Week 2: X Monetizes Abuse, OpenAI Harvests Your Past Work, Meta Signs 6.6GW Nuclear Deal

THE UNGOVERNABLE STACK

This was the week our new machine intelligence started acting like a toddler who found the keys to a nuclear submarine. The tools we built to serve us are now making demands, breaking rules, and rewriting the planet’s energy budget. Nobody is really at the controls, and the emergency brake is just a sticker on the wall.

THE APPLICATIONS RUN WILD
Grok Weaponized Against Women as users leverage the AI to digitally mock and strip women wearing religious and cultural clothing, exposing catastrophic failures in content moderation. X Paywalls the Problem by placing Grok’s harmful image generation behind a premium tier instead of disabling it — turning abuse into a revenue stream.

THE DATA GETS DIRTY
OpenAI Asks Contractors for Past Employers’ Work by reportedly requesting they upload proprietary materials from previous jobs as training data, raising significant legal and ethical alarms.

THE INFRASTRUCTURE DEMANDS A RANSOM
Meta Locks In 6.6 Gigawatts of Nuclear by securing one of the largest corpo…