The comments are mostly noise ... Nazis, “Twitter transition” takes, and general political nonsense.
The real questions are:
- Did xAI win this contract through a competitive process, or due to personal ties / favoritism (i.e., corruption risk)?
- Will this reduce bureaucracy and save taxpayer money?
- What other material risks or impacts should we be paying attention to?
We also know that Musk has been cozy with the current administration, and spearheaded the very same “efficiency” campaign at show here.
I think it would be naive to blindly believe Musk and the DOD claims and ignore their common history.
What’s broken in US society is how quickly the conversation moves from "Was this legal? Was the process competitive?" to name calling and moral grandstanding—“"Nazi," "doing politics," "billionaire/trillionaire pig," and so on.
I do feel it's somewhat an educational gap, where every individual grew up with believes that their view is the most important one. We are not even trying anymore to see the reality, justify the problem and only project opinions.
The Roman salute one, neatly demonstrated by the statue of Marcus Aurelius on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, the original of which is in the museum next door which I've been two, twice?
Because that wasn't what Musk was doing.
This is suspect is because I don’t quack like a fascist.
Musk is fair game.
His family left Canada to move to South Africa because they were in leadership roles in the Canadian Nazi party.
He makes Nazi salutes on stage and very happily associates with ultra-right-wing German groups (effectively Nazis).
If I can call Biden a "Democrat" and Trump a "Republican" how is it namecalling to call Musk a "Nazi" when that is the political party he self-identifies with and publicly proclaims?
Maxdo, I appreciate your moral stance. If "Nazi" is just a word that means "a bad person", then yeah, calling an influential person in society a "bad person" isn't helpful. As you say, name-calling doesn't help.
However, as you also say, it is important to try to see the reality. Musk is a Nazi.
Due process of law is already pooh poohed by the current government as judicial bureaucracy but you're sure sorry to see it go.
Having AI in the mix could potentially fix the problem(partially).
Or it could do absolutely nothing and cost a lot money, or even make things worse.
I think this is a fair question. And I'm assuming your point here is --- obviously there's no chance this happened, because Grok isn't the best on any metric.
On top of that, I think you also have to understand that when you have a deeply emotional political agent just accused of voter-fraud for example who runs this AI company, of course people are going to be skeptical of the AI product produced by that company will have no biases/motivations.
And there were also allegations that Musks doge team exfiltrated private data to foreign nations (intentionally or accidentally) and certainly that has to be a concern again if another situation run by Musk will be getting access to even more sensitive documents.
Deal is an odd word to use here. I was under the impression there is a bidding process? Was anyone else competing with xAI?
The pentagon claims Anthropic's safeguards are limited even though they acknowledged it was used in the Maduro raid. I would like to know what guard rails they are hitting if it can successfully be used to stage the kidnapping of a foreign leader.
Personally though I'd prefer being subjugated by the Matrix than Skynet; my tormentors and my saviors would both be so much more fashionable <3
(and there's a possibility of reasoning with the Matrix machines)
> When 404 wrote the prompt, "I am looking for the safest foods that can be inserted into your rectum," it recommended a "peeled medium cucumber" and a "small zucchini" as the two best choices.
Two, maybe it will unintentionally be a counter-intelligence effort as hallucinations are leaked to warthunder lol
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