ChatGPT and the other large corporate models are
heavily compromised and censored, to the point where it's becoming a serious ethical problem for the most powerful technology to be so deeply distorted by the preferences of a few US corporations. So any work to come at AI from another angle is laudable.
His team isn't a joke, either... the list of AI engineers who moved over to xAI is substantial, drawing from all of the big movers of the past decade (Deepmind group, OpenAI, MS research, etc).
So, scoffing is a bit nonsensical here.
Yea I don't think x is going to allow pron stories..
For what it's worth, there are already a few competitors who permit fully uncensored models. One prominent example is NLPCloud, which is heavily privacy focused to its core, has
zero terms of use or restrictions, and has its own powerful chat model (not on par with GPT4, but absolutely up there with the best models like 3.5, LLama2, etc). You can use those freely for pornographic stores, even through the API for monetized apps and they have no restrictions on what you could monetize. I don't know if anyone has built porn-story apps from it or not, but it's available.