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by wolvoleo 167 days ago
True, CSAM should be blocked by all means. That's clear as day.

However I think for Europe the regular sexual content moderation (even in text chat) is way over the top. I know the US is very prudish but here most people aren't.

If you mention something erotic to a mainstream AI it will immediately close down which is super annoying because it blocks using it for such discussion topics. It feels a bit like foreign morals are being forced upon us.

Limits on topics that aren't illegal should be selectable by the user. Not baked in hard to the most restricted standards. Similar to the way I can switch off safe search in Google.

However CSAM generation should obviously be blocked and it's very illegal here too.

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Funnily Mistral is as much censored as ChatGPT.

One should search Huggingface for role-playing models to have a decent level of erotic content, but even that does not guarantee you a pleasant experience.

Some misunderstanding here. This article makes abolutely no mention of CSAM. The objection is to "sexual content on X without people’s consent".
It's nonconsensual generation of sexual content of real people that is breaking the law. And things like CSAM generation which is obviously illegal.

> It feels a bit like foreign morals are being forced upon us.

Welcome to the rest of the world, where US morals have been forced upon us for decades. You should probably get used to it.