The fact that Sam Altman is a liar is no longer news. As I argued here in late 2023, Altman truly was fired for being “not completely candid” — just like the board said. Recent books by Karen Hao and Keach Hagey pretty much confirm this. I dissected his 2023 Senate testimony here.
But just in case any one was seriously still in doubt a just-released 62-page deposition from Ilya Sutskever ought to seal the deal:
But it is no longer about lying to employees. It is about directly lying to the American public. Events of the last couple days surrounding Wednesday OpenAI’s CFO Sarah Friar’s call for loan guarantees have brought things to a new level.
The very idea – of having the US government bail out OpenAI from their reckless spending — is outrageous, as I explained here:
This dude has a sister that is basically homeless. I know there is some controversy on some things she claims to be true and what isn’t. She was still homeless prior to the assault claims.
“not completely candid”
It seems every rich asshole is entitled to such euphemisms. Welp, I’m just glad somebody uses the L-word against him now.
Also, Fuck the AI hype.
Maybe he’s just “halucinating”. There’s a lot of that happening all over the place nowadays.
It’s infuriating that they can openly run their business into the ground to get a bailout, and it will probably still work even though everyone knows that’s what they’re doing.
Wouldn’t surprise me if, after the inevitable bailout, it comes out that OpenAI actually helped China out behind the scenes to fuel the arms race. Why wouldn’t they? The competition, patticularly losing the competition, is to their direct benefit when their end goal is a federal bailout. The more competition, the bigger the ballot they can justify. They can extend themselves further, they can entrench themselves deeper into more companies, and when these inevitable collapse begins, they can take more government money, lest the Chinese “win”.
Frankly, the moment it became apparent that their intent was to use the American tax pay as the backstop to their private deals, let alone when they actually fucking said as much out loud for everyone to hear, the company should have been done. Period. It should have had all assets frozen and all deals legally voided immediately. It should have been dissolved as an entity entirely, and all of its executives should have been charged with tax fraud and likely other charges. That goes for the executives at these other companies making deals for multiple times their current revenue, which still leaves them net negative in the first place, on the unfounded promise of unprecedented future revenue streams. And that is top of dozens of other companies getting similar deals. They have to have known that the intent was to use the federal government to stopgap the deals, making them directly complicit in this fraud. Charge them too.
Sure. Because there aren’t any rules for those people. You, me? If we tried this we would be in jail for 12 years with no puppy and limited toilet
palatepaper.May your misspell prophecy his future.
lol shit, autocorrect.
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12 years? You’re thinking of murder. He’s taking rich people’s money, he’d never see daylight again.
Haha. I suppose that’s true. Concrete boots for that guy
Oh someone finally noticed he might not be completely trustworthy huh?
Jfc.
Something to keep in mind when hearing about his sisters accusations that he sexually assaulted her for years.
