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Went to check if this screenshot (posted by @aric.bsky.social) was real (it is) and then made the mistake of also scrolling through Grok's replies on X. Still constantly cranking out sexualised images of young girls. Beyond bleak.

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Dear Grok - the "suit and tie" thing wasn't that funny the first time around and if you were an actual person you'd know repeating it over and over doesn't make it any funnier. So now we have AI with the persona of an obnoxious asshole, in the image of its creator.

Pixels. Aren’t. People. And just to be clear, we’re not going to be doing anything about this? Businesses aren’t leaving Twitter? No investigations? We’re just a country that produces tons of child porn, and it’s all good?

If you think about it, this is just the logical extension of the tech & crypto gang’s “jUSt a pLaTFoRm” mantra; which, TBF, mostly seems to be working

The 'is that real, I should check, oh god, it is real, oh god I am looking at the other replies' Twitter cycle is such a good way to completely kill my mood for the rest of the day.

I don't think they are scared of Musk. They are scared that he might not give them the money (not that he would - the real money transfer would be from taxpayers to billionaires in form of subsidies at the very least, and further privatisation of countries). But greed of politicians blinds them.

So for "pearl clutching" we really mean controls implemented to ensure AI isn't abusive. That thing says it like it's a bad thing. What a world.

I think 🤔. Afaik the creation of imagery of underaged people for the purposes of sexual gratification is an offence in the UK. Iirc? So kids in bikinis is CSAM and an offence.

It's not the biggest thing to take away from this, but it was interesting that in the grok world it appears that putting men in a suit and tie is the worst thing you can do to them but making indecent images of kids is totally fine.

When challenged by a man, grok threatened him twice with the prospect of making a picture up of him in a suit and tie rather than a gimp suit or whatever. I'm not going to go over there to look, but I doubt it responds to women challenging it by threatening to put them in a nice dress with pockets.

I know it’s not the main issue, but even elons ai chat bot is embarrassing with the edge lord posing. Never used grok and maybe a user can set it to a certain persona, but it’s sounds like someone desperate to be cool. Aka Elon.

My favourite thing to see Musk lovers comment in threads about how much he's furthering humanity and then you see something like this and think, yup, you are all sick morons

I attempted to feed it altered code/json, and Grok would generate varying levels of recognition regarding the illegal and unethical actions taken using Grok image generation. It is clear to me Musk & xAI don't care. I can't properly Alt-text the images here & beware parsing them w AI directly.

I finally left twitter today because of this and him laughing at the harassment and abusive material of kids his AI is creating. He's a misogynist and probably a paedophile.

Fear not Jim, they’re aware of the situation! bsky.app/profile/lizz...

Lizzie Dearden@lizziedearden.bsky.social

Ofcom, which enforces the UK's Online Safety Act, says it is aware of "serious concerns" about Grok undressing people including children on X “We have made urgent contact with X and xAI to understand what steps they have taken to comply with their legal duties to protect users in the UK," it says

TBF a radio station is bound to act within Ofcom guidelines in order to keep their license to operate, a social media site based in the US (albeit with a company presence in the EU if not the UK) as of now is not.

It's just the same with the ICO. Some poor underling leaves a lappy on the bus and they come down on him/her like a ton of bricks. Unlawfully use personal data to spam and scam on an industrial scale, and they ring their hands.

Someone from EU should report the whole x.com domain for mass manufacturing and distribution of child pornographic material. Scratch that - *everyone* from EU should do that.

In most countries there are strict laws regarding virtueel porn as well fake nudity. So much for its just pixels, and the facilitators are responsible as well. The longer I think about it, Musk is deliberately challenging EU authorities.

The owner knows this is happening and has chosen not to pull Grok. He could turn it off, he chooses not to. Therefore it is impossible not to conclude that X and its owner are responsible for the provision of child pornography.