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Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children (www.bellingcat.com)
submitted 2 months ago by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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In the days after the US Department of Justice (DOJ) published 3.5 million pages of documents related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, multiple users on X have asked Grok to “unblur” or remove the black boxes covering the faces of children and women in images that were meant to protect their privacy.

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[–] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 134 points 2 months ago (6 children)

unblur the face with 1000% accuracy

They have no idea how this models work :D

[–] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 179 points 2 months ago (2 children)

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 99 points 2 months ago (1 children)

biblically accurate cw casting

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago

CW? The TV show?

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

Barrett O'Brien

[–] annoyed_onion@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago

Though it is 2026. Who's to say Elon didn't feed the unredacted files into grok while out of his face on ket 🙃

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It feels like being back on the playground

"nuh uh, my laser is 1000% more powerful"

"oh yea, mine is googleplex percent more powerful"

[–] albbi@piefed.ca 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wait, what? My son has been using "googleplex" when he wants a really big number. I thought it was a weird word he made up. I guess it's a thing....

[–] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It is, with a slight different spelling. A googol is 10^100, a googolplex is a 10^(googol) or written conventionally, a one followed by a metric shit ton of zeros.

[–] albbi@piefed.ca 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I wondered if the word had something to do with a googol (I learned that word from World Book Encyclopedia kids books), but I figured my young son didn't know that word yet and just invented some word using Google. Crazy how language can get around on the playground.

[–] VonReposti@feddit.dk 4 points 2 months ago

Fun fact, Google was supposed to be named Googol, but the guy who were tasked with ordering the domain name misunderstood. As history would tell, they just decided to stick with Google.

[–] makkurokurosuke@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My son also uses it frequently, he learnt that word from a Captain Underpants book or one of the other works from dav pilkey so maybe its from there

[–] albbi@piefed.ca 1 points 2 months ago

We just started reading those books at bedtime so I'll be able to report if I see that word in there.

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s the same energy as “don’t hallucinate and just say if you don’t know the answer”

[–] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 months ago

and don't forget "make no mistakes" :D

[–] Armand1@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Or percentages