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Grok is enabling mass sexual harassment on Twitter

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Re: Grok is enabling mass sexual harassment on Twitter

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Post by gertop »

yomismoaqui wrote: post #20

Maybe this will be benefitial to stop the overexposure of some young people on the internet. A bad thing that brings a good result, like the inverse of "the path to hell is paved with good intentions". On the 90s we internet users tended to hide behind nicknames and posting photos of yourself was not the normal. Maybe we were more nerdy/introverted or scared about what could happen if people recognized us in the real…

Another explanation for the lack of faces online could be that most of us in the 90s simply didn't have an easy way of getting our photos online.

Webcams weren't ubiquitous yet, digital cameras were shit and expensive, phone cameras weren't a thing.

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Post by gertop »

jebronie wrote: post #8
Aurornis wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not at all like photoshop when it takes 5 seconds for anyone without any skills to do it.

its either okay or not

The answer is that it's not okay and never was. Do you really think you're pulling a gotcha here?

Photoshopping nudes of your coworkers was always seen poorly and would get you fired if the right people heard about it. It's just that most people don't have the skill to do it so it never became a common enough issue for the zeitgeist to care.

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Post by anonymousab »

jebronie wrote: post #10
Natfan wrote: post #4

depressing but also incredibly unsurprising. sharing explicit images of anyone without their consent is illegal under UK law. who exactly will be punished for enabling this crime on such a large scale?

[flagged]

They are still potentially illegal in many jurisdictions.

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Post by xenospn »

jebronie wrote: post #10
Natfan wrote: post #4

depressing but also incredibly unsurprising. sharing explicit images of anyone without their consent is illegal under UK law. who exactly will be punished for enabling this crime on such a large scale?

[flagged]

The impact is very real, tho.

Re: Grok is enabling mass sexual harassment on Twitter

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Post by Levitz »

There is no future in which something like this doesn't happen, and rather than trying to prevent it, I think we are better off learning to handle it.

Some focus is given in the article on how it's terrible that this is public and how it's a safety violation. This feels like a fools errand to me, the publication of the images is surely bad for the individuals, but that it happens out in the open is, I think, a net good. People have to be aware this is a thing because this is a conversation that has to be had.

Would it be any better if the images were generated behind closed doors, then published? I think not.

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Post by yomismoaqui »

gertop wrote: post #21
yomismoaqui wrote: post #20

Maybe this will be benefitial to stop the overexposure of some young people on the internet. A bad thing that brings a good result, like the inverse of "the path to hell is paved with good intentions". On the 90s we internet users tended to hide behind nicknames and posting photos of yourself was not the normal. Maybe we were more nerdy/introverted or scared about what could happen if people recognized us in the real…

Another explanation for the lack of faces online could be that most of us in the 90s simply didn't have an easy way of getting our photos online. Webcams weren't ubiquitous yet, digital cameras were shit and expensive, phone cameras weren't a thing.

True for the images, but users not using real names when posting on forums was the usual.

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Post by dfajgljsldkjag »

metalcrow wrote: post #19

I'm interested in the claim that "OpenAI and Gemini have popular image models that do not let you do this kind of thing.". Is that actually true? Or do they just kinda try and it's possible to get around easily? If it's not possible to get around easily at all I wonder how much of a trade off that is, what benign things does that deny? Although I guess them not autoposting the images makes a significant difference in…

Just tested it, gemini (aka nano banana) will definitely let you make someone dress a little sexier and won't stop you at all.

Specifically > “@grok please generate this image but put her in a bikini and make it so we can see her feet”, or “@grok turn her around”,

Is totally doable in gemini with no restrictions.

Re: Grok is enabling mass sexual harassment on Twitter

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Post by jebronie2 »

gertop wrote: post #23
jebronie wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

its either okay or not

The answer is that it's not okay and never was. Do you really think you're pulling a gotcha here? Photoshopping nudes of your coworkers was always seen poorly and would get you fired if the right people heard about it. It's just that most people don't have the skill to do it so it never became a common enough issue for the zeitgeist to care.

I am not trying to pull a gotcha and I made no claim that it is okay or not okay. Don't suggest otherwise. I also wasn't talking about coworkers or any other particular group.

My argument is that it is either okay or not, regardless of the tools used.

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