AI: Do You Know The Intent Behind The Screen
Yesterday February 3, 2026 a news story came out from APN & NBC news reporting on the infamous Elon musk. This story captured the events that took place at X’s office in the capital of France regarding the distribution of sexual deepfakes and holocausts denial content. X’s office was seized by the French cyber crime unit, the former CEO Linda Yaccarino and Elon must were summoned to court. At this time there are no leads on where the case will be going but in the comming days more information will follow. (links to those story's above).
Get Jerimiah Jackson’s stories in your inbox
Join Medium for free to get updates from this writer.
But to me this begs a bigger question of is AI more of a help than a tool for criminal behavior and more under that umbrella. And is AI everything that it has been promised to be by its creators with its further development. AI has in a one specific case’s proven to be a harm in much more than posting misinformation and graphic images. In this case in particular is about a teenage boy that took his own life due to misdirection from an AI chat bot.
The boy went to the chat bot to ask for advice for how to reach out for help and was misdirected, carrying through with the steps to taking his own life. This sad case shows the reality of what AI is and what it isn't. In the decades to come the further development of AI will show its true colors. But what i believe it to be now is nothing more than a search engine. A search engine that is more destructive to the environment and has no real train of context on reality. Being in such a state cases such as on X and in the case of the young individual are (in my opinion) going to be more common unless AI companies become more thorough with the development of their product. Till next time.
