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I find it funny that people are still calling Grok "mechahitler" as if that weren't prompted by trolls and the AI model is going to set up concentration camps on every block.


> if that weren't prompted by trolls

It is, but the troll is the CEO playing with the system prompt…


You know, feel free to keep thinking this. In my experience Grok is the best. I don’t let myself into weird groupthink that happens just because trolls took advantage of Grok’s absence of lobotomy. Kind of a superpower.


I feel compelled to point out that the Mechahitler thing was prompted by bad actors hiding invisible tokens in tweets, but sure, it's maybe an unpopular opinion.

Basically, the major free options out there for LLMs are OpenAI, Google, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Meta, and Grok. (I could be missing stuff here, but those are the main players.) DeepSeek is out because of China ties. OpenAI and Perplexity have CEOs that seem incredibly shifty to me. I refuse to give Meta and Google any more info than I have to, so I'm avoiding them. Hence we fall back to Grok. Again, maybe not a completely logical progression, but it's my choice and I get to live with the consequences :)


> CEOs that seem incredibly shifty to me

Yet the next level beyond “incredibly” somehow makes it alright again?


The best ones are out for... Reasons? This seems completely bad faith and honestly really Elon musk fanboyish.

Literally none of this options you listed are that objectionable.

Do what the rest of us do and switch frequently. Don't use mekafurhur and you'll be fine.




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