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Re: xAI Raises $20B Series E

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Post by gulfofamerica » Wed, Jan 07, 2026, 1:14 PM UTC

mrtksn wrote: post #10

onemoresoop wrote: post #5

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?

It'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…

This used to be a serious web site.

Re: xAI Raises $20B Series E

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Post by mrtksn » Wed, Jan 07, 2026, 1:24 PM UTC

gulfofamerica wrote: post #11

mrtksn wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It'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…

This used to be a serious web site.

True, people weren't just leaving snarky comments. Instead they were writing counter arguments etc. Total enshittification.

Re: xAI Raises $20B Series E

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Post by gulfofamerica » Wed, Jan 07, 2026, 2:00 PM UTC

mrtksn wrote: post #12

gulfofamerica wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This used to be a serious web site.

True, people weren't just leaving snarky comments. Instead they were writing counter arguments etc. Total enshittification.

I didnt realize your comment was sardonic, hard to tell these days.

Re: xAI Raises $20B Series E

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Post by rvnx » Thu, Jan 08, 2026, 3:11 PM UTC

stronglikedan wrote: post #4

rvnx wrote: post #2

Yet they can't manage to let user delete the pictures that they uploaded into Grok, and then these pictures are automatically indexed on Google

"delete" and "upload" shouldn't be used in the same sentence in the context of social media. I mean, yeah you should be able to, but good luck with that on any platform tied to social media.

but it is not social media here, it is when you upload your personal picture on the image editor like on AI Studio @ Google, nowhere it says it will be shared publicly