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

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Shubhangi Goel,Effie Webb @ Business Insider · 06/05/2025 05:11 EDT

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

Scale AI contractors are being paid to record their conversations on a wide range of topics to help make xAI's voice models sound more human-like.

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