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🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk’s Grok A.I. Chatbot Made Millions of Sexualized Images, New Estimates Show
Holy crap, these numbers. This passage really stood out:
“This is industrial-scale abuse of women and girls,” said Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which conducts research on online hate and disinformation. “There have been nudifying tools, but they have never had the distribution, ease of use or the integration into a large platform that Elon Musk did with Grok.”
🔗 linkblog: Trump Appears to Confuse Iceland and Greenland
I don’t use this line a lot, but if Biden ever slipped up like this…
🔗 linkblog: New AI-Generated Content Derived from Your Work Posted on Academia.Edu
I guess I should be reading this for the jokes, but I hadn’t realized Academia.edu had done this, and I’m so angry at the inspiration for the jokes that I haven’t made it any further.
🔗 linkblog: Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there's a plugin to avoid them.
A few thoughts:
First, it is almost comically mean to use the results of a project collecting AI tells to get LLMs to not sound like that. Like, of all the digital labor exploitations of AI, this might be the pettiest.
Second, AI detection is hard, and for all my concerns with AI, I think this is another good example of why policing its use can do more harm than good. I don’t blame the Wikipedia community for doing this project, but I would never recommend this approach in a classroom.
🔗 linkblog: ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice
Another story that speaks to the power of Ellul’s “image vs. word” distinction. It must be trustworthy because it comes from a machine…
🔗 linkblog: Everyone Knows Our Mad King’s Greenland Obsession Is Insane. Why Won’t Congress Stop It?
The whole post is good, but the first two paragraphs hit on something particularly important.
🔗 linkblog: Trump says he's pursuing Greenland after perceived Nobel Peace Prize snub
He is the shallowest man on earth.
🔗 linkblog: Donald Trump annonce de nouveaux droits de douane aux pays européens 'jusqu'à la vente du Groenland' | RTS
Non, mais franchement : Quelle honte, ce pays dont je suis citoyen.
🔗 linkblog: America can’t look away from MLK’s warnings about power
Some very important reminders in here.
🔗 linkblog: The Campaign to Destroy Renee Good
Depressing read, but makes me glad I’m renewing my WIRED subscription.
🔗 linkblog: Giddy Trump Struts All Around White House With Nobel Peace Prize In Mouth
The Onion is what’s going to get us through this.
🔗 linkblog: European troops arrive in Greenland to boost the Arctic island's security
It’s a sign of how crazy everything is right now that this is just one of sevral political developments contributing to my current anxiety.
🔗 linkblog: Musk and Hegseth vow to “make Star Trek real” but miss the show’s lessons
This is such a perfectly dumb oversight.
🔗 linkblog: Trump Says Civil Rights Led to White People Being ‘Very Badly Treated’
What an embarassment.
🔗 linkblog: Grok Is Being Used to Mock and Strip Women in Hijabs and Sarees
Grok continues to disgust.
🔗 linkblog: Immigrant citizens would be barred from local, state offices in Kentucky under proposed bills
Glad to see that pure xenophobia is alive and well here in the Commonwealth
🔗 linkblog: DHS Warns Any Action By Americans Will Be Treated As Domestic Terrorism
Glad a family member gifted me another year of The Onion in print, because it sure sounds like I’m going to need it to get through 2026.
🔗 linkblog: Grok assumes users seeking images of underage girls have “good intent”
Depressing read with interesting details about why Grok is bad at this.
🔗 linkblog: DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman
This shooting is making me panicky, and I’m honestly trying to not read any more about it, but this is important.
🔗 linkblog: Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What's on X
Pair this with Emanuel Maiberg’s article I linked to earlier, and there’s a lot to think about.
I sometimes wonder if base Grok is less wild than integrated-with-Twitter Grok, but this is at least one way in which that’s not true.
🔗 linkblog: Inside the Telegram Channel Jailbreaking Grok Over and Over Again
Oof, this line:
what is clear to me from following this Telegram community for a couple of years now is that nonconsensual sexual images of real people, including minors, is the cost of doing business with AI image generators