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I guess the Nazi chatbot was the last straw. Amazed she lasted this long, honestly.

andsoitis 1y ago
As chief, her job is, amongst others, making sure that type of thing doesn’t happen. Outcomes suggests she failed at that. Hopefully the next chief will be better.
- JohnFen 1y ago
  She was was never the chief, only the chief's main administrator.
  - toomanyrichies 1y ago
    "Assistant to the regional manager". [1] 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA9kQuWkU7I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA9kQuWkU7I
- CamperBob2 1y ago
  There's only one way to stop Elon Musk from doing erratic, value-destroying things like that, and that's to ambush him in the parking lot with a tire iron. Yaccarino doesn't strike me as the type.
- quickthrowman 1y ago
  Physical restraint is the only thing that would stop him and I imagine he rolls with security so…
- ceejayoz 1y ago
  Her only true role was to fulfill Musk's silly promise to step down as CEO after a public vote. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1604617643973124097 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1604617643973124097
- baking 1y ago
  She was CEO of X which was sold to xAI. I'm not sure she had any control over Grok.
- torlok 1y ago
  You don't think Elon went behind her back constantly? You think the next CEO will have more to say? She pretended to be in charge, she got paid, good for her. What are you hoping for. X is a dump, and the sooner it goes away the better for everybody.
miroljub 1y ago
What is the Nazi chatbot?
- nickthegreek 1y ago
  grok yesterday.
  - miroljub 1y ago
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    - zht 1y ago
      grok was praising hitler...
      - miroljub 1y ago
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    - abhinavk 1y ago
      Censoring hard is not the defining feature that makes one a Nazi. It's the part think that you think is OK.
- lode 1y ago
  Grok, the xAI chatbot, went full neo-nazi yesterday: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/09/grok-ai-praised-hitler-antisemitism-x-ntwnfb https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/09/grok-ai-p...
  - Covzire 1y ago
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    - shadowfacts 1y ago
      ... 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.
juujian 1y ago
I'm surprised the NYT article does not even mention it.
- baking 1y ago
  The NYT had already sourced that she was leaving prior to the Grok incident, so they knew it was not the primary reason. Apparently, she has been planning on leaving since the takeover by xAI.
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Bender 1y ago
Not defending Elon or the infobot but my theory is that by leaving that LLM unfiltered people have learned how to gamify and manipulate it into having a fascist slant. I could even guess which groups of people are doing it but I will let them take credit and it's not likely actual neo-nazi's, they are too dumb and on too many drugs to manipulate an infobot. These groups like to LARP to piss everyone off and they often succeed. If I am right it is a set of splintered groups formerly referred to generically as The Internet Hate Machine but they have (d)evolved into something worse that even 4chan could not tolerate.
- wat10000 1y ago
  It sure didn’t seem to take much manipulation from what I saw. “Which 20th century figure would solve our current woes” is pretty mild input to produce “Hitler would solve everything!”
- gtsop 1y ago
  > it's not likely actual neo-nazi's, they are too dumb to manipulate an infobot. No they are not. There exist brilliant people and monkeybrains across the whole population and thus the political spectrum. The ratios might be different, but I am pretty sure there exist some very smart neo-nazis
  - pavlov 1y ago
    Curtis Yarvin’s writing is insufferable and many of his ideas are both bad and effectively Nazism, but clearly he’s very smart (and very eager to prove it).
    - deleted 1y ago
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    - FireBeyond 1y ago
      Yarvin is an out-and-out white nationalist, though he denies it, or at least the name: "I am not a white nationalist, though I am not exactly allergic to the stuff" - whatever the hell that mealy-mouthed answer is meant to mean. He even wrote a bloviating article to further clarify that he is not a white nationalist. You'd be forgiven, though, if you didn't read the title. It spends most of the article sympathizing with, understanding, agreeing with, and talking of how white nationalism "resonates" with him. But don't worry, he swears he's not one at the end of the article!
duxup 1y ago
Hasn't the bot done that thing before? And she stayed?
- ceejayoz 1y ago
  Not at this level, no.
- rsynnott 1y ago
  The bot has said fairly horrendous stuff before, which would cross the line for most people. It had not, however, previously called itself 'MechaHitler', advocated the holocaust, or, er, whatever the hell this is: https://bsky.app/profile/whstancil.bsky.social/post/3ltintoevfs27 https://bsky.app/profile/whstancil.bsky.social/post/3ltintoe... It has gone from "crossing the line for most ordinary decent people" to "crossing the line for anyone who doesn't literally jerk off nightly to Mein Kampf", which _is_ a substantive change.
  - neuroelectron 1y ago
    It turns out bluesky is useful after all, as an ad hoc archive of X. Xd
sleepybrett 1y ago
6mil a year for a job where she has no power why even show up...

As chief, her job is, amongst others, making sure that type of thing doesn’t happen. Outcomes suggests she failed at that. Hopefully the next chief will be better.

JohnFen 1y ago
She was was never the chief, only the chief's main administrator.
- toomanyrichies 1y ago
  "Assistant to the regional manager". [1] 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA9kQuWkU7I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA9kQuWkU7I
CamperBob2 1y ago
There's only one way to stop Elon Musk from doing erratic, value-destroying things like that, and that's to ambush him in the parking lot with a tire iron. Yaccarino doesn't strike me as the type.
quickthrowman 1y ago
Physical restraint is the only thing that would stop him and I imagine he rolls with security so…
ceejayoz 1y ago
Her only true role was to fulfill Musk's silly promise to step down as CEO after a public vote. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1604617643973124097 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1604617643973124097
baking 1y ago
She was CEO of X which was sold to xAI. I'm not sure she had any control over Grok.
torlok 1y ago
You don't think Elon went behind her back constantly? You think the next CEO will have more to say? She pretended to be in charge, she got paid, good for her. What are you hoping for. X is a dump, and the sooner it goes away the better for everybody.

miroljub 1y ago

What is the Nazi chatbot?

nickthegreek 1y ago
grok yesterday.
- miroljub 1y ago
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  - zht 1y ago
    grok was praising hitler...
    - miroljub 1y ago
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  - abhinavk 1y ago
    Censoring hard is not the defining feature that makes one a Nazi. It's the part think that you think is OK.
lode 1y ago
Grok, the xAI chatbot, went full neo-nazi yesterday: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/09/grok-ai-praised-hitler-antisemitism-x-ntwnfb https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/09/grok-ai-p...
- Covzire 1y ago
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  - shadowfacts 1y ago
    ... 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.

juujian 1y ago

I'm surprised the NYT article does not even mention it.

baking 1y ago
The NYT had already sourced that she was leaving prior to the Grok incident, so they knew it was not the primary reason. Apparently, she has been planning on leaving since the takeover by xAI.

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Bender 1y ago

Not defending Elon or the infobot but my theory is that by leaving that LLM unfiltered people have learned how to gamify and manipulate it into having a fascist slant. I could even guess which groups of people are doing it but I will let them take credit and it's not likely actual neo-nazi's, they are too dumb and on too many drugs to manipulate an infobot. These groups like to LARP to piss everyone off and they often succeed. If I am right it is a set of splintered groups formerly referred to generically as The Internet Hate Machine but they have (d)evolved into something worse that even 4chan could not tolerate.

wat10000 1y ago
It sure didn’t seem to take much manipulation from what I saw. “Which 20th century figure would solve our current woes” is pretty mild input to produce “Hitler would solve everything!”
gtsop 1y ago
> it's not likely actual neo-nazi's, they are too dumb to manipulate an infobot. No they are not. There exist brilliant people and monkeybrains across the whole population and thus the political spectrum. The ratios might be different, but I am pretty sure there exist some very smart neo-nazis
- pavlov 1y ago
  Curtis Yarvin’s writing is insufferable and many of his ideas are both bad and effectively Nazism, but clearly he’s very smart (and very eager to prove it).
  - deleted 1y ago
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  - FireBeyond 1y ago
    Yarvin is an out-and-out white nationalist, though he denies it, or at least the name: "I am not a white nationalist, though I am not exactly allergic to the stuff" - whatever the hell that mealy-mouthed answer is meant to mean. He even wrote a bloviating article to further clarify that he is not a white nationalist. You'd be forgiven, though, if you didn't read the title. It spends most of the article sympathizing with, understanding, agreeing with, and talking of how white nationalism "resonates" with him. But don't worry, he swears he's not one at the end of the article!

duxup 1y ago

Hasn't the bot done that thing before? And she stayed?

ceejayoz 1y ago
Not at this level, no.
rsynnott 1y ago
The bot has said fairly horrendous stuff before, which would cross the line for most people. It had not, however, previously called itself 'MechaHitler', advocated the holocaust, or, er, whatever the hell this is: https://bsky.app/profile/whstancil.bsky.social/post/3ltintoevfs27 https://bsky.app/profile/whstancil.bsky.social/post/3ltintoe... It has gone from "crossing the line for most ordinary decent people" to "crossing the line for anyone who doesn't literally jerk off nightly to Mein Kampf", which _is_ a substantive change.
- neuroelectron 1y ago
  It turns out bluesky is useful after all, as an ad hoc archive of X. Xd

sleepybrett 1y ago

6mil a year for a job where she has no power why even show up...