If you think about any other products, like a car, for example, that might have been manufactured with a fault, it doesn’t matter if, you know, the cars get recalled and the faults are fixed and no more harm is done.
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I feel like this is almost a watershed moment. We have known that for many years women have faced this growing tsunami of online misogyny... that Grok managed to create on a mass level.
Elon Musk knew that Grok didn't have these safeguards. There had been warnings ever since Grok was created last year that it could be exploited and that users could use it to generate potentially criminal material, but he did not care.
There were guardrails that the engineers and Elon Musk could have put in place to stop Grok from being able to create sexualised images but they decided not to put those guardrails in place.
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