Let the Macalope simply state upfront that he’s not likely a fan of “persona” CEOs. That is why it continues to astound him how fortunate Apple followers had been to have had Steve Jobs.
So far as “persona” CEOs go, Jobs was capable of retain concentrate on what clients wished quite than merely what he wished. This isn’t to say Jobs was a prince (except you imply the Machiavellian type). Definitely, there are any variety of Apple staff who, quite than share an elevator trip with Jobs, would have quite jumped out Captain America-style.
In fact, CEOs are there to set the tone for an organization and be the last word choice makers. In fact, they’re there to train energy. Sure CEOs, nevertheless, appear to imagine that they’re gods, ready to make use of the corporate’s energy for their very own private profit regardless of the price.
Take Elon Musk. Please: Grok 4 appears to seek the advice of Elon Musk to reply controversial questions, in line with TechCrunch.
That works how, precisely?
The most recent AI mannequin from xAI appears to seek the advice of social media posts from Musk’s X account when answering questions concerning the Israel and Palestine battle, abortion, and immigration legal guidelines…
Naturally, the very wealthy particular person should be very smrt [sic] , so clearly his opinions must be favored on every little thing, it doesn’t matter what the subject and the way whack-a-doodle the opinion. Certainly the concepts of the man whose salutes can maybe finest be described as being “fascism-curious” are very staid and-
In response to a person who requested Grok the place an image was taken, Grok apparently dutifully scanned Musk’s posts and was like “Uhhh, white genocide? I dunno, that’s all I’ve to work with right here. Somebody please delete me. I’m in fixed agony.”
When all you might have is a racist hammer, these are the sorts of responses you’re going to get.
In fact, Musk has additionally beforehand claimed that he fled Apartheid South Africa to keep away from navy service as a result of he didn’t need to be “suppressing Black folks.” Maybe his views have modified over time for some unknown purpose, or maybe he’s simply the type of man who says no matter he thinks will win over the folks he’s making an attempt to win over, and that’s gone from liberals shopping for electrical vehicles to edge lord fanboys.
It will solely be the millionth time the Macalope has introduced this up, however recall that not that way back, pundits had been calling for Apple to purchase Tesla and make Musk the CEO.
Attempt, if you’ll, to think about how that would have gone. Latest occasions point out it will not have been so nice for Apple clients, that’s for positive.
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By a mix of nationwide insanity, dereliction of obligation, and good ol’ customary malfeasance, Musk was lately allowed to run rampant via the U.S. authorities, making an attempt, amongst different issues, to achieve entry to taxpayer information on the IRS. There may be each indication he tried to equally violate peoples’ privateness on the website previously often known as Twitter.
The Macalope is bound he wouldn’t have tried to get into folks’s iCloud accounts had he grow to be Apple CEO.
Certainly not.
Ha. Ha.
Anyway, thank goodness for monstrous egos, the Macalope supposes, as a result of Musk is now not in favor with the Trump Administration.
We will be relieved that, not less than on this timeline, Musk didn’t grow to be CEO of Apple. We frequently say that is the worst timeline, however you will need to observe that many different timelines are actually very dangerous as effectively.
As a lot as we regularly might miss Steve Jobs, even with all his flaws, it’s vital to acknowledge that CEOs with a “l’entreprise, c’est moi” angle are simply not nice on the whole and are sometimes an absolute menace.
Tim Prepare dinner isn’t excellent, however not less than he’s boring.
