It looks like the big brains over at Xitter have figured out a "solution" to the whole becoming a deepfake porn distributor problem. The solution is apparently to become a paid deepfake porn distributor. That should quell the criticism.
Grok, Elon Musk’s AI tool, has switched off its image creation function for the vast majority of users after a widespread outcry about its use to create sexually explicit and violent imagery.
The move comes after Musk was threatened with fines, regulatory action and reports of a possible ban on X in the UK.
The tool had been used to manipulate images of women to remove their clothes and put them in sexualised positions. The function to do so has been switched off except for paying subscribers.
Posting on X, Musk’s social media network, Grok said: “Image generation and editing are currently limited to paying subscribers.”
Hopefully this will result in Xitter and Grok (a.k.a. MechaHitler) being treated with the same amount of respect as other paid porn distributors.
It looks like the big brains over at Xitter have figured out a "solution" to the whole becoming a deepfake porn distributor problem. The solution is apparently to become a paid deepfake porn distributor. That should quell the criticism.
Grok, Elon Musk’s AI tool, has switched off its image creation function for the vast majority of users after a widespread outcry about its use to create sexually explicit and violent imagery.
The move comes after Musk was threatened with fines, regulatory action and reports of a possible ban on X in the UK.
The tool had been used to manipulate images of women to remove their clothes and put them in sexualised positions. The function to do so has been switched off except for paying subscribers.
Posting on X, Musk’s social media network, Grok said: “Image generation and editing are currently limited to paying subscribers.”
Hopefully this will result in Xitter and Grok (a.k.a. MechaHitler) being treated with the same amount of respect as other paid porn distributors.
It would be delightful if the payment processors went after Xitter rather than bullying innocent kinksters and the artists who draw/write for them.
I see that Labour MP Louise Haigh is calling on the UK government to cease using Twitter/X.
AIUI, it can be a useful tool for communicating with constituents etc., but is it so useful that it couldn't be done away with?
I do not use, and never have used, Twitter/X /Facebook, or any other social media (bar a family-only WhatsApp group, with about six members...), so I really have no idea of its utility.
It looks like the big brains over at Xitter have figured out a "solution" to the whole becoming a deepfake porn distributor problem. The solution is apparently to become a paid deepfake porn distributor. That should quell the criticism.
To be clear, so far this is only blocking users from creating porn (and images generally) via directly @ing grok into the conversation, they can still use grok separately to do the same thing.
AIUI, it can be a useful tool for communicating with constituents etc., but is it so useful that it couldn't be done away with?
I do not use, and never have used, Twitter/X /Facebook, or any other social media (bar a family-only WhatsApp group, with about six members...), so I really have no idea of its utility.
At this point the only voters on Xitter in large numbers are hardened Reformites and supporters of Wee Tommy Ten Names.
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Hopefully this will result in Xitter and Grok (a.k.a. MechaHitler) being treated with the same amount of respect as other paid porn distributors.
It would be delightful if the payment processors went after Xitter rather than bullying innocent kinksters and the artists who draw/write for them.
AIUI, it can be a useful tool for communicating with constituents etc., but is it so useful that it couldn't be done away with?
I do not use, and never have used, Twitter/X /Facebook, or any other social media (bar a family-only WhatsApp group, with about six members...), so I really have no idea of its utility.
I'm not a user of either platform, but it can't be that difficult to simply transition to Bluesky.
To be clear, so far this is only blocking users from creating porn (and images generally) via directly @ing grok into the conversation, they can still use grok separately to do the same thing.
At this point the only voters on Xitter in large numbers are hardened Reformites and supporters of Wee Tommy Ten Names.