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The Best Time to Leave xAI Is Before Joining. The Next Best Time is Right Now

— Gizmodo, commenting on the rapid exit of many of the senior staff at Elon Musk's child porn generator artificial intelligence company.

Having a drug-addled, paranoid, and profoundly stupid boss must suck.

Earlier this week, Elon Musk’s AI firm xAI lost cofounder Tony Wu. A day later, Jimmy Ba joined him in adding ex-xAI to his LinkedIn bio. Ba was the sixth member of the company’s 12-person founding team to ditch the firm, leaving just half of the original crew still on board. They were followed by at least five staffers, according to a report from The Verge, who decided their time was better spent elsewhere. And while few of them had anything negative to say publicly as they collectively headed for the door, it’s all a bit odd, right?

My guess is that they looked at what was going, what with the non-consensual pr0n generation and all, and realized that while the Apartheid Era Emerald Heir Pedo Guy™ is too rich to jail, they aren't.