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What is xAI? Is it something serious such as what Anthropic did to coding? Can it compete with Google? I've tried Grok and seems farcical and useless for me at
by onemoresoop 10mo ago
What is xAI? Is it something serious such as what Anthropic did to coding? Can it compete with Google? I've tried Grok and seems farcical and useless for me at least, what am I missing?
- NedF 10mo ago[dead]
- rsynnott 10mo agoIt’s for generating deepfake porn: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/07/grok-deepfake-images-sexualise-women-children-investigated-australia-esafety https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/07/grok-deep... Presumably this investment is a vote of confidence in the pervert market.
- mrtksn 10mo agoIt's much more than that, it's a mass population and politics control device thanks to Twitter. They can choose what everyone knows about the world and how they know it. Also, they have the ability to produce the thing that the people will know and limit competing ideas or contradicting information. Think of it as full censorship and full moderation of information flow that is automated by AI. The upside is limitless.
- gulfofamerica 10mo agoThis used to be a serious web site.
- mrtksn 10mo agoTrue, people weren't just leaving snarky comments. Instead they were writing counter arguments etc. Total enshittification.
- gulfofamerica 10mo agoI didnt realize your comment was sardonic, hard to tell these days.