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I take your point, however an AI company owning a social media platform is new.

• fzzzy 2y ago
  Not really, Facebook (Meta, whatever) has been an ai company for a long time.
  • saltysalt 2y ago
    Their social network is not owned by a private AI company.
    • pests 2y ago
      xAI is not a private company. The AI company is public, but he social network was private.
      • saltysalt 2y ago
        "xAI is a privately held company and is not publicly traded, therefore investing in xAI pre-IPO is only available to accredited investors." Source: https://forgeglobal.com/xai_ipo/ https://forgeglobal.com/xai_ipo/
        • pests 2y ago
          Oops, thanks for the correction.
• swat535 2y ago
  Sam owns Reddit and OpenAI.. how is that new? Google also owns Gmail and all Google Services , as well as its AI.
  • saltysalt 2y ago
    OpenAI does not own a social network. Google doesn't even own a social network anymore. Neither are valid comparisons to xAI owning X.
    • miohtama 2y ago
      Google owns half of the emails in the world which may be more valuable.
      • saltysalt 2y ago
        Email is not a realtime social network, not even close.
      • nothrowaways 2y ago
        Does Google train AI on emails?
    • whats_a_quasar 2y ago
      And also Sam Altman doesn't own either OpenAI or Reddit, lol.
      • rvba 2y ago
        My understanding is that Google "owns" reddit in the sense that they paid to use it as source of training data. And goodle paid reddit so much that they have exclusive rights for that. Probably this is the reason why all the reddit free public APIs are gone - to block scraping.
      • bag_boy 2y ago
        Can you cite your sources on Altman not owning Reddit?
        • kristjansson 2y ago
          "large-ish minority shareholder" != owner