Overview
- Reports published Monday said xAI asked employees, plus friends and family, to submit completed tax returns in exchange for $420.
- The company also requested supporting documents and promised access to an X Money payments feature tied to the submission.
- Two months after the request, participants say they have not been paid and were told the manager running the program is no longer at the company.
- xAI framed the drive as a way to sharpen Grok’s tax-prep help before the April 15 filing deadline as the chatbot lags rivals from OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic, and Google.
- Full tax returns bundle Social Security numbers, income data, and bank details, so using them for AI training raises significant privacy and data-governance concerns.