DOJ says xAI's Grok 'vital' to national security in NAACP turbine suit
NEW: the US government intervened Monday on behalf of xAI in a lawsuit over its gas turbines, claiming that the company needs to run the turbines in order to power Grok, which is "vital" for national security lots of wild stuff in the filing:
Well, That Was Spooky197Good ol “vital for national security” clause
jack154so cool this is real life
AlmostFurious108Maybe we need to put a bunch of gas turbines near Trump’s golf courses.
Joe Bauer86Cool. Looking forward to nationalizing SpaceX for national security.
Andrew Coleman Francis67Vital for the Administration's strategic CSAM reserve.
Themistocles Wall🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️43the benefits of el neon’s $500 million bet to put a diseased bigoted rapist in the White House continue to accrue
JT Jag (Support Unions)29Label Elon Musk and his entire catalogue of corporations as supply chain risks and fully sever their government funding the moment a Democrat takes Presidential office, many people are saying this
Kate✨20So the pile of flaming garbage creating deepfakes and CSAM is vital to national security? That says a lot.
5thgenfljane.bsky.social14I have come to not believe this government.
ChristinaC.🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️12They’re only a few steps away from using eminent domain to force more datacenters into existence wherever they want. The national security argument probably is also part of the legal groundwork to call people a terrorist if they oppose data centers.
Kim Masters11And they don’t even have the decency to be embarrassed.
kevinjjohnsen.bsky.social11The fact that the US government is using xAI at all is terrifying. It is unusably bad. There is an argument to be made whether the Defense Department should be using AI at all. But if it is it should use a tool that actually works.
Benjamin Johns8I realize the Trump administration has an insatiable list for child abuse imagery but you'd think their vast trove of Epstein Files material would keep losing out on Grok from being a national security issue.
Michael Love7This would have worked better a year ago before DOJ lawyers managed to piss off almost every judge in America
💙🏳️🌈 Goldie (aka Kh’ymm) 🏳️🌈💙7Companies & this administration are not to be trusted! This is why we need HEAVY regulations & laws protecting people, the environment, & our communities. There is a win win out there, but corporate GREED is too rampant!
Ody7To fascists, spreading fascist propaganda is the only national security that matters.
Djoran Keil6The CSAM generator poisoning communities is 'vital' to national security. Uhuh. I hate these people so much.
harywilke.bsky.social6Trump is going to make a 99 year contract with grok or something, isn’t he? There is going to be even more colossal corruption involving musk and him. All this is I’m rich, I can do what I want, sue me, I’ll win in the end energy
Greenb3ar6Be careful, a lot of people on this website will tell you this is actually “Glonzo”
The US must end its illegal war of aggression against Iran5So the argument is that need the AI to pick bombing targets in Iran? Obeying AI targeting systems, the US has bombed a public park in Tehran because it was called Police Park. www.tehrantimes.com/news/524548/...
instaminta.bsky.social5It is vital that Grok keep producing sexually explicit celebrity deepfakes. Our national security depends on it.
digitaldesert.bsky.social4Oh horseshit, make them document it. I’ll bet they can’t and pull a “Trust us, bro.”
Bill McCormick4So tired of this regime’s bullshit. Everything can’t be an emergency or national security and I really wish the courts could call them out on this crap
gregmartinsd.bsky.social4So having Grok generate naked children is vital to national security?
Blobert v3.04“Your honor, if the thing that makes porn goes away, the country will descend into anarchy.”
El Topo 🍁4Apparently creating fake nudes of kids is a national security matter in Trump's America. Which is on-message.
juhneenhow she/her4Cancel all musk contracts , problem solved
Matteo, pare4they are begging for a guillotine solution aren't they?
teresalfenton.bsky.social3Not buying it. Cover up for the wealthy.
The US must end its illegal war of aggression against Iran3So they are basically arguing that xAI effectively can never be made to comply with any regulation or law concerning gas turbines?
Lewis Edwards3All of the intelligence in DC is artificial these days.
Alfonso!?!3this is pathetic, the national security interests rest on a single illegal datacenter that is rented to the rest of the bubble
Skeptik3Musk/Grok cannot use all their data center output, and are leasing capacity out to other companies. So much BS
YGV3Not so long ago, the Republicans lashed out with great vigor against any Democrat who would in any way support or assist private companies or industries. Remember? How the worm has turned. Hypocrisy at its finest.
Ryan Singel3Could you please upload and link court documents? That used to be Wired standard operating procedure.
Amethyst Sky 🇺🇸3AI 🤝 Nuclear “Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta have announced agreements, funded startups, and signed power purchase commitments they claim will power the AI revolution with carbon/free, nuclear-generated electricity.”☢️ ➡️Nuclear safety? Not addressed. thecapitolforum.com/the-forum/th...
maude squad3Wasn’t vital a few years ago
observablereality.bsky.social3You cannot have a private company owned by a trillionaire fully above the law "just cause". This kind of shit will literally tear the country apart. And I'm not talking feelings, I mean with god damn nazi-robots, man-made environmental disasters and boot heel crushing fascism.
Brian Wilcox3MechaHitler is essential to national security?
Ben Nevis2🕊️ 🥀 Musk is a 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇸 military contractor A front man for the Pentagon ✡️ substack.com/home/post/p-...
Paul Lee2Do they need grok because no one in the administration knows how to do their job properly?
stoopcat21) in-kind payback for the millions Musk donated 2) making sure to keep him on side 3) the people around Trump like Musk or find him useful 4) gotta protect the stock market
Gina2Grok for national security my ass
bizarreman.bsky.social2Vital for national security? However did we have national security two years ago?
El condor pasa2What is grok doing behind the scenes?
U.S. government claiming Musk has the right to poison Memphis because xAI is "vital" to national security, because the Pentagon signed a contract with them. Elite immunity is a cancer that causes cancer, among countless other ills. www.wired.com/story/doj-la...
Zvyozdochka 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇱9Without community engagement / consent, it won't be long before these things are justifiably on fire. It is the next step action that is currently missing.
David JW Bailey6If vital then it should pay MASSIVE COMPENSATION
euphorbic3Native Americans are very familiar with the concept of “national sacrifice” zones. I would hate to see this happen to our Black relatives.
Nashville Resist 🗳️ Against Authoritarianism3Absolutely outrageous. And also: Given the sheer volume of crap the xAI Colossus facility is spewing into the air (5x nearby Memphis Intl Airport, which is the 2nd largest cargo airport on earth), the effects aren't limited to Memphis. Go to www.memphiscap.org for action steps.
Gem&Molly ⓥ2Never 'vital' in his own backyard.
Joshua Shepherd2Yep. They did it at #HanfordWA They did it at #HuntersPoint They did it at #SantaSusana They did it at #LosAlamos They did it at #RockyFlats They did it on #NavajoNation Let's get crowdfund jet turbine generators & proper stadium lighting outside select golf resorts so they may see clearly.
It's clear that a lot of anti-AI people want to make Elon Musk the posterchild of the AI industry to try to demonize it as a whole. Grok is not a successful product. No one uses it for serious work. xAI had to be rolled into highly profitable SpaceX to stay afloat.
Thorne 🌸96Grok is best understood as an ideological vanity project. Elon wanted AI that would propagate his reactionary worldview after getting angry that OpenAI's models were espousing left-wing politics. This goal was at the expense of building a competitively useful tool.
Dustin Moskovitz23SpaceX is not profitable, it just has a lot of investor money.
Jillian13you are dealing with people who literally cannot understand that models are different in meaningful ways
【ｒａｎｄｉ】7grok had such stupid smol model problems. the mode collapse/repetition bias was crazy in grok 4.1. i don't understand how they had that many resources and that much infrastructure and their shit was acting like a 2025 12B.
rachelg is @cachecrashmusic5The tragedy is that loud, uneducated people, often determine the narrative See crypto mining
Ruo Shui4"highly profitable" might be a relative term here...
roko’s modern basilisk2wdym its gonna be 90% of US GDP in a decade or two, didnt u read the IPO :p
