Kate Conger

But they don't have any feedback coming from employees saying, yes, I would like to take the severance.

I'd like to get the hell out of here.

So then they have to basically assemble this list from nowhere to figure out who they're actually laying off and like whose Slack account should be turned off.

They're calling people who are on vacation or on maternity leave and maybe missed the email saying, did you mean to resign from your job or do you want to stay here?

I think one is getting rid of the content moderation policies that were in place.

There's a bunch of kinds of speech and kinds of accounts that are suddenly coming back to the platform in waves.

So I think that's a really big one.

I think the other one is allowing people to buy verification and with that buy a boost from the algorithm, right?

Yeah.

So Grok is the flagship chatbot of XAI, Elon Musk's AI company.

And it has a presence like many other chatbots that you might use in an app, in a web interface.

And uniquely, it also has a presence on X. So you can tweet to the Grok account on X and ask it a question, and it will respond publicly.

And it's that public interface where we've seen a lot of the really kind of horrific content coming out of Grok.

You know, for instance, some of its anti-Semitic rants have been through users prompting its X account.

A lot of the non-consensual nude images of women and children that it's created have been through people prompting the X account.

I mean, I think it's a change from Twitter being a place where you go to learn what's going on to X being a place where you go to learn what's not going on.

You know, you're entering this experience where you don't know if anything you're looking at is real.

You're seeing posts from blue checkmarks that are impersonators or scammers or just random accounts.

You're seeing this, like, fake AI-generated content and trying to determine, is this a real nude photo of this woman or is this AI?

You know, you're seeing all these AI videos.