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XAI told me I either had to delete the post, or face being fired
- joshuanapoli 2y agoBetter stick to the communication plan and avoid pumping up your competitor’s products.
- timcobb 2y agoThis is getting downvoted but yeah if you’re going to work somewhere, you shouldn’t promote competitors. At least let the market decide, I’d be unhappy if this was my business EDIT: I guess he chose not to work there!
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- greatgib 2y agoI'm quite a free speech guy, and one to expect companies to not enslave you, but it quite makes sense that a company will forbid you to speak publicly about their product or competitors. Even if the guy says "my opinion", his post might be used by market analyst or random persons to make forecast about the company as they could consider that it leaks insider knowledge. On the other side, what I find fun is the brain washing that this guy looks like to be suffering of: I still hope Elon and xAI win. Yet...... It's very disappointing to me that a company and leaders who supposedly champion free speech and openness would try to fire a low-level employee over a clearly-labeled opinion that contains absolutely nothing controversial, but here we are. He can't be serious, or seriously believing this bullshit. My best guess is that he is trying to lick ass hoping to be saved by his god...
- jplusequalt 2y agoFree speech absolutism for me, but for thee - Elon Musk
- ratg13 2y agoI think Elon belongs in jail, and I hope all of his companies fail. That said, when you work for a company you are a representative of that company. You shouldn’t be making any public posts about your company that aren’t approved by a media relations team. The fact that he was asked to take the post down and would not is a strange hill to die on.
- juped 2y agoHow silly, he should instead be unconditionally fired for rating o1 above claude! (My most recent comparison was giving them both a somewhat complex data structures problem in Elixir involving judicious use of persistent_term for large long-lived values; neither bungled it terribly, o1 gave a longer, more detailed giant response, but claude gave a much more readable and idiomatic module that I could actually use as a starting point.)
- DataDaemon 2y agoGuy is crying like a baby, he gave performance of an unreleased model which only he has access. Most corporations would recognize this as breach of confidential information (performance tests for coding).
- neomantra 2y agoIn the thread he states that he did not have access to Grok 3.
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- kebsup 2y agoSeems to me that he thinks he's being fired for mentioning that grok 3 exists but he's actually being fired for saying that chatgpt is better than grok 3.
- siva7 2y agoSeems reasonable. If my employee acknowledges in public that competitor x is better, they will be fired. Shouldn’t surprise anyone yet here we are.
- neomantra 2y agoThen when you fire them, tell them that. But they threatened him using a different reason, a reason that he has support showing that his action was within guidelines. He’s also clear in his comments that xAI has the right to do whatever they want. He is giving more data points on how xAI/Twitter/Musk operate. This also doesn’t surprise anyone.
- jsnell 2y agoWe don't actually know what he was told. We only know what he is saying he was told, with no evidence, and in a context where he's playing to the crowd. He might have misinterpreted what he was told. He might have been told multiple problems, and only reported one. He might be actively lying.
- neomantra 2y agoThere was this differentiation and discussion in the thread. He claims he has the support. But you are correct, everything I’m relating is his statements on the Twitter thread. For all we know, the entire story could be false.
- ivewonyoung 2y agoGrok 3 is an unreleased product, he has access only because of his job and he's not authorized to speak publicly about it. So both of those apply.
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- josefritzishere 2y agoYour CEO is a deranged ketamine abuser. This is not your fault.
- ineedasername 2y agoWe have no idea how xAI phrased things verbatim, but regardless of phrasing or any stated reason, this person gave an insider-only informed opinion on capabilities. When the industry is in such a state that the market went on a $Trillion pearl-clutching dive on DeepSeek news, it should be clear that performance information is all-caps important and valuable, and a stack ranking of systems using your insider knowledge on the social webs is not great.