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[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 15 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Occam's Razor, I suspect X AI simply downloaded/scraped all porn they possibly could access on the internet to build their training data, and this included a large amount of child porn.

Likely Elon-style factors:

  • time pressure. performed in a huge rush (he joined the LLM party late with massive FOMO),
  • zero internal pushback. Majority highly pressured immigrant/temporary staff (H1-B visas used a lot by Twitter in wake of Musk buyout)
  • zero importance placed on ethics / content review by leadership, likely even an ethics-negative internal culture. "Move fast, break things, fuck the government regs".
  • loathe to pay licensing fees for materials or 'waste time' negotiating content-access contracts from legitimate porn businesses ("just scrape all the torrents and free sites you can find, the internet is full of free porn").