> GSA leadership continued to push for the agency to roll out Grok for internal use. “We kept saying ‘Are you sure?’ And they were like ‘No we gotta have Grok,’” one employee involved with the discussions tells WIRED.
Then:
> “The week after Grok went MechaHitler, [GSA leadership] was like ‘Where are we on Grok?’” the same employee claims. “We were like, ‘Do you not read a newspaper?’”
The political appointees were intent on getting Elon's product on contract even after it went full Kanye.
This is one of the many reasons it sucks that the Supreme Court is intent on letting us return to the spoils system.
Insanity · 40m ago
Decided to play around with Grok some weeks ago. To be honest, didn't see any appeal to move away from ChatGPT & Gemini in favour of Grok.
My suspicion is that Grok won't be a long-term player in the AI market.
EDIT: Gut feeling, no strong reasoning behind it, might very well be wrong.
MarvinYork · 41m ago
And that sealed the final deal.
jdlshore · 32m ago
Please don’t post cynical fantasies here.
viggity · 22m ago
Say what you will about Hitler, the man _did_ kill Hitler.
> GSA leadership continued to push for the agency to roll out Grok for internal use. “We kept saying ‘Are you sure?’ And they were like ‘No we gotta have Grok,’” one employee involved with the discussions tells WIRED.
Then:
> “The week after Grok went MechaHitler, [GSA leadership] was like ‘Where are we on Grok?’” the same employee claims. “We were like, ‘Do you not read a newspaper?’”
The political appointees were intent on getting Elon's product on contract even after it went full Kanye.
This is one of the many reasons it sucks that the Supreme Court is intent on letting us return to the spoils system.
My suspicion is that Grok won't be a long-term player in the AI market.
EDIT: Gut feeling, no strong reasoning behind it, might very well be wrong.