Elon Musk Used Biometric Data to Develop Chatbot
Elon Musk aimed to make xAI's Grok chatbot the most popular AI globally, focusing on a female avatar named Ani as a crucial element of this vision. To enhance its development, Musk instructed employees to provide biometric data for training the highly sexualized chatbot.
Work Environment and AI Race
Following a fallout that led him to leave The White House, Musk dedicated himself to xAI's Palo Alto office, sometimes even sleeping there, to accelerate Grok's capabilities. This effort aligns with a competitive AI race, where rival Sam Altman at OpenAI leads U.S. advancements toward creating near-sentient artificial general intelligence, competing closely with China.
Biometric Data Collection and Avatars
A month before Musk's initiative, company lawyer Lily Lim informed employees that xAI was developing several avatars to interact with Grok users. Ani was described by PC Magazine as a "sexy, NSFW, anime AI chatbotgirl."
Employees were required to hand over biometric data to train the chatbots to behave and speak in a human-like manner.
Those providing data worked as AI tutors and had to sign a form granting xAI a "perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, royalty-free license" for the use of their facial and voice data.
Summary
Elon Musk aggressively pushed biometric data collection from employees to program a provocative AI chatbot, reflecting the intense competition in the AI industry.
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