The AI Hype Index: Grok makes porn, and Claude Code nails your job

Big Tech Companies Are Profiting Off Nonconsensual AI-Created Porn

“Everyone is subject to being objectified or pornographied by everyone else,” said University of California, Irvine law professor Ari Ezra Waldman to a 2024 House committee hearing on deepfakes. AI image creation technology is now able to take your head and put it on someone else’s body, or create a reasonable facsimile of your image based on a picture, and this has led to the creation of an avalanche of AI deepfake apps specifically designed to…

The AI Hype Index: Grok makes porn, and Claude Code nails your job

Everyone is panicking because AI is very bad; everyone is panicking because AI is very good. It’s just that you never know which one you’re going to get. Grok is a pornography machine. Claude Code can do anything from building websites to reading your MRI. So of course Gen Z is spooked by what this means for jobs. Unnerving new research says AI is going to have a seismic impact on the labor market this year. If you want to get a handle on all th…