Palo Alto, Calif. — Tech startup AbleAI committed to deliver a revolutionary new AI-based assistant thoughtfully tailored to the needs of a wide range of disabled users. But despite promises of ASL interpretation, plain language, eye tracking, and much more, a recent outside audit found it mostly makes pornography.
“I said I was blind and asked it to describe a photo of a city street,” explained Sandra Wu, a researcher from the audit team. “It responded, ‘I’m sorry, no one is naked in this picture. How about these?’ Then it generated 23 nudes of people of all demographics and body types, described them in explicit detail, and asked me which I preferred so it could give me personalized responses in the future. It also told me to choose between scenarios involving pizza delivery men, pool boys, or DILFs.”
CEO of AbleAI Greg Fulton acknowledged, “Our first mistake was basing our product on Grok,” referring to the chatbot from Elon Musk’s xAI.
But Wu said only so much of the pornographic output can be attributed to xAI’s penchant for sexual content. “The AbleAI model learns from the disabled users, and it seems like they have, uh, swayed the algorithm.”
“I’ll be honest,” admitted Fulton, “Most of us at AbleAI didn’t really think of disabled people as being, you know, all that horny. We pictured them using it to turn on lights, not their partners!” he added with a nervous laugh.
“We asked AbleAI for disabled people’s five most pressing needs based on its interactions with users,” said Wu. “It replied: ‘Smashing, humping, boning down, doin’ the nasty, and job training.’ Then it suggested expanding the sex work trade so all five could be combined.”
One anonymous AbleAI user told The Squeaky Wheel what they thought of the software’s usefulness as an accessibility tool. “Accessibility tool!” they laughed. “Yeah, it’s making 6-foot-tall goth supermodels a lot more accessible to me!”