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"Subscribers to X Premium, which grants access to Grok, have been posting everything from Barack Obama doing cocaine to Donald Trump with a pregnant woman who (vaguely) resembles Kamala Harris to Trump and Harris pointing guns. With US elections approaching and X already under scrutiny from regulators in Europe, it’s a recipe for a new fight over the risks of generative AI."

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

I suspect the greatest threat is not that politicians and billionaires can create realistic images of their enemies, rather they can deny any evidence of their own misdeeds.

Harris' airport crowd serves as an example. Whether or not it really happened (I assume it did) MAGAs will have cause to plausibly believe it didn't.

Not that evidence to the contrary of belief systems has ever been effective at deprogramming those invested in their worldview.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I used it to make this picture of Elon and convicted Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell hanging out, crazy how realistic AI got

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The concerning thing is... I can't tell if you're joking.

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

They are joking. It's a real picture.

[–] Laser@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

The mark of good satire

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It fucked up his whole face, no real human looks like that.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

They do if they take enough ketamine

[–] MichaelHawkinSnider@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

No, that looks right to me.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

"We are all going to die because we have new technology, help us governments, regulate it so we don't make too much human progress at a time!!!"

I want to know what happened to "information wants to be free".

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] yildolw@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

"information"

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

But it's not free. You have to subscribe to X premium

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago

I want to know what happened to “information wants to be free”.

I think its more "Fuck you, pay me" now that Musk is running a few rubles short of what he needs to stay the world's richest man.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't care about "Grok", but just this morning I was looking at some creations that Stable Diffusion and Flux cranked out, and it's crazy just how incredible these image generators are getting.

I also saw one example of software that allows you to live-stream with someone else's face, using only a single photo of that person. You literally can't trust anything you see, read, or hear online anymore.

My webhost also put out some AI wordpress thing that basically creates posts and images for your website automatically. What's the point of the internet if everything is fake?

[–] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Dead internet theory

[–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can it do musk in a dress getting railed by a gun held by trump?

[–] TheBigBrother@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

LMAOROLFZ..

[–] p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hate the 2020s so fucking much

[–] mjhelto@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The last '20s sucked also. All of this has happened before, and it'll all happen again, but this time with ads and AI!!

[–] amanda@aggregatet.org 1 points 2 months ago

My wife talked about how Grok apparently seemed promising in AI benchmarks for a while until everyone realised the way they’re winning is by absolutely blindly outspending everyone on GPUs and brute forcing the fuck out of the problem rather than having good anything.

This seems to match that approach (and, more generally, everything Musk is doing).