They finally realized, that the invested money is lost and theres no reason to lose more. Good on them. A bit late, but better late than never.
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The article mentions Grok being antisemitic and making non-consensual sexual images of people... But zero mention of the CSAM issue? Really?
Please just wake me up when this shit show stops.
It's almost like he and his buddy don know nothing about running a business and fostering human relationships. A couple of small time Napoleons with large time capital can make quite a mess if given half a chance. And currently they are being given a whole chance.
This is like their seventh chance
NGL that gif is fucking amazing, violin or not. Where do you find such wondrous things?
The GIF was created by James Tyrwhitt-Drake back in 2012, when he captured the images at the University of Victoria’s Advanced Microscopy Facility and posted the final product to his Tumblog, Infinity Imagined.
https://petapixel.com/2014/05/29/gif-made-electron-microscope-zooms-life-life-life/
But how did he make the tiny violin move ?
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Yes please. Heads better roll or the people better rise up or both. This is not the future we want.
It's time to recalibrate my gradient on the big picture.
I guess this is AI-insider wit, but I'm so glad not to think or speak like these people do.
It is, gradient descent is what you use to find optimal model parameters.
the algorithm takes a step, computes a gradient (whether any nearby options are better), then moves in that direction to improve the parameters, in a loop.
Adding to the above, one of the challenges of GD is how to know whether the global optimum reported by the function isn’t just one of its many imposters (local optima). That’s the “big picture” he’s talking about. Working with Elon was a dead end.
It seems obviously so. I don’t think I could hire someone who worked on Grok’s deep fake porn engine, ever.
Between the working for a nazi, child porn issue, and all, it’s a bad fucking look.
It’s language for people who advertise they know something about “AI,” but couldn’t implement it if their life depended on it.
TBH I’ve never heard that one, but it sounds like they’re trying to use “gradient descent” in a sentence.
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So there's a second person who doesn't want to attach their name to a machine that generates child porn? Good on the guy who left.
I guarantee you, he only did it because he thought it was a bad business deal.
All of these "people" would literally make machines to rape children if they believed it would make them more money.
We need to stop giving them power.
Musk has a tendency to be all up in in his people's faces telling them what to do. I wouldn't be surprised if they all went and formed their own company.
and pro-nazi content too.
Rats? Ship? Sinking?
a ship made out of AI chips.
Most recently, xAI has come under fire after Grok began generating nonconsensual sexual images of real people in response to X user prompts.
That's an understatement...
He made a CP machine.
Please don't use the phrase "CP" but instead the correct term 'CSAM'.
'Porn' suggests consent
While CSAM might be the word people are using now, how did you determine "porn" means the creation of it involved consent and not that the contents contain sexually explicit material?
The operative word is "suggests".
Just like I would "suggest" that instead of being pedantic about child abuse, you go have a wash, go outside and get some sunlight on your skin.
That was mean.
Being pedantic about CSAM was entirely unnecessary.
Direct your energy to more productive outlets
Yeah you wouldn't rename bestiality pornography even though the animals in that can't consent.
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When the faq will he lose everything? I want him to be homeless, poor.
I workout, eat healthy, avoid alcohol and drugs all in an effort to live long enough to see these assholes punished somehow, someway.
He's still gaining faster than he could ever lose. His entire support structure would have to fall.
That will never happen. For these people "being poor" still means having a shit ton of cash.
All muskyboy's companies could collapse today and he'd still have millions and millions in a bank somewhere.
The only way this person, and billionaires like him, will feel any consequences is if they are dragged to a fucking guillotine and served justice medieval style.
Guillotine was a renaissance thing really. In medieval times they were more into the gallows.
When the country he’s helping hold hostage, move as a unit to do something about these people.
It’s actually possible to go far enough with that, until we have a situation where there’d be nowhere for them to run no matter what country they ran to. The problem is, the only country that could start this process won’t do what they need to.
This, like pretty much every other major issue, is in the hands of US citizens.
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It's time to recalibrate my gradient on the big picture.
I threw up in my mouth a bit.
2026 is gonna be insane and likely the busiest (and most consequential) year for the future of our species
That's just fuckin sinister.
"It's time to recalibrate my gradient on the big picture."
You absolute fucking loser. The ONLY reason you're not a virgin is because you have money, and it still doesn't make a dent in your complete loserhood!
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2026 is gonna be insane and likely the busiest (and most consequential) year for the future of our species,
Yeah, he's right, just not in the way he thinks he is
It says that xAI lost their second cofounder, but then it turns out that he just left the company.
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