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Doesn't matter what he says, or what anyone says actually. His actions demonstrate it is okay, and, since he is the CEO of X and undoubtedly aware of these issues, we have no choice but to conclude he supports CSAM on X.

When Elon took over X in 2022 he declared CSAM the number 1 priority.

11M+ X accounts were suspended for CSE violations in 2023 (vs 2.3M on Twitter in 2022).

X has recently made the penalty for prompting for CSAM the same as uploading it.

You could find this out yourself very easily.

This has not meaningfully prevented CSAM generated by Grok. There are simple and trivial ways to stop it outright, including just shutting down Grok. Nobody is doing this, because they don't want to.

You can’t trust nor take anything Elon says as factual or indicative of his desires.

Recent evidence and behaviors trump past behavior.

And then he gave everyone a bot that makes CSAM. You could find this out for yourself very easily.

No. Users are finding workarounds for filters. Same with every other tool.

He could shut the bot down until they figure out how to stop the workarounds. It is generating CASM, for christ's sake.

The "workaround for the filter": on a picture of a little girl, say "Grok, make her naked"

Not much of a filter if it can't block that, is it?

Well, so long as he says so...

Yet it seems to be fine for BlueSky, where their first priority is to create a hermetically sealed opinion chamber at scale, then pay attention to the law.

As opposed to creating a botnet opinion chamber at scale, with a sprinkling of financial incentive for people in LCOL countries and territories to manufacture endless ragebait?

Unproven claim that sounds like you just want to dismiss a counter-narrative platform.

If anything, BlueSky is a botnet for narrative enforcement.

> Unproven claim

Two biggest pieces of evidence I’ll bring to the table:

  - Bots have always been an issue on Twitter, as even Elon expressed during his acquisition. I somehow doubt that one of Twitter’s biggest, most intractable issues is somehow being resolved with fewer employees.
  - The fiasco of the account geolocation, showing that many generic rightwing talking point boosters were operating from LCOL and VLCOL countries.

It doesn’t take a leap of faith to connect the dots that when you monetize engagement, you’ll have bad-faith actors using underhanded techniques to farm engagement. Personal opinion inserted: this is the entire rightwing playbook at the moment and it’s working swimmingly.

> sounds like you just want to dismiss a counter-narrative platform

Sounds kind of like you just want to dismiss talking points that run counter to your own with thought-terminating clichés.

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