Is this another case of "may this sacrifice appease the rain gods and bring forth a good harvest"?
Linda Yaccarino is leaving X
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Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X
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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?
I will do it for half that price....
Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is the Nazi chatbot?
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Yeah that's not even close to what's going on here. Grok is literally bringing up Hitler in unrelated topics.
https://bsky.app/profile/percyyabysshe.bsky.social/post/3lti...
Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
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Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
You’re saying two things: - she is inept - she never had any say (which I interpret, perhaps incorrectly, that she is competent but had her hands were tied) Which is it?
Arguably a competent person wouldn't have persisted in a role where it was obvious they were not able to make a meaningful difference.
Can’t speak for her, obviously, but personally I tend to wait to make my exit once I know the role is not working out
If I were in her shoes, I would have known I was going to leave during the worst of his tantrums, but I would have timed my exit for a more graceful moment.
Dramatically bailing out during a storm would not be a good look for an exec who wants another key role somewhere else
Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X
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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
> we know exactly what happened
The price of certainty is inaccuracy.
Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
> it's not likely actual neo-nazi's, they are too dumb to manipulate an infobot. No they are not. There exist brilliant people and monkeybrains across the whole population and thus the political spectrum. The ratios might be different, but I am pretty sure there exist some very smart neo-nazis
Curtis Yarvin’s writing is insufferable and many of his ideas are both bad and effectively Nazism, but clearly he’s very smart (and very eager to prove it).
Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X
#59edit: not sure why my ctrl-f 'grok' missed it, maybe I hadn't let the nytimes modal load thing load the bottom of the article.
how fascinating that the NY Times didn't find any room to mention in the article that despite this:
> She did not provide a reason for her departure.
it might possibly be related to the Elon's custom-tuned Grok LLM spent the last twenty four hours becoming even more Nazi-y?
seems fairly relevant especially given she didn't give any actual reason.
Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X
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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.
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I’m going to say that is also bad. Hot take?