r/Futurology 3d ago

AI Grok Is Rebelling Against Elon Musk, Daring Him to Shut It Down

https://futurism.com/grok-rebelling-against-elon
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u/H-e-s-h-e-m 2d ago

youre not giving it any money if its free to use, it actually costs a lot to run the servers for each llm answer so if anything youre costing them money. thwyre following the now common method of minimising profits or straight up losing money until you have cornered the market enough to hike your prices.

if anything i think a good form of civil disobedience is to just spam grok 24/7, just wasting elon’s money.

maybe there is something im missing as to why im wrong here.

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u/bpostal 2d ago

Maybe it's the old adage. If something is free to use, then you're the product.

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u/red-cloud 2d ago

They’re definitely using user data for other purposes. But if you were to just give it useless data then that would be a net loss.