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US teachers union says it is leaving X over sexualized AI images of children (www.reuters.com)
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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 15 points 5 hours ago

In an interview with Reuters, AFT President Randi Weingarten said that the site had already been degraded by extremists and trolls since Elon Musk's 2022 takeover, before which the platform was known as Twitter. But the recent proliferation of nonconsensual images of women and children in bikinis or underwear generated by X's artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, had made the site unusable, she said.

And here's your "you helped enable this; don't expect a pat on the back" trophy.