alt Hacker NewsUK threatens action against X over sexualised AI images of women and children
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So I guess in the 90s they would’ve sued Adobe for not putting spyware into Photoshop?
If you believe in democracy, and the rule of law, and citizenship, then the responsibility obviously lies with people who create and publish pictures, not the makers of tools.
Think of it. You can use a phone camera to produce illegal pictures. What kind of a world would we live in if Apple was required to run an AI filter on your pics to determine whether they comply with the laws?
A different question is if X actually hosts generated pictures that are illegal in the UK. In that case, X acts as a publisher, and you can sue them along with the creator for removal.
This further exposes just how pointless and ill-thought out the Online Safety Act was in the UK. It does nothing to actually limit harm at the source, and empower the UK's public body's to take immediate action.
Ironic that the minister who spearheaded that awful bill (Peter Kyle) as Tech minister is now being the government spokesperson for this debacle as Business Minister. The UK needs someone who knows how tech and business works to tackle this, and that's not Peter Kyle.
A platform suspension in the UK should have been swift, with clear terms for how X can be reinstated. As much as it appears Musk is doubling down on letting Grok produce CSAM as some form of free speech, the UK government should treat it as a limited breach or bug that the vendor needs to resolve, whilst taking action to block the site causing harm until they've fixed it.
Letting X and Grok continue to do harm, and get free PR, is just the worst case scenario for all involved.
Flagged for the title implying men have no rights. That's totally uncalled for and I hope such submission titles are not allowed here.
Don't threaten. Do it.
Indonesia has. Malaysia has. Why not you?
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This is a purely political move to censor dissent by a government that polls like a minor party and is slated for electoral wipeout next election. If it were not, they'd issue the same threats to Gemini and ChatGPT.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/googles-gemini-deeme...
This move makes perfect sense to me. I think people are bit too online pilled to think about this as if it were a different product.
If you produce a product that causes harm, and there are steps that could be taken to prevent that harm, you should be held responsible for it. Before the trump admin dropped the Boeing case, Boeing was going to be held liable for design defects in its Max planes that caused crashes. The government wasn’t going after Boeing bc a plane crashed, but bc Boeing did not take adequate steps from preventing that from happening.