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Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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543 points donohoe | 2 comments | 09 Jul 25 14:52 UTC | HN request time: 1.178s | 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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miroljub ◴[09 Jul 25 15:00 UTC] No.44510846[source]▶
What is the Nazi chatbot?
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lode ◴[09 Jul 25 15:02 UTC] No.44510879[source]▶
Grok, the xAI chatbot, went full neo-nazi yesterday:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/09/grok-ai-p...

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Covzire[dead post] ◴[09 Jul 25 15:06 UTC] No.44510923[source]▶
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techpineapple ◴[09 Jul 25 15:26 UTC] No.44511244[source]▶
To me, and I'm guessing the reason Linda left is not that Grok said these things. Tweaking chatbots is hard, yes prompt engineering can help say anything, but I'm guessing it's her sense of control and governance, not wanting to have to constantly clean up Musk's messes.

Musk made a change recently, he said as much, he was all move fast and break things about it, and I imagine Linda is tired of dealing with that, and this probably coincided with him focusing on the company more, having recently left politics.

We can bikeshed on the morality of what AI chatbots should and shouldn't say, but it's really hard to manage a company and product development when you such a disorganized CTO.

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1. 0cf8612b2e1e ◴[09 Jul 25 15:45 UTC] No.44511486[source]▶
Left politics? He said he is forming his own political party.
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2. techpineapple ◴[09 Jul 25 15:59 UTC] No.44511657[source]▶
Ha, good point, left the white house anyways.