Competition is good, but this company and its owner have not demonstrated anything to indicate that they would make for good competition, neither economically nor morally.
Also, yes, a company whose products produce CSAM is just morally bad. There's no nuance to be had there.
Grok has a serious credibility problem due to Elon’s decisions and personal insanity.
Will it ever recover? Maybe. But it’s got an uphill battle even compared to the Chinese models, and that’s saying something.
Wait until you find out who owns the other models
Did they kill hundreds of thousands of poor people by shutting down USAID too?
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We have three major foundational models not including Grok.
When the defense for a company is basically “yeah they host csam in the platform but is that really worse than the others” you’ve really lost the plot
We could just not have AI models that generate CSAM I don't think that's too much to ask
Plenty of competitive open weight models
xAI's (unused) dedicated compute is being sold for Anthropic's inference.
xAI isn't a frontier company, and their fate is already being decided by the two hegemons.
> Yes. We only need one AI company. Max two. Good idea.
Nothing in the original comment suggested that fewer AI companies was inherently a good thing - just that this _particular_ AI company is a bad one.
> Deciding who is more moral has a great history.
I think you're being sarcastic, but, uhhh...are you honestly advocating for the converse, of making no judgements based on morals?
Competition is good, but this company and its owner have not demonstrated anything to indicate that they would make for good competition, neither economically nor morally.
Also, yes, a company whose products produce CSAM is just morally bad. There's no nuance to be had there.