Is safety “dead” in xAI?

Elon Musk is “actively” working on making xAI’s Grok chatbot “more disruptive,” according to a former employee Talk to the edge About recent departures from Musk’s AI company.

This week, after it was announced Musk’s SpaceX is acquiring xAI technology (which previously acquired his social media company X), at least 11 engineers and Two founders They said they were leaving the company. Some said they were leaving to start something new, and Musk himself suggested This is part of an effort to regulate XAI more effectively.

But two sources who left the company (at least one of them before the current wave) told The Verge that employees had become increasingly disillusioned with the company’s disregard for safety, leading to global scrutiny after Grok was used to… Create more than a million sexual imagesincluding deepfakes of real women and minors.

“Safety is a dead foundation at xAI,” one source said, while the other said Musk is “actively trying to make the model more disruptive because safety means oversight, to some extent, for him.”

They also reportedly complained about a lack of guidance, with one saying they felt xAI was “stuck in a catch-up phase” compared to competitors.