XAI told me I either had to delete the post, or face being fired
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He’s also clear in his comments that xAI has the right to do whatever they want. He is giving more data points on how xAI/Twitter/Musk operate. This also doesn’t surprise anyone.
He might have misinterpreted what he was told. He might have been told multiple problems, and only reported one. He might be actively lying.
Even if the guy says "my opinion", his post might be used by market analyst or random persons to make forecast about the company as they could consider that it leaks insider knowledge.
On the other side, what I find fun is the brain washing that this guy looks like to be suffering of:
I still hope Elon and xAI win. Yet......
It's very disappointing to me that a company and leaders who supposedly champion free speech and openness would try to fire a low-level employee over a clearly-labeled opinion that contains absolutely nothing controversial, but here we are.
That said, when you work for a company you are a representative of that company.
You shouldn’t be making any public posts about your company that aren’t approved by a media relations team.
The fact that he was asked to take the post down and would not is a strange hill to die on.
(My most recent comparison was giving them both a somewhat complex data structures problem in Elixir involving judicious use of persistent_term for large long-lived values; neither bungled it terribly, o1 gave a longer, more detailed giant response, but claude gave a much more readable and idiomatic module that I could actually use as a starting point.)
EDIT: I guess he chose not to work there!