alt Hacker NewsThe US govt trusts SpaceXAI for defense and high security missions. The idea they are lying about contracted AI services is absurd. They're also a public company which beings even more oversight than openai / anthropic.
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bakies • today at 8:30 PM
Running separate services for the government is very common in software services. Being public doesn't bring any technical oversight at all. I haven't actually heard of grok being used for the government security ive only ever heard Claude being used.
vrganj • today at 8:35 PM
Their closeness to the current US government is a cause for concern, it doesn't alleviate it.
I think using the current US Government, and their corrupting relationships with SpaceX/SpaceXAi/et al, maybe isn't quite the positive argument you believe it to be. I'd suggest that relationship is why it is unlikely the DoJ wouldn't/hasn't gone after SpaceXAi for some of their existing controversial actions.
Nobody else wants to be in the blast radius for whatever SpaceX/SpaceXAi does next, or whatever their next controversy is. It is easier, when asked, "Do you use Grok?" just to be able to answer no, instead of having to explain why you aren't embroiled in whatever is going on this week.