{"id":3898,"date":"2025-07-22T19:22:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T19:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/leaked-documents-xai-employees-alarmed\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T19:22:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T19:22:26","slug":"leaked-documents-xai-employees-alarmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/leaked-documents-xai-employees-alarmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaked Documents Show xAI Employees Were Alarmed by Something They Were Asked to Do at Elon Musk’s AI Startup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Earlier this year, more than 200 staffers at Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI were asked to have their faces recorded while speaking to their coworkers.<\/p>\n

According to internal documents and Slack messages obtained by Business Insider<\/em><\/a>, some employees were taken aback after being asked to take part in a project called “Skippy,” the goal of which was to train the company’s Hitler-loving AI chatbot<\/a>, Grok, on their facial expressions.<\/p>\n

It remains unclear whether project Skippy was in any way related to xAI’s “companions,” including a thirst trap goth anime girl\u00a0dubbed Ani<\/a>, an extremely vulgar red panda named Bad Rudi<\/a>, and Valentine, a male persona that looks suspiciously like 2012 Musk in a costume<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Even long before the personas were publicly announced, the effort proved controversial enough for some staffers to opt out altogether, according to BI<\/em>, showing how Musk’s controversial startup is starting to alienate even its own workers.<\/p>\n

The news comes weeks after Grok shocked the world by abruptly\u00a0turning into a full-blown Nazi<\/a> on X, refering to itself as “MechaHitler” while making outrageously bigoted claims about Black and Jewish people.<\/p>\n

Not long after, xAI “deeply” apologized<\/a> for the chatbot’s “horrific behavior.”<\/p>\n

Months prior, staffers who had been enrolled in project Skippy were asking some tough questions about how recordings of their face would be used, citing privacy concerns.<\/p>\n

“My general concern is if you’re able to use my likeness and give it that sublikeness, could my face be used to say something I never said?” one worker said during an introductory session, as quoted by BI<\/em>.<\/p>\n

However, a consent form staffers were required to sign pointed out that the data would exclusively be used for training purposes, and “not to create a digital version of you.”<\/p>\n

Staffers were asked to be recorded while having 15- to 30-minute chats with their peers and answering some vaguely sociopathic-sounding questions, including how to “secretly manipulate people to get your way” or whether they would “ever date someone with a kid or kids.”<\/p>\n

The whole thing gets even more complicated after Grok’s Nazi meltdown and xAI’s deployment of its companions.<\/p>\n

Could Ani’s facial expressions be rooted in recordings of xAI employees’ faces? Is the startup’s undressing anime “waifu” literally being trained on its own staff?<\/p>\n

There are plenty of reasons why employees shouldn’t be taking their bosses at their word. Musk’s businesses have long had a reputation for refusing to play it safe, resulting in a hostile working environment often marked by sexual harassment<\/a> and rampant racism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More on xAI:<\/strong> You Will Die Inside When You Learn Who Elon Musk’s Thirst Trap for Women Is Based on<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The post Leaked Documents Show xAI Employees Were Alarmed by Something They Were Asked to Do at Elon Musk’s AI Startup<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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