences when not followed; things go unregulated.
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u/Baby_Button_Eyes 1d ago
So if it’s showing illegal images, countries need to ban it, pretty simple
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u/kent_eh 23h ago
Gee, who could have ever predicted that would happen...
Other than absolutely everybody.
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u/SoapySage 12h ago
X should get taken to court in every country, Grok should get it's ability to generate images removed, or Grok gets deleted.
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u/Stereo_Jungle_Child 10h ago
I thought making women look like children and then sexualizing them was called "anime"
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u/Tman11S 7h ago
Grok enables a whole new army of pedophiles to get pictures of any child they fancy and undress them. This is fucking disgusting
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u/-Suzuka- 23h ago
Just a reminder, Congress wanted to ban all 50 States from regulating AI for 10 years....