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Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by peab »

fkyoureadthedoc wrote: post #215
kylebenzle wrote: post #187

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Of course I hate what Elon has done to Twitter but you're feeling previously that everyone was there was an illusion brought on by massive propaganda and manipulation of the conversation. The same thing has happened to Reddit now, well it feels more inclusive and open it's actually an incredibly controlled enclosed system that only allows one specific viewpoint. Now of course to the people inside that bubble it feels…

> liberal echo chamber It skews one way, but there's definitely a large diversity in opinions on Reddit that are not hard to find. It's also transitioning into an India social media site, just from sheer population numbers.

reddit is like the most censored part of the internet at the moment.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by olalonde »

freejazz wrote: post #374
olalonde wrote: post #271

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You may not like Elon Musk but he's doing remarkably well for someone who is "clearly off the rails".

Like, financially? Sure. I don't think that was ever in dispute.

In what sense is he "off the rails" then?

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by SpicyLemonZest »

dctoedt wrote: post #337
thayne wrote: post #333

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I don't think she is entirely to blame, but I think there is some blame for not standing up to Musk and leading better.

> I think there is some blame for not standing up to Musk and leading better. That seems in the same category as saying there's some blame on her for not working harder on basketball in her youth and so never becoming a WNBA Finals MVP. (Narrator: Um, no, she's not nearly tall enough ....)

I'm just not sure her complete lack of power to stand up to Musk is a defense. If a controversial rich guy offers you a CEO job that consists entirely of laundering his reputation by pretending his decisions are your own, you have a social responsibility not to take it. I'd be more sympathetic if she were some random person who couldn't otherwise dream of an executive level pay package, but she was the head of ads at NBC.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by peab »

steveBK123 wrote: post #164
ceejayoz wrote: post #158

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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.

I think it's more so that they push changes quickly without exhaustively testing. Compare that to Google, who sits on a model for years for fear of hurting their reputation, or OpenAI and Anthropic who extensively red teams models

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Post by petersellers »

ahmeneeroe-v2 wrote: post #355
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…

>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…

> Twitter/X is the reason DJT became President.

I really don't think so, at least not in isolation. It probably contributed a small part but the right wing media machine is multi-faceted. There were a lot of podcasters (i.e. Joe Rogan), comedians and youtubers all publicly in support of a second DJT presidency and I think that had a much bigger factor overall than Twitter.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by lawlessone »

olalonde wrote: post #349
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…

You have a distorted view or reality. Elon seems pretty happy to me and is undeniably successful in business - arguably the most successful entrepreneur of our time. I don't know much about his personal life but I suspect that him having babies with multiple women is due to personal choices rather than a sign of misfortune. He certainly doesn't seem "off the rails" to me. That said, I can understand that his lifestyl…

The man literally got punched out of the whitehouse for substance abuse lol

His children break contact with him moment they become adults. If it wasn't for the money he would have been forbidden to see them long ago.

Everyone hates him on the left and the right.

If you consider a rich 50 year old creep doing drugs and going around impregnating young women and paying them to go away as successful? Then yes he is ..

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Post by lukas099 »

empath75 wrote: post #236
steveBK123 wrote: post #138

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All LLM's are capable of producing really vile completions if prompted correctly -- after all, there's a lot of vile content in the training data. OpenAI does a lot of work fine tuning them to steer them away from it. It's just as easy to fine tune them to produce more. In fact, there was an interesting paper showed that fine tuning an LLM to produce malicious code (ie: with just malicious code examples in response t…

Could you use one LLM to filter out such bad training data before using it to train another one? Do they do this already?

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by geodel »

belter wrote: post #52
xnx wrote: post #46

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

I will do it for half that price....

Don't wait. Pick up your phone and Call Elon right now as this position is filling up fast.

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Post by moomin »

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.

This argument has been made, at length, in court. It was found wanting.
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