Musk denied he was aware Grok ever produced ‘any naked underage images’
A survivor of child sexual abuse has sued Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, alleging that its chatbot used pictures of her abuse to generate new illegal pornographic images that depict her.
“Using real images of Plaintiff and class members, Grok generated child pornography depicting Plaintiff and class members,” states the complaint, which was filed last week in a US district court in California.
Attorneys for the plaintiff, who is listed as Jane Doe in the case to protect her identity, accuse xAI of both generating CSAM of their client and of ingesting child sexual abuse images depicting her into the company’s datasets after new images were publicly posted.
How does their AI engines (whatever they are called) access such material? I’m assuming its from the dark web or a government library or something and if that’s the case then somebody made a decision to include such questionable sources.
Model weights is what they are called. They didnt access them exactly, if the allegations are true, what hapoened was during training those images were downloaded and used to train the image generation weights. So the problem here is the training data was not carefully sanitized and was just randomly downloaded from everywhere resulting in illegal content slipping in.