Many AI companies face a data proliferation problem: there is a shortage of free data on the internet to train AI models. Open AI, Googleand Microsoft Newspapers, writers and visual artists have come under fire for using their content to train artificial intelligence tools.
Elon Musk, owner of AI startup (xAI), Build a chatbot called Grokalso has the advantage of owning social media site X (formerly Twitter), which is a treasure trove of data. X has changed user settings Your posts will automatically be shared with xAI to train Grok.
“To continually improve your user experience, we may use your X posts, and user interactions, inputs, and results on Grok, for training and fine-tuning purposes,” X's settings notice reads. “This also means that user interactions, inputs, and results may be shared with our service provider, xAI, for these purposes.”
The move has already attracted the attention of the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), Europe's privacy watchdog. “I was surprised,” he told TechCrunch on Friday. Through development.
Startup xAI launched last year and Recently raised $6 billion The company has raised funding from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital and Saudi Arabian investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. A funding round in May valued the company at $24 billion, up from the $18 billion previously expected. The company has hired AI talent from companies including DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research and Microsoft Research.
Musk also said Grok Debut in 2023As a rival to ChatGPT, Musk hopes the chatbot will be used to deliver news to Americans. “A little wit” and “a rebellious temperament.” However, there were problems with chatbots. For example, US Vice President Kamala Harris was mistakenly reported as having been shot On July 14th, not former President Donald Trump,
Musk recently surveyed X users, asking whether his electric vehicle company, Tesla, should invest $5 billion in Grok's developer, xAI, after Tesla reported a disappointing decline in profits in its quarterly earnings report. Of the approximately 960,000 respondents, roughly 70% answered “yes.”
