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[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 85 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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!

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 63 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Jumbie@lemmy.zip 52 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

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

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 23 points 1 month ago (1 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

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 10 points 1 month ago

Yeah, but if local police wants to give information to the citizen, saying "that unofficial page that usually works, but might also be broken is a good way to access our content" is not great.

[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's just momentum, much harder to pivot once you're entrenched with a bunch of other entrenched entities. Not a great excuse to support this Nazi diddler all the same.

[–] Jumbie@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They’re entrenched with Nazis.

[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

No doubt, not a good excuse, just the mentality

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[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 1 month 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.

[–] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 month ago

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

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago

shakes fist at cloud back in my day, that's what 4chan was for!

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Elon is a disgusting human being.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month 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 1 month 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

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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[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 month ago

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

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago

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

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

Why is Grok not being charged with CSAM generation?

[–] Stabbitha@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

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

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month 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.

[–] glibg@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago (3 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.

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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

[–] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

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.

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[–] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 10 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 month ago

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

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Don't worry, I've heard they limited this wonderful feature to paid accounts.

[–] kevin2107@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Isn't it about 53k per violation?

[–] Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 7 points 1 month ago

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

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month ago

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

-Democrats in Office!

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

Saving the children as usual

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month 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.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month 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

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