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First-in-nation law sets up test on states’ power to regulate use of AI as it tries to outlaw fake nude images of real people

Elon Musk’s company xAI has sued Minnesota over the state’s first-in-the-nation law banning “nudification” technology on websites and apps, potentially providing a test for how far states can go in constitutionally regulating the use of artificial intelligence.

Musk’s company sued on Monday in federal court, days before the law is set to take effect on Saturday and make Minnesota the first state to try to outlaw the increasingly proliferating technology that lets people use AI to create fake nude images of real people. The law was signed in May.

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[-] yesman@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago

Elon Musk? You mean the guy who murdered all those children with a chainsaw? The guy who invented replicator technology, but only for CSAM? That guy?

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

No, this is the guy that cremates his car buyers with doors that can't open.

[-] Folstar@lemmus.org 2 points 2 hours ago

Seems weird that fElon, who has killed more people than the Chinese Nationalists but not quite as many as Hitler (yet), gets to have his cake and eat it too with his web of companies. Somehow SpaceX, the parent company, is not mentioned at all here. Almost like they want to put some distance between this action and the tumbling stock. It's "of course we all work together" or "we don't even know those guys" depending on what benefits the moment.

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 8 points 7 hours ago

"xAI" is a more professional sounding name than "grok" but he can't even be original. He has to steal Apple's "Lower case i" and change it to an "x". All I see is "TwitterAI".

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 15 points 9 hours ago

I don't understand why he insists on making this a thing. I mean, i can see why he would get involved--he's a repugnant incel-pilled dork who has to offer compensation in exchange for sex because literally nobody wants to do it with him. This is how he gets his revenge on women for not acquiescing to his disgusting advances.

But looking beyond all that, i still want to understand why he believes it's so important that it exists--that he's willing to fight lawsuits over it. I don't know if this properly explains it, but i think it's important to see what they're saying about it.

In the lawsuit, xAI said the terms of service for using Grok prohibit using it for “any illegal, harmful, or abusive activities” that violate someone’s privacy, including altering their image to nudify them or depict them in a sexually explicit image. It said it enforces those rules against violators through account suspensions or terminations, and by reporting suspected child sexual abuse content.

xAI also said earlier this year that it has “zero tolerance for any forms of child sexual exploitation, non-consensual nudity, and unwanted sexual content”.

After a global backlash over sexualized images of women and children, Grok said in January it will geo-block content if it violates laws in a particular place, preventing people from editing photos of real people in revealing clothing in places where that is illegal. Grok’s “spicy mode” had allowed users to create explicit content, leading to a backlash from governments worldwide.

“We have implemented technological measures to prevent the Grok account from allowing the editing of images of real people in revealing clothing such as bikinis, underwear and other revealing attire,” xAI said in a January statement.

It sounds like this thing isn't going to be allowed nearly anywhere if it's as restricted as they claim it is. Which leads me of course to the fact that this asshole will do whatever he wants regardless of the law and anyone that wants to challenge him can try to get their day in court. Bonus points for their self-policing solution, lol. I'm sure Grok'll be turning pedos in left and right 🥴

[-] fonix232@fedia.io 2 points 2 hours ago

It's quite simple - by allowing this type of genAI to take hold and have no guardrails, any and all future allegations against the Epstein class can be dismissed with a "fake news, that's AI" claim.

And since AI is getting better and better at generating images while getting worse and worse at recognising AI generated content...

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

That's a good point. I've read that AI medical assistants will function in a way that will effectively make them work as an accountability shield. The AI would be calling the shots and the doctors will be the 'guardrails' and when mistakes are made it won't be the AI to blame, but the doctor who failed to catch it's error.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

He is afraid to lose the only branch that actually provides income?

[-] Marija_@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago

But the technology itself is the problem.

[-] YeahToast@aussie.zone 9 points 10 hours ago

Probably would save more money than he ever did under DOGE if he just stopped fucking litigating everything

[-] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 48 points 14 hours ago

Whatever happened to the legal issues this pasty slug was facing in Europe over Grook being used to do "nudification" for children?

[-] Eskarina@piefed.blahaj.zone 31 points 13 hours ago

So far nothing besides opening of proceedings, which happened in January. It's here at the bottom.

Seems like they usually need almost a year to get further.

[-] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 8 points 13 hours ago

Thanks for the update :)

[-] shittydwarf@piefed.ca 15 points 15 hours ago
[-] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 18 points 14 hours ago
[-] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago

He probably knows he can't, but it would be fumed up from the discussion on limits of LLMs to attacks on his american :boldeagle: :ar15: freedum! and some challenge from lapdoggy trump's henchpersons.

[-] howdy@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours ago

are we the baddies

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