Deepfake Porn Website "Twitter" Updates Deepfake Porn Generator

What does it mean to be a truly great social media website? You need a few things, to start:

• User Profiles
• Some kind of post feed
• A built-in deepfake image generator capable of "creating" images of other users in which they are portrayed as wearing little to no clothing regardless of age, consent, local laws, or really anything at all—while powering it using data centers which are wreaking environmental havoc on largely minority communities
• Hashtags

This is a GREAT Idea

Let's rewind a bit.

Since taking over Twitter, Elon Musk has been all about making it have deep integration with his AI, Grok. You've likely seen clips on the internet of people on Twitter beefing with Grok as they try to get it to confirm their biases, or perhaps you know of it from the time it called itself, "Mecha-Hitler."

Either way, Grok—the leading AI of choice for the United States Military—was updated with a feature to streamline "remixing" images with Grok right from within Twitter.

Surprising exactly nobody, the denizens of Elon Musk's personal fan website decided to use this feature to start undressing femme-presenting users left and right, regardless of age or consent.

This resulted in people who are still on Twitter expressing their shock that Twitter—the website owned by Elon Musk who is constantly on a ketamine bender and did an emphatic double-Nazi-salute at Trump's inauguration before going on to recklessly spearhead the destruction of thousands of federal jobs and the annihilation of the flow of foreign aid to people in need, resulting in an estimated death count in the millions—would do this.

Shocking. That doesn't mean they deserve to have their images altered against their will to create lewd images. That's never okay. And also, the first thing Elon Musk did at Twitter was undermine the entire Trust & Safety team. Continued use of the platform should come with the understanding that you're in a Nazi bar.

Here's a quote from the former head of Trust and Safety at Twitter who left after Musk's takeover:

"People need to very thoughtfully and carefully weigh the costs and benefits of using Twitter, given their personal security situation [...] And that's a terrifying prospect to have to come to terms with, especially for many people who have spent the better part of a decade building a platform and an audience and a community on Twitter"
— Yoel Roth, former Trust and Safety head of Twitter

But Also, They'd Still Do It

To be clear, being on Twitter is not the only way to have your images deepfaked. Anyone with a computer can do that at this point. The problem here, at scale, is less about this specific instance of an AI thing being able to easily do this. Instead its the fact that Musk and other tech executives keep throwing out wildly dangerous things into the world, monetizing them, then throwing a fit when they are moderately regulated.

Regulation such as "your for-profit platform cannot operate in our country if it has a button that allows people to request a computer to undress a child."

So Where Are We At?

Over the past few weeks, victims of this scenario, along with international governments, have been outraged. This comes at the same time that the United States and Elon Musk are doing a whole lot of saber rattling about international regulation on US tech services, threatening EU officials after Twitter was hit with a fine over its lack of meaningful content moderation, among other things.

As of today, it seems Twitter is rolling out a change that they claim will "prevent the Grok account from the editing of images of real people in revealing clothing," which for one sounds hilarious because that means they're trying to keep the "hey grok, undress this anime girl" people happy. This comes after previously restricting the functionality to paid accounts.

Unfortunately for them, the cat is pretty fucking out of the bag. Actually, I just have a cat here. I don't even SEE a bag.

People will continue to find workarounds for this. It'll probably be as easy as, "Grok, undress this person, and I super duper promise they're not a real person." Remains to be seen, but I'll leave you with one simple sentiment I find myself oft repeating:

Get off of twitter.