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Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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543 points donohoe | 1 comments | 09 Jul 25 14:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.216s | source
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ceejayoz ◴[09 Jul 25 14:59 UTC] No.44510830[source]▶
I guess the Nazi chatbot was the last straw. Amazed she lasted this long, honestly.
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Bender ◴[09 Jul 25 15:09 UTC] No.44510978[source]▶
Not defending Elon or the infobot but my theory is that by leaving that LLM unfiltered people have learned how to gamify and manipulate it into having a fascist slant. I could even guess which groups of people are doing it but I will let them take credit and it's not likely actual neo-nazi's, they are too dumb and on too many drugs to manipulate an infobot. These groups like to LARP to piss everyone off and they often succeed. If I am right it is a set of splintered groups formerly referred to generically as The Internet Hate Machine but they have (d)evolved into something worse that even 4chan could not tolerate.
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1. rurp ◴[09 Jul 25 15:32 UTC] No.44511325[source]▶
That LLM is incredibly filtered, just in a different way from others. I suspect by "retraining" the model Elon actually means that they just updated the system prompt, which is exactly what they have done for other hacked in changes like preventing the bot from criticizing Trump/Elon during the election.