xAI Withholds Promised $420 for Employee Tax Returns Used to Train Grok
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Updated · Bloomberg · May 18
xAI Withholds Promised $420 for Employee Tax Returns Used to Train Grok
2 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · May 18
Two months after soliciting staff tax returns, xAI still has not paid the promised $420 incentive to employees who submitted the documents for Grok training.
The company sought the returns earlier this year to sharpen Grok's tax capabilities before the April 15 US filing deadline and catch up with rivals in AI-powered accounting help.
Internal chats seen by Bloomberg show xAI was scrambling for more training data as Americans increasingly used Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT for tax and accounting tasks.
The unpaid incentives surface as xAI undergoes a broad overhaul, adding to scrutiny over how the company is sourcing sensitive data to expand Grok's reach.
Why won't Musk's trillion-dollar AI firm pay employees a promised $420 for their sensitive tax data?
Are unpaid incentives and deepfake scandals signs of a deeper ethical crisis at Elon Musk’s xAI?