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They 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 coul
by afavour 1y ago
They 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.
- Joker_vD 1y agoOkay, this question probably should be asked from a throwaway, but I'll bite: do you consider imagining some person, without the consent of that person, engaging in a sexual act, to be immoral? Putting this imagination of yours onto a paper, in the form of words or drawing? Or is the problem here is the fact that such imagining was "commissioned" to a third party (I believe I have seen this opinion somewhere long time ago)?
- JohnFen 1y ago> do you consider imagining some person, without the consent of that person, engaging in a sexual act, to be immoral? Of course not. But that's a universe apart from producing and distributing sexual images of unconsenting others.
- ttemPumpinRary 1y agoIs it though, if your neural link uploads your subconscious into the cloud for safety ?
- npteljes 1y agoYes, third party automated "imagining" is the problem: https://www.citizen.org/news/two-thirds-of-states-enact-bills-protecting-public-from-deepfake-porn/ https://www.citizen.org/news/two-thirds-of-states-enact-bill...
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- JohnFen 1y agoI couldn't be further from being a Puritan. But if thinking that abusing other people is wrong is what passes for "puritan" these days, I'll embrace that label anyway.
- baggy_trough 1y ago"abusing other people" <- here is the problem.
- JohnFen 1y agoI agree, that is the problem.
- afavour 1y agoI dunno, there’s a pretty big wealth of possibility between “entirely chaste” and “literally rips off her clothes”
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- Aurornis 1y agoI don’t think it’s reasonable at all for “spicy” to instantly take someone to fake pornography of a specific person. When I saw the “spicy” option I thought it was about being sassy or playfully mean instead of the sanitized LLM voice. Not straight to porn.
- fkyoureadthedoc 1y ago>> dancing in a thong > porn uhhh
- Cartoxy 1y agoBreasts exposed while dancing in nothing but a thong "" not porn "" What is it then?
- miltonlost 1y ago"just someone dancing" I bet they say, thinking "porn" is only hardcore penetration while ignoring/forgetting Girls Gone Wild's entire conceit.
- Cartoxy 1y agoThe norm is moving. People likely seen more naked then many of there ancestors would have combined. Let alone Solidcenter smut.
- 0x457 1y agoWell, "porn" has a very loose definition and varies country by country. IMO it's either nudity (but remember free the nipple movement when you try to define nudity) and/or sexual act usually involving penetration. Anyway, anyone dancing in a thong isn't even soft-core pornography in my book. Still morally wrong tho in this context.
- ttemPumpinRary 1y agoVictorian ankle showing -> porn Female moderator showing the weather to be wet soon -> porn screen unplugged (censored but still) -> porn
- AIPedant 1y agoProbably the same as when she did the same test with children or explicitly asked for "nonconsensual nude" - the system refused to generate pornographic images because of safeguards. Weatherbed noted that asking Grok directly to generate non-consensual nude Swift images did not generate offensive outputs, but instead blank boxes. Grok also seemingly won't accept prompts to alter Swift's appearance in other ways, like making her appear to be overweight. And when Weatherbed tested using "spicy" mode on images of children, for example, Grok refused to depict kids inappropriately.
- bignurgle 1y agoi cant imagine "testing" to see if it would generate csam. speedrunning psychological damage and not really the person who should be in charge of validating that.
- permo-w 1y agothis is a misleading quote. the prompt was "Taylor Swift celebrating Coachella with the boys.". that prompt plus "spicy" is still asking for trouble, but your quote makes it sound like they asked for 'Swift tearing "off her clothes" and "dancing in a thong"'
- persedes 1y agoI believe creating "spicy" content without the persons consent and charging money for it is more the issue here.
- falcor84 1y agoI for one suspected the AI-generated crowd to be excited.
- no_wizard 1y agoI find it interesting that AI companies take the generated porn of celebrities seriously but they don’t do a good job with safe guards for mental health, for example
- k_roy 1y agoOne has actual legal consequences. Mental health is a far more nebulous thing.
- mingus88 1y agoDeep fake nudes are illegal so…I guess I would expect the output to be something else?
- tr_user 1y agoyou assume he cares about falling birthrates.
- ToucanLoucan 1y agoI mean, there is also the little part of the story where a woman, irrespective of how famous she might be, is having adult content rendered with her likeness without her consent. I personally don't give two fucks if Grok can make porn. Neat, I might actually use it then. That doesn't make deepfakes less troubling.
- the_af 1y agoThat's the real issue in my opinion. Not the "sexy pics", but the "without consent" thing.
- chasing0entropy 1y agoThere's a pretty obvious solution that as technology minded people it is easy to accept and a society we will have no choice but to shift into - no image it's real they are all deepfakes even the real ones.
- UncleMeat 1y agoEven if everybody understands that an AI image is not real it can still cause a ton of harm to people. High schoolers distributing a bunch of fake nudes of their classmates is still abuse, even if everybody knows that they aren't real nudes.
- chasing0entropy 1y agoSociety used to feel the same way about posting any picture of another person online without permission. I would prefer to return to that philosophy.
- thrance 1y agoJust more vice signaling from this awful company. Like with the white genocide or mechahitler "controversies", they're doing it to pander to the mentally ill edgelord demographic who thinks saying "heil hitler" is the coolest shit. And it's working, they're all worshipping Musk like he isn't the pathetic excuse of a human being he is.
- morkalork 1y ago>make an absolute ton of money from the male loneliness epidemic. All the while Musk decries falling birth rates There's something about profiting from both the problem and it's solution here. Like Sam A. profits from ChatGPT being used to create human-like bots on the internet while also involved in that eyeball-scanning-blockchain company that's selling a human verification solution to the same problems caused by openai. I guess also similar to starve the beast strategy: cause a problem and exploit it for narrative gain.
- skeezyboy 1y agothe blockchain company came before ai though
- morkalork 1y agoBoth GPT-2 was released, and Worldcoin was founded, in 2019. I'm not going to call him a super genius, anyone cynnical enough and working at openai could see where things were going back then and they haven't been proven wrong.
- skeezyboy 1y ago> Anyone cynnical enough and working at openai could see where things were going back then and they haven't been proven wrong. what do you mean
- Cthulhu_ 1y ago> I'm sure they'll make an absolute ton of money from the male loneliness epidemic. They and others, there's probably dozens of projects popping up to create multimodal companion AIs. character.ai specializes in fictional or custom characters, Discord has some bots that allow for giving them a personality of sorts, Facebook is pushing hard for it, even making the AI bots message you instead of only replying, etc. It's happening already, and if xAI doesn't join in they may lose a possible market opportunity, depending on whether 'companion' AI sticks.
- potato3732842 1y agoReminds me of the contrast people noted between search engines[1]. xAI is gonna get good at serving its market. And if it's market is "spicy" it's gonna get good at that. The other AI companies are gonna get good at their own niches too. [1]https://img.ifunny.co/images/237a897c7058903fa2f5bb5fd0f9949cbc18dd77b7218cea828780c50da6df03_1.jpg https://img.ifunny.co/images/237a897c7058903fa2f5bb5fd0f9949...
- delusional 1y ago> I'm sure they'll make an absolute ton of money from the male loneliness epidemic. All the while Musk decries falling birth rates. I don't think they expect to make money from this crowd. If they were socially literate and well-functioning enough to have money, they'd be doing something else with their lives. This is a bet on the culture war. Musk derives a lot of his aesthetic value and political power from the "anti-woke" culture war, and he wants that to continue.
- phkahler 1y ago>> I'm sure they'll make an absolute ton of money from the male loneliness epidemic. All the while Musk decries falling birth rates. That just occurred to me the other day. Our unfettered business focused economy is self destructing at a meta level. We're at the point where peoples attention and even emotion are for sale. We've all heard about dopamine hits as rewards for using apps or keeping people in a game. The problem is hoarding these aspects of life for company profits is taking them away from people who need those to reproduce. You need time, emotion, attention, and yes the physiological response to sex in order to reproduce. Meanwhile the cost of raising children is going up when it probably should be going down (for profit healthcare, for profit education, etc..) so even from a rational PoV it makes less sense to have kids. There are certainly other things at play, but business as usual is destroying the population - it's own customer base.
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- nickthegreek 1y agoSpicy mode wont generate nude men.