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xAI workers balked over training request to help “give Grok a face,” docs show
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 documents and Slack messages, finding that the so-called project "Skippy" was designed to help Grok learn what a face is and "interpret human emotions."
The initiative hadn’t been planned to include xAI’s Grok model as recently as March, the former Pentagon employee said.
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xAI staff question ethics behind requests to record their facial expressions in Grok trainingAI employees were asked to record facial expressions to train Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok, raising internal privacy concerns.
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XAI is complete installation of 550,000 Nvidia B200 GPUs in weeks. This is far faster than previously expected. It is over 7 ...
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Internal docs show xAI paid contractors to "hillclimb" Grok's rank on a coding leaderboard above Anthropic's Claude.
A week after Grok's antisemitic outburst, which included praise of Hitler and a post calling itself "MechaHitler," Elon ...
But the Grok account on X that runs off the model immediately showed there were some major issues: It started saying its ...
Internal documents reveal Elon Musk's xAI used employee facial data in 'Project Skippy' to train its Grok AI, sparking ...
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