I’m so glad I don’t use telegram.
Fascist media meets fascist media… well…
If anybody still believed in Telegram’s trustworthiness, it should now be dispelled.
(Only kidding, there’s plenty of people who still “believe” in both Durov and Musk)
I’ll think about if they also somehow prohibit 3rd party clients from removing that AI garbage.
Sad but true
Two insane billionaire eugenicists … working together? No way. Birds of like feather stick together.
Im glad the EU started early with sanctioning Telegram, it will make things easier now. This is just a blatant attempt at enforcing Russian political influence.
I just use telegram for sailing the high seas so I couldn’t care less. If I was actually communicating, I’d care.
"Eat moar AI! EAT IT!! EAT the AI you peasants!"
There doesn’t seem to be any such thing as “good” AI, but there’s definitely a “worst” one, and Telegram chose it. Nice job, assholes.
Well the other ones you have to pay for. This one pays you!
good news! signal has sticker packs
I tried to switch to Signal but it feels so damn barren compared to Telegram :(
I want to love it but they make it hard
Signal by design can’t and won’t support big group chats.
Frankly Telegram is socially a reiteration of IRC plus blogs. There are groups where people chat, there are channels where posts have comments. Posts and their comments are visible in the associated group, so all the life of a community is in one place. That’s important for small groups and mobile devices.
Because these two things in the 00s web accounted for most of life.
A TG alternative with ActivityPub identities and proper secret chats would be nice, of course.
I don’t know about any of this. I pretty much only have looked into it for porn and bootlegs of academic papers. Feels like I’m missing out on all the ‘fun’ of ai chats and cult groups.
ai chats
I said nothing about such.
The only problem with Telegram = IRC angle is that I can’t scroll up in IRC to see what I missed throughout the day. I legitimately would love to switch my friend group to a self-hosted IRC server, but chat history is important.
My biggest gripe with it is about electron. I refuse to keep it running on my PC. Even the damned Whatsapp converted to something better.
If only any of my friends would have it… I have a lot of contacts on telegram, and on signal there’s like 1. Even my furry friends are not on there
There are some active chats on matrix, but I don’t know why on signal
Maybe if you tell them that an LLM is being trained on all their “private” conversations now, they will change their mind?
Them: “I’ve got nothing to hide” (slowed down and reverbed)
signal has sticker packs
wait it does? maybe then I can convince my contacts to move there xD Seriously stickers are the main selling point of Telegram for us
SimpleX for the best anonymity. Signal for talking with grandma.
Telegram are being paid by xAI to use their product? Isn’t it supposed to be the other way around?
AI companies paying or straight up buying other businesses to spread their disease has become their go-to strategy as of late.
Having xAI accessing a billion of users conversations? They are going to have the most “educated” LLM. Also isn’t xAI getting subsidies from the government? Literalły workers of America are paying to spy, again
The funny thing is, half of Telegram is drugs, conspiracy nuts and really weird humour. The ai is going to be great, I can already see it.
I’m guessing the money flows in this direction because telegram actually has users.
The users must ask themselves if they’re the product, fucking Musk is paying for access to them.
You’re the product either way, free or not. Those days are gone.
I don’t use any of it, neither Telegram or LLMs
who’d have thought that elon would get into bed with a ceo who was arrested for child porn
Was he?
I haven’t heard that personally.
So you’re telling me that Grok is so bad that they have to pay developers to integrate it? How backwards. People are willing to pay for Grok’s competitors.
Or is xAI paying for access to Telegram conversations to train Grok?
This is the reason. Telegram has data and users that can be fed to the AI and they know it. Grok is hungry.
Well it’s gonna learn to post crypto spam ads and swastikas then. Which come to think of it… might be the point
What’s funny is the flipside to it… Telgram is absolutely fucking full of furries so grok’s gonna learn a shitload of gay leftist shit too.
to be fair, pretty much all ai is that bad these days :)
This is the real take away from all this. xAI is trying hard to keep up with the big-boys and has to pay a shit ton of money just to be in the game. xAI’s revenue will be in the deep red for a long time at this rate.
Big yikes
Can this be a joke pleaseeeee ?
I’ve seen posts in TG that yes, this is a joke and there’s been no such deal.
Reuters reports it’s true: Telegram, Musk-owned xAI partner to distribute Grok to messaging app’s users | Reuters
