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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 thaumasiotes »

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.

> 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?

Why is that weird? Say you have a company operating normally. The CEO dies and isn't replaced. Do you think it's weird for the company's value to drop?

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by amrocha »

MetaWhirledPeas wrote: post #351
amrocha wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Nobody’s trying to get grok to talk about MechaHitler. At that point you just know Musk said that out loud in a meeting and someone had to add it to groks base prompt.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by amrocha »

rockemsockem wrote: post #405
amrocha wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It absolutely has not been claiming that it's "MechaHitler" since it was released. Try.

Right, it’s just been talking about white genocide and generating nazi images instead.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by teyc »

falcor84 wrote: post #195
madeofpalk wrote: post #139

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One would imagine that a CEO lacking power is the precise reason a company would perform poorly.

Indeed. It was such a paradoxical situation from the start, with her both reporting to Musk as the chairman and owner, while at the same time "managing" him as the CTO. I'm surprised that the charade went on for as long as it did.

On Acquired podcast, Ballmer spoke of his experience as CEO with Gates as CTO. It was hell.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by Hyperboreanal »

fkyoureadthedoc wrote: post #286
swarnie wrote: post #264

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Reddit really doesn't. I commented on a particular sub (in opposition to what i think the core hivemind is there) and was immediately banned from about 30 others. Reddit is the most insular, single minded set of communities I've seen on social media. I dont think you can claim diversity if the userbase all wall themselves off from each other with bots.

There's a subreddit for everything. Reddit as a whole has plenty of users that represent any opinion you can imagine. Fairly conservative subreddits hit r/all regularly, but not as much as less conservative ones. I think what you're trying to say is that on default subs, or some popular ones, that you can't post/comment some things without it getting removed, and possibly banned from those subs. Which is absolutely t…

Your subreddit gets banned immediately if you don't agree with the redditeurs.

You don't see this an as issue because you share their opinions

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by baobun »

zero_shift wrote: post #459
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…

I cannot see how it was a success. 1. He overpaid by tens of billions. That is a phenomenal amount of money to lose on an unforced error. 2. Enough users, who produce enough content, have left to make X increasingly a forum for porn bots, scam accounts and political activists. It's losing its appeal as the place "where the news happens" and is instead becoming more niche. 3. The firings did not go well. X has struggl…

I don't think DOGE would have happened without it. Maybe not even Trump winning the election.

It wasn't good for the company but allowed Musk huge influence in politics and likely making it out with some really juicy data.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by amrocha »

timschmidt wrote: post #265
amrocha wrote: post #200

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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.

This ChatGPT? https://futurism.com/chatgpt-encouraged-murder-sam-altman

Not to say there aren’t problems with ChatGPT, but it generally steers clear of controversial subjects unless coaxed into it.

Grok actively leans into racism and nazism.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by [deleted] »

kragen wrote: post #274
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…

Possibly leakycap is thinking about 02012 and you're thinking about 02018. In that case you'd both be right about Twitter.

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Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by wnc3141 »

phendrenad2 wrote: post #255

She stepped in and did a job, nothing more nothing less. I don't see this as a failure, the post-Elon Twitter is not a company that operates based on traditional characteristics, and I don't know what a CEO even does for such a company. It's obvious that Elon put her in charge to appease advertisers, but that gimmick only works for so long. Anyway, I wouldn't have made it as long as she did. Being in charge of a cess…

I suspect a professional executive appointment was among the terms to finance Musk's purchase of Twitter.
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