Elon Musk is “actively” working to make xAI’s Grok chatbot “extra unhinged,” in keeping 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), not less than 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 advised that is a part of an effort to arrange xAI extra successfully.
However two sources who left the corporate (not less than one in every of them earlier than the present wave) reportedly advised The Verge that staff have change 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 useless org at xAI,” whereas the opposite mentioned that Musk is “actively is making an attempt to make the mannequin extra unhinged as a result of security means censorship, in a way, to him.”
In addition they reportedly complained a few lack of course, with one saying they felt xAI was “caught within the catch-up part” in comparison with rivals.
