How Elon Musk's xAI is quietly taking over X

I especially like the little sidenote

>Do you work at xAI or X? I’d love to chat. You can reach me securely on Signal @kylie.01 or via email at kylie@theverge.com.

It’s really bad because Elon claimed nobody reads the terms of service and then updated the xAI terms to force implicit agreement to a customer noncompete with regards to grok outputs. A lame maneuver right out of the OpenAI playbook, you’re “not allowed” to train AI on your chat logs with Grok.

The whole point of these clauses is to prevent others from developing AI (which sounds to me like a felony monopolization offense, but IANAL), and they also cause major lock-in issues because you risk a ban if you try to transfer your chat logs between or away from e.g. grok/gemini/gpt/claude/mistral

It’s like expecting customers to pay to train their own replacement while also signing a noncompete agreement.

Super dumb to accept these terms and use these services IMHO, best to avoid them. Use Cerebras and Grok hosted Llama models that don’t train on your inputs instead. Be sure to keep a record of every input/output exchange in your markdown zettelkasten folder so you can train your future AI.

> The chatbot also appears to be adding location-based queries, letting users ask about things nearby, like grocery stores.

I mean, this would have been enormously impressive in 2003, but…

Like, even by the _incredibly low standards_ of AI bullshit, this all seems rather pointless.