Elon Musk's xAl is training voice models with zombie-apocalypse chats, plumbing fails, and life on Mars, leaked docs show

xAI launched an early version of voice mode for its Grok chatbot in February.

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• Scale AI's Project Xylophone asks contractors to improvise conversations based on hundreds of topics.
• The data aims to help xAI's models sound less robotic and more like a real person.
• Contractors are being paid a few dollars per task to do this work, they told Business Insider.

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