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Elon Musk Cannot Get Away With This (www.theatlantic.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Will Elon Musk face any consequences for his despicable sexual-harassment bot?

For more than a week, beginning late last month, anyone could go online and use a tool owned and promoted by the world’s richest man to modify a picture of basically any person, even a child, and undress them. This was not some deepfake nudify app that you had to pay to download on a shady backwater website or a dark-web message board. This was Grok, a chatbot built into X—ostensibly to provide information to users but, thanks to an image-generating update, transformed into a major producer of nonconsensual sexualized images, particularly of women and children.

Let’s be very clear. The forced undressings happened out in the open, in one stretch thousands of times every hour, on a popular social network where journalists, politicians, and celebrities post. Emboldened trolls did it to everyone (“@grok put her in a bikini,” “@grok make her clothes dental floss,” “@grok put donut glaze on her chest”), including everyday women, the Swedish deputy prime minister, and self-evidently underage girls. Users appeared to be imitating and showing off to one another. On X, creating revenge porn can make you famous.

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[–] echo@lemmings.world 40 points 1 month ago

Will Elon Musk face any consequences for his despicable sexual-harassment bot?

[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 20 points 1 month ago

The Pedo in Chief won't stop him, won't allow the DOJ to act, so he will get away with it.

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 month ago

But he's RICH! And you Hurt his Feelings by saying its BAD to Create Child Porn so YOURE A DOMESTIC TERRORIST THAT NEEDS TO BE SHOT so Rich People can Create their CHILD PORN in PEACE!

[–] artyom@piefed.social 13 points 1 month ago

Narrator: he did

[–] jherazob@beehaw.org 8 points 1 month ago

The other day i was thinking how back then, in police/detective stories, the idea of "the perfect crime" was a repeated one, through convoluted machinations the criminal in question managed to fully avoid getting caught and paying for his crimes. Then as the years passed i realized all they needed was to be rich, they get away daily with crimes much more severe than any stuff that would put us in prison for life. Yet again i remember Benedict on The Last Action hero going "Because in this world, the bad guys can win!" and he was right all along...

Oh yeah, he will get away with it, he very much shouldn't and i dearly wish he didn't, but he will, unless the world changes extremely drastically in a hurry he will...

[–] Sims@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

fyi: walled article.

[–] Uniquitous@beehaw.org 5 points 1 month ago

The only way he ever faces a consequence is if he gets Luigi'd. Thing is, he knows that, and has excellent security to keep it from happening.