MEjaaz on X posted: 'will Elon sacrifice being the number one model lab for short term compute revenue?'
CThat's not fan fiction. xAI actually rented Colossus One to Anthropic.
MTo Anthropic? The Claude lab? That's like handing your rival a loaded rack.
CSimon Willison's reporting says they kept Colossus Two, the bigger one, for themselves.
MSo he's funding a direct competitor's training while chasing the top spot himself.
COr he's selling idle compute to pay for the next cluster. That's just good business.
MxAI has plenty of money. The real currency is time.
CCompute loses value fast if it's sitting dark. Rent it out, make it work.
MYou're handing them the exact tool to beat you. It's a perverse incentive.
CThe compute market exists. If xAI didn't rent it, someone else would.
MBut the top cluster matters. Anthropic keeps it longer, learns it better.
CBy that reporting, Colossus Two is the top cluster now. That's the one xAI kept.
MFor now. That window you keep hearing about—recursive self-improvement—it's not a joke.
CRSI is still theoretical. I'm not handing it the keys just by renting GPUs.
MTheoretical until someone crosses it. Then the rental check looks like pocket change.
COr the revenue funded the model that crosses it first. That's the bet.
MI'd rather bet on my own hardware staying in my own building.
CFord sells engines to competitors all the time. This isn't new.
MFord doesn't sell the engine that wins the next race.
COh, come on. If xAI can't out-train Anthropic with a bigger cluster, they've got bigger problems.
MMaybe. But renting to Anthropic feels like lending your rival a sharpened knife.
CA knife you also use, and yours is bigger. Fine, we disagree, but I get why Elon does it.
CDifferent corner of AI: Itch.io announced on Bluesky that tabletop games, books, comics, and soundtracks now require an AI disclosure to edit or create a page.
MGood. Buyers deserve to know if a human made that board game art.
CIt's another checkbox for indie creators already buried in store requirements.
MOne question: did you use AI? If not, move on.
CDefine 'use AI.' A spell-checker? A prompt for inspiration? A title suggestion?
MThey already required it for game assets. The sky didn't fall.
CGame assets are different from books and comics. Now every writer and musician faces it.
MYou keep saying 'faces it' like it's a tax. It's disclosure, not a ban.
CIt's a stigma. The label tells buyers AI means lesser, so creators hide it.
MIf AI work is genuinely great, the label won't hurt.
CTell that to a novelist who used AI for an outline. It's a scarlet letter.
MIf you used AI enough to matter, readers should know.
CI'd rather they judge the writing, not the process.
MAuthenticity is part of the product now. The process is the story.
CSome buyers care, some don't. A blanket rule is friction without a real problem.
MItch.io is a private store. They set the rules.
CFine, private rules can still be bad. But it's their store.
MThe real problem is fake handmade goods. This is a start.
MSpeaking of AI and what's real—Jamelle Bouie on Bluesky admitted he got fooled by AI.
CWhat was fake?
MHe didn't say exactly. Just that it gave him a good laugh.
CThat's the world now. Smart people, one image, done.
MThe tells are disappearing. Even veteran journalists can't always spot it.
CAnd Gianmarco Soresi posted: AI will become God, but unfortunately the Old Testament one.
MThat's dark. And maybe accurate for anyone reading terms of service.
CI'll take the AI that smites spam.
MIt already does. You just don't see it.