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On ToTheMoon the social network X is almost always discussed alongside xAI and Grok: for the hosts it is the clearest case of a platform with a live audience and a stream of data turning into a distribution channel for a model. Since 2024 they have asked whether xAI is worth what it is precisely because X exists, and what happens to the network once automated agents act in it alongside people.

Episode 009 noted that xAI can see what people read and share inside X, and that a model built into the network instantly gets millions of loyal users; the same conversation picked apart Musk's poll for the best LLM, won by his own xAI, as a lesson in audience bias. In summer 2024 the hosts noted that X, against the trend of blocking crawlers, trains on users' posts (episode 017). The 2025 merger of xAI and X was called a mostly technical deal, with one host saying it had always seemed to him that xAI was worth so much because of X (episode 052). Another admitted that being on X had not, by itself, tied him to Grok (episode 056).

In 2025 Linda Yaccarino's departure was discussed as a question of where Musk is taking X, and Threads and X were compared by daily engagement rather than sign-ups (episode 066); X's lawsuit against the French government over its algorithms showed that what gets regulated is data access and social influence, not code (episode 068). In 2026 they noted that Grok is used constantly inside X (episode 100), and the blocking of forty-two thousand chatbot-run accounts was examined as the line between productivity with AI and prohibited automation (episode 142).