The trick: Scope Swap
Musk told SpaceX employees their AI will be trained on them.
Details on what data, how, or whether they can say no: zero.
at an all-hands SpaceX itself posted to X, Musk said, verbatim: We're going to be training Grok on the sum total of all SpaceX information. So in a way, it will be trained on you.
Before you read on. Your call?
TRUE, BUT
Trained on you
the quote is real, on a recording the company published. What is missing is everything after the quote. SpaceX has not said which employee data it means, how it plans to collect it, or whether staff can decline. The company did not respond to comment requests.
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The trick has a name
We call it Scope Swap: applies to far less than it sounds like. You'll see it again. Learn to spot it →
Receipts
- Supports thenextweb.com:
We're going to be training Grok on the sum total of all SpaceX information
- Context tech.yahoo.com:
It is not clear what employee data SpaceX is planning to use to train its AI models, or how.
- Supports aol.com:
We're going to be training Grok on the sum total of all SpaceX information
- Context malwarebytes.com:
with no option to opt out on company devices
- Context malwarebytes.com:
the data wasn't just collected. It was left accessible across thousands of internal data tables, including AI prompts, transcriptions, private conversations
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