Alexandra Alter, in the lede for her profile of Marissa Mayer’s new AI startup Dazzle for The New York Times (gift link):

Late last year, Marissa Mayer was struggling with what felt like
an impossible task.

Her daughter Marielle was turning 10, and Marielle’s teacher
wanted three bullet points summarizing what made her special.
Mayer — the former chief executive of Yahoo and a pioneer at
Google, where she was the first female engineer — likes cracking
a hard problem. But she felt overwhelmed by the range and
complexity of potential answers.

So Mayer asked her personal A.I. assistant, Dazzle. Within a few
seconds, Dazzle delivered an answer.

“It came back and was like, your daughter is empathetic, creative
and an animal lover,” Mayer said. She thought it was perfect.

That anecdote is brutal. It makes it seem like Mayer has lost her mind. She’s getting roasted for it on social media. I suspected (and hoped) there was more to the story. There was. Here’s Mayer herself on X:

To be clear, I didn’t use Dazzle because I was overwhelmed by
making a slide. I used it because summing up your child in a few
bullets feels laughably limiting. And, since our team had just
gotten an early prototype running, I wanted to see what deeper
threads it might find.

She might just be hyping her startup. But she definitely didn’t tell The Times that she needed help from AI to remember that her own daughter is “empathetic, creative, and an animal lover”. She seemingly got done dirty by Alter and the Times on that use-case anecdote.