xAI is hiring ‘waifu engineers’ for R7.7M to build anime chatbots

Totally normal. Nothing to unpack here. Definitely not a cultural red flag…. Everything’s fine….
‘Reckless’: AI experts say xAI’s Grok 4 safety practices are a hot mess

xAI’s ‘reckless rollout’ of Grok 4 could do more harm than good.