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sabreW4K3 ( sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al )  to TechnologyEnglish · 1 year ago

xAI workers balked over training request to help “give Grok a face,” docs show

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xAI workers balked over training request to help “give Grok a face,” docs show

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sabreW4K3 ( sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al )  to TechnologyEnglish · 1 year ago
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Slack messages: Some xAI employees refused to join invasive Grok training.
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  • somerandomperson ( somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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    Thanks elon, now we have r34 of a faschist AI.

    slow clap

    • jarfil ( jarfil@beehaw.org ) 
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      Ani = weird goth waifu
      Rudi = fascist AI agent of chaos

      At least they’ve kept them separate… kind of.

  • Megaman_EXE ( Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org ) 
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    Does anyone else find it ironic that the employees were hesitant to do this? I’m sure many of them have their reasons for working that job. But it seems funny when AI is built off of stolen data, and then the employees are like “hey wait a minute, though. Don’t use my data.”

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