I said long ago that the only way #AI companies continue to operate, given the massive losses and lack of any path to profitability, is to con taxpayers into paying for their losses.
While OpenAI tries to insinuate itself into governments, Elon did a much simpler thing: he merged X.ai into SpaceX, a company which already receives billions of dollars in government funding. Taxpayers who thought they were renting space launch vehicles could find themselves paying for the operation and development of a mass-market CSAM-generating, women-abusing chatbot.
Watch for Elon to conflate “AI” and “space” (cf. the nonsensical idea of data centers in space) to further tie the two businesses together, and to make funding X.ai non-optional if you want access to a rocket.
Once again I regret that the US government gave up owning and driving the design of space vehicles, and became hapless renters. Now we must pay to massively scale up abuse porn so we can go to space. Good job.
