Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

Post by steveBK123 » Wed, Jul 09, 2025, 4:14 PM UTC

mdasen wrote: post #113

mingus88 wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

If she were trying to time it, this timing seems weird. This is literally the day after Grok kept posting anti-semitism, praising Hitler, and calling itself MechaHitler. This might not be the least graceful moment for an exit, but there were so many more graceful exit times.

Post by simonw » Wed, Jul 09, 2025, 4:15 PM UTC

UltraSane wrote: post #80

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.

Post by baking » Wed, Jul 09, 2025, 4:17 PM UTC

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.

Post by dmix » Wed, Jul 09, 2025, 4:17 PM UTC

bananapub wrote: post #59

edit: 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 relev…

Post by nickthegreek » Wed, Jul 09, 2025, 4:19 PM UTC

ujkhsjkdhf234 wrote: post #48

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.