It has always been illegal and morally reprehensible to create, own, distribute or store sexually explicit material that represents a real person without their consent, regardless if they are underage or not.

Grok is a platform that is enabling this en masse. If xAI can't bring in guardrails or limit who can access these capabilities, then they deserve what's coming to them.

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GaryBluto 43 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

>It has always been illegal and morally reprehensible to create, own, distribute or store sexually explicit material that represents a real person without their consent, regardless if they are underage or not.

Arguably morally reprehensible but it has not always been illegal (and still isn't in many places) if you're talking about images of adults.

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actionfromafar 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think you are going a bit too far.

Let's start from the beginning, create and own:

You're sketching out some nude fanart on a piece of paper. You created that and own that. Thas has always been illegal?!

(This is apart from my feelings on Mechahitler/Grok, which aren't positive.)

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reddalo 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You can _almost_ do anything you want in the privacy of your home; but in this case Twitter was actively and directly disseminating pictures publicly on their platform.

	▲	kimixa an hour ago \| parent [-]
		And profiting from it, though less directly than "$ for illegal images". Even if it wasn't behind a paywall (which it mostly is) driving more traffic for more ads for more income is still profiting from illegal imagery.

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andrepd 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> You're sketching out some nude fanart on a piece of paper.

Is twitter a piece of paper in your desk? No, it's not.

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actionfromafar an hour ago | parent [-]

Right.

OP had "It has always been illegal and morally reprehensible to create, own, distribute or store "

It would make more sense then to instead say:

"It has always been illegal and morally reprehensible to distribute "

	▲	andrepd an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Again, AI deepfakes are not sketches in a piece of paper. There's a massive difference between drawing your coworker naked on a piece of paper (weird, but certainly not criminal), and going "grok generate a video of my coworker bouncing on my d*ck". Not to mention the latter is generated and stored god knows where, against the consent of the depicted person.

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master-lincoln 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

In which broken society do you live where this is true? I would say drawing sexually explicit pictures of real persons without their consent and keeping them in your drawer is neither illegal nor morally reprehensible in most of the world.

I am with you on publishing these...

	▲	freetanga a few seconds ago \| parent [-]
		Not morally reprehensible? Do you tell your coworkers “hey, last night I sketched you nude, but it’s cool, it’s in my bedside drawer…”