Linda Yaccarino (Susan Walsh/AP)
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X chief executive Linda Yaccarino has said she is stepping down after two years running Elon Musk’s social media platform.
Ms Yaccarino posted a positive message on Wednesday about her tenure at the company, formerly known as Twitter, and said “the best is yet to come as X enters a new chapter with” Mr Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI, maker of the chatbot Grok.
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Mr Musk hired Ms Yaccarino, a veteran advertising executive, in May 2023 after buying Twitter for 44 billion US dollars (£32.4 billion) in late 2022.
He said at the time that Ms Yaccarino’s role would be focused mainly on running the company’s business operations, leaving him to focus on product design and new technology.
It comes as Poland is going to report Musk’s xAI to the European Commission after its chatbot Grok made offensive comments about Polish politicians, including Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
Grok removed what it called “inappropriate” social media posts on Tuesday after complaints from X users and the Anti-Defamation League that Grok produced content with antisemitic tropes and praise for Adolf Hitler.
A Turkish court earlier blocked access to some content from Grok after authorities said the chatbot generated responses insulting President Tayyip Erdogan, modern Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and religious values.
Poland’s digitisation minister, Krzysztof Gawkowski, told RMF FM radio on Wednesday that the government will ask Brussels to investigate the chatbot’s offensive comments about its politicians.
“I have the impression that we are entering a higher level of hate speech, which is driven by algorithms, and that turning a blind eye or ignoring this today… is a mistake that may cost humanity in the future,” he said.
“The Ministry of Digitisation will react in accordance with current regulations, we will report the violation to the European Commission to investigate and possibly impose a fine on X. Freedom of speech belongs to humans, not to artificial intelligence.”
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