Behind Grok's 'sexy' Settings, Workers Review Explicit and Disturbing Content
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The article reveals that workers reviewing data for Elon Musk's AI model, Grok, are exposed to explicit and disturbing content, raising concerns about the human cost of developing AI models.
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I mean, I know there are people using Grok for long term self CBT. Because it's completely uncensored. I find it gross, and I'm not touching it, but to me, it's just "ugh those guys" content that makes me thinking if this can be used to somehow nudge the trend towards locally running LLMs. But to honest and naive blank slates like XAI employees without vaccination records against the Internet - I wouldn't be surprised if permanent brain scarring it causes were visible on MRI scans.
The way this article sound to me, it's screams. Zombie apocalypse call for help slowly turning into a call for an airstrike. Just sad.