cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1265806/musk-s-xai-sues-grok-user-over-sexualized-deepfakes-of-children
Elon Musk’s xAI sued a user on Tuesday, alleging he used the Grok chatbot to create child sexual abuse materials. It’s one of the first lawsuits filed by a tech company against users who allegedly create explicit content with AI.
So. The company could have just turned over the proof to the police and let them prosecute him for CP/CSAM. Instead they decided to do this? Why? I doubt he’s got money they can take. It’s certainly not to protect the “good name”. This seems like they just want to be seen doing something and they picked the worst thing to be seen doing.
“He used our LLM for CSAM!”
“Why does your LLM generate CSAM?”
“It’s there by design, but that’s not the point. Arrest that dude!”
I think nekokoneko above has it right, trying to misattribute blame to the user. Basically, he wants to blame the user for using the service, instead of fixing the service so it doesn’t produce heinously horrible things on request. It shouldn’t work, but who knows with the amount of money he has and the lack of money on the other side. The goal is to establish a small precedent, though if someone sues xAI for making a product that makes this kind of refuse, I doubt such a precedent would hold much water.
Exactly. This should be a criminal matter, not a civil one… and xAi should be one of the defendants.