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Musk and the consortium made the $97.4 billion offer to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, writes the Wall Street Journal. The group wants all of OpenAI's...

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[–] [email protected] 204 points 1 week ago

Altman sucks but that's a hilarious burn

[–] [email protected] 127 points 1 week ago (1 children)

$9.74 billion for the trash fire that is Twitter is honestly a really good offer, the muskrat should definitely take that.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean its served his purpose so musk has minimal use for it now...

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Wrong. He's definitely deadset on X.com being Da Everything App.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This again? It's not going to happen.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It won't but he still wants it bad enough to cling to it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My guess would be he wants ChatGPT because he can't seem to get Grok working, lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Grok seems to be working fine. It's about as competent as... Gpt4.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

He's best buds with the fascist-in-chief this time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Seeing how Tesla sales took a nosedive after Musk went full Nazi and the eXodus is still ongoing, the everything app is not going to be popular.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I believe he wants it to a payment thing like PayPal or some shit. And I imagine that's what his lackies are doing in the Treasury. He will force the US to use it for all their payments. I wouldn't be surprised with like X bucks too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Thiel had the board of Paypal vote to boot Musk out of the company while Musk was on his honeymoon. I can only hope something similar could happen while he is in DC sleeping at the foot of Trump's bed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Agreed but something being unpopular never stopped him before

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Is he? I haven't heard anything about it for a year.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's been his dream since before Paypal. Now he has a leg-up on the competition and his hands in the treasury

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

OK but he has different toys now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trying to make sense of his obsession with making an American WeChat is a fool's errand

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're missing my point.

It's understood that he's periodically wanted to do this thing.

I'm saying that I'm not sure there is any actual focus on it at the moment or in the near future, since I haven't heard anything about it for a year. I'm trying to ask if there's evidence the dude cares or if he's fucked off to other stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's no hard evidence that he's actively pursuing it nor that he's abandoned it, no.

[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do I want Twitter to be taken over by OpenAI? Absolutely not. Do I despise neonazis more than I hate generative AI? You bet.

Therefore, this is a little funny.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Would Twitter be any worse if 100% of the posts were AI generated?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

It might help the readability?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If they were trained on Twitter then probably not worse but maybe accidentally better, or most likely exactly the same

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

The only possibility is all possibilities.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 week ago (4 children)

How long before this type of behavior gets you thrown out of a window?

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The world needs a lot more Italian plumbers.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

I'm sorry, but our plumber is in another dungeon.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Defenestrate! Defenestrate!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

In Soviet Amerika, MS Windows throw you.

Not sure where I was going with this one honestly. Started as a callback to Russia owning the White House and then I theew in some corporate twist and couldn't figure out how to land it.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Two of the worst people in America fighting.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

When elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

They're just playing. Fighting implies one of them could lose. These fucks can fool around at the expense and anxiety of their employees with no regard for any meaningful consequences of any of their actions.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

Lmao I hope Elon hates that Altman called it Twitter not X

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Why's Musk looking so overweight?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Hate and hamburger diet ages you.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Some blue tick twitter account probably told him that healthy living is woke or something

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

He looks like he's been submerged in water for a few weeks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

His torso shows signs of un-treated childhood asthma, which can result in complications as an adult.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

It’s the equivalent of two young kids arguing over trading marbles in the playground.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

They're the same guy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That's a bingo