"What Elon Musk – the new self-appointed Lord of Misrule – has done is to rip off the mask. He’s shown that you don’t even have to pretend to care. In Musk’s world, trust is mistrust and safety is censorship.
His goal is chaos.
And it’s coming."
Carole Cadwalladr.
Of course, Musk really should ban some of the illegal, offensive and dangerous Grok images that are now appearing on Twitter.
He won't.
He can't.
If he does that, he's admitting that his version of free speech is illegal, and his AI toy is also illegal, and his whole world crumbles.
So we're going to carry on, bending to his whims, trapped in this cartoon horror show war, until somebody somewhere steps in and stops him.
Somebody, somewhere, stop him.
The U.S. Supreme Court in Brandenburg v Ohio (1969) ruled that the First Amendment did not protect speech "where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action".
Do you want that in a meme, Elon?
Here we are. Over on Twitter the new A.I. feature Grok is mostly being used by self confessed Incel failures to live out their dreary fantasies.
Is this really the best thing you can imagine? Argentine right wing nutjob president Milei chopping down socialist zombies with a chainsaw?
Who would reply to that saying it's 🔥 ?
Elon Musk. Of course.
#WhiteBoySummer
#DisinformationWars
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Over on Twitter, and the vibe has changed. Last week there was this palpable fear that the right wing disinformation network was so strong and unstoppable that they would change the results of the U.S. election.
Since the Trump/Musk interview, that fear has receded, and there's lots more defiance, a determination to step up, confront the danger head on, and take it down.
Let's face it, if anything could break the spell, it would be that pair, trying to talk in sentences.
This is what I am talking about. The recent E.U. laws passed on A.I. regulation has resulted in 9 complaints from different countries about Musk's Grok A.I. data scraping.
Musk's meme game with Thierry Breton might have been hilarious to him and his followers, but it doesn't change the facts. The E.U. is clamping down on his business. It's just a matter of time.
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xAI’s lack of transparency regarding how the data would be handled has been flagged as another violation of GDPR. Users were given an opt-out option in their data-sharing settings, but rights group NYOB argues that this dissuades users from exercising their right to choose
O.K. so, strictly speaking, this is not a meme, but a nerdy, droll and slightly facetious pie chart that playfully illustrates the fact that the E.U. recently became the first and so far only place in the world to have introduced regulation on A.I.
Make no mistake. This unashamedly nerdy illustration from Thierry Bretton will hurt Elon Musk a lot more than Elon Musk's Tropic Thunder meme will hurt Thierry Breton.
That thing that happened over on Twitter last night only had 83 Million views even though the 2 bigly geniuses involved have a combined 282 Million followers.
Technical issues, you say?
In other Twitter news, #FatElvis is trending.
U.K. Labour MPs have begun quitting X in alarm over the platform, with one saying Elon Musk had turned it into “a megaphone for foreign adversaries and far-right fringe groups”.
I am waiting for experienced legal analysis of the E.U.s Thierry Bretton letter to Elon Musk, but I know this much. Unlike Musk, he's not playing around.
"I will be extremely vigilant to any breaches of the DSA and will not hesitate to make full use of our toolbox, including interim measures to protect EU citizens from harm."
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