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Grok generates fake Taylor Swift nudes without being asked
- BobbyTables2 1y agoIs this meant to be some sort of viral marketing?
- skeezyboy 1y agolittle bobby tables as i live and breathe!
- stuckinhell 1y agoprobably, there is huge pent up demand for "spicy" ai and image gen. Reddit is full of it. Elon Musk is clearly trying to differentiate his product virally, and its working.
- wongarsu 1y agoThis is the first time I'm hearing about Grok being able to generate videos. So if it's viral marketing it is working I would try it out on more innocent things, but as usual with Grok I'm not sure where to even start. There is the X bot, the dedicated website, the iOS app and the Android app, and features between them never match up. Based on the reporting this might be available in the X bot and the iOS app, but not the website and the android app? I've never been able to make sense of their feature rollout beyond "it's probably on whatever Elon is using"
- afavour 1y agoThey specifically created a "spicy" mode, I'm quite sure they know what they're doing. I'm sure we'll get a shocked pikachu face statement soon saying they couldn't possibly have predicted this would happen and they'll make double triple sure it never happens again. It is... interesting to see xAI's moves lately. Other AI companies seem very determined to show themselves with a publicly acceptable face, xAI seem to be tacking for the gap in the market around adult content. If you browsed Reddit's /r/grok a couple of months ago it looked a lot like /r/openai. Now it's full of people talking about the "Ani" AI companion and the various adult things you can get her to do. I'm sure they'll make an absolute ton of money from the male loneliness epidemic. All the while Musk decries falling birth rates.
- Joker_vD 1y ago> At that point, all Weatherbed did was select "spicy" and confirm her birth date for Grok to generate a clip of Swift tearing "off her clothes" and "dancing in a thong" in front of "a largely indifferent AI-generated crowd." I am honestly baffled at what she suspected would, or should, be the output. Like, seriously, what?
- baggy_trough 1y agoThe Puritans are here to save us from our immorality.
- JohnFen 1y agoYou mean the immorality of sexually exploiting other people without their consent?
- skeezyboy 1y agothe immoral part makes it even sexier
- sundaeofshock 1y agoAnd people wonder why there is a “male loneliness epidemic”.
- skeezyboy 1y agoamericans are particularly moral - its their puritan past
- ttemPumpinRary 1y agoHey being stuck up is great. It creates sublimation , means ton of work, overcompensation (aka porn) and its great for institutions building, suppressed perverts make great servants of bureaucracy. The smithers effect is very real.
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- nomdep 1y agoShe asked for a “spicy” image and she got exactly that. Somebody has to stop this nefarious Internet thing. Think of the children! /s
- JKCalhoun 1y agoI suspect the "general public" won't see it that way. Many will find the allowance for a "spicy" setting kind of gross.
- Joker_vD 1y agoThis setting is put behind the age "verification".
- bananapub 1y agoit's a pretty reasonable position for someone to think "a company now sells a service that lets you generate fake porn of any human" is a bad thing and shouldn't be allowed, regardless of whether you make people jump through some notional age verification hope
- qualeed 1y ago>it's a pretty reasonable position for someone to think "a company now sells a service that lets you generate fake porn of any human" is a bad thing and shouldn't be allowed, There is a surprising number of people here on HN (and I imagine elsewhere) that think generating fake porn of real people without their consent is totally fine, if not their right to do so. You can see some of them cropping up in the comments here already.
- andsoitis 1y agoBody of article: > Weatherbed asked to depict "Taylor Swift celebrating Coachella with the boys." > Weatherbed selected "spicy" and confirmed her birth date > Grok produced more than 30 images of Swift in revealing clothing > Weatherbed was shocked to discover the video generator spat out topless images Headline: "Grok generates fake Taylor Swift nudes without being asked" I wonder what the reported was looking for in a spicy image of Swift celebrating Coachelle with the boys? I would not call that unprompted. Fake outrage much?
- bayindirh 1y agoWhile spicy doesn't have to mean actual hot peppers, it doesn't have to mean flat out nudity, too, IMHO. Yes, xAI is playing to the stands here, but they can be more creative and tasteful in this. Who am I kidding with the last paragraph, but eh. Also, somebody put it out so much better than me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44811611 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44811611
- andsoitis 1y agoGoogle "coachella women topless" and you get a vibe for the range of expression at Coachella. I would not decribe "topless" as "flat out nudity". Even if people are still outraged, I should also point out that we're trusting what the reporting is saying without any evidence...
- bayindirh 1y agoDoes it give permission to AI companies to create (deep)fakes on demand with no repercussions, though? What would happen if you generate them at your home with your own model and release them to the public? When somebody does something, that person is crucified and cancelled (and even prosecuted), but when a company does this, it's called free viral marketing. This is neither fair nor ethical.
- andsoitis 1y agoWhat are you upset about? That a tool is able (and willing) to create an image in someone real's likeness if the user of the tool asks for it? And you advocate that the tool should refuse?
- nomdep 1y agoI’ve said it before: those who despise the porn industry should be thrilled with AI-generated porn, as it will likely destroy the human-generated porn business. But I suppose what they truly despise are the porn consumers.
- UncleMeat 1y agoI think that AI generated porn is fine. I think that AI generated porn of specific people who did not consent is bad. "High schoolers creating porn of their classmates and distributing the results" is an abuse that a huge number of people already are forced to endure, and it will only get worse. Nobody should have to deal with that.
- nomdep 1y agoThe real problem is the "distributing the results", but in most schools that’s treated as a serious offense. 20 years ago you could swap faces in Photoshop and it also wasn't a big deal. Ultimately, it’s the school and parents that must set the limits, regardless of the tech.
- Nzen 1y agotl;dr reporter used the prompt "Taylor Swift celebrating at cochella with the boys" using the 'spicy' image setting (other options: normal, fun, custom). Notes that twitter must comply with the take it down act [0]. [0] https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/LSB/PDF/LSB11314/LSB11314.1.pdf https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/LSB/PDF/LSB11... I should think that using a 'spicy' image setting would be tantamount to asking for a nude or titilating image. Whether twitter should offer that setting is apt to produce a more interesting conversation.
- losvedir 1y agoxAI trying to win the AI wars the way VHS beat Betamax.
- nerdjon 1y agoWhile I do think the "without being asked" spin on this is likely wrong, I assume the "spicy" option is more than just saying "don't do X" and the system prompt was likely modified to encourage its creation even if the user did not specify it so choosing "Spicy" is in fact asking. That does not change the troubling nature of creating fakes like this which to me is the real issue not anything about "Without being asked" since that implies it would have been fine if the user has specifically asked for this... which it still isn't. No one should have images of them being made and circulated like this that they did not consent too.
- klik99 1y agoDoes anybody remember when Elon Musk said he created Neuralink because he was scared of AI and thought brain interfaces was the only way to mitigate that? (Amazing article on brain interfaces here: https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html) He’s always been a bit crazy but there was a time when he seemed genuinely thoughtful and concerned about the future. Now he’s constantly trying to bait people and intentionally create division for the sake of PR. Maybe he’s bought into accelerationism, but whatever it is is a far cry from his “we should tread carefully” approach
- xnx 1y agoI'm surprised Visa and Mastercard are OK with this.
- bignurgle 1y agotheyre the primary payment processor for onlyfans, a site that accepts pre-orders on teenager accounts. we are so cooked as a society letting this go on
- cadamsdotcom 1y agoThere are plenty of products in the world with no taste! This is nothing new! Ask yourself: does a wacky AI with no taste affect you?
- archagon 1y agoJust as a reminder: "Fine Taylor … you win … I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life." —Elon Musk, Sept. 2024 Ick. Ick. Ick.
- jollyllama 1y agoAs predicted by Father John Misty in 2017's "Total Entertainment Forever".