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.

  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
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    8 hours ago

    Clearly anyone who commits rape is anti-social on some level. (Perhaps via a repressive culture which normalises marital rape - it’s anti-social on some level even though the culture in question finds it normal)

    I’d say, that’s anti-social on every level. Just because everyone does it and it was always “normal” before (culture…), doesn’t make it any less anti-social or wrong. At least in my book. And yes, that is indeed the circle-back. As in that all of those personality disorders show a serious obsession with control. Besides that the act itself is pure control by force. Sure, there will be many examples where sheer animal lust ranks higher than the lust for control, but it’s a spectrum and rarely just on the “just horny!”-side but probably often far to the control-side.

    I do wonder if there is is something going on here though, where on some level people feel that if you allow that rapists partly or wholly rape out of sexual motives, then that brings rape within a more normal scope

    That seems to be the case indeed. The notion that it seems so, not that it actually is.

    because you’re worried that my position is an attempt (maybe subconscious, maybe only on a small scale) to normalise rape and therefore to excuse it.

    As a misanthropist dealing daily with victims of abuse, how could I not? (besides it being anecdotal evidence: 100% of every of those stories resolves around control, sex is just ONE of the things)

    do you feel any push to believe what you do because to believe otherwise might in some way diminish the crime’s severity?

    Totally not. Doesn’t even matter how I see it or not, even my motivation would not matter in the end. It’s simply wrong/evil in an absolute way without any added layers of society/religion/belief/group-dynamics/whatever. In my worldview at least, which is usually not the same as most people’s. The layers explain, but not excuse. I can understand/empathise with sociopaths or religious nutjobs. I see how they could end up with such a conclusion. But not excuse. In the end, we’re all capable of reflection. Some more, some less. We don’t just do, we rationalize.