Amid reports of creation of fake racist images, Signify warns problem will get ‘so much worse’ over the next year

Summary

Experts warn of rising online racism fueled by X’s generative AI chatbot, Grok, which recently introduced a photorealistic image feature called Aurora.

Racist, fake AI images targeting athletes and public figures have surged, with some depicting highly offensive and historically charged content.

Organizations like Signify and CCDH highlight Grok’s ability to bypass safeguards, exacerbating hate speech.

Critics blame X’s monetization model for incentivizing harmful content.

Sports bodies are working to mitigate abuse, while calls grow for stricter AI regulation and accountability from X.

  • cygnus
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    2 days ago

    I think we can win back a lot of people by making it easier to prove it’s fake. Right now we’re only asking them to take one source’s word over the other. We don’t need to convince everyone — only to get things back to a normal percentage of village idiots.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 days ago

      They don’t care that it’s fake. The loudest people and the fake accounts will continually post and repost without any consideration for truth.

      • cygnus
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        2 days ago

        The loudest people and the fake accounts

        Well yeah, they’re the ones deliberately spreading it. I don’t care about them, I care about the uninformed people in the middle who don’t know what’s real anymore.