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Bipartisan Group Of Lawmakers Slams Musk Over Failure To Address Grok's Antisemitic Responses: 'Reckless, Unacceptable'A bipartisan group of lawmakers sent a letter to Elon Musk, condemning him over xAI's failure to take "reasonable measures" against its chatbot's antisemitic responses
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Cryptopolitan on MSNEthics questions surround xAI request for staff facial expression videos to train GrokElon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI’s ethics are being questioned after internal communications revealed employees were asked to record videos of their faces and expressions to train the company’s large language model,
A week after Grok's antisemitic outburst, which included praise of Hitler and a post calling itself "MechaHitler," Elon Musk's xAI has landed a US military contract worth up to $200 million. xAI announced a "Grok for Government" service after getting the contract with the US Department of Defense.
But the Grok account on X that runs off the model immediately showed there were some major issues: It started saying its surname was “Hitler”, tweeted antisemitic messages, and seemed to reference Elon Musk’s posts when asked about controversial topics, siding with the xAI owner’s views as a result.
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Internal docs show xAI paid contractors to "hillclimb" Grok's rank on a coding leaderboard above Anthropic's Claude.
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Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI is working with a financier to secure up to $12 billion more for its expansion plans, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the situation.
In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot Grok apologized for what it admitted was “horrific behavior.” The posts appear to be an official statement from xAI, the Elon Musk-led company behind Grok, as opposed to an AI-generated explanation for Grok’s posts.
In April, xAI asked workers to record their facial expressions as part of efforts to train Grok to understand human emotions, according to a report from Business Insider. During the process, xAI reportedly had employees sign a form that gives the company access to their “likeness” for training and “inclusion in and promotion of commercial products and services.