Paying to get access to your customers data and eyeballs. Social media is about mass surveillance and influence. The customers pay the service for access to the stupid people. Always have.
Comment on Telegram will integrate Elon Musk's Grok A.I into the app
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 5 weeks ago
we will receive $300M in cash and equity from xAI
Wait, Elon is paying Telegram to use Grok? Probably why I’m not a multi billionaire but paying people to use your service sounds like a weird business model.
shirro@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
abobla@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Maybe the revenue from xAI subscriptions turns this into a profit. Telegram has a lot of active users.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 5 weeks ago
Yeah, but are the subscriptions profitable? OpenAI is losing money on subscriptions: techcrunch.com/…/openai-is-losing-money-on-its-pr…
abobla@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Good point, didn’t think of that.