I think on balance, the internet was a bad idea. AI is just exemplifying why. Humans are simply not meant to be globally connected. Fucking town crazies are supposed to be isolated, mocked, and shunned, not create global delusions about contrails or Jewish space lasers or flat Earth theory. Or like.... white supremacy.

II think there's a few key differences there.

• Writing an angry blog post has a much lower barrier of entry than learning to realistically photoshop a naked body on someone's face. A true (or false) allegation can be made with poor grammar, but a poor Photoshop job serves as evidence against what it alleges.
• While a blog post functions as a claim to spread slander, an AI-generated image might be taken as evidence of a slanderous claim, or the implication is one (especially considering how sexually repressed countries like the US are).

I struggle to find a good text analogy for what Grok is doing with its zero-cost, rapid-fire CSAM generation...

They're called rumors