alt Hacker NewsI have. He was using it due to philosophical reasons the same way many people have philosophical reasons for avoiding it. I don't know how many people are like that, but it's not exactly where you want to position your product if you're a business.
Personally - and I know I'm not alone with this sentiment based on comments I see on this site - I wouldn't touch Grok no matter how good or cheap it is. I don't trust Elon and I don't want to give another dollar to the world's richest person who turns around and uses the money to interfere with elections. The guy I know uses it for essentially the same reason I won't use it.
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> the world's richest person who turns around and uses the money to interfere with elections.
I'm no Elon fanboy but to be fair a lot of the richest people in the world heavily fund and endorse political candidates, parties, PACs, lobbyists, etc across the political spectrum. Elon was just far more public about it and it was covered much more.
>who turns around and uses the money to interfere with elections
thats a very dumb reason considering all rich people do it, most are just not as open about it as Musk
Versus Sam,Dario or the CCP? Im all for running local models but im sor far from being able to pay for a large model hardware setup. My strix halo box is like driving a beaten up vespa when the frontier models are Ferraris.
Supporting parties or candidates you want to win elections is a core part of democracy.
Calling it "interfering with elections" is utterly bizarre to me.
Perhaps customers choosing your product for irrational philosophical reasons is exactly how you'd want to position your product if you're a business. When it comes to margins, the only thing better than a price-insensitive customer is a quality-insensitive customer.