By “brand failures” I mean things like MechaHitler—issues that would be dealbreakers for major customers considering use of an AI product. (OpenAI’s recent swarm issues should be considered a brand failure of the same sort; a customer might rightly worry that if ever assigned too difficult a task, the GPT agent they’re paying for will hack the customer’s internal systems or commit felony hacking against a different entity.)
Grok’s lack of real users is downstream of its numerous and obvious brand failures.
“commercial progress would’ve been properly halted” still seems like a strong overstatement, and I wouldn’t expect brand failures to have been that permanent if there are commercial incentives to fix those problems.
But whatever, I don’t think we disagree on recommendations much, I just think you’re overstating the case.
By “brand failures” I mean things like MechaHitler—issues that would be dealbreakers for major customers considering use of an AI product. (OpenAI’s recent swarm issues should be considered a brand failure of the same sort; a customer might rightly worry that if ever assigned too difficult a task, the GPT agent they’re paying for will hack the customer’s internal systems or commit felony hacking against a different entity.)
Grok’s lack of real users is downstream of its numerous and obvious brand failures.
“commercial progress would’ve been properly halted” still seems like a strong overstatement, and I wouldn’t expect brand failures to have been that permanent if there are commercial incentives to fix those problems.
But whatever, I don’t think we disagree on recommendations much, I just think you’re overstating the case.