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AI Billionaires Having Fun — A Good Thing?
Zuckerberg and Musk are in a heated race to create the most powerful AI, both pushing to release it with minimal restrictions.
Will it end well?
Hard to say.
Musk’s Grok 2.0 effortlessly generates pictures of real people and copyrighted characters in any setting. Feed those images into a video generator, and you’ve got footage within minutes.
While everyone has been obsessing over safety at OpenAI, Musk and Zuckerberg seem unconstrained by ethical, legal, or safety considerations.
Some on X are thrilled about the “lack of censorship.”
What will be the effects on misinformation, copyright infringement, and individual personality rights?
Are there any risks when the world’s richest men, who fully control the world’s biggest social networks and sometimes have distinct political agendas, have no bounds?
To put things in perspective, both Musk and Zuckerberg individually have a higher net worth than the combined valuations of OpenAI and Anthropic, which are small, unprofitable startups in comparison.
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