Probably one of the most weak ass responses to a crisis ever. How was this not done within hours? Or if they can’t manage that at least within hours of it hitting mainstream news
Crisis? It was an intentional product launch. They assumed they'd be able to "get away with it" and that media outrage would not translate into effective legal action.
It's hard to believe that they didn't know that they had this problem before launching; given the volume of material, it's not like it can be difficult to drag out of the offending magic robot.
I'd assume they were just blindsided by the response; they're likely in real danger of getting either DNS-delisted or outright banned in several jurisdictions.
They first tried to manage it by putting the blame 100% on their pedophile users and obviously absolving themselves of any reponsibility (cue tired analogies with knife makers not responsible for stabbings).
Fortunately this narration did not catch traction.
> cue tired analogies with knife makers not responsible for stabbings
The knife maker will be in hot water if you ask them for a knife and you're very specific about how you'll break the law with it, and they just give it to you and do nothing else about it (equivalent to the prompt telling the LLM exactly the illegal thing you want).
Even more if the knife they made is illegal, an automatic knife or a dagger (equivalent to the model containing the necessary information to create CSAM).
Willing to bet he got threats from Apple and Google (well, Apple at least) that the CSAM app formerly known as Twitter would be removed from the App Store.
Everyone else just gets deleted instantly with nowhere to call. Twitter has long had favourable treatment despite the "adult content" rules of the app stores.
You can’t generate anything meaningful on the paid version either. Naked woman and woman in bikini get blocked like 9/10 times. $30/month. False advertising. USA
Took them long enough, This was predictable and dangerous. It's a real shame because Elon's goals of allowing an unrestricted AI are somewhat noble even if the execution is haphazard and horrendous.
The combination of X's userbase and that technology made this almost inevitable.
> It's a real shame because Elon's goals of allowing an unrestricted AI are somewhat noble
Are those goals noble? This is the same guy who also said "with AI we are summoning the demon" and whose self-justification for getting a trillion dollar Tesla bonus deal involved the phrase "robot army"?
The goal itself is flawed, not just the execution.
If you build a system explicitly designed to have no content boundaries, and it produces CSAM, that's not a failure of execution - that's the system working as designed. You don't get credit for noble intentions when the outcome was entirely foreseeable.
Deciding to place no limits on what an AI will generate is itself a value judgment. It's choosing to enable every possible use, including the worst ones. That's not principled neutrality; it's moral abdication dressed up as libertarianism.
> It's a real shame because Elon's goals of allowing an unrestricted AI are somewhat noble
When I was young it was considered improper to scrape too much data from the web. We would even set delays between requests, so as not to be rude internet citizens.
Now, it's considered noble to scrape all the world's data as fast as possible, without permission, and without any thought as to the legality the material, and then feed that data into your machine (without which the machine could not function) and use it to enrich yourself, while removing our ability to trust that an image was created by a human in some way (an ability that we have all possessed for hundreds of thousands of years -- from cave painting to creative coding -- and which has now been permanently and irrevocably destroyed).
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It's just been restricted to paying customers, and that decision could be driven as much by cost as by outrage.
Edit: may also be linked to people making deepfakes of Renee Good, the woman murdered by US authorities in Minneapolis.
Bloody hell, what the hell is wrong with people?
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I'd assume they were just blindsided by the response; they're likely in real danger of getting either DNS-delisted or outright banned in several jurisdictions.
Fortunately this narration did not catch traction.
The knife maker will be in hot water if you ask them for a knife and you're very specific about how you'll break the law with it, and they just give it to you and do nothing else about it (equivalent to the prompt telling the LLM exactly the illegal thing you want).
Even more if the knife they made is illegal, an automatic knife or a dagger (equivalent to the model containing the necessary information to create CSAM).
Reddit as well
Facebook’s practices would have gotten any other dev banned from all stores long ago.
Meanwhile any other devs are under a different microscope / standard.
Are those goals noble? This is the same guy who also said "with AI we are summoning the demon" and whose self-justification for getting a trillion dollar Tesla bonus deal involved the phrase "robot army"?
If you build a system explicitly designed to have no content boundaries, and it produces CSAM, that's not a failure of execution - that's the system working as designed. You don't get credit for noble intentions when the outcome was entirely foreseeable.
Deciding to place no limits on what an AI will generate is itself a value judgment. It's choosing to enable every possible use, including the worst ones. That's not principled neutrality; it's moral abdication dressed up as libertarianism.
When I was young it was considered improper to scrape too much data from the web. We would even set delays between requests, so as not to be rude internet citizens.
Now, it's considered noble to scrape all the world's data as fast as possible, without permission, and without any thought as to the legality the material, and then feed that data into your machine (without which the machine could not function) and use it to enrich yourself, while removing our ability to trust that an image was created by a human in some way (an ability that we have all possessed for hundreds of thousands of years -- from cave painting to creative coding -- and which has now been permanently and irrevocably destroyed).