Some former employees blame xAI's staff exodus on xAI's focus on NSFW Grok and disregard for safety, constantly playing catch up to OpenAI, infighting, and more
The Verge Hayden Field
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Discussion
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@ericnewcomer
Eric Newcomer
on x
the logic of this makes zero sense... Anthropic clearly isn't meant to invoke misanthropic. meanwhile, elon does seem to like x because of its sex appeal. he literally named Tesla's S, 3, X, Y. his AI company is disturbingly leaning into its nominative determinism there.
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@basedjensen
@basedjensen
on x
Why is big e crashing out like this [Quotes Elon Musk's reply to Anthropic: “Your Al hates Whites & Asians, especially Chinese, heterosexuals and men. This is misanthropic and evil. Fix it. Frankly, I don't think there is anything you can do to escape the inevitable irony of A…
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@ramez
Ramez Naam
on x
He's not well. [image]
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@deredleritt3r
Prinz
on x
@ramez Breaking down. Sad to see. BTW, his own team was using Claude Code up until a few weeks ago.
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@vegandroid
@vegandroid
on bluesky
I love NSFW Grok but they should've put more emphasis on legal boundaries and safety [embedded post]
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r/singularity
r
on reddit
What's behind the mass exodus at xAI?
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r/technology
r
on reddit
What's behind the mass exodus at xAI? Former employees say the restructuring followed tensions over safety and being “stuck in the catch-up phase.”