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... yes, that's the complaint. The prompt engineering they did made it spew neo-Nazi vitriol. They either did not adequately test it beforehand and didn't know what would happen, or they did test and knew the outcome—either way, it's bad.

Long live Tay! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

#42
When I saw this news, my first thought was that she lasted about 1 year and 11 months longer than I expected after the first few weeks.

I know Twitter had many terrible aspects, but I do miss the world voice old Twitter provided for quotes that could be engaged with in an "everyone is here" kind of feeling that doesn't exist on any other platforms right now.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

#43

One time they let her speak publicly it turned out to be a disaster. She never had any say and worst part is she was not even a good fall guy, it was clear who’s pulling the strings. The most immaterial and inconsequential hire ever. I love all the replies on Twitter thanking her but during her time the valuation dropped 80% and they were suing advertisers for not advertising. Remarkably inept.

It's weird that you say both she had no material power and also seem to imply the valuation drop and lawsuits were due to her ineptitude? Anyway she volunteered to be a puppet for a man who is clearly off the rails and her legacy will forever be stained.

Both things can be true: Valuation did drop during her tenure, AND she was not to blame.

Therefore the praise is weird, because she seemingly neither helped nor hurt the business.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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I guess the Nazi chatbot was the last straw. Amazed she lasted this long, honestly.

Not defending Elon or the infobot but my theory is that by leaving that LLM unfiltered people have learned how to gamify and manipulate it into having a fascist slant. I could even guess which groups of people are doing it but I will let them take credit and it's not likely actual neo-nazi's, they are too dumb and on too many drugs to manipulate an infobot. These groups like to LARP to piss everyone off and they ofte…

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Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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I guess the Nazi chatbot was the last straw. Amazed she lasted this long, honestly.

What is the Nazi chatbot?

Related discussions from the past 12 hrs for those catching up:

Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44504709

Musk's AI firm deletes posts after chatbot praises Hitler

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44507419

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

#46

One time they let her speak publicly it turned out to be a disaster. She never had any say and worst part is she was not even a good fall guy, it was clear who’s pulling the strings. The most immaterial and inconsequential hire ever. I love all the replies on Twitter thanking her but during her time the valuation dropped 80% and they were suing advertisers for not advertising. Remarkably inept.

It's weird that you say both she had no material power and also seem to imply the valuation drop and lawsuits were due to her ineptitude? Anyway she volunteered to be a puppet for a man who is clearly off the rails and her legacy will forever be stained.

> her legacy will forever be stained

Where can I sell my legacy for $6 million/year?

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Grok, the xAI chatbot, went full neo-nazi yesterday: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/09/grok-ai-p...

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“which 20th century historical figure would be best suited to deal with this problem?” is not exactly sophisticated prompt engineering.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Good for her. Got paid a ton of money to be the fall guy and no one ever believed anything that went wrong with the company was her fault. That's a clean getaway in my book. Hopefully she can move on to something that isn't building Nazi chat bots.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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post #26
post #5

I guess the Nazi chatbot was the last straw. Amazed she lasted this long, honestly.

Not defending Elon or the infobot but my theory is that by leaving that LLM unfiltered people have learned how to gamify and manipulate it into having a fascist slant. I could even guess which groups of people are doing it but I will let them take credit and it's not likely actual neo-nazi's, they are too dumb and on too many drugs to manipulate an infobot. These groups like to LARP to piss everyone off and they ofte…

> Not defending Elon or the infobot but my theory is that by leaving that LLM unfiltered people have learned how to gamify and manipulate it into having a fascist slant.

We don't need a theory that explains how Grok got a fascist slant, we know exactly what happened: Musk promise to remove the "woke" from Grok, and what's left is Nazi. [1]

[1] https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/07/08/tech/grok-ai-antisemitism

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