Elon Musk Utilized Employee Biometric Data for Chatbot Development
Elon Musk aimed to make xAI's Grok chatbot the most popular worldwide, with a key focus on a female chatbot named Ani. To achieve this, Musk instructed his staff to provide biometric data to help train this highly sexualized AI character.
Musk devoted himself fully to xAI in May, working tirelessly on Grok's capabilities after a significant fallout with the president led to his departure from The White House. He was based at the Palo Alto xAI office, often working late and occasionally sleeping there as he rushed to advance in the competitive AI landscape.
AI Competition and Strategic Efforts
This effort is part of a larger AI race, where rival Sam Altman at OpenAI leads the U.S. in competing with China to develop nearly sentient artificial general intelligence.
Training Ani and Employee Biometric Data
About a month before Musk’s initiative, company lawyer Lily Lim informed employees that xAI was creating several avatars to interact with Grok's users. One such avatar, Ani, was described by PC Magazine as a "sexy, NSFW, anime AI chatbotgirl."
Employees working as AI tutors were required to submit their biometric data, including facial and voice features, in order to train the chatbots to speak and behave like humans. They were asked to sign a form granting xAI a "perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, royalty-free license" for their biometric data.
"xAI was developing several avatars which would be used to communicate with Grok users. Ani was described as a 'sexy, NSFW, anime AI chatbotgirl.' Employees were told they must hand over their biometric data to train the chatbots on how to act and talk like human beings."
Summary
Musk’s intense push to develop xAI’s Grok chatbot included requiring employees to provide biometric data for training highly personalized and provocative AI avatars.
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