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Months after he's helped gut NASA's budget, Musk is to divert $2 billion from SpaceX to his Grok AI. (futurology.today)

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Quite apart from the blatant corruption, if SpaceX's biggest problem is that its rockets keep exploding, how is an AI that you have deliberately designed to give wrong answers supposed to fix things?

Thanks to gutting NASA and science budgets, space is another area where the US will soon cede the top spot to China. They have fully developed plans for a lunar base, deep space exploration, and will likely be the next to have humans on the Moon.

BTW - to anyone who tries to argue this isn't outright corruption, via diverting and siphoning taxpayers money, I have NFTs and memecoins for a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to interest you in.

SpaceX to invest $2 billion in Musk's xAI startup, WSJ reports

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[-] Benedict_Espinosa@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's their money to invest however they want only if it comes with no strings attached, no obligations to use it for a specific purpose. We don't know if this is the case, so there's no basis to argue that they can do whatever they want with it.

What is corruption? It's a form of dishonesty that is undertaken by a person or an organization that is entrusted in a position of authority. That certainly seems to be the case here - not by SpaceX and xAi as such, but by Musk and his involvement in the government.

And Musk has everything to do with Grok.

[-] Balex@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

So you're saying we don't have enough details to argue that they can spend the money however they want, but you can argue that they can't spend the money however they want?