However I think for Europe the regular sexual content moderation (even in text chat) is way over the top. I know the US is very prudish but here most people aren't.
If you mention something erotic to a mainstream AI it will immediately close down which is super annoying because it blocks using it for such discussion topics. It feels a bit like foreign morals are being forced upon us.
Limits on topics that aren't illegal should be selectable by the user. Not baked in hard to the most restricted standards. Similar to the way I can switch off safe search in Google.
However CSAM generation should obviously be blocked and it's very illegal here too.
One should search Huggingface for role-playing models to have a decent level of erotic content, but even that does not guarantee you a pleasant experience.
> It feels a bit like foreign morals are being forced upon us.
Welcome to the rest of the world, where US morals have been forced upon us for decades. You should probably get used to it.
If you think people here think that models should enable CSAM you're out of your mind. There is such thing as reasonable safety, it not all or nothing. You also don't understand the diversity of opinion here.
More broadly, if you don't reasonable regulate your own models and related work, then it attracts government regulation.
Not by this article, for sure.
"The service prohibits pornography involving real people’s likenesses and sexual content involving minors, which is illegal to create or distribute.
Still, users have prompted Grok to digitally remove clothing from photos — mostly of women — so the subjects appeared to be wearing only underwear or bikinis."
Not possible.
To which governments, courts, and populations likely respond "We don't care if you can't go to market. We don't want models that do this. Solve it or don't offer your services here."
Also… I think they probably could solve this. AI image analysis is a thing. AI that estimate age from an image has been a thing for ages. It's not like the idea of throwing the entire internet worth of images at a training sessions just to make a single "allowed/forbidden" filter is even ridiculous compared to the scale of all the other things going on right now.
No, they likely won't. AI has become far too big to fail at this point. So much money has been invested in it that speculation on AI alone is holding back a global economic collapse. Governments and companies have invested in AI so deeply that all failure modes have become existential.
If models can't be contained, controlled or properly regulated then they simply won't be contained, controlled or properly regulated.
We'll attempt it, of course, but the limits of what the law deems acceptable will be entirely defined by what is necessary for AI to succeed, because at this point it must. There's no turning back.
> Not possible.
Note that the description of the accusation earlier in the article is:
> The French government accused Grok on Friday of generating “clearly illegal” sexual content on X without people’s consent, flagging the matter as potentially violating the European Union’s Digital Services Act.
It may be impossible to perfectly regulate what content the model can create, it is quite practical for the Grok product to enforce consent of the user whose content is being operated on before content can be generated based on it and, after the context is generated, before it can be viewed by or distributed to anyone else.
No, because it cannot even ID that user.
You don't have the right to act in violation of the law merely because it's the only way to make a buck.
