And so I kind of wonder if the reason Elon is being so dismissive of that is that he’s decided that’s a moral standard he can’t compete with and so he has to downplay it, claim, absurdly, that they’re not really doing it. X.AI and Tesla’s business model is all about training on user data without negotiating for it. I guess a less cynical take would be that he just can’t believe the commitment is going to be stuck to, because access to massive training sets may be seen as critical to the near term success of all of these products. Right now, none them work all that well, if the users data-unionize (or if the EU makes Apple-style hardware privacy mandatory) and make it much more expensive to do ever larger training runs, growth may reverse. If he’s right, it might not be possible for Apple to convince OpenAI to move their inference onto PCC.
And so I kind of wonder if the reason Elon is being so dismissive of that is that he’s decided that’s a moral standard he can’t compete with and so he has to downplay it, claim, absurdly, that they’re not really doing it. X.AI and Tesla’s business model is all about training on user data without negotiating for it. I guess a less cynical take would be that he just can’t believe the commitment is going to be stuck to, because access to massive training sets may be seen as critical to the near term success of all of these products. Right now, none them work all that well, if the users data-unionize (or if the EU makes Apple-style hardware privacy mandatory) and make it much more expensive to do ever larger training runs, growth may reverse. If he’s right, it might not be possible for Apple to convince OpenAI to move their inference onto PCC.