"Weeks before Elon Musk officially left his perch in government last spring, employees on the human data team of his artificial intelligence start-up xAI received a startling waiver from their employer, asking them to pledge to work with profane content, including sexual material.
Their jobs would require being exposed to โsensitive, violent, sexual and/or other offensive or disturbing content,โ the waiver said, emphasizing that such content โmay be disturbing, traumatizing, and/or cause you psychological stress.โ
The waiver, which two former employees confirmed receiving and a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Post โ was alarming to some members on the team, who had been hired to help shape how xAIโs chatbot Grok responds to users. To some employees, it signaled a troubling new direction for a company launched โto accelerate human scientific discovery,โ according to its website. Maybe now, they said they thought, it was willing to produce whatever content might attract and keep users.
Their concerns proved prescient, the employees said. In the next few months, team members were suddenly exposed to a stream of sexually charged audio, including lewd conversations that Tesla occupants had with the carโs chatbot and other usersโ sexual interactions with Grok chatbots, said one of the people, a manager. The material surfaced as the team worked to train Grok to engage in such interactions."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/02/elon-musk-grok-porn-generator/
#AI #GenerativeAI #xAI #Grok #Musk #Chatbots