What's new is that X automated the production of obscene or sexualised images by providing grok. This was also done in a way that confronted everyone; it's very different from a black market, this is basically a harassment tool for use against women and girls.
Yes we are now dealing with an automated Photoshop. And somehow the people in charge have decided to do something about it, probably more for political or maybe darker reasons.
So let me make a suggestion: maybe France or the EU should ban its citizen from investing in the upcoming SpaceX/xAI IPO, and also Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Adobe, etc. ?
Hit them hard at the money level... it wouldn't be more authoritarian than something like ChatControl or restricting access to VPNs.
And actually all the mechanisms are already in place to implement something like that.
I don't get what's difficult to understand or believe here. Grok causes a big issue in practice right now, a larger issue than photoshop, and it should be easy for X to regulate it themselves like the competition does but they don't, so the state intervenes.
> maybe France or the EU should ban its citizen from investing in the upcoming SpaceX/xAI IPO, and also Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Adobe, etc. ?
You're basically asking "why do a surgical strike when you can do carpet bombing"? A surgical strike is used to target the actual problem. With carpet bombing you mostly cause collateral damage.
Yes they do regulate it. But then people find exploits just like the competition.
I'm sorry, but I don't understand any of the arguments above.
If we presume a dark control motivation then having shares in the entities you want to control is the best form of control there is.
> And the fact that they didn’t even care and haven’t want to spend money for implementing guardrails or moderation is deeply concerning.
In the 90s, the principal of a prominent school in my city was arrested for CSAM on his computer downloaded from the Internet.
As the story made the news most people were trying to wrap their head around this "Internet" thing and how it could produce CSAM material. Remember, in the 90s the "Internet" was a bit like quantum computing for most people, hard to understand how it works and only a few actually played with it.
I have no idea how that school principal downloaded the CSAM. UUCP, FTP, Usenet or maybe the brand new "World Wide Web"? But I guess the justice system had to figure out how that stuff works to prosecute him.
So the society and the state knew for at least 30 years the Internet is full of that stuff. The question is why are they so motivated to do something about it only now?
Could it be because the "web of rich and powerful pedos" is getting exposed through the Epstein affair in the last few years?
So maybe they need to pretend to crack down on the "web of poor pedos"?