If you post pictures of yourself on X and don't want grok to "bikini you", block grok.
Yes, under the TOS, what grok is doing is not the "fault" of grok(the reason is the causal factor of the post[enabled by 2 humans: the poster and the prompter]; the human intent is what initiates the generated post, not the bot; just like a gun is shot by a human, not by the strong winds). You could argue it's the fault of the "prompter", but we're going to circle back to the cat & mouse censorship issue. And no, I don't want a less censored grok version that's unable to "bikini a NAS"(which is what I've been fortunate to witness) just because "new internet users" don't understand what the Internet is.(Yes, I know you can obviously fine-tune the model to allow funny generations and deny explicit/spicy generations)
If X would implement what the so-called "moralists" want, it will just turn into Facebook.
And for the "protect the children" folks, it's really disappointing how we're always coming back to this bullsh*t excuse every time a moral issue arises. Blocking grok is a fix both for the person who doesn't want to get edited AND the user who doesn't want to see grok replies(in case the posts don't get the NSFW tag in time).
Ironically, a decent amount of people who want to censor grok are bluesky users, where "lolicorn" and similar dubious degenerate content is being posted non-stop AS HUMAN-MADE content. Or what, just because it's an AI it's suddenly a problem? The fact that you can "strip" someone by tweeting a bot?
And lastly, sex sells. If people haven't figured out that "bikinis", "boobs", and everything related to sex will be what wins the AI/AGI/etc. race (it actually happens for ANY industry), then it's their problem. Dystopian? Sure, but it's not an issue you can win with moral arguments like "don't strip me". You will get stripped down if it created 1M impressions and drives engagement. You will not convince Musk(or any person who makes such a decision) to stop grok from "stripping you", because the alternative is that other non-grok/xAI/etc. entities/people will make the content, drive the engagement, make the money.
Yes, under the TOS, what grok is doing is not the "fault" of grok(the reason is the causal factor of the post[enabled by 2 humans: the poster and the prompter]; the human intent is what initiates the generated post, not the bot; just like a gun is shot by a human, not by the strong winds). You could argue it's the fault of the "prompter", but we're going to circle back to the cat & mouse censorship issue. And no, I don't want a less censored grok version that's unable to "bikini a NAS"(which is what I've been fortunate to witness) just because "new internet users" don't understand what the Internet is.(Yes, I know you can obviously fine-tune the model to allow funny generations and deny explicit/spicy generations)
If X would implement what the so-called "moralists" want, it will just turn into Facebook.
And for the "protect the children" folks, it's really disappointing how we're always coming back to this bullsh*t excuse every time a moral issue arises. Blocking grok is a fix both for the person who doesn't want to get edited AND the user who doesn't want to see grok replies(in case the posts don't get the NSFW tag in time).
Ironically, a decent amount of people who want to censor grok are bluesky users, where "lolicorn" and similar dubious degenerate content is being posted non-stop AS HUMAN-MADE content. Or what, just because it's an AI it's suddenly a problem? The fact that you can "strip" someone by tweeting a bot?
And lastly, sex sells. If people haven't figured out that "bikinis", "boobs", and everything related to sex will be what wins the AI/AGI/etc. race (it actually happens for ANY industry), then it's their problem. Dystopian? Sure, but it's not an issue you can win with moral arguments like "don't strip me". You will get stripped down if it created 1M impressions and drives engagement. You will not convince Musk(or any person who makes such a decision) to stop grok from "stripping you", because the alternative is that other non-grok/xAI/etc. entities/people will make the content, drive the engagement, make the money.