dude someone lied their way into being president of the united states all while people fact checked him basically immediately after each lie. lying doesnt make a difference.
He was a guest on an AI-related discussion panel [1]. I did not attend, but I would guess someone asked him “do you think models will have to continuing growing to even larger sizes,” or something like that, and this was his answer.
Honestly, that anyone thinks he has “ulterior motives” here is hilarious to me. Every day I think more and more that we can no longer think critically on the internet.
CEOs often make public statements for recruiting and to steer the company internally, it's important to mimmic what you say inside the company outside the company, maybe even more so.
It's not like an accusation of hypocrisy is automatically wrong, or anything.
It really confuses me why you think such a mundane political statement is a reddit thing. Especially if you think the rent free thing isn't reddity, in which case you're not drawing with a super broad brush in a way I could at least understand.
Edit: Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait generally? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. We ban accounts that keep posting like this:
