This might be a controversial post.

This might be a controversial post.

Now that everybody is getting railed up about Elon Musk's #Grok producing #sex⁣ually charged text (or images?) involving minors, I wonder if there isn't a certain hypocrisy in that discussion.

Are we again at the "video games cause mass shootings" point?

As long as no real child sex abuse material was used for training and no real person's identity (e.g. face) is used, I don't see the harm.

Actually,

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This might be a controversial post.

Now that everybody is getting railed up about Elon Musk's #Grok producing #sex⁣ually charged text (or images?) involving minors, I wonder if there isn't a certain hypocrisy in that discussion.

Are we again at the "video games cause mass shootings" point?

As long as no real child sex abuse material was used for training and no real person's identity (e.g. face) is used, I don't see the harm.

Actually,

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@mina I'm afraid you can't rule either of those out Men are using grok to undress real women and the results have the same face as the real photos of those women

@rhelune

That's a different story, and this is rightfully illegal as it harms the personality rights of the people depicted.

I was specifically referring to the reports of people getting upset about *conversations* they said to have had with their "ai" companions or friends, or whatever these bots pretend to be.

as a parent, I feel far more comfortable if wannabe child abusers¹ satisfy their desires in private with a chatbot or a doll in whatever shape, as if they were trying to abuse real children, be it online or offline.

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¹they call themselves "paedophiles", but it's not the right word, as there is nothing loving and caring in what they want.

@mina I haven't seen complaints about text

@mina afaik the current scientific knowledge says that a considerable percentage of pedophiles that use simulations will be harming children eventually, directly or indirectly. responsible pediphiles thus look for treatment that inhibits their sexual desires.

@rhelune

I have, yesterday and some hours ago.

I tried to find them, but alas, it were screenshots, not texts, so the search didn't find them.

It was specifically about the program impersonating a minor (15 or so), with sexual urges which included choking and rough handling, stating that such texts would be illegal in the UK and demanding to hold Musk personally responsible.

@lechimp

Is there a reliable statistic about that? I find it hard to believe that this can be done.

I wonder if they included Catholic priests in the control group.

@mina Can't comment on that, except that it is a result of copyright infringement as everything LLM generated.

@mina i’m not in much into the topic, so no deep knowledge here. but i did read about this project

https://sexualmedizin.charite.de/forschung/kein_taeter_werden/

and i think they have some more material there.

from a very personal standpoint i find this convincing: if you really want to do something, anything, a simulation is never enough, but instead feeds the desire to do the real thing. this is not scientific ofc

@mina regarding catholic priests: the amount of perpetrators in that demographic is embarrassing and really bad at the same time, for sure. but somehow i think becoming a priest might also be understood as a misdirected attempt to not become a perpetrator. finding peace in god and all that weird stuff.

@mina i’m not in much into the topic, so no deep knowledge here. but i did read about this project

https://sexualmedizin.charite.de/forschung/kein_taeter_werden/

and i think they have some more material there.

from a very personal standpoint i find this convincing: if you really want to do something, anything, a simulation is never enough, but instead feeds the desire to do the real thing. this is not scientific ofc

@rhelune

I mean: I hate all that LLM shit with my whole heart. I hate child abusers even a thousand times more, but I don't think, there should be something like a "thought crime".

@mina No, but there is incitement to hatred and many fantasies written in the manosphere would fall under it if anyone cared to look into them.

@rhelune

Publication is a different thing from personal "use".

I don't think, hate speech should be allowed.

@mina If it was only for personal use, how did you find out about it?

This might be a controversial post.

Now that everybody is getting railed up about Elon Musk's #Grok producing #sex⁣ually charged text (or images?) involving minors, I wonder if there isn't a certain hypocrisy in that discussion.

Are we again at the "video games cause mass shootings" point?

As long as no real child sex abuse material was used for training and no real person's identity (e.g. face) is used, I don't see the harm.

Actually,

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@rhelune

People (journalists) wrote about what they managed to make their chatbots say.