AI employees were asked to record facial expressions to train Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok, raising internal privacy concerns.

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Dozens of xAI employees expressed concerns—and many objected—when asked to record videos of their facial expressions to help "give Grok a face," Business Insider reported. BI reviewed internal ...

During a project called "Skippy," tutors recorded themselves making facial expressions. It would help "give Grok a face," one ...

The initiative hadn’t been planned to include xAI’s Grok model as recently as March, a former Pentagon employee says.