A ban on dodgy tech bros and their mates accessing children in their bedrooms: why so controversial?

Elon Musk’s xAI is facing a huuuuuuuge backlash again. This time, it’s because Grok, the AI chatbot integrated with social network X, enabled users to generate and spread explicit images all over the platform. The AI-generated images included nonconsensual intimate images, and images depicting child sexual abuse, known as NCII and CSAM in trust & safety circles – Lora Kolodny Tech Reporter at CNBC digital

Under the cloud of the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, lies the conspiracy to delay, redact, conceal and protect enablers and abusers of underage trafficking and sexual exploitation. We already know some of the email contacts of Jeffrey Epstein (Musk included) are the same now pushing for AI in schools, in toys, targeting children with chatbots, engaging them in conversations where the power dynamic is unclear and we (parents, grandparents, teachers, carers) are unable to algorithmically gain transparency and accountability / in other words safeguarding 

We need to give adult users a lot of freedom to use AI in the way that they want to use it and to trust them to be responsible with the tool – Sam Altman

The deregulation ideal Altman is balancing against the mental health and physical safety of our children is in line with what happened with the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Powerful men get to decide what they can do to children and underage young people.

Australia’‘s ban on