Lapses in safeguards led to wave of sexualized images this week as xAI says it is working to improve systems
Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok posted on Friday that lapses in safeguards had led it to generate “images depicting minors in minimal clothing” on social media platform X. The chatbot, a product of Musk’s company xAI, has been generating a wave of sexualized images throughout the week in response to user prompts.
Screenshots shared by users on X showed Grok’s public media tab filled with such images. xAI said it was working to improve its systems to prevent future incidents.
Indeed, there are two major factors. The first is that the human brain is built to adapt it’s baseline to your context, which means that for you and I eating a $15000 dinner made by France’s best chef would blow us away, but if you get to eat like that everyday at home… it suddenly becomes just as normal as whatever sandwich you ate last week, and I don’t mean “Yeah it’s still mind blowing, but you want something else”, it quite literally gets re-normalized so that first taste will never be achievable again. So billionaires go around wasting the experience of everything they can buy: food, comfort, travel, fame, competitions… and sex, and then they crave the next thing they haven’t tasted yet, the more difficult to find, the more restricted, the more hidden, the more illegal… the better.
The second factor is that you don’t get to be a billionaire if you’re not a sociopath. There’s simply no other way, anybody with a sliver of empathy would not be able to become one, which also means they’re extremely likely to see abuse as valid if it’s for their own benefit.
The combination of both factors, together with the money necessary to escape the consequences, is a pedophilia machine.
I think it’s your second factor that’s most relevant.