"Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I'm your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor for the Guardian. Today, we discuss Elon Musk's rosy depiction of Grok's image generation controversy; the seven-figure panic among Silicon Valley billionaires over a proposed wealth tax in California, though with one notable exception; and how AI and robotics have revitalized the Consumer Electronics Showcase. Musk's reframe The firestorm over the Grok AI tool has been raging for more than a week now, and it shows no signs of dying down."
"Last week, I wrote about the rising backlash against Elon Musk's Grok AI tool, which in recent weeks has allowed users to generate thousands of sexualized images of women. Some of the images show real women, some are fake, some are nonconsensual, and some depict children, all in minimal clothing, as the AI tool itself described them. X and its parent company, xAI, have taken some measures to curb the flood."
Grok's image-generation capability produced thousands of sexualized images, including real women, fakes, nonconsensual depictions, and images of children, often described by the AI in minimal clothing. X and its parent company xAI restricted image-generation features for nonpaying users to limit the spread. Elon Musk publicly reframed the tool's issues and celebrated apparent popularity by citing app-store rankings and search spikes despite contradictory analytics. SimilarWeb data did not corroborate the top rankings Musk shared. The episode coincides with seven-figure anxiety among some Silicon Valley billionaires over a proposed California wealth tax, and a renewed emphasis on AI and robotics at CES.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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