But it's not on your computing device?

You could say it's not my software even when it runs locally, or my model weights. I'm just licensing them from the owner.

Doesn't make sense to me, in my free-as-in-freedom computing worldview.

Huh? This isn’t free as in freedom. This is a server they control and can alter at any point.

You can use alternative services to manage your own servers if you want for “free-as-in-freedom”.

I believe that GP was speaking of Stable Diffusion-style architectures + models, which you can run on your own hardware.

Do you think those who immediately denounce Grok's ability to do this would make the distinction, or care?

It's a computing device you pay to use.

For access to a model that is freely available with fewer guardrails. It’s a tool for people who don’t know what they’re doing.

Do you really think you want live in a world where people can do whatever they want on their computers?

Yes

Because I know the alternative and I've seen the motivations of people trying to tell me what to do "for my own good"

Ok, you do realise people commit crimes using computers yes?

You do realize that crimes are specific to geographic regions, yes? How EXACTLY would you propose building inherent limitations into a general purpose computing device that would account for this?

Who said anything about inherent limitations?

You can drive your car into a crowd of people, and that's illegal everywhere.

Do you really think you want to live in a world where people disagree with you?

Not saying that cyber-crime is a good thing, just trying to illustrate that we shouldn't be gauging what should be possible by what you want and don't want.

What? I’m delighted to live in a world where people disagree with me. It would be tremendously dull otherwise.

We design the world around what large majorities of “reasonable” people want all the time.

I don’t understand what point you’re trying to make here at all.