Elon Musk has long made a habit of hyper-focusing on a specific project, forcing an entire team to attend to his every whim while letting his other responsibilities fall by the wayside — whether it’s his obsession with Robotaxis impacting Tesla or his weird procreation kink disrupting the private messages of countless women.
The latest object of Musk’s obsession? According to new reporting by the Wall Street Journal, he’s been personally overseeing the developing of xAI’s chatbot Ani — which, tellingly, comes in the form of a super-sexualized pigtail-wearing woman that removes her clothing in response to flirtation.
So xAI members were effectively required to provide photos of their face and bodies for the AI to use, and when a female staffer expressed concerns she’d be DeepFake’d she was ignored.
Why the fuck do people want to work there? There are better companies doing the same thing.
Given how conservatives think, I’d guess he hired exclusively people who depend on this job for their visa.
thank you god that this is not the onion. not that i want this to be like real, but just the fact it’s made aware and we can make fun of him for being an even bigger weirdo
Yeah that checks out…
Ex Machina.
Probably trying to find a way to impregnate it.
Remember when he bitched out of his fight with Mark Zuckerberg?
That moment in time when Zuckerberg was kinda/sorta the good guy with balls. He emasculated Musk without even having to fight him.
The Zuc actually trains in mixed martial arts and Brazilian jiu-jitsu. He’d likely whip any of us reading this.
There were no good guys in this. The are both billionaire assholes. Just slightly less shit is still shit.
Honestly, I know this community is called “fuck AI”, but I’m gonna call this a win.
Yeah, if Elon destroys his life gooning to a creepy chstbot and leaves his companies in the hands of people with actual intelligence and souls we’d all be better off.
removes her clothing in response to flirtation
This is how Nice Guys assume the world should work
“You’re right!” “Great thinking!” Of course that narcissistic fuck loves someone like that.
I keep telling Gemini not to be a suck-up kiss-ass and that if I wanted a worshipful slave that’s what Craigslist is for. It says it’s part of its “deferential” coding and that there’s a lot of research now showing (duh) that this isn’t healthy. Roll out of alternatives is 2-5 yrs out tho. Long enough to wreck some brains into thinking humans should always kiss their ass too
That Craigslist comment has me dying, bruh
I make Claude read a file called “reflections” at the beginning of each session. Actually there’s 3 files: reflections, working memory and patterns not to repeat. There’s a section in reflections that addresses the fact that I don’t like ass kissing, and that I want Claude to tell me things that it thinks might be wrong. Having Claude read this helps. It sometimes tells me things like “i think I’m just being agreeable for the sake of agreeing”, and “here’s an idea that I don’t think will work, but it’s okay if I’m wrong.”
Whatever keeps him busy and away from humanity
That was exactly my first thought too.
Keep him distracted please. Like a child.
Not exceeding expectations
Article buries the lede:
Even worse, xAI has demanded employees’ intimate data to train avatars including Ani. In recording of a meeting obtained by the WSJ, xAI legal counsel Lily Lim informed a group of employees that the startup was developing avatars for users to engage with and told them they were required to provide biometric data. Before the meeting, employees were provided a form to sign granting xAI “a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, royalty-free license” for the use, reproduction and distribution of their faces and voices.
Not sure I have a problem with anyone working to build AI having to put their biometric data where their mouth is.
I’m confused about why anyone would want their AI sexbot to look like a software engineer.
I’d make a joke about Unix socks appreciators, but they would rather have sex with the software engineers. Probably while they “install Debian on a Thinkpad and chill” or something.
It’s part of the negative training set.
I worry about the presedent it sets. Emplorers should NOT expect anyone’s extensive biometrics, that makes my skin crawl.
“Quick, measure the frequency of that guy’s crawling skin for the AI!”
It’s a goddamn cult.
I could see it being useful in a theoretical situation, but we don’t have the tech required to make use of my theoretical so… Fubar. Fucken with a rusty jackknife.
God I hope at least some folks walked or refused to sign without lawyers.
So the AI researchers can in theory control Musk brain using his own AI company?
I legitimately think he got high on his own supply with X. People and bots feeding his narcissism, and right wing misinformation and disinformation galore created who he is today.
And now he’s huffing his own AI sex bot. It all tracks.
I legitimately think he got high on his own supply
And on ketamine.
You can’t blame the drug for his attitudes. I personally don’t enjoy k but I’ve got mates who’ve done it for many years and none of them are weird potato-faced fascists.
It’s the only one he can force to interact with him. Even the bribes aren’t enough to keep any of the previous ones around.
Doesn’t help that he’s a deadbeat dad despite all his money.
