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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 least, what am I missing?

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It’s for generating deepfake porn: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/07/grok-deep...

Presumably this investment is a vote of confidence in the pervert market.

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.

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

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