Ex-OpenAI Staff Ask State AGs to Block Company's For-Profit Conversion
#OpenAI #AISafety #AGI #TechRegulation #Nonprofit #PBC #AIethics #SamAltman #ElonMusk #CaliforniaAG #DelawareAG
Recent searches
Search options
#samaltman
10 posts10 participants1 post today
Replied in thread
@exchgr watched that and the previous one from 5 years ago. This after reading her final Observer piece. Sad. I didn’t pick up on quite the hostility in the second TED audience, though I wasn’t on the stage. What a brave woman and important message.
I used to leave my #silentsunday photos up but now I share and delete after a day or so. The #AI #samaltman chilling effect.
I'm hearing that Sam Altman is imploring people to stop saying "Please" and "Thank You" to ChatGPT. He claims it's costing OpenAI millions or tens of millions of dollars to process those parts of messages, which he thinks are extraneous.
I have some thoughts on this:
- Nobody should be taking advice about Tech from anyone who's as full of shit as Sam Altman.
- If ChatGPT is so poorly made that simple displays of manners are sending OpenAI broke even more quickly than the unprofitability resulting from their own inept business decisions, I can only urge you to maintain your fine sense of manners.
- Humans have a tendency to anthropomorphise machines; they treat computers like they treat people. People want an empathic connection to people, and part of that includes being polite to people. When Sam Altman is telling people to stop being polite to computers, he's saying he thinks it's okay for people not to be polite to people. That reveals what sort of person he is: lacking empathy to the point of being toxic.
- Suppose those annoying Roko's Basilisk twerps are right. Suppose a magical Artificial Intelligence God springs into existence from doing a copy-and-paste of your Facebook posts and by observing millions of tiresome Tech Bros arguing on Stack Overflow about their preferred colour for a bike-shed. According to the fable of Roko's Basilisk, that AI God is petty and vengeful — even worse than a basement -dwelling chud with a grudge and a burner-account on Reddit. It has a good memory, and it's made a list of people it wants to torture for eternity. And, you were rude to the ChatGPT and didn't even say "Please" and "Thankyou" occasionally, so now you've painted a target on your back. I'm so sorry, but you brought this on yourself because you listened to Sam Fucking Altman.
It’s not too late to stop Trump and the Silicon Valley broligarchy from controlling our lives, but we must act now | Carole Cadwalladr https://www.theguardian.com/global/2025/apr/20/carole-cadwalladr-ted-talk-this-is-what-a-digital-coup-looks-like-its-not-too-late-to-stop-trump-and-the-silicon-valley-broligarchy-from-controlling-our-lives-but-we-must-act-now #Artificialintelligence(AI) #SiliconValley #Technology #SamAltman #Computing #Wikipedia #ElonMusk #ChatGPT #OpenAI #Ted
The Guardian · It’s not too late to stop Trump and the tech broligarchy from controlling our lives, but we must act now
♬ 
“I’m delighted to announce #PeterThiel is joining #YC as one of the (now 10!) part-time partners.
In addition to founding #PayPal and #Palantir and being the first investor in #Facebook, Peter has been involved with many of the most important #technology companies of the last 15 years, both personally and through #FoundersFund, and the founders of those companies will generally tell you he has been their best source of #strategic #advice.” — Sam Altman, 2015.
Compare the sign on blog post (Altman) to the tweet (pg as shown).
When you take capital from #Thiel, then only realise a decade later it wasn’t a good idea. At the time when this was announced I thought, “Oh shit #PG, don’t do it”. Then history.
It’s the lure of capital. You get covered in the deeds of these shitty founders (Thiel) and you have to back track, knowing it was blood money.
#Startups / #YCombinator / #pg / #SamAltman / #BloodMoney / #tech / #technology / #merica <https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/welcome-peter/>
https://www.europesays.com/uk/34855/ Startup Cradlewise Gets Boost From Sam Altman’s Shoutout #Business #BusinessGrowth #BusinessInnovation #Cradlewise #EntrepreneurialSupport #Entrepreneurship #SamAltman #SanFrancisco #SiliconValley #StartupBoost #StartupNews #TechStartups #UK #UnitedKingdom
️
Sam Altman ist der Klimawandel egal. KI verbraucht enorm viel Energie und Wasser. Welche Folgen hat diese Einstellung für die Zukunft des Planeten? #samaltman #openai #ai #ki #klimawandel
Ylellä on kriittinen dokkari tekoälystä. Köyhissä maissa ihmiset luokittelevat video- ja tekstiaineistoa tekoälyn kouluttamiseksi. Vastineeksi he saavat kitupalkan ja mielenterveysongelmia, sillä aineisto sisältää väkivaltaa ja raskaita rikoksia. Ts. samaa tuotannon ulkoistamista köyhiin, vähän säädeltyihin maihin kolonialismin hengessä kuin vaate-, kaivos- ja elektroniikkateollisuudessa.
Samaan aikaan tekoäly-yhtiöiden johtajat tavoittelevat ikuista elämää koneen sisällä ja uskovat, että ihmiskyvyt ylittävä tekoäly ratkaisisi ihmisten tuottamat ongelmat. Ei, tämä ei ole kyberpunkia, vaan totisinta totta.
https://areena.yle.fi/1-72552985
Alkuperäisnimi : Les Sacrifiés de l'IA
Ohjaaja: Henri Poulain
Vuosi: 2024
Yle AreenaTekoälyn ytimessäTekoäly helpottaa elämää, mutta tekoälyn ydin pysyy piilossa. Samalla kun jättimaiset datakeskukset kuluttavat sähköenergiaa paperikoneiden verran ja kuivattavat jokia, miljoonat työntekijät ympäri maailmaa tekevät yksitoikkoista työtä olemattomalla palkalla ruokkiakseen teknologiajättien algoritmeja. Monet heistä henkisen ja emotionaalisen terveytensä kustannuksella, osa heistä jopa Suomessa, Hämeenlinnan naisvankilassa. (Les Sacrifiés de l'IA, Ranska 2024)
#SamAltman Admits That Saying "Please" and "Thank You" to #ChatGPT Is Wasting Millions of Dollars in Computing Power https://futurism.com/altman-please-thanks-chatgpt
Futurism · Sam Altman Admits That Saying "Please" and "Thank You" to ChatGPT Is Wasting Millions of Dollars in Computing Power
„Bitte“ und „Danke“ kosten ChatGPT jährlich 10 Mio. US-Dollar – nur für Strom. Absurd? Oder cleveres UX-Investment? Sam Altman findet: Höfliche KI lohnt sich. Doch was sagt das über unsere Erwartungen an Maschinen – und ihren Energiehunger? Diskutiere mit. 
https://www.all-ai.de/news/top-news24/stromrechnung-mit-stil-wie-h%C3%B6flichkeit-chatgpt-millionen-kostet #OpenAI #SamAltman #KI
Not good: OpenAI is building a social network
https://www.theverge.com/openai/648130/openai-social-network-x-competitor
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43694877
"This kind of news should be a death-knell for OpenAI"
.. to challenge Musk/X/Grok | Zuckerberg/LlAMA/MetaAI
Perhaps explains also recent move by Trump sycophant Zuckerberg / Meta to push the LlAMA LLM programming / content further to the right.
https://bsky.app/profile/persagen.bsky.social/post/3lmhu3j4mzs2v
The Verge · OpenAI is building a social network
Reuters: California attorney general declines to join Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI. “The California attorney general’s office declined to join a lawsuit by Elon Musk against OpenAI, the agency wrote in a letter made public on Tuesday, saying the office did not see how Musk’s action serves the public interest of the state.”
ResearchBuzz: Firehose | Individual posts from ResearchBuzz · Reuters: California attorney general declines to join Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI | ResearchBuzz: Firehose
More from 
ResearchBuzz: Firehose
»#OpenAI is building a #socialnetwork: Is #SamAltman ready to up his rivalry with #ElonMusk and #MarkZuckerberg?« https://www.theverge.com/openai/648130/openai-social-network-x-competitor?eicker.news #tech #media #news
The Verge · OpenAI is building a social network
OpenAI is building its own X-like social media network. Via @Techcrunch. #ChatGPT #X #SamAltman #ElonMusk #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/AMWGCF
TechCrunch · OpenAI is reportedly developing its own X-like social media platform | TechCrunchOpenAI is building its own X-like social media network, according to a new report from The Verge. The project is still in the early stages, but there's an
Ein Twitter-Klon von OpenAI? Sam Altman will offenbar mehr als Chatbots – ein soziales Netzwerk mit integrierter KI-Funktion ist in Arbeit. Bildgenerierung im Feed, neue Datenquellen, direkter Angriff auf X & Meta. Geht's um Innovation oder Kontrolle? Diskutiere mit. https://www.all-ai.de/news/top-news24/sieht-so-der-openai-twitter-klon-aus #OpenAI #SamAltman #KI
#OpenAI wants to launch a #screenlesssmartphone
To take on #Apple #iPhone
#ioProducts
Co-founded by #JonyIve #FormerDesignHead #Apple and #SamAltman #CEO #OpenAI
Volte-face pour OpenAI, qui réfléchit à une rémunération des artistes
https://mac4ever.com/188674
#Mac4Ever #OpenAI #SamAltman
”…Sam Altman is, despite outward appearances, not a nice fellow. This came apparent in a new way on Friday, when TED’s leader, Chris Anderson, usually quite friendly to AI, pushed Sam on copyright issues.”
—Gary Marcus
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/sam-altmans-attitude-problem
#samaltman #altman #openai #intellectualproperty
Marcus on AI · Sam Altman’s attitude problem
When is 4.1 greater than 4.5? When it’s OpenAI’s newest model. - On Monday, OpenAI announced the GPT-4.1 model family, its newest series of... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/when-is-4-1-greater-than-4-5-when-its-openais-newest-model/ #largelanguagemodels #machinelearning #aiassistants #samaltman #chatgpt #chatgtp #gpt-4.1 #gpt-4.5 #biz #gpt-4 #api #ai
Ars Technica · OpenAI continues naming chaos despite CEO acknowledging the habit
Former OpenAI researcher Todor Markov adds fuel to the fire in Musk's lawsuit, claiming Altman lied about silencing NDAs. He argues this exposes OpenAI's safe AGI charter as a smokescreen used to attract talent while chasing growth.
#OpenAI #SamAltman #AIethics
