Internal chats: in March, xAI offered employees $420 in exchange for completed tax filings as training data for Grok, but the bonuses haven't been paid out
Bloomberg Carmen Arroyo
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Discussion
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@mikeisaac
Rat King
on x
dude get a new bit [image]
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@thestalwart
Joe Weisenthal
on x
This is crazy. xAI asked offered $420 to employees who were willing to donate their tax returns to the company for training data (interesting trend here of companies using employees for their own training). But it hasn't paid the employees who did so https://www.bloomberg.com/...…
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@marypcbuk
Mary Branscombe
on bluesky
Elon Musk promise money to people and then not pay out, gosh, no, that never happens [embedded post]
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@booktweeting
@booktweeting
on bluesky
one thing that unites Musk and Trump is a love of ripping people off [embedded post]