3 d. ago Elon Musk’s Grok made the world less safe – his humiliating backdown gives me hopium | Van Badham

The AI chatbot’s torrent of nonconsensual deepfakes isn’t its first scandal and won’t be its last. Responsible governments should simply ban itGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBillionaire and career Bond-villain cosplayer Elon Musk has been forced by public backlash into a humiliating backdown over use of his AI chatbot, Grok. Watching the world’s richest man eat a shit sandwich on a global stage represents a rare win for sovereign democracy.Because – unlike his company history of labour and safety abuses his exploding rockets his government interventions that deny aid to the starving disabling Starlink internet systems in war zones sharing “white solidarity” statements or growing concern about overvaluations of his company’s share price – the nature of Grok’s latest scandal may finally be inspiring governments towards imposing some Musk-limiting red lines. Continue reading...

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