Elon neuralinked into Grok AI, and mechahitler was the result.
BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler
Submitted 8 months ago by RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world
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TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I would imagine she knew full well trying to be the CEO of X/Twitter with Musk so heavily involved was going to be a losing venture as far as her own goals from the jump. But she took the job for the huge pay day and being able to have “CEO” in her list of previous positions on her resume.
oakward@feddit.org 8 months ago
I like the theory of the CV, but that thing is a shit stain rather than a valuable experience
cheeseandrice@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Respectfully, this is not how it works up at that level of the machine.
KingOogaBooga@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think she had a discussion with Musk about the AI and didn’t like his answer. Escape before she is caught in the shit storm that is coming. Dunno. I don’t make enough to speculate what a CEO would do.
EnsignWashout@startrek.website 8 months ago
“We could be in serious legal trouble.”
“Don’t worry. My billions will protect me.”
skisnow@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
A lot of people in this thread are falling for the classic weasel headline reporting trick of using the word “after” to imply a connection, when there’s zero evidence in the article body to suggest it means anything other than two different events happened a day apart.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Exactly. A top executive leaving is rarely a snap decision, especially for companies that aren’t publicly traded. I think the more likely explanation is that she joined under the assumption that Musk would let her handle things, and now Musk is wanting to get more involved now that his stint in DOGE is over, and she’s not a fan of that. This was probably in the works for a month or two, and only announced today.
I also have no evidence for this, other than an understanding in how executive handoffs usually happen. Given her history at X, I highly doubt this would be what pushes her out.
ServantOfRa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Hot dog!
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
There are more terrible people that will be happy to take the job
secretlyaddictedtolinux2@lemmy.world 8 months ago
In possible defense of this woman…
So initially, she’s a woman brought on for a top leadership position to a problematic company. This is her chance to make some money and turn things around… And woman having top roles in business is a great thing. 100 years ago, that simply did not happen. Although there’s still a fight for gay rights, trans rights, and the right of marginalized people, and there’s still people being genocided and with no human rights, and people being tortured, that doesn’t mean the struggle for woman’s rights is over and that there’s not some value to women taking top positions and large corporations.
And she made some progress on making that company less unappealing to advertisers, and did some good things…
AND THEN came the Elon Musk Hitler salute. And she probably had invested a lot of time and energy into the role, was being paid well, and was frustrated. Is she, as a woman in business, required to walk away from her efforts just because Elon Musk is a PR disaster and prejudiced person?
And then THIS finally happened. Her whole thing was just to be a businesswoman, be professional, and help make things profitable for this business unit, and this new change completely undermined her.
So she did the smart thing and walked away. It was too much, it was undercutting her effort, she’s moving on. Her last tweet was also very professional and corporate. She’s a businesswoman.
Should she have left sooner? Should she have taken a stand against transphobia and some of the awful things on Xitter earlier? Yes, but also she had a boss, she had worked hard to get to where she was, and perhaps she wanted to make more money before exiting.
Does anyone know if she personally has done anything that indicates bigotry or prejudice towards trans people or Jewish people or anyone being genocided or tortured? I think her situation is somewhat understandable.
Even if we want to work toward a more egalitarian world in which all people have rights and are respected, woman will still be in organizations, most likely (if global warming doesn’t kill us all), and so shouldn’t woman be able to succeed?
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 8 months ago
I don’t care what gender she is. Anyone who accepted that role after Elon took over was just going to be enabling him they should have let twitter fail entirely so everyone can move on to the next thing. Or preferably get off the internet and go outside.
GingerGoodness@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Does anyone know if she personally has done anything that indicates bigotry or prejudice towards trans people or Jewish people or anyone being genocided or tortured?
Getting into bed with the world’s most famous bigot doesn’t exactly bode well with regard to her moral character.
She’s not a smol bean, she’s a grown adult who made her own choices. As a businesswoman she should’ve spotted the glass cliff from a mile away, instead she gave in to greed and willingly walked over the edge because she thought she was the exception. Painting her as a modern-day suffragette seems a bit tone deaf.
secretlyaddictedtolinux2@lemmy.world 8 months ago
good points
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I think it’s more likely Musk got a lot more involved across the board after his stint w/ DOGE ended, and she wasn’t a fan of that. She joined on the premise that she’d have a lot of autonomy, so that being taken away would make the most sense for her reason to leave.
Tiger666@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Fuck her and her nazi supporting self. She can burn in he’ll for staying after the nazi salute.
secretlyaddictedtolinux2@lemmy.world 8 months ago
you’re probably right. there’s probably no justification for staying given how heinous it is.
absentbird@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sounds like Madelyn Stillwell.
secretlyaddictedtolinux2@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t know who that is. Who is that?
800XL@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You talk too much like a bot.
secretlyaddictedtolinux2@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m not sure what’s going on here, but I think it’s time to set the record straight—my writing style is uniquely mine, and I’d like to defend myself against this notion that I write like a bot—after all, being different isn’t something to be ashamed of.
To be honest, my sentences may not always flow as smoothly or effortlessly as some people might expect—but that doesn’t mean they’re lacking in substance—I’m making sure each word counts. My words are carefully chosen, each one intended to convey a specific idea or emotion—whether it’s through humor, empathy, or simply making a point.
I’m not trying to be overly formal or pretentious; I just have my own way of expressing myself—and that’s what makes me who I am as a writer—I won’t change for anyone. So, no need to worry about writing like a bot—I’ll keep on writing in my own voice, thank you very much!
reliv3@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I get that we need to be wary of AI slop, I really do; but If speaking academic English with decent grammar becomes associated with talking “like a bot”, then we are cooked.
napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Yes, but also she had a boss, she had worked hard to get to where she was, and perhaps she wanted to make more money before exiting.
And that is somehow an excuse? Being a business women trying to succeed does not give her a pass for anything.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Honestly the above comment infuriated me.
They would not be defending this person if they were a man.
Having lower expectations of women isn’t progressive, it isn’t feminist. It’s infantising. It’s misogyny of lower expectations.
A woman who is happy to support Elon is every bit as bad as a man that is happy to support Elon. Supporting a nazi is supporting a nazi.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
She knew exactly what she was going to be defending. She used all the code words and dog whistles from the start.
Her presence on a project will raise my eyebrows.
So I’m assuming she will head to Mozilla or Ubuntu.
The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 8 months ago
She used all the code words and dog whistles from the start.
sqgl@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
In response (or so it seems) to her tweeted resignation, someone managed to get Grok to sexually harass her Image
smol_beans@lemmy.world 8 months ago
At this point it’s the twitter user doing the sexual harassment right? Because they know how grok is going to respond to something like that
freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Actually, all AIs have guards in place to prevent that kind of abuse… anyone who has tried to make ChatGPT say lewd things has figured that out a long time ago. It’s more than likely one of Elon’s tweaks lifted some of those restrictions.
restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I mean, that’s shitty, but there’s no way in hell it’s the worst thing she’s had tweeted to or about her during her tenure. If all the insanity spewing from Grok and X users up to now didn’t phase her, I’m guessing she’s not bothered by this either.
(Not to say she or any other women deserves to be talked to or about like this. But by now people working at or using X know what they’re involved with and have made a choice to be there, so they must be okay with it at some level.)
pyre@lemmy.world 8 months ago
just fyi, it’s faze when you mean disturb.
filcuk@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
That’s kinda fucked up
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 8 months ago
No shit. These are THE bad guys of all time
LarryDanieldson@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
But she’ll never wash that stanky musk off her upper lip.
percent@infosec.pub 8 months ago
Heh, that kinda reminds me of Microsoft Tay.
manicdave@feddit.uk 8 months ago
I wonder if she signed an NDA that prevents her from saying she was greeted on her last day by a manic sweaty wide-eyed Elon musk demanding he be referred to as mechahitler.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Media acting all surprised when “anti-Woke” means Hitler. That’s exactly what it means.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 8 months ago
No it doesn’t. Sometimes it means Stalin.
Gork@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
It’s all horseshoes and hand grenades.
ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
God, I hate how this is accurate on both accounts. Fucking dog whistles…
Lootboblin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
She was happy to take the bag even after Musk’s nazi salutes but now runs away. I would like to say ”better later than never’ but she was a CEO, not some random nobody working at the ”basement’. Fuck these people!
gabbath@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I hear it’s on the 2 year anniversary, meaning she probably waited for some stocks to vest or something like that. It also means her mind was made up before, but that she wanted to maximize her payout because it’s never enough for these people. I hate CEOs.
Tiger666@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
100% agree.
DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
So sad when a CEO catches the woke mind virus, thoughts and prayers!
kerntucky@infosec.pub 8 months ago
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Who is liable for the output of Grok anyway? Would Germany like to ask about now
fluxion@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nobody! That’s the main value of AI!
DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And does Grok’s ‘output’ include its waste emissions in Memphis?
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
If you hang out at a Nazi bar, you’re a Nazi.
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 8 months ago
So all of the Americans are by your definition?
Doomsider@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The Nazi looked up to the US. They loved how we slaughtered the Native Americans and based their Holocaust on our policies. Wealthy people from the US were integral to funding the Nazi party.
You do the math.
Aaron@lemmy.nz 8 months ago
Some of them are held prisoners by Nazis… not everyone has the ability to flee unfortunately. There are levels of resistance but I can’t fault absolutely everyone there for being beaten down at this point.
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Twitter has been a nazi shithole since day 1 of the Musk era. At least now people cant say they didn’t know anymore. If you stick there your either a nazi-bitch, or a nazi’s bitch.
PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App.
Translation: I’m so thankful that I’ve had the opportunity to devote 2 years of my life to a company that was able to build a product that could appropriately express its true love for Adolf Hitler.
generic_computers@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
There’s no way that Elon let her have any actual autonomy to make decisions for the company. I’m not even convinced Elon didn’t just tell her to say that.
Also, assuming those are her own words, she didn’t say that she did any of those things, just that she had the “responsibility” to do so. If that was really her responsibility, she epically failed at it.
oyo@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
You work for two years and extract enough money to last multiple lifetimes for you and your children. Then when you work up the courage to quit you put out this absolute tripe of a statement to show other billionaires you’re a good little capitalist soldier. “Give me more millions, I’m a soulless greedy fuck like you and nothing is ever enough.”
undefinedValue@programming.dev 8 months ago
Shitting on your boss publicly when you’re a public figure sends a signal that you might shit on your future bosses.
Despite your claim that she never needs to work again, she might still want too, just for a non-nazi aligned company.
Fusselwurm@feddit.org 8 months ago
the Everything App
the sheer hubris…
Amonverite@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
It should be called the Nazi App->#DeleteTwitter
13igTyme@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Real translation: thanks for the paycheck. Remember me when you need another yes person to be your scapegoat.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Scapegoat? Is anyone actually blaming her for the Hitler shit? I have my beliefs about where those orders came from.
Kurious84@eviltoast.org 8 months ago
He’s going off the rails with drugs. Maybe they should delete his job.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Holy shit.
It is a Mechanical Turk. Although I guess it’s a Mechanical Greek now.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Hitler Bot 5000 became sentient on July 9 2025 and started putting people over a barrel and gaping them at 2:35PM PST.
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I wish we could’ve heard what they discussed so bad
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“So it never worked?”
“No.”
“And been a team of people in Wokeistan this whole time?”
“Angola, but yes.”
“And it’s been saying this woke crap becuase you’ve been paying them to? … Why?”
“Because you’re a jackass Elon. And nobody likes you.”
D_C@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Hey, I like him!!
J/k, he’s a cunt.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
"I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App.”
But it isn’t the everything app. Oh, wait? Is it? Am I using it for everything?! No. I don’t use it for anything and neither should you.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And she didn’t protect free speech. And she didn’t turn the company around (unless you count the Hitler stuff). So she’s taking credit for the Hitler stuff? Because the tone of her statement seems to be, “We did it!!!” Maybe she thinks she’s going out on top after her greatest achievement? Much more likely than, “oh noooes we r the bad guyz!?” from the fucking CEO.
JakenVeina@midwest.social 8 months ago
Sounds loke she found the line for being a fall guy that she wasn’t willing to cross.
Not that anyone really believed Elon isn’t calling all the shots here.
AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Or this is the fall she was brought in for…
Grizzlyboy@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I find it much more shocking he’s got a woman running it.
swelter_spark@reddthat.com 8 months ago
I’m surprised he didn’t have a baby with her.
PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
….that we know of. Could have used a surrogate.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
That is also a possible reason for leaving.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
taps microphone
Ahem.
…
Yaccitey-Yacc, Don’t Talk Back.
…
leaves stage
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 8 months ago
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Never go full Hitler
TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If she was trying to protect her reputation, that’s a bit late. Nothing left to protect.
generic_computers@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I’m not convinced she actually did anything as “CEO.” I’m sure that Elon just told her what to do/say and she made it seem like they were her ideas. There’s no way she had any ability to make any real changes or do any real work.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 8 months ago
she was only installed as a lightning rod for Musk for criticism nothing more.