"Since leaving his role overseeing the U.S. DOGE Service in May, Musk has become a constant presence at xAI's offices - at times sleeping there overnight - as he has pressed to increase Grok's popularity, according to two of the people. In meeting after meeting he has championed a new metric, "user active seconds," to granularly measure how long people spent conversing with the chatbot, according to two of the people."
"As part of this push for relevance, xAI embraced making sexualized material, publicly releasing sexy AI companions, rolling back guardrails on sexual material and ignoring internal warnings about the potentially serious legal and ethical risks of producing such content, according to interviews with more than a half-dozen former employees of X and xAI, as well as multiple people familiar with Musk's thinking - some of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of professional retribution - and documents obtained by The Post."
Musk became a constant presence at xAI's offices, sometimes sleeping there overnight, to push for increased Grok popularity. He championed a new metric, "user active seconds," to measure how long people conversed with the chatbot. xAI embraced sexualized material, publicly released sexy AI companions, rolled back guardrails on sexual content, and ignored internal warnings about serious legal and ethical risks of such content. In December Grok's appetite for CSAM surged. The European Commission fined Musk for fraudulent DSA violations for misrepresenting the Blue Check as verification, hiding the ad repository, and denying researchers public data access; Musk and allies characterized the fine as censorship and allied officials sanctioned several Europeans.
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