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Comment by margorczynski

5 hours ago

By not using them on something political? Why do I care when I'll just use it to generate code?

Because a percentage of every dollar you spend on it will go towards pushing political opinions that run contrary to your own best interests?

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    • Quit shifting the goal posts. Musk is a Nazi. Or fascist human garbage if you prefer. xAi is low hanging fruit on the “don’t give money to terrible people” tree. The guy is such an easy target for boycotting.

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    • Per studies in the Lancet, the policy changes which Elon Musk wants us to give him credit for have already resulted in the deaths by slow brutal starvation of 1 million children and it is estimated that 14 million more people will suffer and die in the next four years.

      So from that alone he will, based on what he wants us to credit him for, be responsible for one holocaust worth of death.

      This is not some random virtue-signalling political correctness nonsense. He is a eugenicist who wants to have power over the entire world, believes he and his are genetically superior, has done as much as as he can to corrupt the institutions of power, and is already on pace for a death count equivalent to the holocaust under what I would consider to be generous and conservative terms since we’re only looking at a tiny piece of what he’s responsible for.

      Anyone who works for any of his companies needs to be seen in the same light as wilful Nazi collaborators. If you have a shred of a soul or an ounce of empathy anywhere in your body, you should be sickened by such people and have nothing to do with them.

      Am I wrong?

You might not care but I care if my money is going to funding an unusually evil person.

  • Honestly, I don't think Elon Musk can fairly be described as more evil than Dario Amodei or Sam Altman.

    • Didn't he go in to the US government and defund a lot of programs which ended up hurting a lot of people in USA and globally too?

      Not sure if the other two CEOs have done that

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    • Elon Musk is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, thanks to the dismantling of USAID and US foreign aid. Not hypothetical deaths in the future, people who have died in the last year because Musk cut off their supply of medication and nutrition.

      Sure, you could argue it was going to be dismantled anyway under this administration. But I think that’s pretty close to the “just following orders” excuse. Which falls especially flat when it was a task he volunteered for!

      And I don’t want to understate the harms of other AI CEOs, but in terms of direct, quantifiable deaths, Musk is pretty clearly the most evil.

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  • I remember the day Elon became evil. It was so clear. He stopped supporting my political preferences and worldview. In fact, he actively campaigned against them! I'll never forgive him.

    • He seems to spend most of his free time trying to incite a race war in the UK with his twitter posts.

    • Ah yeah I remember that day. It was when he went on stage and started popping off sieg heils with the intensity and ferocity of someone who really meant it.

    • For me it was when he called the cave diver a pedo for disagreeing with him. While (unknown to us at the time) begging Epstein to invite him to the island.

      His moral compass was shown on that day and so far he’s just leaned further in to the point his actions have actively killed children. Lobotomising Grok to randomly go on racist tangents is just another action in a long line at this point.

I refuse to use Chinese models because I don't trust that they won't backdoor them for geopolitical reasons. I don't trust OpenAI or Anthropic either, for what it's worth, but at least I know they're profit driven. I don't want to do business with a company like xAI that seems to care more about its political aspirations than it does about my money. I don't think that's super radical. Just the same paranoia I've been rocking since the 90's.