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FBI Got Grok to Hand Over Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual Porn (www.404media.co)
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The FBI got a search warrant for X to provide details on the Grok prompts a man allegedly used to create more than 200 nonconsensual sexual videos of a woman he knew in real life, according to court records.

The details of the investigation are contained in an FBI affidavit about the alleged actions of Simon Tuck, who is accused of extensively harassing and threatening the woman’s husband. Tuck regularly worked out with and texted with the woman and, according to the affidavit, secretly filmed her while she was working out in his garage. Over the course of the last several months, Tuck swatted their home, made a series of anonymous reports to the man’s employer claiming that he was a child abuser and a drug addict, posed as the man and made a series of mass shooting and suicide threats. Tuck also made a series of other threats and bizarre actions, which included reaching out to a funeral home to say that the man would be dead soon and sending threats to the man while posing as a member of Sector 16, a Russian hacking crew.

The affidavit notes that, in January, the FBI got a search warrant for the man’s conversations with Grok. The FBI says that it received “prompts provided to GrokAI that generated approximately 200 pornographic videos of a woman who closely resembled VICTIM’s wife’s physical appearance.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20260225192408/https://www.404media.co/fbi-subpoenaed-x-to-get-grok-prompts-used-to-create-nonconsensual-porn/

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[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

People commenting after only reading the headline and not the article is exactly the behavior I find irritating and distasteful about headline-related complaints.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 points 44 minutes ago* (last edited 37 minutes ago)

I think you're in the same boat I am where I fucking haaaaaaate the culture on link aggregators (and probably other social media) where people will bitch and moan to no end that their preferred format (publicly reacting to disconnected headlines whose articles they haven't read) isn't giving them literally all the information they need to form a cogent opinion.

  • "I had time to write a 300-word short essay about this headline, but I'm going to whine if I get called for something in the first paragraph that invalides everything I said."
  • "I can't believe this headline said a pretty common thing I'm not personally familiar with but the publication's target audience obviously is."
  • "Headline didn't answer every single question I could possibly wonder? Uh, clickbait much?
  • "The headline writer didn't account for this batshit non sequitur I drew from it, so they're basically lying."

They genuinely think that the article body should be effectively superfluous to the headline – not just to have a basic gist of but to discuss and debate current events, which is insane. It reminds me of people who think they can learn math and physics by passively watching somebody else do it – which is true only to an utterly incosequential extent.

Speaking as someone who's read thousands of articles for research, I feel confident saying that reading the article is an insane force multiplier to understanding. Any time you spent reacting to the headline would've been 3x as effective put into reading even just part of an article. This doesn't just apply to current events, and even I haven't thoroughly learned this lesson; so many times I've been editing Wikipedia and arrived at a point where reading one goddamn article for three minutes would've saved me half an hour of fucking around ("two hours of debugging can save you five minutes of reading the documentation").

This is my way of pleading with you (you, the non-CombatWombat reader): it's enriching once you can steel yourself and work through the initial dopamine drought, and it quickly becomes enjoyable. It's not your fault it's so hard psychologically; this was done to you by formats that value engagement with the platform over engagement with the material.

But if you don't, please at least accept that headlines cannot always contain everything you want.