Wall Street tech watchers that had only recently recovered from Elon Musk’s AI chatbot going rogue are now quietly reassessing the technology, after a new leak of thousands of user conversations show it teaching people how to make drugs, assassinate Musk himself, and build malware and explosives.
Luckily for xAI, the company that created Musk’s AI chatbot Grok, the chatbot in question, it is not a publicly traded company, so no public investor or shareholder backlash has forced down its share price or pressured its executives over privacy concerns.
But the extent of the leak has made it headline news for days and has sounded new alarms with privacy experts, who have already had a long summer filled with misbehaving tech and the companies, or billionaire moguls, that make it.
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