Because of the of the political stuff, they have a bad reputation I think and are taken less seriously (I feel this way). They have an opportunity imo to break free from that and just not do the gatekeeping / condescension that the other providers are starting, and become more mainstream.

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minimaxir 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Even without the politics, Elon has shown that he will weaponize his platforms against people/companies he personally doesn't like (e.g. specific bans/demotions to external sites like Substack and Bluesky).

Using Grok is therefore a supply chain risk and it's not nearly good enough to offset that risk.

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dimgl 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

As opposed to what was happening before, on Twitter?

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alex1138 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I do just want to focus on the 'even without the politics' asterisk though because sometimes there is a risk people think everyone on x side (x meaning 'a given side', not x.com) is wrong

You can claim Elon bought x as some sort of power trip. Fine. Willing to entertain it, I have no dog in the fight. I'm not a member of the Elon fan club. And yet Twitter (under Dorsey though I don't think he was involved) was banning tons of people under guises of 'misinfo' that wasn't misinfo

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		Pre-Musk twitter isn't the comparison point here. Anthropic/Google are.

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vlian2088 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Americans are 4% of the world's population, and even among those 4% at least half don't give a shit. the rest of us give even less of a shit, we don't have the luxury to be principled.

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Tadpole9181 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

To be frank, I will never use Grok as long as it's remotely affiliated with or under the influence of Elon Musk or his ilk.

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sirbutters 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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drivingmenuts 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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ETH_start 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Please don't comment like this on Hacker News

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drivingmenuts 2 hours ago | parent [-]

We should avoid reminding people that the man who owns Grok is a racist?

Everyone here treats him like he's some sort of flawless deity, completely ignoring his racist past and present. I refuse to and I will use every limited opportunity I have to remind people of that, until I cannot, or until HN goes full Nazi bar.

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