I generally find people prejudging without really willing to understand other people's perspective shortsighted. Funny enough, they are often very much like the people they're judging. They're just in the opposite camp.
Yes. Won't touch xAI things because of this.
Yes -- power without trust is of no use.
I won't use their models for this reason. Musk tinkering too much with the RL to make it sound more like him is wild.
I don't care how smart or cheap the model is if it's run by Musk, I just can't use it.