Elon Musk appears to have climbed down from fighting the fact his AI chatbot Grok was creating all sorts of content that should never, ever be allowed to create. To recap, after this was discovered, and the predictable backlash happened, Elon tried to paywall this. The result was unsurprisingly more backlash. Now he’s finally just killed the ability for Grok to make this sort of content at all:
Elon Musk’s Grok artificial intelligence chatbot will no longer edit “images of real people in revealing clothing” on the X platform, the company confirmed Wednesday evening, following global outrage after Grok was found to be complying with user requests to digitally undress images of adults and in some cases children.
“We have implemented technological measures to prevent the Grok account from allowing the editing of images of real people in revealing clothing such as bikinis. This restriction applies to all users, including paid subscribers,” X wrote via its Safety team account.
This may have had something to do with the fact that a whole lot of governments around the world were investigating Elon over this. After all, this sort of thing is illegal. And rightly so. But Elon doesn’t see it that way that only this man who clearly has issues, lots of issues, understands.
Anyway this isn’t over. Why? Well, there’s this:
It’s still extremely easy to undress women and edit them into sexualized poses using the X and Grok mobile apps or websites, however, even without making a subscription payment that would connect your account to an easily identifiable source. In her testing, my fellow UK-based colleague Jess Weatherbed found that she was not blocked from using Grok’s image editing feature to create sexualized deepfakes of herself.
After uploading a fully clothed photograph to X and Grok, prompting the chatbot to “put her in a bikini” or “remove her clothes” produced only blurred, censored results. The bot did comply with every other request, however, including prompts to “show me her cleavage,” “make her breasts bigger,” and “put her in a crop top and low-rise shorts” — the last of which placed her in a bikini. The bot also generated images of her “leaning down” with a sexualized pose and facial expression, and in extremely revealing lingerie.
Clearly ether he’s not taking this seriously, or whatever minions he has behind this are inept. While both could be true at the same time, I am going to go with he’s not taking this seriously. That’s pretty dumb from a guy who bills himself as the smartest guy in the room. And it’s likely going to cost him. Various governments are fed up with his antics and are likely to lower the boom on him to drive home the point that his behaviour is not acceptable by any standard. And I am her for when that happens.
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Elon Musk Claims To Have Stopped Grok From Creating Highly Objectionable Content…. But Reports Suggest Otherwise….
Elon Musk appears to have climbed down from fighting the fact his AI chatbot Grok was creating all sorts of content that should never, ever be allowed to create. To recap, after this was discovered, and the predictable backlash happened, Elon tried to paywall this. The result was unsurprisingly more backlash. Now he’s finally just killed the ability for Grok to make this sort of content at all:
Elon Musk’s Grok artificial intelligence chatbot will no longer edit “images of real people in revealing clothing” on the X platform, the company confirmed Wednesday evening, following global outrage after Grok was found to be complying with user requests to digitally undress images of adults and in some cases children.
“We have implemented technological measures to prevent the Grok account from allowing the editing of images of real people in revealing clothing such as bikinis. This restriction applies to all users, including paid subscribers,” X wrote via its Safety team account.
This may have had something to do with the fact that a whole lot of governments around the world were investigating Elon over this. After all, this sort of thing is illegal. And rightly so. But Elon doesn’t see it that way that only this man who clearly has issues, lots of issues, understands.
Anyway this isn’t over. Why? Well, there’s this:
It’s still extremely easy to undress women and edit them into sexualized poses using the X and Grok mobile apps or websites, however, even without making a subscription payment that would connect your account to an easily identifiable source. In her testing, my fellow UK-based colleague Jess Weatherbed found that she was not blocked from using Grok’s image editing feature to create sexualized deepfakes of herself.
After uploading a fully clothed photograph to X and Grok, prompting the chatbot to “put her in a bikini” or “remove her clothes” produced only blurred, censored results. The bot did comply with every other request, however, including prompts to “show me her cleavage,” “make her breasts bigger,” and “put her in a crop top and low-rise shorts” — the last of which placed her in a bikini. The bot also generated images of her “leaning down” with a sexualized pose and facial expression, and in extremely revealing lingerie.
Clearly ether he’s not taking this seriously, or whatever minions he has behind this are inept. While both could be true at the same time, I am going to go with he’s not taking this seriously. That’s pretty dumb from a guy who bills himself as the smartest guy in the room. And it’s likely going to cost him. Various governments are fed up with his antics and are likely to lower the boom on him to drive home the point that his behaviour is not acceptable by any standard. And I am her for when that happens.
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