she was only installed as a lightning rod for Musk for criticism nothing more.
Elon neuralinked into Grok AI, and mechahitler was the result.
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.
I like the theory of the CV, but that thing is a shit stain rather than a valuable experience
Respectfully, this is not how it works up at that level of the machine.
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.
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.
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 Grok would be what pushes her out.
Hot dog!
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 at 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 AI change (which she almost certainly had nothing to do with and completely sucker punched her out of nowhere) 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?
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.
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.
good points
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.
Fuck her and her nazi supporting self. She can burn in he’ll for staying after the nazi salute.
Sounds like Madelyn Stillwell.
I don’t know who that is. Who is that?
You talk too much like a bot.
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.
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.
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.
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.
She used all the code words and dog whistles from the start.
In response (or so it seems) to her tweeted resignation, someone managed to get Grok to sexually harass her
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
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.
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.)
just fyi, it’s faze when you mean disturb.
Oh lol cool TIL thanks
That’s kinda fucked up
No shit. These are THE bad guys of all time
But she’ll never wash that stanky musk off her upper lip.
Heh, that kinda reminds me of Microsoft Tay.
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.
Media acting all surprised when “anti-Woke” means Hitler. That’s exactly what it means.
No it doesn’t. Sometimes it means Stalin.
It’s all horseshoes and hand grenades.
God, I hate how this is accurate on both accounts. Fucking dog whistles…
She was happy to take the bag even after Musk’s nazi salutes but now runs away. I wish I could say ”better later than never’ but she was a CEO, not some random nobody working at the ”basement’. Fuck these people!
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.
100% agree.
So sad when a CEO catches the woke mind virus, thoughts and prayers!
Who is liable for the output of Grok anyway? Would Germany like to ask about now
Nobody! That’s the main value of AI!
And does Grok’s ‘output’ include its waste emissions in Memphis?
