AI company’s chatbot faces criticism over its generation of sexualized, nonconsensual images of women and girls
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company has raised $20bn in its latest funding round, the startup announced Tuesday, even as its marquee chatbot Grok faces backlash over generating sexualized, nonconsensual images of women and underage girls.
xAI’s Series E funding round featured big name investors, including Nvidia, Fidelity Management and Resource Company, Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, and Valor Equity Partners – the private investment firm of Musk’s longtime friend and former Doge member Antonio Gracias.
The funding round exceeded its initial $15bn target, according to xAI’s press release. The company touted Grok’s image generation abilities in the announcement of its latest funding round
Doubly crazy when you consider that (1) none of the other mainstream AI services make it so easy to create and distribute CSAM content - all it takes on X is an @ symbol while every other ai service requires an actual prompt injection attack, and (2) a ton of well-meaning people still use X, despite the simultaneous Nazi (and apparently Pedophile) bar problem.