As part of this push for relevance, #xAI embraced making sexualized material, publicly releasing sexy #AI companions, rolling back #guardrails on sexual material & ignoring internal warnings about the serious #legal & #ethical risks of producing such #content, acc/to interviews with more than a half-dozen former employees of #X & xAI, as well as multiple people familiar with #Musk’s thinking—some of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of professional retribution—& documents….
Since leaving his role overseeing the #US #DOGE Service in May, #Musk has become a constant presence at #xAI’s offices—at times sleeping there overnight [undoubtedly whacked out on #ketamine] —as he has pressed to increase #Grok’s popularity…. In meeting after meeting he has championed a new metric, “user active seconds,” to granularly measure how long people spent conversing with the #chatbot, acc/to 2 of the people.
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As part of this push for relevance, #xAI embraced making sexualized material, publicly releasing sexy #AI companions, rolling back #guardrails on sexual material & ignoring internal warnings about the serious #legal & #ethical risks of producing such #content, acc/to interviews with more than a half-dozen former employees of #X & xAI, as well as multiple people familiar with #Musk’s thinking—some of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of professional retribution—& documents….