Comment by afavour

17 hours ago

I’m sure Musk is going to say this is about free speech in an attempt to gin up his supporters. It isn’t. It’s about generating and distributing non consensual sexual imagery, including of minors. And, when notified, doing nothing about it. If anything it should be an embarrassment that France are the only ones doing this.

(it’ll be interesting to see if this discussion is allowed on HN. Almost every other discussion on this topic has been flagged…)

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rsynnott  16 hours ago

> If anything it should be an embarrassment that France are the only ones doing this.

As mentioned in the article, the UK's ICO and the EC are also investigating.

France is notably keen on raids for this sort of thing, and a lot of things that would be basically a desk investigation in other countries result in a raid in France.

cbeach  17 hours ago

> when notified, doing nothing about it

When notified, he immediately:

  * "implemented technological measures to prevent the Grok account from allowing the editing of images of real people in revealing clothing" - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8gz8g2qnlo 

  * locked image generation down to paid accounts only (i.e. those individuals that can be identified via their payment details).

Have the other AI companies followed suit? They were also allowing users to undress real people, but it seems the media is ignoring that and focussing their ire only on Musk's companies...

  • afavour  17 hours ago

    You and I must have different definitions of the word “immediately”. The article you posted is from January 15th. Here is a story from January 2nd:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98p1r4e6m8o

    > Have the other AI companies followed suit? They were also allowing users to undress real people

    No they weren’t? There were numerous examples of people feeding the same prompts to different AIs and having their requests refused. Not to mention, X was also publicly distributing that material, something other AI companies were not doing. Which is an entirely different legal liability.

    • chrisjj  14 hours ago

      > Which is an entirely different legal liability.

      In UK, it is entirely the same. Near zero.

      Making/distributing a photo of a non-consenting bikini-wearer is no more illegal when originated by computer in bedroom than done by camera on public beach.

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    • bonesss  17 hours ago

      The part of X’s reaction to their own publishing I’m most looking forward to seeing in slow-motion in the courts and press was their attempt at agency laundering by having their LLM generate an apology in first-person.

      “Sorry I broke the law. Oops for reals tho.”