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Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by MetaWhirledPeas »

amrocha wrote: post #200
rockemsockem wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I will fondly remind folks that Grok isn't even the first LLM to become a Nazi on Twitter. Remember Tay Tweets? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot) Honestly I really don't think a bad release of an LLM that was rolled back is really the condemnation you think it is.

There’s a difference between a 3rd party twitter bot and grok. And it’s not a “bad release”, it’s been like this ever since it launched. Funny how ChatGPT is vanilla and grok somehow has a new racist thing to say every other week.

> Funny how ChatGPT is vanilla and grok somehow has a new racist thing to say every other week

To be fair, 'exposing' ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini as racist will get you a lot fewer clicks.

Musk claims Grok to be less filtered in general than other LLMs. This is what less filtered looks like. LLMs are not human; if you get one to say racist things it's probably because you were trying to make it say racist things. If you want this so-called problem solved by putting bowling bumpers on the bot, by all means go use ChatGPT.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by therouwboat »

AlexandrB wrote: post #334
feoren wrote: post #289

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Yes, corruption pays. Although if "doing remarkably well" means being addicted to ketamine, having many exes and children who refuse to speak with you, tanking multiple businesses to the point that your products get sabotaged just for being associated with you, getting booed off stages, licking the boots of fascists in the hope they'll let you call them "daddy", paying people to play online games for you to impress n…

> licking the boots of fascists in the hope they'll let you call them "daddy" Which fascists?

German far-right party AfD?

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by joering2 »

mrweasel wrote: post #292
reverendsteveii wrote: post #213

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it's worth less than half of what he paid for it, lost 30 million users and went from being the default microblog to facing real competition in daily active users from ~~bluesky~~threads ( https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/threads-is-nearing-xs-dail... ). Building what X is today from nothing would be an incredible accomplishment but building what X is today out of what Twitter was in 2022 is still a pretty miserable…

> it's worth less than half of what he paid for it But it was always worth less that half of the purchase price. The Twitter board completely ripped of Musk. Remember that he tried to back out of the deal, arguing that he had been lied to in regards to the number of bots and actual users.

> Remember that he tried to back out of the deal, arguing that he had been lied to in regards to the number of bots and actual users.

True but since he never provided any hard numbers, especially after totally owning the thing, makes this point moot.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by ahmeneeroe-v2 »

mrweasel wrote: post #130
Hoasi wrote: post #50

X has been nothing short of an exercise in brand destruction. However, despite all the drama, it still stands, it still exists, and it remains relevant.

More and more I think Musk managed to his take over of Twitter pretty successfully. X still isn't as strong a brand as Twitter where, but it's doing okay. A lot of the users who X need to stay on the platform, journalists and politicians, are still there. The only issue is that Musk vastly overpaid for Twitter, but if he plans to keep it and use it for his political ambitions, that might not matter. Also remember tha…

>A lot of the users who X need to stay on the platform, journalists and politicians, are still there

Twitter/X is the reason DJT became President. It happened accidentally (ie against the wishes of Twitter management) in 2016, they successfully suppressed him in 2020, and then Elon gave MAGA that platform in 2024, leading to DJT's successful election.

As long as X is seen a kingmaker, someone will find it profitable to own/maintain, even if it doesn't convert Ads like Meta/Google.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by UncleSlacky »

sergiotapia wrote: post #279
Hoasi wrote: post #50

X has been nothing short of an exercise in brand destruction. However, despite all the drama, it still stands, it still exists, and it remains relevant.

X saved free speech online. Without Musk acquiring it, we would have continued to slip into this franken-Resetera level of discourse. Thank God! X is the platform where everyone can speak as long as it doesn't break the law. That's fantastic. If you don't like a particular subject, you can just move on. That's what the internet was in the 2000s!

> everyone can speak as long as it doesn't break the law

I have one word for you: "cisgender".

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/x-cisgender-slur-cis-elon...

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by martythemaniak »

throw310822 wrote: post #302
mrweasel wrote: post #130

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More and more I think Musk managed to his take over of Twitter pretty successfully. X still isn't as strong a brand as Twitter where, but it's doing okay. A lot of the users who X need to stay on the platform, journalists and politicians, are still there. The only issue is that Musk vastly overpaid for Twitter, but if he plans to keep it and use it for his political ambitions, that might not matter. Also remember tha…

And btw, how many features have been brought live since Musk's takeover? If I'm not wrong, at least: long tweets, paid subscriptions, community notes, native video (?), grok... Anything else? Seems quite a lot after years of stagnation.

From your list, only grok. All the other stuff was already there.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by eric-p7 »

anigbrowl wrote: post #319
gorwell wrote: post #250

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Bullshit. Look how normal it is for people on X to cens*r c*rtain w*rds to avoid having their posts downranked.

Isn't the X ranking algorithm open source? Does it have hardcoded keywords or how does this censoring work?

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by ixtli »

sergiotapia wrote: post #279
Hoasi wrote: post #50

X has been nothing short of an exercise in brand destruction. However, despite all the drama, it still stands, it still exists, and it remains relevant.

X saved free speech online. Without Musk acquiring it, we would have continued to slip into this franken-Resetera level of discourse. Thank God! X is the platform where everyone can speak as long as it doesn't break the law. That's fantastic. If you don't like a particular subject, you can just move on. That's what the internet was in the 2000s!

what speech specifically did it save?
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