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ShareMySims ,

He has no clue how to run a business.

This isn’t a business to him, it doesn’t need to be, its monetary value is insignificant to him, it was always about having control of an established platform, and feeding its audience his propaganda.

altima_neo ,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

It’s a toy to him. A very expensive one.

ShareMySims ,

Like I said, its monetary value is of no consequence to him, even if he loses it tomorrow he’ll still be one of the richest people on earth by a long way. And it’s certainly more than a toy to him, and while he might often act like a petulant manchild, don’t think for a second that he doesn’t know exactly what he’s doing (not only with twitter, but with embedding his interests in defence and space agencies for example, without having to personally know anything about running or operating in those industries either).

seaQueue ,
@seaQueue@lemmy.world avatar

Musk buying Twatter is equivalent to the 18th century robber barons buying newspapers to control what they published

ShareMySims ,

And it’s nothing out of the ordinary either, all main stream media is owned by other billionaires doing exactly the same, only they’re better at or at least more invested in keeping the mask on.

aStonedSanta ,

Their empires were crated slowly and over time so a lot easier to blend

NeoNachtwaechter ,

all main stream media is owned by other billionaires

… in some certain countries, where democracy is (coincidentally) weak.

pcouy ,

Can you give examples of countries where mainstream media is not owned by billionaires ?

NeoNachtwaechter ,

Sure. But can you do your googeling yourself?

dezmd ,
@dezmd@lemmy.world avatar

Narrator: He couldn’t.

ChronosTriggerWarning ,

YOU made a claim, it’s on YOU to back it up.

NeoNachtwaechter ,

LOL

I told you my precious thoughts, and I gave them for free.

You don’t believe me? Go and get your education elsewhere. Or don’t. I don’t care.

ChronosTriggerWarning ,

Lol!

NeoNachtwaechter eats horse shit straight out of the source! Don’t believe me? Google it yourself, it’s true!

pcouy ,

It’s not that I don’t believe you, I was genuinely interested in knowing more. I don’t understand what’s so “precious” about a random stranger’s thought on the internet if it’s not backed up with any source.

Moreover, I did try searching around for this and could not find any result that seemed to answer my question.

pyre ,

let’s not act like he’s playing 5d chess. he was forced to buy it with one of the worst deals in history if not the worst, for no other reason than the fact that he’s a dumbass. and he’s been desperate to monetize it since.

ShareMySims , (edited )

he was forced to buy it with one of the worst deals in history if not the worst,

Was it though, since he’s got exactly what he wants (and for what to him is a literal pittance)?

Your understanding of the deal from the perspective of someone who probably can’t even imagine the scale of how much a billion dollars actually is, never mind a couple hundred billion (which will remain at a couple of hundred billion with or without twitter), and doesn’t have his eye set on global domination, clearly isn’t his.

I hate him as much as the next person, but the idea that he’s just coincidentally fumbling perfectly through every step of the fascism playbook (or that doing so is “5D chess” rather than the natural state of a billionaire) is naive and uninformed at best, and laughable either way.

pyre ,

dude he literally backed out of it and the courts forced him what are you even talking about. he DIDN’T want it, and he bought it at like 4x its value or something i don’t even remember but it wasn’t remotely approaching $44bn.

first of all, that’s a sizeable amount of money even for him, especially since it doesn’t fucking make any money in return.

second of all, his net worth isn’t liquid. most of it is speculation subject to stock market.

third of all, and most importantly, a good deal is calculated by what you pay for something vs what it’s worth, not by what you pay for something vs what you’re worth. otherwise, Elon could buy bread for 400 thousand dollars a loaf and that would be a better “deal” than the average American, which is a ridiculous proposition.

Voroxpete ,

The net outflows on Twitter cost him about a billion a year. And there’s no golden parachute with Twitter, he’s not a CEO, he’s the sole owner.

Paying that debt requires him to come up with actual cash money, and Musk’s fortune is entirely in Tesla stock. The more of that stock he sells off to cover his Twitter losses, the more he damages the stock price, which shrinks his remaining fortune.

So yes, he absolutely does care. Twitter won’t bankrupt him, but it could definitely cause him some serious damage.

ShareMySims ,

it could definitely cause him some serious damage.

You clearly don’t understand just how much hundreds of billions of dollars is.

Try this:

mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

Voroxpete ,

Don’t try to be patronizing, you’re clearly not very good at it.

oktoberpaard ,

“Uncensored”: x.com/KarlMaxxer/status/1823753493783699901. I don’t know if this is really true, but if it is, it’s something that they should’ve called out in their article.

Evotech ,

It’s not Grok, it’s flux

peanuts4life ,
@peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Grok 2 uses the image model, “Flux.” Flux is made by black forest labs. You two can download the model and run it locally on a moderately expensive gaming PC or use it for free at huggingface.co/spaces/…/FLUX.1-dev among other places.

I find it funny that the most newsworthy component of this product is made and distributed for free by a completely unrelated company. This is manufactured outrage by musk as a ploy to seem relivant in the ai space. All he did was put a free thing behind a Paywall.

BlackLaZoR ,
@BlackLaZoR@fedia.io avatar

It's only free if you have an expensive GPU with a lot of VRAM. But otherwise I agree - Musk has no idea what he's doing - I doubt this will bring substantial money

dubyakay ,

I bought a blue checkmark so I could use Grok.

My buddy, literally today.

ripcord ,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

Fuck your buddy for giving that shitstain money, then.

Deceptichum ,
@Deceptichum@quokk.au avatar

Uh no, I run Flux on my 8gb card no problem. Takes about 4 mins per render.

BlackLaZoR ,
@BlackLaZoR@fedia.io avatar

4 mins per render.

ComfyUI I assume?

Evotech ,

Depends very much on steps, upscaling etc ofc

ResoluteCatnap ,

I only checked replicate api but you can generate 333 images for $1. Ofc takes some know-how but it’s cheap if you can get it set up

BreadstickNinja ,

There are a series of quants available at much smaller sizes such that you don’t need the full size model. The full fp16 model is 23 GB but the fp8 quant is half that, and there are GGUF quants down to 6.8 GB.

fmstrat ,

Me and who?

Black616Angel ,

I don’t think he will get that joke.

At the top level poster: you wrote “two” instead of “too”.

Pacattack57 ,

Just to be clear it’s not free. I was able to do 2 prompts until it kicked me off for an hour

echodot ,

Well it’s free it’s just rate limited. Which makes sense given the amount of processing capacity that is required.

drunkpostdisaster ,

Good hands for an ai. Those girls need to look more uncomfortable around him. Ai can’t seem to decide if they are surfing or riding an airplane through the sky like a surfboard. Nice touch for what I assume is epstien’s plane.

Evotech ,

Ai can’t decide on anything. Normally it’s a bad dream

chakan2 ,
@chakan2@lemmy.world avatar

That’s unfortunate. It’ll be the go to AI image generator.

BlackLaZoR ,
@BlackLaZoR@fedia.io avatar

It'll be mostly unfortunate for Musk as sponsors pull out driving X value down the drain

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I thought they already did…

Cornpop ,

Honestly this is the first thing x has done right. As soon as a prompt I put in gets rejected im over that ai model. Not into content restrictions.

AllNewTypeFace ,
@AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space avatar

He’s hoping that by delivering maximum lulz to 4chan gamergate groyper incel types, they in turn can sweep Trump into the Whitehouse on a tidal wave of shitposts.

julysfire ,
@julysfire@lemmy.world avatar

I’m sure this will have 0 downsides and will go great! /s

ARg94 ,

Did AI write this blurb or have you had a stroke?

BetaDoggo_ ,

Based on the pricing they’re probably betting most users won’t use it. The cheapest api pricing for flux dev is 40 images per dollar, or about 10 images a day spending $8 a month. With pro they would get half that. This is before considering the cost of the language model.

crawancon ,

grok make a picture of a huge black dick sliding Elon’s throat making him tear up, but he’s giving the thumbs up. his LIB er ty poster in the background.

Zier ,
@Zier@fedia.io avatar

Now do one where elon is being pegged by Hillary while screaming "I love you Hillary, harder, harder, harderrrrr."

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