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Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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539 points donohoe | 1 comments | 09 Jul 25 14:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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AIPedant ◴[09 Jul 25 16:44 UTC] No.44512155[source]▶
The AP News story[1] had a tidbit I missed:

  In late June, [Elon Musk] invited X users to help train the chatbot on their commentary in a way that invited a flood of racist responses and conspiracy theories.

  “Please reply to this post with divisive facts for @Grok training,” Musk said in the June 21 post. “By this I mean things that are politically incorrect, but nonetheless factually true.”
Yaccarino is obviously not Executive Of The Year, but what are you supposed to do when your boss is even more reckless and stupid than Donald Trump? I'm surprised it took this long.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/x-ceo-linda-yaccarino-elon-musk-g...

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rsynnott ◴[09 Jul 25 16:46 UTC] No.44512191[source]▶
Yeah, never understood why she took this job. It could only really end one way.
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1. rtkwe ◴[09 Jul 25 17:19 UTC] No.44512602[source]▶
I'd take a pretty shitty job for $6 million dollars a year in salary before bonuses. Especially when everyone knows I'm not the one actually making the decisions so all the failures can get laid at someone else's feet (appropriately).