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Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by mcphage »

sorcerer-mar wrote: post #29
CyberMacGyver wrote: post #4

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.

(1) She had no power

(2) If she did have power, nothing good happened during her tenure, so what would she even be thanked for?

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by coolKid721 »

Bender wrote: post #26
ceejayoz wrote: 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…

It's just the prompt: https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts/commit/c5de4a14feb50...

People who don't understand llms think saying don't shy away from making claims that are politically incorrect means it won't PC. In reality saying that just makes things associated with politically incorrect more likely. The /pol/ board is called politically incorrect, the ideas people "call" politically incorrect most of all are not Elon's vague centrist stuff it's the extreme stuff. LLMs just track probable relations between tokens, not meaning, it having this result based on that prompt is obvious.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by abirch »

xnx wrote: post #46
sorcerer-mar wrote: post #29

Earlier 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?

My question is where does she go from here?

Like if she became my CEO, I'd really worry about my company/job.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by rtkwe »

perihelions wrote: post #13
miroljub wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the Nazi chatbot?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44504709 ( "Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts" —16 hours ago; 89 comments)

"Weirdly" always gets flagged almost immediately even though it's quite tech relevant.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by [deleted] »

andsoitis wrote: post #23
CyberMacGyver wrote: post #4

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.

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?

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Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by CamperBob2 »

andsoitis wrote: post #6
ceejayoz wrote: post #5

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

As chief, her job is, amongst others, making sure that type of thing doesn’t happen. Outcomes suggests she failed at that. Hopefully the next chief will be better.

There's only one way to stop Elon Musk from doing erratic, value-destroying things like that, and that's to ambush him in the parking lot with a tire iron.

Yaccarino doesn't strike me as the type.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by rtkwe »

abirch wrote: post #75
xnx wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> her legacy will forever be stained Where can I sell my legacy for $6 million/year?

My question is where does she go from here? Like if she became my CEO, I'd really worry about my company/job.

Depends on how likely you think it is she's a puppet CEO for a drug crazed, edge lord, owner or if she'll actually be allowed to do the job.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by UltraSane »

jeffbee wrote: post #25

Have any of the people who noisily joined X to make a big impact fast actually had a big impact over any time frame? Remember when G. Hotz said he was going to fix Twitter search in 6 weeks, and then it turned out that G. Hotz is just another midwit like anyone else and Twitter search is still as bad as ever? Yaccarino said they were going to transform Twitter into the "everything app" with payments, marketplaces, an…

Search is a pretty solved problem if you are willing to invest the resources to create a inverted index of all the text you want to search. An inverted index of all tweets would be pretty expensive. Creating text embeddings for semantic search would be the next stage and even more expensive.
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