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Comment by Craighead | Hacker News Reader

You don't want to give Meta more access to your life but X is ok?

It doesn’t say that. Just a ranking of the tools doesn’t imply that they are using Grok Bot.

In general though yeah X is probably less competent in the execution of manipulating you through insights from your data.

I do trust xAi / SpaceX more than Meta, yes

Is that because you seem them as politically or socially aligned with your own values and interests? Or are there other factors that go into that judgement?

I was a big fan of SpaceX and Tesla and Musk's other endeavors as well, until he crossed the line from quirky to erratic and went completely off the far-right deep end. Today he's a champion of social-conservative politics and revanchism, but he could just as easily wake up tomorrow and decide he's a hyper-progressive One-Worlder kind of guy. Either way, no matter what, he still has your data.

Disregarding the politics because that’s always subjective, it’s central to Meta’s business model to harvest as much of your data to show you ads. And they have decades of track record of doing that. Same with Google. Their products are thoroughly corrupted by ads because that’s where they make their money.

xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, may dabble in ads but they are nowhere near Meta and Google.

I don’t care about politics. I disagree with Musk on a lot of things but I don’t automatically boycott something just because he’s involved.

While as for Meta, there’s just way too much negative track record for me to ever trust them as a company or their products. I just assume everything it touches will be used to profile me and sell me ads

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