Elon Musk is “actively” working to make xAI’s Grok chatbot “extra unhinged,” in accordance with a former worker who spoke to The Verge about current departures from Musk’s AI firm.
This week, following the announcement that Musk’s SpaceX is buying xAI (which beforehand acquired his social media firm X), at the least 11 engineers and two co-founders mentioned they’re leaving the corporate. Some mentioned they’re departing to start out one thing new, and Musk himself recommended that is a part of an effort to prepare xAI extra successfully.
However two sources who left the corporate (at the least one among them earlier than the present wave) reportedly instructed The Verge that workers have turn into more and more disillusioned by the corporate’s disregard for security, leading to international scrutiny after Grok was used to create more than 1 million sexualized images, together with deepfakes of actual girls and minors.
One supply mentioned, “Security is a lifeless org at xAI,” whereas the opposite mentioned that Musk is “actively is attempting to make the mannequin extra unhinged as a result of security means censorship, in a way, to him.”
Additionally they reportedly complained a couple of lack of route, with one saying they felt xAI was “caught within the catch-up part” in comparison with opponents.
