Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to integrate Grok into the chat app; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue.

You should be using Signal anyway.

Telegram are being paid by xAI to use their product? Isn't it supposed to be the other way around?

So you’re telling me that Grok is so bad that they have to pay developers to integrate it? How backwards. People are willing to pay for Grok’s competitors.

good news! signal has sticker packs

Telegram ASTOUNDS me.

Like, there's been several instances of them outwardly admitting that their security sucks, not to use it for encrypted chats, that they just give logs away to world governments, and yet thousands of crypto bros and bots use telegram to function, EVEN ZLIBRARY, who could just as easily set up and use Matrix, has a Telegram bot for downloading books.

There goes my telegram account. Bye, you won’t be missed

So, a software that is owned by US politician is working together with software that has links to Russian government?

There doesn’t seem to be any such thing as “good” AI, but there’s definitely a “worst” one, and Telegram chose it. Nice job, assholes.

great advertisement for signal

Wondering how long has this been cooking? A year or so ago musk started attacking signal for no discernible reason and recommending telegram instead.

Two insane billionaire eugenicists … working together? No way. Birds of like feather stick together.

ew wtf, Telegram has been one of the less shittified ones :c

If anybody still believed in Telegram's trustworthiness, it should now be dispelled.

(Only kidding, there's plenty of people who still "believe" in both Durov and Musk)

now telegram is going to insert random information about South African White genocide to every conversation. or it will be in every recommended reply at least.

Gross. So glad I deleted it and moved to Signal

Big yikes

Nail no.1 in the coffin for me was when this Durov guy sent an unsolicited telegram-wide message on election day in my country, claiming French interference in our elections.

This is nail no.2 in the coffin.

Guess I’ll get off my lazy arse and delete my telegram account now

First thing i'm doing is opening a channel to run up Grok API calls maliciously

I’m so glad I don’t use telegram.

Can this be a joke pleaseeeee ?

Im glad the EU started early with sanctioning Telegram, it will make things easier now. This is just a blatant attempt at enforcing Russian political influence.

What is the fediverse chat equivalent?

"Eat moar AI! EAT IT!! EAT the AI you peasants!"

How many people pressed the play button in the image. I know I did.

I wonder if grok will read even secret chats on telegram

who'd have thought that elon would get into bed with a ceo who was arrested for child porn

Fascist media meets fascist media... well....

If Grok starts responding with "idk I wanna kill myself" to "what do you want for dinner", I'm quite sorry, those are my conversations. To be clear, I'm not the one who constantly wants to die.

Fuck telegram. I get so many spam messages there.

I just use telegram for sailing the high seas so I couldn't care less. If I was actually communicating, I'd care.

SimpleX for the best anonymity. Signal for talking with grandma.