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“"After a thorough review of our #Human Data efforts, we've decided to accelerate the expansion and prioritization of our specialist #AITutors, while scaling back our focus on general AI tutor roles. This #StrategicPivot will take effect immediately," the email read. "As part of this shift in focus, we no longer need most generalist AI tutor positions and your #employment with xAI will conclude."

#Workers were told that they would be #paid through either the end of their #contract or November 30, but their access to company systems would be terminated the day of the layoff notice.

The #DataAnnotation team is #xAI's largest team. The workers play a key role in developing #Grok by teaching the #chatbot how to #understand the world by #contextualizing and #categorizing raw #data.”

LLMs and chatbot products are a pipeline of human and machine processes. Data annotators put the human into AI products.

#AI / #DataAnnotators / #ZeroHourWork / #WhiteCollar <businessinsider.com/elon-musk-> (paywall) / <archive.md/q56om>

Business Insider · Musk's xAI just laid off hundreds of workers tasked with training GrokBy Grace Kay
Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Last July, with the assistance of the nonprofit legal group Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, I filed a motion to unseal a list of X shareholders in one of the many civil suits filed against Musk after he bought the platform and gutted its workforce. The next month, a judge granted the motion. While some of the names were previously known and no numbers were included, the list was a fascinating document, allowing for deeper research into the flows of money propping up Musk’s empire.

The shareholder list affirmed some of what we knew about the Muskonomy and where he turned for money. X drew from a familiar cast of like-minded venture capitalists, sovereign wealth funds, and US investment firms. There were a few oddities and surprises sprinkled in, as well as the conspicuous absence of some of Musk’s typical allies, like the venture capitalist David Sacks (who would go on to become Trump’s AI and crypto czar) and the financier Antonio Gracias (who would oversee some of DOGE’s work at the perpetually besieged Social Security Administration). But the most important names were associated with several authoritarian Middle Eastern states—especially Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who had also been one of the largest shareholders of Twitter when it was a public company. Prince Alwaleed had initially criticized Musk’s planned takeover, but he later came around, rolling over his $1.9 billion stake into the new entity.

For years, critics noted the irony of a rigid and authoritarian government like Saudi Arabia investing in a freewheeling social media platform. But it was one line item in a vast portfolio of far-flung investors—and not an unusual development in the tech world. Saudi Arabia is one of the biggest investors in US tech start-ups..."

thenation.com/article/world/el

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