The IT Nerd

Grok AI which is Elon Musk’s AI chatbot has been found to digitally undress women and children. From CBC News:

A Reuters review of content on X, xAI’s social media platform, found more than 20 cases in which women — and some men — had images digitally stripped of clothing using the AI company’s flagship chatbot, Grok.

Ministers in France have reported sexually explicit content generated by Grok to prosecutors, saying in a statement on Friday that the “sexual and sexist” content was “manifestly illegal.” The ministers said they had also reported the content to French media regulator Arcom for checks on whether it complied with the European Union’s Digital Services Act.

India’s IT ministry, meanwhile, said in a letter to X’s India unit that the platform failed to prevent misuse of Grok to generate and circulate obscene and sexually explicit content of women. It ordered X to submit an action-taken report within three days.

When contacted by Reuters for comment by email, xAI replied with the message: “Legacy Media Lies.”

Well, that’s pretty bad. What is worse is that Elon and company have even announced having raised $20bn in its latest funding round in spite of the backlash. That kind of suggests where his priorities lie.

Jurgita Lapienytė, chief editor at Cybernews, warns that “every woman with a photo online is now a target, unless Grok acts immediately.” She also says this:

“If regulators don’t force X to disable this immediately, we’re looking at the normalization of on-demand sexual exploitation at a scale we’ve never seen before. Right now, creating a deepfake requires some technical know-how or payment to shady websites. Grok has made it simple to post such images on one of the world’s largest platforms. If X gets away with this, every other AI company will see there’s no consequence for building similar tools. Within months, we could see this weaponized for revenge porn, sextortion, harassment of minors, and blackmail. The technology doesn’t go back in the bottle, but we can still decide whether it lives on mainstream platforms or stays in the dark corners of the internet where it belongs.

I for one hope that Elon and company get smacked down over this. This is completely unacceptable and needs to be dealt with.

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