I'm sorry but the whole Grok “mechahitler” thing was a feature not a bug. The timing between that and xAI announcing it's AI services for governments and subsequently being awarded a government contract was not coincidental. Elon was demonstrating that Grok 4 comes with a state propaganda switch governments can flip whenever they want.
We already paid for Firefox through decades of donations in addition to the hundreds of millions of dollars MoCo has received over the years from Google that was definitely not a bribe in exchange for sandbagging Firefox by firing most of the Firefox devs. That's what the community got in return for our decades of support because again, we've already paid for Firefox.
At this point we should just fork Firefox or focus on IceCat instead.
You want to opt out of this all you say? Good luck running a competitive business! Every metric is now a target. You better maximize engagement or you will lose engagement this is a red queen’s race we can’t afford to lose!
I'm from GenX. It can be done. We used to do it. Just stop playing their game. The only winning move is not to play.
This Rob guy from the article is also using two classic techniques you'll see bullshitters use all the time, strawman arguments and appeal to authority (ad verecundiam).
This is why companies like Hertz are shifting tasks like this to AI. Plausible deniability. Those billions we made overcharging our customers? Whoops, AI software error. Our bad.
I picked up a Cambridge Z88 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Z88) at a Goodwill a couple years ago but haven't done much of anything with it. Apparently they have quite the following.
The accusation I heard was these developers they hired were essentially prompt wrangling behind the scenes using other AI services to make Builder seem better than it really was.
