He threw Quake 3 over the wall after having made tons of money off it. He is now invested in AI and should just shut up.

"AI training on the code magnifies the value of the gift. I am enthusiastic about it!"

Si tacuisses ...

id also released the source code to:

Wolfenstein 3D: 1995

DOOM: 1997

Quake: 1999

Quake II: 2001

Quake III Arena: 2005

Return to Castle Wolfenstein: 2010

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory: 2010

Doom 3: 2011

Some people are still leveraging those codebases and are thankful for their releases.

Maybe just don’t read what he has to say.

It does not surprise me. The free Grok got worse since 4.0, they increasingly save money by not responding at all or only allowing one answer. Grok now defends the administration and billionaires.

The company seems to burn money like crazy. Everyone knows that "AI in space" and the downgrade to a moon trip after claiming for 15 years that Mars is just around the corner are marketing.

All AIs are toys and the coding promises are just a lie to string along investors. Unfortunately many of these are senile Star Trek watchers who buy into everything.