Elon Musk Offered to Pay Employees for Their Tax Returns, You Can Probably Guess What Happened Next
Elon Musk's xAI offered employees $420 to provide their tax returns for training its AI chatbot, Grok. However, employees have not received any payments, and the timeline for compensation remains unclear. The initiative aims to enhance Grok's capabilities amid stiff competition from established AI chatbots.
- ▪xAI offered employees $420 for their completed tax returns to improve Grok's performance.
- ▪Employees have not yet received the promised payments, and the manager overseeing the program is no longer with the company.
- ▪Grok is struggling to compete with leading AI chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini.
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Elon Musk’s xAI recently offered employees payments of $420 to hand over their completed tax returns for use in training Grok, according to a new report from Bloomberg. But that same report notes employees haven’t seen a penny of that promised cash. And it’s not clear when it’s coming.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000760058","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"tech","SECTION":"artificial-intelligence","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"artificial-intelligence","TAGS":"ai,artificial-intelligence,elon-musk,grok,xai","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); Grok has been lagging in the AI chatbot race, with…
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