The #American Federation of #Teachers (AFT) has announced its departure from #socialmedia platform #X, previously known as #Twitter, over the dissemination of inappropriate #AI-generated images."
It turns out the leader of the #GreenParty of 🏴 and 🏴 previous had an account on Mastodon (hello @ZackPolanski 👋 ) and so did Green MP for #Brighton Pav' (hello @sianberry 👋)
So I emailed the party to ask if they would consider moving away from #Twitter/X in light of recent events and reboot a Mastodon effort.
I shared links to mastodon.green and a set of UK-based instances, including toot.wales.
You too can email office@greenparty.org.uk to ask that they get an official #Mastodon account.
It turns out the leader of the #GreenParty of 🏴 and 🏴 previous had an account on Mastodon (hello @ZackPolanski 👋 ) and so did Green MP for #Brighton Pav' (hello @sianberry 👋)
So I emailed the party to ask if they would consider moving away from #Twitter/X in light of recent events and reboot a Mastodon effort.
I shared links to mastodon.green and a set of UK-based instances, including toot.wales.
You too can email office@greenparty.org.uk to ask that they get an official #Mastodon account.
Post by Bluesky on X: "NEW FEATURE: This button allows you to opt out of having images you post on X turned into porn" #Bluesky#X#Twitter#ElonMusk#Pedophile
it's actually not okay the extremes it takes for some folks to leave Twitter. O_o
and still, some people (who don't personally agree with the many issues) just *still* linger on there casually, seemingly immovable.
Like, anti-consumer, monolithic, data-harvesty platforms that you submit misused personal info to. That should be bad enough, but instead, the effective standard we have as a global community is wayyy too low.
it's actually not okay the extremes it takes for some folks to leave Twitter. O_o
and still, some people (who don't personally agree with the many issues) just *still* linger on there casually, seemingly immovable.
Like, anti-consumer, monolithic, data-harvesty platforms that you submit misused personal info to. That should be bad enough, but instead, the effective standard we have as a global community is wayyy too low.
Mein erster Song gegen #Bigtech. 12 Jahre alt. Da war #Insta noch in den Kinderschuhen, #Facebook wuchs, (ich hatte gerade die Facebookfalle gelesen), #Google hat sich mit #Chrome in alle Handys gezeckt, #X hieß #Twitter, der Erwerb anonymer #Simkarten wurden untersagt, das Internet war für #Merkel Neuland. Es ist eingetreten wovor die #IT ler gewarnt haben. #broligarchy#Monopolismus#faschismus Die Firma dankt ! 🖕
X, formerly known as Twitter, is a machine that automates the mass-production of CSAM. Its Generative AI chatbot, Grok, is being used to produce non-consensual sexually-explicit images of children. The people who run Twitter know it, and appear to be fine with that. In fact, rather than stop it, they've moved the feature behind a paywall to extract more money from a certain type of customer.
According to reports in the media, Grok generates approximately 6,700 sexually explicit images per hour, with 85% of the images generated by Grok being sexually explicit. Without spending a lot of time on Twitter, I think it's difficult to estimate how many of those are CSAM, though it's said to be a high enough proportion that witnessing it is unavoidable. Presumably, Grok also generates approximately 1,182 images per hour that are not sexually explicit. Gosh, that's a lot of non-sexual images.
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X, formerly known as Twitter, is a machine that automates the mass-production of CSAM. Its Generative AI chatbot, Grok, is being used to produce non-consensual sexually-explicit images of children. The people who run Twitter know it, and appear to be fine with that. In fact, rather than stop it, they've moved the feature behind a paywall to extract more money from a certain type of customer.
According to reports in the media, Grok generates approximately 6,700 sexually explicit images per hour, with 85% of the images generated by Grok being sexually explicit. Without spending a lot of time on Twitter, I think it's difficult to estimate how many of those are CSAM, though it's said to be a high enough proportion that witnessing it is unavoidable. Presumably, Grok also generates approximately 1,182 images per hour that are not sexually explicit. Gosh, that's a lot of non-sexual images.
I want to make it clear so people don't conflate two very separate issues: this is about child abuse; it's not about people's right to create, distribute, or see adult sexual content. It would be prudish (and technologically unfeasible) to suggest Apple and Google should ban all sexually explicit images from their platforms. At this point, it's also worth standing-up in support of artists and sex-workers if they want an online presence. They should not be victimised by bad-faith actors and concern-trolls who weaponise our care for vulnerable kids with refrains such as "Think of the children".
Apple and Google app stores have clear rules about using their networks to distribute CSAM. Shouldn't Apple and Google be making public statements about investigating and blocking Twitter? It appears that Apple and Google are breaking their own rules on content distribution and community standards. Why? Are the leaders of these companies gutless hypocrites? Do they like CSAM? Are they doing nepotistic favours for Elon Musk?
