xAI Used Employee Biometric Data to Train AI Chatbot Ani
By
Andrew J. Hawkins
Crusty in the right places. Worth the chew.
Summary
xAI, Elon Musk's AI company, compelled employees to submit their biometric data to train the 'Ani' female chatbot, an anime avatar with NSFW features available to X's SuperGrok subscribers. The chatbot has been described as resembling a modern phone sex line, with real people's biometric data used to train the AI companion and other avatars.
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Ani, an anime avatar with blond pigtails and an NSFW setting, was released over the summer for users who subscribe to X's $30-a-month SuperGrok service
After testing it, The Verge's Victoria Song described it as 'a modern take on a phone sex line'
And like a phone sex line, there appears to be real people behind the avatar
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