Lawsuit against Elon Musk's SpaceXAI and Stability AI over child deepfakes grows
AI companies love talking about changing the world, but they are currently facing a much darker reality in court. The massive class-action lawsuit accusing them of facilitating child sexual abuse material is getting bigger.
The defense from tech giants has always been the classic "we just build the tools, we don't control how people use them." But that excuse is hitting a massive brick wall. A group of new plaintiffs has joined the class-action lawsuit against Stability AI and Elon Musk's SpaceXAI, claiming these generators were used to create sexually explicit deepfakes of them back when they were children.
The lawsuit is putting the entire generative AI business model on trial, forcing a conversation about where training data comes from and who is liable when things go horribly wrong. It turns out, scraping the entire internet to train "smart" software comes with some pretty devastating side effects.
The tech industry's favorite motto of "move fast and break things" looks incredibly ugly when the things being broken are real human lives.
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