If I were a digital rights activist, I would see this time as a golden opportunity.
#Grok, the #AI "assistant" powered by Musk's xAI, has become an engine of non-consensual image and video generation at a mass scale - including pornographic and pedopornographic content. Creating and distributing this imagery has never been quicker or easier. All one has to do is reply to an image posted by someone on X with a mention of Grok and a prompt. This feature was restrained recently but people who pay an $8 subscription to X can still do it. As Sam Cole writes on @404mediaco : "Masterful Gambit: Musk Attempts to Monetize Grok's Wave of Sexual Abuse Imagery" https://www.404media.co/x-premium-grok-paywall-images-ai-generator/
How many politicians pushing for #ChatControl are still using X? How many official government accounts? You know, the same people who screamed WE NEED TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN and pushed for the scanning of all digital communications and files (including E2EE encrypted ones) of European citizens? An "Orwellian nightmare" as @Em0nM4stodon wrote on Privacy Guides: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/09/08/chat-control-must-be-stopped/#act-now
In the Privacy Guides article by Em, the French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Irish governments (amongst many others) were in full support of Chat Control. As far as I can tell, prominent politicians, Prime Ministers and official government accounts from these countries are still posting on X.
Is there anything we can do to point out the hypocrisy? Or have the abuse machine that is Grok sanctioned and fined? And - this is key - use this horrible incident to push politicians to FINALLY quit X? It's about time.
@elena @404mediaco @Em0nM4stodon As much as I agree. Using pedopornographic as a call to action is bad. Like really bad.
Why? Because no one opposes this. Fighting pedopornographic is always the right thing!
This is where #chatconrol from the EU (mass surveillance, weakening cryptographic stuff etc) is justified with. Fight pedopornographic!
Of course, even most liberal Police institutions, like Germany who have one of the broadest civil liberties want to have more power, more control. Massively so. Reason? Fight pedopornographic stuff!
And no one would oppose. Because CSAM is called. And do YOU want kids to be harmed? Of course not. So hush, sit down, give us the keys to your encrpytion, privacy and some liberal rights.
And lets fight pedopornographic stuff! We wont use the powers for any other reason. Promised!