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Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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538 points donohoe | 1 comments | 09 Jul 25 14:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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shadowfacts ◴[09 Jul 25 15:09 UTC] No.44510982{3}[source]▶
... yes, that's the complaint. The prompt engineering they did made it spew neo-Nazi vitriol. They either did not adequately test it beforehand and didn't know what would happen, or they did test and knew the outcome—either way, it's bad.
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busterarm ◴[09 Jul 25 15:17 UTC] No.44511084{4}[source]▶
Long live Tay! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)
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immibis ◴[09 Jul 25 16:20 UTC] No.44511862{5}[source]▶
Tay (allegedly) learned from repeated interaction with users; the current generation of LLMs can't do that. It's trained once and then that's it.
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1. busterarm ◴[09 Jul 25 17:11 UTC] No.44512502{6}[source]▶
Do you think that Tay's user-interactions were novel or perhaps race-based hatred is a consistent/persistent human garbage that made it into the corpus used to train LLMs?

We're literally trying to shove as much data as possible into these things afterall.

What I'm implying is that you think you made a point, but you didn't.