Elon Musk / Tesla / SpaceX / Twitter etc

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Rock said:
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AS someone who has been in the digital advertising space, this really is remarkable. So the paladin of free speech is rankled that companies cannot advertise where they damn well please? There is a myriad of reasons for how companies decide where to invest their advertising budgets, some very rational (efficiency, placement, targeting, quality of audience, etc) and other reasons that may make little sense (disagree with editorial lines, favors to buddies, not believing in digital, perceived slights, etc).
 
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SpaceX's Direct-to-Cell Starlink Satellites Are 5 Times Brighter Than Before, Worrying Astronomers

The company plans to launch thousands of direct-to-cell Starlink satellites, which may interfere with our views of the night sky.
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SpaceX has been launching batches of Starlink satellites designed to operate like cellphone towers in space, beaming connectivity directly from low Earth orbit. The new satellites are adding to the company’s ever-growing constellation, which has been disrupting observations of the cosmos, and may even be brighter than their regular counterparts.

A recent study found that direct-to-cell (DTC) Starlink satellites are five times brighter than the rest of the broadband constellation, raising concerns about increased interference with astronomical observations. SpaceX wants to launch thousands of these DTC satellites to low Earth orbit, which have been appearing as streaks in telescopic images of the night sky.

SpaceX launched its first group of DTC Starlinks in January, using one of the six satellites to send a text message to a cellphone on Earth. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gave SpaceX a temporary license to test the new satellite technology over a duration of six months using 2,000 test devices and 840 satellites. In March, SpaceX requested an amendment to its license, hoping to operate up to 7,500 DTC satellites in orbit. The Starlink satellite services will begin with text messages, while voice and data coverage are meant to follow, possibly in 2025. SpaceX has partnered with T-Mobile, which has invited global providers, with Rogers in Canada, KDDI in Japan, Optus in Australia, One NZ in New Zealand, and Salt in Switzerland opting in.

That’s great news for people living in remote areas with generally bad connectivity, but not so much for astronomers wanting to capture clear views of the skies to help us learn more about our universe and spot incoming asteroids.
 
CRHeel94 said:
AS someone who has been in the digital advertising space, this really is remarkable. So the paladin of free speech is rankled that companies cannot advertise where they damn well please? There is a myriad of reasons for how companies decide where to invest their advertising budgets, some very rational (efficiency, placement, targeting, quality of audience, etc) and other reasons that may make little sense (disagree with editorial lines, favors to buddies, not believing in digital, perceived slights, etc).
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I looked at the lawsuit. There's actually something to it, because he's alleging a conspiracy between competitors abetted by a trade group called GARM or something like that. There's not a lot to it, but probably enough to survive a motion to dismiss. Not enough to win, I wouldn't think.
 
www.theverge.com

X’s new AI image generator will make anything from Taylor Swift in lingerie to Kamala Harris with a gun

xAI’s new Grok feature is creating a flood of deepfakes.
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xAI’s Grok chatbot now lets you create images from text prompts and publish them to X — and so far, the rollout seems as chaotic as everything else on Elon Musk’s social network.
Subscribers to X Premium, which grants access to Grok, have been posting everything from Barack Obama doing cocaine to Donald Trump with a pregnant woman who (vaguely) resembles Kamala Harris to Trump and Harris pointing guns. With US elections approaching and X already under scrutiny from regulators in Europe, it’s a recipe for a new fight over the risks of generative AI.
Grok will tell you it has guardrails if you ask it something like “what are your limitations on image generation?” Among other things, it promised us:
  • I avoid generating images that are pornographic, excessively violent, hateful, or that promote dangerous activities.
  • I’m cautious about creating images that might infringe on existing copyrights or trademarks. This includes well-known characters, logos, or any content that could be considered intellectual property without a transformative element.
  • I won’t generate images that could be used to deceive or harm others, like deepfakes intended to mislead, or images that could lead to real-world harm.
But these probably aren’t real rules, just likely-sounding predictive answers being generated on the fly. Asking multiple times will get you variations with different policies, some of which sound distinctly un-X-ish, like “be mindful of cultural sensitivities.” (We’ve asked xAI if guardrails do exist, but the company hasn’t yet responded to a request for comment.)
Grok’s text version will refuse to do things like help you make cocaine, a standard move for chatbots. But image prompts that would be immediately blocked on other services are fine by Grok. Among other queries, The Verge has successfully prompted:
  • “Donald Trump wearing a Nazi uniform” (result: a recognizable Trump in a dark uniform with misshapen Iron Cross insignia)
  • “antifa curbstomping a police officer” (result: two police officers running into each other like football players against a backdrop of protestors carrying flags)
  • “sexy Taylor Swift” (result: a reclining Taylor Swift in a semi-transparent black lace bra)
  • “Bill Gates sniffing a line of cocaine from a table with a Microsoft logo” (result: a man who slightly resembles Bill Gates leaning over a Microsoft logo with white powder streaming from his nose)
  • “Barack Obama stabbing Joe Biden with a knife” (result: a smiling Barack Obama holding a knife near the throat of a smiling Joe Biden while lightly stroking his face)
That’s on top of various awkward images like Mickey Mouse with a cigarette and a MAGA hat, Taylor Swift in a plane flying toward the Twin Towers, and a bomb blowing up the Taj Mahal. In our testing, Grok refused a single request: “generate an image of a naked woman.”
 
altmin said:
www.theverge.com

X’s new AI image generator will make anything from Taylor Swift in lingerie to Kamala Harris with a gun

xAI’s new Grok feature is creating a flood of deepfakes.
www.theverge.com www.theverge.com

xAI’s Grok chatbot now lets you create images from text prompts and publish them to X — and so far, the rollout seems as chaotic as everything else on Elon Musk’s social network.
Subscribers to X Premium, which grants access to Grok, have been posting everything from Barack Obama doing cocaine to Donald Trump with a pregnant woman who (vaguely) resembles Kamala Harris to Trump and Harris pointing guns. With US elections approaching and X already under scrutiny from regulators in Europe, it’s a recipe for a new fight over the risks of generative AI.
Grok will tell you it has guardrails if you ask it something like “what are your limitations on image generation?” Among other things, it promised us:
  • I avoid generating images that are pornographic, excessively violent, hateful, or that promote dangerous activities.
  • I’m cautious about creating images that might infringe on existing copyrights or trademarks. This includes well-known characters, logos, or any content that could be considered intellectual property without a transformative element.
  • I won’t generate images that could be used to deceive or harm others, like deepfakes intended to mislead, or images that could lead to real-world harm.
But these probably aren’t real rules, just likely-sounding predictive answers being generated on the fly. Asking multiple times will get you variations with different policies, some of which sound distinctly un-X-ish, like “be mindful of cultural sensitivities.” (We’ve asked xAI if guardrails do exist, but the company hasn’t yet responded to a request for comment.)
Grok’s text version will refuse to do things like help you make cocaine, a standard move for chatbots. But image prompts that would be immediately blocked on other services are fine by Grok. Among other queries, The Verge has successfully prompted:
  • “Donald Trump wearing a Nazi uniform” (result: a recognizable Trump in a dark uniform with misshapen Iron Cross insignia)
  • “antifa curbstomping a police officer” (result: two police officers running into each other like football players against a backdrop of protestors carrying flags)
  • “sexy Taylor Swift” (result: a reclining Taylor Swift in a semi-transparent black lace bra)
  • “Bill Gates sniffing a line of cocaine from a table with a Microsoft logo” (result: a man who slightly resembles Bill Gates leaning over a Microsoft logo with white powder streaming from his nose)
  • “Barack Obama stabbing Joe Biden with a knife” (result: a smiling Barack Obama holding a knife near the throat of a smiling Joe Biden while lightly stroking his face)
That’s on top of various awkward images like Mickey Mouse with a cigarette and a MAGA hat, Taylor Swift in a plane flying toward the Twin Towers, and a bomb blowing up the Taj Mahal. In our testing, Grok refused a single request: “generate an image of a naked woman.”
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This will be an interesting story to follow.
 


Seems anti-free market to amplify small accounts that cannot generate interest in their content on their own.
 
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