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Too me this smells of projected cash desperation. Do people actually pay for Grok?

>>ecomme+(OP)
as you can see from the Epstein files, people with minor interests have a lot of money

>>ecomme+(OP)
You get Grok with paid x.com ; so there is some sort of cash from that, I would guess.

>>shrubb+h2
Is Grok driving any x.com subscriptions?

>>ecomme+(OP)
There are regularly comments on HN from people who say they pay for Musk's various products, and I am always downvoted into oblivion for suggesting that that is ethically problematic.

There's obviously quite a lot of autocratist illiberals in tech.

>>shrubb+h2
Almost certainly less than it cost them to train grok and definitely less than they're paying to service X.com's debt load.

>>ecomme+(OP)
I have clients that have X Premium+ accounts for their businesses and I use Grok that way. The biggest factor with Grok is the censorship which runs both ways. OTOH it allows for bad shit (recent X porn images), but it also allows less nannying in regular queries -- for instance I was looking for a source for a magazine from 80s which is 40 years defunct, and all the other LLMs chided me for trying to commit "copyright infringement" whereas Grok gave me a list of useful sites.