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Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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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...

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Direct evidence abounds. X is deleting the worst cases, but plenty are archived before they do.

https://archive.is/fJcSV

https://archive.is/I3Rr7

https://archive.is/QLAn0

https://archive.is/OgtpS

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.

pretty sure she did alot of reputational damage to herself along the way.

This is just delusional. It was obvious to everyone she was in an impossible job with a megalomaniacal boss ,and not only did she not get fired, she actually lasted 2 years and left on her own terms. I think she'll be just fine.

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The other LLMs don't have a "disbelieve reputable sources" un safety prompt added at the owner's instructions.

It's gotta be more than that too though. Maybe training data other companies won't touch? Hidden prompt they aren't publishing? Etc.

Clearly Musk has put his hand on the scale in multiple ways.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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> I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me But he didn't? She wasn't even in the loop for many of the consequential decisions

Rule #0 is you don't disparage the company on the way out. She may even have a contractual obligation not to.

Even barring a contractual obligation, "do I want to be the target of an angry tweetstorm that might result in real death threats" is a consideration.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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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…

Twitter is a graveyard being propped up grudgingly by people who don't want to have fewer followers elsewhere, and enthusiastically by other people as way to virtue signal alliance with the ownership's political incorrectness. It has no true value to anyone. It was going downhill already before the new ownership and for completely apolitical reasons.

It is weird that “political correctness” has been taken to mean, like, being polite and nice to people or something.

A politically correct answer is one that keeps the currently politically powerful people happy, right? Musk/Trump defined politically correct for a couple months. I guess Musk might be politically incorrect now. Are they friends or enemies today?

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Is this what happened in reality? Otherwise how is your theory applicable to this case?

There's no mystery to it: if one trains a chatbot explicitly to eschew establishment narratives, one persona the bot will develop is that of an edgelord.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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> 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.

Lots of corporate boards, university boards, nonprofit boards, etc. make room for folks like her. She understands something about social media and the digital future -- and even if that expertise doesn't impress many folks on HackerNews, it will seem quite sufficient and robust to the elderly trustees and big-donor board members of Pleurisy State University.

Being 62 is the perfect age for such roles. Young enough to climb a flight of stairs; old enough to nod appropriately to her new peers' references from the 1980s. Executive search firms will be eager to guide her into as many board roles as she might want.

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