Maybe the US could do something about their CSAM-as-a-service companies instead?
user34283•3m ago
It takes a special kind of thinking to believe major US companies at any point intentionally permitted CSAM or did not react immediately to such issues.
Believing this requires thinking not unlike Q-Anon's "Pizzagate". They also believed their political opponents to be pedophiles, rather than entertaining much more logical explanations.
like_any_other•2m ago
For the confused reader, "CSAM-as-a-service" means they will ban your account and sic the cops on you if you use their service to create CSAM:
“We take action against illegal content on X, including Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), by removing it, permanently suspending accounts, and working with local governments and law enforcement as necessary,” X Safety said. “Anyone using or prompting Grok to make illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they upload illegal content.”
Is this finally a severe enough escalation for the UK to drop the US dollar?
OgsyedIE•13m ago
The UK is extremely dependent on American LNG to serve as a vital component of the UK's home heating infrastructure. The UK would have significant affordability problems with making up the difference from other gas exporting countries and would likely just have rationing and rolling outages instead.
The British Prime Minister's chief of staff started an anti-misinformation pressure group called the "Centre for Countering Digital Hate" largely designed to stop Twitter because they didn't like its lurch to the right.
The obvious issue is that there's potential for any of the AI models to be tricked into producing dodgy content, so if you ban Grok for this you're then obligated to act against the rest too. I'm 100% sure I'm not the first person to realize this, between the various agitators here. Personally I think that de-anonymizing so that existing laws against the content produced can be prosecuted is the way forwards.
Havoc•21m ago
user34283•3m ago
Believing this requires thinking not unlike Q-Anon's "Pizzagate". They also believed their political opponents to be pedophiles, rather than entertaining much more logical explanations.
like_any_other•2m ago
“We take action against illegal content on X, including Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), by removing it, permanently suspending accounts, and working with local governments and law enforcement as necessary,” X Safety said. “Anyone using or prompting Grok to make illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they upload illegal content.”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/x-blames-users-f...