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AWS reportedly to tuck Grok into Bedrock, despite zero enterprise demand

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17 pointsJimmc41410 comments

> A security lead at a large enterprise* told me last week, when I asked whether they had any interest in Grok: "The revenge porn edgelord LLM? Yeah, imagine that; our bank wants nothing to do with it."

Highly qualified leadership detected.

Also: Banks have the moral high ground, apparently.

Stopped reading after it circled right back to this British NGO's fraudulent "study" that almost all of these stories are based on: https://counterhate.com/research/grok-floods-x-with-sexualiz...

Meh? First, demand isn't necessarily zero despite the author's assertion based on the exhaustive data survey of asking "a couple of other people". For instance, SpaceXAI was convincing all the banks who wanted to work on the SpaceX IP to purchase Grok.

Second, AWS's goal is clearly to make Bedrock be the place to go for all the models - they're pushing for completeness, and that includes Grok.

Would I use it? No. Am I at all surprised that AWS is adding it to Bedrock? Also no.

It's really dumb to intentionally avoid technology because you don't agree with the owner's politics.

Are we to going to forget that Amazon colluded with the Biden administration to destroy Parlor, simply because Trump used it?

Far worse than anything Musk has done.

Beautifully encapsulated whataboutism, well done

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

> In April 1933, the government announced a national census to identify Jews, Roma, and other groups. Black reports that Dehomag offered its services in Prussia and that Watson approved new investments, raising IBM’s capital in Germany from 400,000 to 7 million Reichsmarks. The funds financed IBM’s first German factory in Berlin. Black also describes a “secret deal” between Watson and Heidinger giving Dehomag authority to serve IBM clients outside Germany, and argues that Germany soon became IBM’s second-largest market. He states that the 1933 census, using IBM machines, raised the official estimate of Jews in Germany from roughly half a million to about two million.

since learning this fact, i have boycotted IBM (not that it's particularly hard, they're not the giant they once were)

So you don't use anything Linux related in any form or fashion, whose devs are on IBM's paychecks, or owned by IBM like Red-Hat?

*nix was Bell Labs, not IBM?

Have you ever heard of Boycott? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott

To be fair I don’t act all surprised when someone who has never signaled approval of my boycott doesn’t comply with it.

AWS colluded with the Biden administration to drop a platform (that you misspelled, it’s Parler) while Trump was still president? AWS dropped them 9-10 days before Biden took office and for failing to moderate the violent content on their platform, not “Simply because Trump used it”.

But from your comment I’m guessing you think Jan 6 was just a bunch of people hanging out and not an attempted violent insurrection. Unlike your unproven conspiracy about collusion, we have real evidence of what happened and what was attempted on Jan 6.

And just so we’re clear, taking down a shitty social media site that promoted violence is far worse than tacit approval of CSAM being generated by Musk’s second-rate LLM? Get real.

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