Subject: Re: WIRED: AI Labor Is Boring. AI Lust Is Big Business
paragraphs from the Reuters pieced linked above:

Three experts who have followed the development of X’s policies around AI-generated explicit content told Reuters that the company had ignored warnings from civil society and child safety groups - including a letter sent last year, opens new tab warning that xAI was only one small step away from unleashing "a torrent of obviously nonconsensual deepfakes."

"In August, we warned that xAI's image generation was essentially a nudification tool waiting to be weaponized," said Tyler Johnston, the executive director of The Midas Project, an AI watchdog group that was among the letter's signatories. "That's basically what's played out."

Dani Pinter, the chief legal officer and director of the Law Center for the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, said X failed to pull abusive images from its AI training material and should have banned users requesting illegal content.

“This was an entirely predictable and avoidable atrocity,” Pinter said.