While Grok has introduced belated safeguards to prevent sexualised AI imagery, other tools have far fewer limits

While Grok has introduced belated safeguards to prevent sexualised AI imagery, other tools have far fewer limits

“Since discovering Grok AI, regular porn doesn’t do it for me anymore, it just sounds absurd now,” one enthusiast for the Elon Musk-owned AI chatbot wrote on Reddit. Another agreed: “If I want a really specific person, yes.”

If those who have been horrified by the distribution of sexualised imagery on Grok hoped that last week’s belated safeguards could put the genie back in the bottle, there are many such posts on Reddit and elsewhere that tell a different story.

And while Grok has undoubtedly transformed public understanding of the power of artificial intelligence, it has also pointed to a much wider problem: the growing availability of tools, and means of distribution, that present worldwide regulators with what many view as an impossible task. Even as the UK announces that creating nonconsensual sexual and intimate images will soon be a criminal offence, experts say that the use of AI to harm women has only just begun.

  • FerretyFever0@fedia.io
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    4 months ago

    Sorry, it “sounds absurd” to view pornography of consenting adults instead of violating the privacy of countless women (and children) that were minding their fucking business?

      • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I don’t believe this is true at all. A vast number of sex crimes are things like spousal rape which, in the minds of many offenders, isn’t a crime at all. They see sex with their partner as their right, and I think it’s unrealistic to impute into them the sophistication of thought required to use it as a means of exerting power when they don’t even understand it as a violation, when it is the violatry aspect of rape which gives it power.

        My understanding is that this meme comes from studies done on prison populations as an explanation for the prevalence of male-on-male rape perpetrated by straight-identifying men.

          • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
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            4 months ago

            Why should I believe you? We all understand that sex is gratifying and so people are motivated to have it. Why does rape require the motive of power over the victim when there is already this obvious motive? Do you have any evidence or argument? You’ve not tried to make one, and nor has anyone else.

            If I said that theft was mainly about power over the victim, not motivated by the acquisition of valuable property, would you believe me without argument? You would not, obviously.

            How can someone in a society which generally believes that marriage is consent even conceptualise that rape gives them more control than they already have? In their mind they are merely taking what has already been given to them (and for some reason they cannot understand, their partner is unreasonably trying to withold it)