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Lapses in safeguards led to wave of sexualized images this week as xAI says it is working to improve systems

Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok posted on Friday that lapses in safeguards had led it to generate “images depicting minors in minimal clothing” on social media platform X. The chatbot, a product of Musk’s company xAI, has been generating a wave of sexualized images throughout the week in response to user prompts.

Screenshots shared by users on X showed Grok’s public media tab filled with such images. xAI said it was working to improve its systems to prevent future incidents.

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 5 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Lapses in safeguards

Yeah, right. :|

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (4 children)

So I had to do a paper on this recently and basically yeah, the safeguards are basically just auto mods whacking the ai with a stick every time it gives the "wrong" answer.

You can't crack it open and cut our the bad stuff because they barely understand why it works as is. So the only way to remove it would be to start from scratch on data that's been vetted to not have that and considering they're working with everything ever posted, sent, or hosted on the internet, there aren't enough people in the world to actually vet all their content. Instead, they slap a censor bot between you and the llm so if it says anything on the ban list, that bot deletes it and gives you the "sorry I can't talk about that" text.

Now that second bot is the same type of bot that stops you from making your username on Xbox "John-Hancock9000" because it has cock in it, and any 4th grader knows how easy that is to bypass.

The way more concerning thing is that the LLMs proclivity for leading conversation into exploitation content means that content makes up a sizable portion of the training data. What does that day about social media that the statistically best response to "I'm a minor" is groomer talk.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 2 points 4 months ago

Very informative. Thanks for the genuine reply to my glib cynicism:)

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