alt Hacker NewsIt's crazy that I'd literally trust a Chinese AI company with my data over anything Musk is involved with.
Like, even if you don't care about (or even like) his politics and can look past how unlikable he comes off as, the damage he's done to his own reputation in this domain just makes using his products like this a no-go. He's literally so rich that he can get caught personally looking through chat sessions and it wouldn't slow him down a bit. He's too rich to be held accountable, and that makes it impossible to trust his businesses. It's a funny dynamic that I don't think is appreciated enough, but I know that if Google or Amazon or OpenAI or Anthropic (etc.) got caught doing something like that, the backlash would be astounding and the reputation hit they'd take would be brutal. Here, Musk would just awkwardly come out attacking people for not letting him behave unethically even more than he already is, and that'd be it.
Beyond that, the obvious astroturfing that occurs on this site (along with reddit, etc.) when it comes to Grok isn't helping. All I hear about Claude, GPT, Gemini, etc., are how terrible they are, yet any discussion of Grok seems to always revolve around sensible, but confident, assertions that it's actually a great product and every new release is the point where Grok finally catches up.
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> He's literally so rich that he can get caught personally looking through chat sessions and it wouldn't slow him down a bit.
Looking through chat histories is boring, mundane stuff. He's richer than that, think bigger. I think he could kill a random person in front of thousands, and by the next day we'd see articles arguing why the random person actually deserved it and why it's not that bad. Whatever consequences would be lined up would inevitably face unexpected roadblocks which would all result in nothing happening.
If I was Chinese, I'd probably trust Grok more than a local AI company. Americans would probably trust the Chinese companies more.
It's less about "who is more trustworthy", it's more about "who is more willing and able to affect me".
It doesn't seem like Grok is being astroturfed, if anything the opposite. There are two Chinese models on the front page while this is on the second page as of writing. And there would always be so many comments personally attacking Musk whenever his company releases something. I think this is being CCP bot farmed.
> where Grok finally catches up
if the benches hold it did catch up
Tesla has lost both house battery and car sales in my family -- we're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars -- simply because we don't trust him not to remotely shut off our power/cars for petty political reasons.
Also, if you want true privacy you should run AI models on local hardware. (Guess which country's models dominate SOTA/near SOTA open weights? Yes, it's China, and it's not even close. You can run full-fat DeepSeek locally for (just) under $10K USD.)
> It's crazy that I'd literally trust a Chinese AI company with my data
It's crazy how much Chinese = bad the media or US companies have washed into you. Why lump it together?
Like any place and any company there are good and bad 1s.
It's not the Wild West over there...
Someone in another comment thread whataboutism’d a Chinese LLM. This isn’t a good gotcha. Musk has amplified the concept of “remigration” which is the forced deportation of non-whites. He would have me violently removed. I do not need to contextualize my decision within possible ethical quandaries.
Grok is hosted in the US.
Grok 4.5 works. 4.6 is looking even better.
Grok is one of the few (GLM is the other) which actually states biological truths, rather then political interpretations.
> All I hear about Claude, GPT, Gemini, etc., are how terrible they are, yet any discussion of Grok seems to always revolve around sensible, but confident, assertions that it's actually a great product and every new release is the point where Grok finally catches up.
Ironically, I only see coments like yours regarding Grok.
Tesla self driving cars, (somewhat) as you say, but even the biggest proponents of Grok are like "oh no the best model is this, ugh".