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Re:XAI by sterlind on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @01:35PM (#36698437)
are the researchers allowed to disagree with Musk? if the supposedly-objective AI they produce contradicts Musk's views, will he accept that he's wrong? or will he call it a bug, or pressure his researchers into training it to support his ideologies?

in short: do you really believe this is Musk producing an objective truth-aligned AI and not just a Musk-aligned AI?

Re:XAI by andreygrehov on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @01:37PM (#36698467)
What makes you believe that one cannot disagree with Musk?
Re:XAI by sterlind on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @01:42PM (#36698582)
his conduct at Twitter, primarily, as he rapidly abandoned his promises of free-speech absolutism and started to micromanage its moderation to benefit himself.
Re:XAI by andreygrehov on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @01:47PM (#36698678)
> he rapidly abandoned his promises of free-speech

Hm, I don't think that's true. How does that manifest itself?

> started to micromanage its moderation to benefit himself

Has anyone been banned from the platform?

+ we are talking about Twitter, right? Elon uses Twitter for fun, it's pretty obvious from many of his troll tweets.

Do you have any evidence that people cannot disagree with him when working directly in a professional environment (eg office, zoom call, etc)?

Re:XAI by sterlind on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @02:04PM (#36698994)
> Has anyone been banned from the platform?

Yes, evidently: https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/15/media/twitter-musk-journalist...

> Do you have any evidence that people cannot disagree with him when working directly in a professional environment (eg office, zoom call, etc)?

Seems so: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/technology/elon-musk-twit...

But I admit I don't follow Musk and his controversies very closely, I just looked these up. If you consider yourself disinterested and not a Musk supporter, and you think your take on Musk is representative of the general consensus, I'm happy to learn from you.

Re:XAI by andreygrehov on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @02:47PM (#36699791)
https://twitter.com/donie

https://twitter.com/RMac18

The accounts are doing just fine. Stop reading the news. Especially the ones who are consistently attacking Elon to get their portion of ad revenue.

Re:XAI by stillsut on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @01:43PM (#36698594)
Me sense is its more permissible to publicly disagree with Musk on ideology than any other CEO of a large company in the world. I can't imagine that working at Google, Disney, ESPN, OpenAI, even Y-combinator!

What ideological belief does Musk hold that would create friction with his employees?

Re:XAI by dudeinhawaii on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @03:41PM (#36700538)
Is this sarcasm? Right here on HN there's been many articles and discussions that are in complete opposition to what you've written with respect to both being able to disagree with musk as an employee and employee friction based on beliefs.
Re:XAI by fomine3 on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @08:20PM (#36703494)
You didn't see the twitter fire drama
Re:XAI by machdiamonds on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @02:29PM (#36699466)
You think SpaceX, Tesla, etc. All succeeded because people weren't allowed to disagree with him?