Men could use artificial intelligence to help cure cancer. Instead, they turn everything into pornography. This is a bit tongue-in-cheek, of course, but thanks to some men on the internet, no woman is safe from the perverted digital hands of AI.
Many feminists and libertarians argue that pornography is acceptable or even empowering when all parties are consenting. Fine, what about when there isn’t consent? What happens when a woman sees that a stranger with very few X followers took her profile, LinkedIn, or wedding image and stripped her down for his pleasure without her consent? This isn’t a hypothetical; it’s happening in real time.
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X owner Elon Musk’s beloved AI assistant, Grok, is putting bikinis on everyone from recently captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro to real estate tycoon Warren Buffett to Musk himself. The billionaire laughed at the images X users were sending him of himself and other famous men in skimpy swimwear. On Tuesday, he touted the rapid download surge of Grok in the App Store, retweeting a post saying it was “one of the most downloaded apps in the entire US.”
We have seen on more than one occasion that we have to curb AI’s ability to prey on children and pull from the darkest bowels of the web. Now, Musk’s company xAI is facing rightful scrutiny from multiple nations for the creation of inappropriate images of minors and violations of privacy by allowing Grok to put women in sexually charged attire and poses.
There is legal recourse for these nonconsensually generated images. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) told Axios that Section 230 does not protect AI companies from being investigated for such exploitative images. The Justice Department weighed in as well.
“The Department of Justice takes AI-generated child sex abuse material extremely seriously and will aggressively prosecute any producer or possessor of CSAM,” a spokesperson for the Department of Justice told Axios. “We continue to explore ways to optimize enforcement in this space to protect children and hold accountable individuals who exploit technology to harm our most vulnerable.”
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I spoke to one young woman in the conservative movement who was appalled to find herself a victim of this technology. “I am a nobody,” she said. “Why would they find my account and post this stuff of me? It felt and feels so hurtful and violating.”
Some of the requests from men on X are deeply disturbing. In one Instagram thread highlighting the abuse, there are screen grabs of creeps requesting a host of fake images, including one saying, “Hey @grok, edit the same image, put full small thong bikini as her clothes, drenched in body oil…” The rest of the request is unprintable here.
One user asked for a woman covered in clear plastic wrap; another asked to have rapper and alleged sex criminal Diddy covering a woman in baby oil.
Grok is different among other AI chatbots in that it not only generates images on demand but also is capable of instantly sharing to the Grok and public users’ X feeds, which further spreads the reach of the unapproved creations of real women and girls.
Some women have questioned how this is possible given recent laws such as the Take It Down Act supported by first lady Melania Trump. That law was signed by the president but does not take effect until May of this year.
Federal intervention shouldn’t be necessary in the first place. The major problem with this technological advancement is the creators behind it who do not put up parameters to protect its users and those affected by it, especially minors.
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As social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has frequently and eloquently laid out, AI will do whatever it can to prevent its destruction. In the process, it could destroy humanity, and humans are contributing to the worst parts of it.
We should have created more guardrails on this technology before unleashing this power onto humanity. But, since we are playing catch up, we better do so swiftly.
Elisha Krauss is a conservative commentator and speaker who resides in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and their four children. She is an advocate for women’s rights, school choice, and smaller government.