Technology is an expression of power, always has been and always will be. Pretending otherwise is naive and dangerous.

Im all for fighting for digital privacy rights. But referencing the purge with a smile begs the question, are you yearning for a purge-like scenario? Some fantastical idea that you’ll be the main character in an anarchic chaos?

It doesn’t say that. Just a ranking of the tools doesn’t imply that they are using Grok Bot.

In general though yeah X is probably less competent in the execution of manipulating you through insights from your data.

I do trust xAi / SpaceX more than Meta, yes

Is that because you seem them as politically or socially aligned with your own values and interests? Or are there other factors that go into that judgement?

I was a big fan of SpaceX and Tesla and Musk's other endeavors as well, until he crossed the line from quirky to erratic and went completely off the far-right deep end. Today he's a champion of social-conservative politics and revanchism, but he could just as easily wake up tomorrow and decide he's a hyper-progressive One-Worlder kind of guy. Either way, no matter what, he still has your data.

Disregarding the politics because that’s always subjective, it’s central to Meta’s business model to harvest as much of your data to show you ads. And they have decades of track record of doing that. Same with Google. Their products are thoroughly corrupted by ads because that’s where they make their money.

xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, may dabble in ads but they are nowhere near Meta and Google.

I don’t care about politics. I disagree with Musk on a lot of things but I don’t automatically boycott something just because he’s involved.

While as for Meta, there’s just way too much negative track record for me to ever trust them as a company or their products. I just assume everything it touches will be used to profile me and sell me ads

prove it

Literally the point of the linked GitHub repo.

Ahh yes, my daily agitprop

It is this disconnected from reality attitude that gives technical people a bad reputation. Please reconsider your bad takes.

Because that's how that country works? China uses other countries and companies as R&D.

How do they have some things that are more advanced than the rest of the world, like EV batteries?

The tropes are tiresome, reeks of hubris and bigotry

Where do you think the United States gets all its chips? We certainly do not know how to print them ourselves nearly as well as the Dutch and Taiwanese, probably the Chinese too. Are we not relying on other countries for R&D across a number of industries? Is there something bad about sharing advancements at the global scale.

blowing out other's candles does not make yours burn brighter

Who gave them authority to act?

These aren't rich people, this movement is almost entirely fueled by young people. Educate yourself more before thinking this is reddit.

Young people who can't afford the risk, and don't bother to understand that fact.

> Well apparently they don't really have a choice

The notion that poor circumstances somehow justify poor choices is extremely counterproductive, as the context of this thread should make abundantly clear.

Just saying rich people betting and losing is much more funny than poor people making bad financial decision in the hope of maybe living a better life.

> they don’t really have a choice

This kind of discourse is so intellectually poor…

You know who is also poor?

The disconnect of ivory tower tech workers from normal people has never been more apparent.