The IT Nerd

Earlier this week, it came to light that Grok AI which is Elon Musk’s AI chatbot was letting users create objectionable content. This predictably resulted in massive amounts of blowback from the average joe to politicians and national leaders. Elon and company didn’t seem too concerned about the blowback. But that changed today. From the BBC:

There has been a significant backlash after the chatbot honoured requests from users to digitally alter images of other people by undressing them without their consent.

But Grok is now telling people asking it to make such material that only paid subscribers would be able to do so – meaning their name and payment information must be on file.

So what Elon and company have done is monetise this feature rather than addressing the fact that this AI chatbot should never do something like this. The fact is this is not acceptable and not nearly enough is being done by Elon and company to address this. Clearly Elon does not care about the harm that his AI causes. And quite frankly he needs to be punished for this. I’d start with banning Grok and potentially Twitter along with it. He needs to face consequences for his actions. And the harsher those punishments are, the better.

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