You first, Edolf

This is an actual Elon Musk tweet:

Grok Bot is Oolong’s new “virtual teammate platform” that will do things for you like… enable credit card fraud. Edolf actually thinks his cultists are this stupid, doesn’t he? And he’s probably right, that’s the worst thing. Someone other than him undoubtedly thinks this is a good idea and will be acting on it soon if they haven’t already. And they’re going to deserve everything that happens to them.

Getting down with the kids?

Grok Not Only Generates Child Porn but Was Also Trained On It, New Lawsuit Claims

Oh, THIS is going to be fun to watch…

Musk-owned xAI’s Grok was trained on child sexual abuse material (CSAM), a new complaint filed earlier this week claims. The chatbot has taken significant heat over the last couple of months after Musk personally promoted Grok’s ability to nudify photos on his X account, leading to a renaissance of sorts for online perverts in which millions of nonconsensually created and distributed sexual deepfakes flooded the X timeline. A bulk of these nudification victims were children.
Numerous government probes, individual lawsuits, and at least three class actions quickly followed. Musk had to limit who could use the feature, aka put it behind a paywall and make even more money from it, but the so-called “spicy mode” feature is still available, though more restricted. The legal backlash also recently took an unusual turn when xAI itself sued two of its own users who took advantage of the tool to create CSAM. In that complaint, the company also claimed to have helped arrest at least 244 individuals who created or distributed CSAM content via Grok. […]
In the latest proposed class action, the plaintiff, who only goes by Jane Doe, is a previous victim of child pornography who is tracked by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Child Exploitation Notification Program. She is claiming that CSAM of her as a child was used to train Grok, and as a result led to the creation of even more CSAM of her and other victims, this time AI-generated.
“xAI must be held responsible for knowingly training its models on images of the horrific abuse she suffered, and on the abuse images of every other survivor in this class,” Sarah London, the plaintiff’s counsel and a partner at Girard Sharp law firm, said in a press release.
The complaint claims that xAI intentionally designed Grok to respond to user prompts to create sexual content in an attempt to “entice more users of both X and Grok.” According to xAI policy, anything posted publicly on X and any output generated by Grok is considered training-eligible content, the lawsuit claims, which meant that every piece of CSAM posted by Grok was automatically fed back into the chatbot to refine it.

I don’t know the legal merits or otherwise of this case, but it doesn’t sound good for that Edolf character. Regarding whom…

…that’s the photo of him that Gizmodo chose to run with the article. Which is… unflattering inherently, but in this context it’s downright hideous. Shows what someone there thinks of him at least.

That’ll work

No, really:

Elon Musk has said his AI platform Grok Imagine will make a “historically accurate” adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey, after the success of Christopher Nolan’s blockbusting treatment which the SpaceX founder has regularly criticised over its casting.
In a post on X, Musk said: “Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer.” Musk also linked to a post containing a three-minute clip of footage that the user said had been generated from Grok Imagine, showing a scene between Odysseus and the nymph Calypso.
Musk has been attempting to stoke a culture war around Nolan’s film, which stars Matt Damon as Odysseus and Anne Hathaway as Penelope, and was released on Friday to near-universal acclaim and achieved impressive box office results. Before the film was released, Musk reposted abusive messages aimed at Nolan’s casting of Black actor Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra, and trans actor Elliot Page as Sinon, adding that “[Nolan] wants the awards” and that “[he] has lost his integrity”.
However, Musk’s efforts appear to have had little effect, with The Odyssey taking US$264m (£196m, A$378m) at the global box office in its opening weekend and a 97% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Yeah, I don’t think this film was ever going to seriously struggle at the box office even with shitheads like Edolf bearing down on it, and, funnily enough, even some of those shitheads have actually come out in favour of it: astonishingly, none other than Ben Shapiro declared it a masterpiece, and though he still found Elliot Page’s presence off-putting he was impressed enough that he didn’t even deadname him. Though Malsh Walsh was having none of it:

I suspect Walsh considers the original text a heathen blasphemy cos it’s full of gods that pre-date his own, and consequently has never actually read it; unfortunately for him, the film was obviously going to be too much of a cultural phenomenon to avoid, so this represents his revenge upon it, I suppose… and possibly also a subtle hint to Shapiro—his boss at the Daily Wire, lest we forget—that THIS is how he should’ve responded to the film himself…

But, to give him the little credit he deserves, at least Walsh isn’t so desperate for attention that’s he’s making his own version of the story without black or trans people. That’s what Edolf’s doing, and it’s what makes him even more pathetic. No one needs or even wants an AI version of the Odyssey apart from him. He’s probably going to have to release it himself over Twitter, cos I can’t see any actual distributor taking it on (I mean, surely even Tubi have some standards); hardly anyone is going to watch it, and I imagine the majority of those who do will be doing so for hatewatching purposes to shred it.And, let’s face it, his film will either be true to history or to Homer, but it will not be both because it CAN’T be both. It’s a work of mythology from 2700-odd years ago, what we might now call an epic fantasy or some such. But at least none of the “performers” will be black or trans, and that’s the whole point; however much of a racist divorced dad this whole affair makes him look, he’ll be happy with it. It’s not for anyone else, after all.

I blame the parent

We’ll leave the debatable premise aside and just note Edolf’s clear approval of it. Cos he would, wouldn’t he? It couldn’t possibly be HIS fault that his daughter Vivian wants piss all to do with him, obviously, just because he insists upon calling her his son and deadnaming her in interviews and so forth. When his other kids are old enough, I suspect most of them most of them will cut him too if they haven’t already, and at the very least several of them will be getting their names changed to something recognisably human… But what makes this such a display of self-unawareness, of course, is that Edolf famously cut off HIS OWN dad. And he was probably right to do so, it should be said, cos Errol Musk appears to be unspeakable scum much like his son… but still, Edolf’s not really the sort of person who should be giving this story such a thumbs up. Prick.

Well there’s a shock

Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk

If Donald Trump’s administration really wants to find evidence of foreign interference in Georgia’s elections, then they need look no further than the president’s old friend Elon Musk and his shady super PAC.
Members of the Georgia State Elections Board voted Wednesday to issue a formal letter of reprimand to Musk’s America PAC over the billionaire technocrat’s illegal scheme to get Trump elected. Georgia, a key battleground state in 2024, was the target of aggressive campaigning by Trump’s team.
In October 2024, the Georgia secretary of state’s office launched an investigation after receiving numerous reports from residents across several counties saying they’d received partially prefilled absentee ballot applications from Musk’s America PAC, according to John Fervier, the State Elections Board’s chairman.
There was evidence to suggest America PAC had violated a state law that prohibits any person or entity, other than an authorized relative, to send an elector an absentee ballot application prefilled with the elector’s required information, according to Janice Johnston, the SEB’s vice chairman.
America PAC had also failed to display in a conspicuous location that this was not an official government publication, was not provided by the government, and was not a ballot, Johnston added.
The board swiftly voted to issue a letter of reprimand to America PAC.

Wow, I’m sure THAT’s got him shaking in his jackboots and he won’t dare try that again in 2028…

Meanwhile on Shitter

Reassuringly normal as ever. I don’t know who the first guy is, so I don’t know why an “African” would want to behead him in the first place, but if an “African” did that to Edolf I suspect millions of people would want to give the guy a gold fucking medal rather than go on a pogrom of the sort witnessed in Belfast recently and which Edolf is fully in favour of:

“Bunnesses”? Fuck, these cunts have less idea how to use their own languages than the immigrants they hate so much. But it’s Yaxley-Lennon posting it, so why expect anything better…

O fuckwit, why art thou?

I have no idea if Christopher Nolan’s film of the Odyssey is any good or not (obviously, cos no one’s seen the thing yet) but it’s already pissing off the right people:

Elon Musk is facing backlash after he went on another online crusade against Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated forthcoming film The Odyssey.
Nolan confirmed in a recent interview that Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o will play dual roles as both Helen of Troy and her sister Clytemnestra in his adaptation of Homer’s epic, slated for a July release.
The casting news sparked swarms of racially charged and misogynistic posts directed at the 12 Years a Slave star, with many people pointing out that Helen of Troy was renowned in Greek mythology as the most beautiful woman in the world.
Right-wing commentator Matt Walsh claimed in an unfounded X post that “not one person on the planet actually thinks that Lupita Nyong’o is ‘the most beautiful woman in the world,’” and added, “Christopher Nolan knows that he would be called racist if he gave ‘the most beautiful woman’ role to a white woman. Nolan is technically talented but a coward. Too afraid to do anything that even slightly challenges the spirit of the age.”
Musk, 54, responded to the post by simply saying: “True.”

I do find it a little odd that this article (and, to be sure, others on the theme) picks up on Edolf reposting Malsh Walsh being a racist rather than Malsh himself, but I suppose more people know who Edolf is… they’re also not happy about Elliot Page being in the film, apparently as the ghost of Achilles, because there’s no transgender people in classical mythology so there shouldn’t be any in films about classical myths either… But, obviously the point is that the story of the Odyssey IS a myth, and they’re getting worked up about people who never existed in the first place. Odysseus moves through a literal world of gods and monsters; the Cyclopes, Scylla and Charybdis, the Sirens, the Laestrygonians, Circe transforming his crew into pigs, Calypso, Zeus, Aeolus, Athena, all of that is apparently fine for these shitheads… and instead for them the most unbelievable thing about this film is that a white character—who, again, never existed—could be played by a black woman. I can’t help but feel that if Nolan had cast a brown-eyed white brunette, Malsh and Tim Polio and Edolf and all these other cunts would have no problem with her not matching the traditional description of Helen either…

EDIT Friday afternoon:

Freedom of speech but not reach?

So, just to make the Iran war even better, there’s been vague talk of possibly reinstating The Draft among certain idiots on the right. And here’s how one of those idiots chose to respond:

Yeah, Edolf, a man who would know all about avoiding duty because he did precisely that himself, maybe not through technology as such but certainly through his mother’s Canadian citizenship to obtain a Canadian passport in order to flee South Africa’s mandatory military service requirements in 1989. Apparently this American far-right regime is fine by him but his native one wasn’t… Mind you, I don’t think even Mushroom Cock’s cult will tolerate the draft coming back anyway, but even if it did somehow, I suspect most of the people the draft is likely to target can’t afford a Tesla to begin with, so the threat is kind of empty…