Musk merges startup xAI and Twitter, betting on AI to revitalize social media

[GodisanAtheist]

I was commenting on this particular case, you're making the generalizations.

You're probably correct about the woke - broke relationship though, at least I can't recall a case of profitable wokism.

-Sounds like excuse noises, Musk is not being a savvy businessman right now.

If Soros and Co. can control the government with no blowback to their wealth, then Musk could have done the same. Instead he's playing baby's first shadow government and failing.

 

[Ohnooze]

- So go woke... don't go broke? Money is money and as we've seen with everyone taking the knee to Tariff Man business don't have a moral compass that points away from "make money".

So what are you even complaining about? Either argue the topic or hit Techspot where it hurts (to be blunt, it's their wallet).

Huh? I never said anything about woke. So you're saying the site is woke now?
I also wasn't complaining. It was a statement that the site has found an easy way to get clicks.
Not sure why this makes you so hostile.
Take your meds...

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Huh? I never said anything about woke. So you're saying the site is woke now?
I also wasn't complaining. It was a statement that the site has found an easy way to get clicks.
Not sure why this makes you so hostile.
Take your meds...

-I'm just helping Techspot make more money by engaging with their leftist content. No hostility, you should probably take an introspective dive to figure out why you think I'm being hostile?

 

[scavengerspc]

X + AI = the misinformation superhighway

I would say more disinformation, really.

Misinformation is the spread of false information by accident.
It's basically someone that didn't do their homework.
Disinformation is bullshit to purposely mislead others, and is designed to hide truth and facts.
Disinformation is the MAGA go to and has been for years.

Just fall back on examples like the "stolen" 2020 election, immigrants eating dogs, Clorox to help with COVID, Windmill noise causes cancer, pizza shop human trafficking.

I know, you know, there are thousands more.

 

[wiyosaya]

With Tesla sales tanking, world-wide, and Tesla stock tanking, and X having lost value since the boy genius took over, this sounds like a desperate move to me. What's that saying - "Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul?"

 

[wiyosaya]

-Sounds like excuse noises, Musk is not being a savvy businessman right now.

If Soros and Co. can control the government with no blowback to their wealth, then Musk could have done the same. Instead he's playing baby's first shadow government and failing.

Has Musk ever been a savvy business man?

 

[wiyosaya]

Musk bought Twitter for $44B and now it's worth $33B. Maximum efficiency.

Yes, the perfect guy to lead DOGE.

 

[wiyosaya]

Stolen from the web: "I just sold my car to myself for $1million therefore it is definitely worth $1million." I'm a genius, just like Elmo.

But haven't you heard from the hearing on public media, "Isn't Elmo communist? After all, he is Red!"

 

[wiyosaya]

Musk bought Twitter to save democracy, not to profit. It was perfectly clear that short and even mid term profit was not in the cards. Well, Musk being Musk, he will make it profitable - it's already happening, much faster than anyone anticipated. Merging it with xAI will accelerate it even further.

Keep drinking the cool-aid.

 

[wiyosaya]

I would say more disinformation, really.

Misinformation is the spread of false information by accident.
It's basically someone that didn't do their homework.
Disinformation is bullshit to purposely mislead others, and is designed to hide truth and facts.
Disinformation is the MAGA go to and has been for years.

Just fall back on examples like the "stolen" 2020 election, immigrants eating dogs, Clorox to help with COVID, Windmill noise causes cancer, pizza shop human trafficking.

I know, you know, there are thousands more.

IMO, it would be exactly like someone beholden to those always yelling "Fake News" to find a way to make their flavor of Fake News even more pervasive.

 

[SRB]

-Then demonstrate agency and leave instead of participating and providing more clicks. Your participation here emboldens and entrenches the leftism you claim to eschew.

Techspot still needs to make money and the writers still need to eat. Political stuff drives more engagement and gets more clicks from righties and lefties.

Actually, I come here to read tech articles, after all, this is Techspot. In addition, I read almost all of the articles that are written. To that end, I can safely say that they do a great job of addressing the tech world with the exception of these articles on things that have a political bent.

It's not that the print these, and it's not the loons who make things up or insult everything and everybody they disagree with in the comment section. It's that the articles always include the author's personal bias and/or opinions in these articles.

On another note, I was also extremely disappointed in the editorial staff when, after getting a single comment that started a feeding frenzy, shut down the comments on that article completely, without any moderator intervention.

This one seems to be pretty far off topic with the comments as well, but I guess those comments aren't pushing the right buttons.

 

[SRB]

It's quite naive to assume someone is smart simply because they have a lot of money. Trump and Musk are both prime examples of this. They inherited huge amounts of money they never earned. It's easy to make a lot of money when you START with a lot of money. But do a Google search for their failed businesses and you'll be surprised. Trump for example has a list of failed businesses a mile long.

That is not to say Musk is stupid, far from it. But just being the richest man in the world doesn't automatically make you some kind of genius as so many right-wingers seem to think. A lot of it has to do with luck and timing as well.

The amazing part to this statement is that you believe that having started a business that fails is a sign of ability or intelligence. Most small business fail, market conditions change, customer tastes change, trends change, events happen. That many entrepreneurs continue to dust themselves off and keep at is after a loss, and then finally succeed is what the country was founded on.

 

[SRB]

Keep drinking the cool-aid.

Ok, have it your way. Musk bought X to destroy democracy and pad his ego.

Either way, he still didn't buy it to make money.

 

[m4a4]

On another note, I was also extremely disappointed in the editorial staff when, after getting a single comment that started a feeding frenzy, shut down the comments on that article completely, without any moderator intervention.

I mean, I'm not surprised at this point. TS keeps courting chronically toxic (political) users by posting baity (and non-tech) articles for the clicks. So now they have charged comments on a lot of their articles, even when they're not really political. And they don't really try to control the flames, because it happens to be the "right opinion".

It's really disappointing. And then despite me hitting Ignore on those toxic users, they still end up "showing" because people reply to them.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

On another note, I was also extremely disappointed in the editorial staff when, after getting a single comment that started a feeding frenzy, shut down the comments on that article completely, without any moderator intervention.

This one seems to be pretty far off topic with the comments as well, but I guess those comments aren't pushing the right buttons.

-On this we agree completely. Its silly to put these obvious bait articles out there and then when the comment section predictably devolves just shutting down comments.

Either let people talk freely or get involved and start moderating. Shutting down the comment section for politics in an obvious political bait article is the least functional way to handle it.

 

[bviktor]

No betting, just tax optimization

 

[pnntmp]

-Sounds like excuse noises, Musk is not being a savvy businessman right now.

If Soros and Co. can control the government with no blowback to their wealth, then Musk could have done the same. Instead he's playing baby's first shadow government and failing.

-Sounds like a word salad.

Any attempt to make parallels between Soros and Musk is ridiculous, they have absolutely nothing in common.
Soros and Co. is a shady unelected cabal trying to destroy the Western civilization. Musk was appointed by the sitting President.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

-Sounds like a word salad.

Any attempt to make parallels between Soros and Musk is ridiculous, they have absolutely nothing in common.
Soros and Co. is a shady unelected cabal trying to destroy the Western civilization. Musk was appointed by the sitting President.

-Both are unelected, Soros is better at what he does though. I respect the competence.

Soros also manages to run a shadow government with a mere 7.5 Billion to his name. Musk with his 350 Billion is making a fool of himself. Sad.

 

[pnntmp]

-Both are unelected, Soros is better at what he does though. I respect the competence.

Soros also manages to run a shadow government with a mere 7.5 Billion to his name. Musk with his 350 Billion is making a fool of himself. Sad.

No offense but this is a pile of nonsense.

Musk is unelected, but is appointed by the highest elected figure. Soros is a part of a cabal.
Unlike Musk, Soros is not doing anything of value, he's only destroying - that doesn't require competence, just corrupt people to buy. Do you seriously respect that???
Musk personal wealth has nothing to do with what he's doing for the government, as for 'making a fool of himself' - that's just somebody's opinion. As there are approx. 8 billion of those, one particular opinion is just noise.

 

[wiyosaya]

Ok, have it your way. Musk bought X to destroy democracy and pad his ego.

Either way, he still didn't buy it to make money.

Like I said, keep drinking the cool-aid.

We can speculate on why he bought "X", but we do not know with certainty, and any determination on our part is, at best, invented.

IMO, given the way he tried to back out when the price of Twitter stock dropped after his offer was tendered, he did buy it to "make money."

One must consider that even at that time, Tesla was not doing well, and SpaceX may not have been performing to his satisfaction. I think Musk got the jitters about his financial future, and bought Twitter to plug the leaks in his financial future.

And like I've said to others, try going on "X" and post something "bad" about Musk. You'll see his commitment to democracy and free-speech first hand. As long as you conform to what he thinks free-speech is, you'll be OK. But stray from those rules, and he will spay you.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

No offense but this is a pile of nonsense.

Musk is unelected, but is appointed by the highest elected figure. Soros is a part of a cabal.
Unlike Musk, Soros is not doing anything of value, he's only destroying - that doesn't require competence, just corrupt people to buy. Do you seriously respect that???
Musk personal wealth has nothing to do with what he's doing for the government, as for 'making a fool of himself' - that's just somebody's opinion. As there are approx. 8 billion of those, one particular opinion is just noise.

-Oh man sorry but not sorry, what a bunch of tripe.

Unelected is unelected, trying to use sophistry to bypass the point... I expected better.

Ofc Musk is part of the cabal, he's the head of the cabal playing the good cop to Soros' bad cop to con guys like you into thinking he's saving America instead of doing exactly what Soros wanted but in a way you find acceptable and willing to defend.

Musk is like the Emerile Lagasi of the Soros agenda *BAM put some MAGA on it* suddenly it's a dish conservatives find tasty. Bigly sad.

 

[axiomatic13]

It's a Ponzi scheme! Let's get real here? The loan Elon took out against his Tesla shares to buy X has been called. He is simply moving ownership around to avoid accountability.

 

[pnntmp]

-Oh man sorry but not sorry, what a bunch of tripe.

Unelected is unelected, trying to use sophistry to bypass the point... I expected better.

Ofc Musk is part of the cabal, he's the head of the cabal playing the good cop to Soros' bad cop to con guys like you into thinking he's saving America instead of doing exactly what Soros wanted but in a way you find acceptable and willing to defend.

Musk is like the Emerile Lagasi of the Soros agenda *BAM put some MAGA on it* suddenly it's a dish conservatives find tasty. Bigly sad.

Oops .. I now remembered some insider on Youtube revealed Musk was one of those lizard people that control the world. Was that you?

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Oops .. I now remembered some insider on Youtube revealed Musk was one of those lizard people that control the world. Was that you?

- Guilty as charged, I'm actually the one saving America!

 

[scavengerspc]

- Guilty as charged, I'm actually the one saving America!

As it turns out, Musk may be the one saving America.
He is stepping down:

Donald Trump gives DOGE update as Elon Musk says he'll step down in May

Musk is a special government employee, a category for temporary federal workers who are only supposed to work 130 days out of 365.

www.newsweek.com