I Thought Generative AI Was Going to Cure Cancer?

The fantastic 404 Media team have just reported this, "Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn." 404 Media report that, "Secret Desires is a browser-based platform similar to Character.ai or Meta’s AI avatar creation tool, which generates personalized chatbots and images based on user prompting." The app has a face swapping feature which lets "users upload images of real people to put them in sexually explicit AI generated images and videos. These uploads, viewed by 404 Media, are a large part of what’s been exposed publicly, and based on the dates of the files, they were potentially exposed for months."

Perhaps I'm being naive, but weren't we told that generative AI was going to be used to cure cancer, solve climate change and create new physics? 🤔
GenAI startups - "Nah, let's create non-consensual porn!"