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X now lets any user AI-edit other users’ images without consent, and there is no opt out
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this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2026
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Ok yes you're right. "Grok generate me some CSAM" is the same as opening up a photo editor and drawing a new real looking body onto someone's child and putting it in a new body position. Same exact thing. No different at all. Twitter has no responsibility for running a service that can do this.
You’ve totally changed the original post’s topic and made it into something obviously unacceptable. There’s a line to cross with content in general, AI or not, and any public ai model should absolutely have safety rails / content moderation on its output
Surely you have an example where it's appropriate for a service to generate nonconsensual deepfakes of people then? Because last I checked, that's what the post's topic is.
And yes, children are people. And yes, it's been used that way.
Edit: as for guardrails, yes any service should have that. We all know what Grok's are though, coming from Elon "anti-censorship" Musk. I mentioned ChatGPT also generating images, and they have very strict guardrails. They still make mistakes though, and it's still unacceptable. Also, any amount of local finetuning of these models can delete their guardrails accidentally, so yeah.
This post isn’t exclusively about deepfakes. It’s about editing someone else’s images. Making suggestive deepfakes is mentioned in the article as an example, but it’s not mentioned in the title or summary here.
That said, my points stand. Don’t post shit online if you don’t want it to be edited.
With the ease of photo manipulation, society has no choice but to adapt to nonsensical, simple edits. It can’t be stopped. There’s hundreds of apps and programs that do this now. Even adobe’s famous suite.
I know you hate Elon, I can hear it in your tone. But this isn’t an Elon thing. Look around.