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OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership

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Re: OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership

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RaftPeople wrote: post #61
ryandrake wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of us here could easily do the day-to-day work of the CEO of our companies. Somehow we have adopted this corporate mysticism that tells us that people with CxO or SVP in their titles are somehow smarter, more skilled, more qualified than the rank-and-file, but I don't think it's true. They eat and shit just like we do.

> Most of us here could easily do the day-to-day work of the CEO of our companies. I'm not so sure about that. When I do a thought exercise and put myself in our CEO's shoes, I think "ok, which decisions do I need to make today to keep the company thriving in the next 3 or 5 or 10 years?" For me personally, I don't really know. You can't just do the same thing because the economy is constantly evolving, but I can't s…

Here's the trick: the CEO doesn't know either, but they make decisions anyway. Knowing that they don't know is a good skill for a CEO to have, it freezing when they don't know is not.

Re: OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership

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Post by smallmancontrov »

dylan604 wrote: post #54
ralph84 wrote: post #36

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That doesn't solve anything when the fraudster is filing a fake return. They are under no obligation to include all of your carefully chosen income and deductions that get you to $1000 owed.

What? In order to get a refund, that means you have to overpaid what you owe. It's pretty simple. If you are not putting in enough, the fraudster cannot get a refund as you still owe. Like, where is the break down? They would have to know how much you have paid, and then file so many deductions that it'd probably trigger an audit. If you file that many audits not with an account signing off of them, I could only imag…

Why would a scammer be discouraged by the possibility that the person they have chosen to steal from might get audited?

Re: OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership

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Post by danesparza »

Mashimo wrote: post #18

> Tools For Humanity is actually partnering with Thirty Seconds to Mars on their 2027 European tour. While TFH has not disclosed the actual reason for the false Bruno Mars announcement, it looks a bit like a case of mistaken identity. Pretty ironic, since the company’s whole shtick is supposedly verifying human identities. :)

Actually, they are partnering with "The Martian" book tour. They're brining it back, baby!

Re: OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership

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Post by RobRivera »

danesparza wrote: post #74
Mashimo wrote: post #18

> Tools For Humanity is actually partnering with Thirty Seconds to Mars on their 2027 European tour. While TFH has not disclosed the actual reason for the false Bruno Mars announcement, it looks a bit like a case of mistaken identity. Pretty ironic, since the company’s whole shtick is supposedly verifying human identities. :)

Actually, they are partnering with "The Martian" book tour. They're brining it back, baby!

Shrimp and all

Re: OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership

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Post by buttercraft »

RaftPeople wrote: post #61
ryandrake wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of us here could easily do the day-to-day work of the CEO of our companies. Somehow we have adopted this corporate mysticism that tells us that people with CxO or SVP in their titles are somehow smarter, more skilled, more qualified than the rank-and-file, but I don't think it's true. They eat and shit just like we do.

> Most of us here could easily do the day-to-day work of the CEO of our companies. I'm not so sure about that. When I do a thought exercise and put myself in our CEO's shoes, I think "ok, which decisions do I need to make today to keep the company thriving in the next 3 or 5 or 10 years?" For me personally, I don't really know. You can't just do the same thing because the economy is constantly evolving, but I can't s…

Nah, even if you fail miserably, you'll still get a nice payout and retire comfortably. Hell, you can even commit crimes and the company will pay the fines for you!

Re: OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership

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Post by rvnx »

Something I don’t understand, how does that verify identity? Couldn’t a third-party person simply save the pictures taken by the Orb (especially by modifying the firmware)?

What’s with this crypto-coins that goes with it ? That doesn’t make sense, seems like a pretext

Re: OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership

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Post by RobRivera »

cowsandmilk wrote: post #37
semiquaver wrote: post #21

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How could this mixup possibly lead to the head of product announcing a Bruno Mars collaboration on stage??? I’m trying to imagine the series of events that could lead to this happening and I’m coming up woefully short.

I routinely have to correct product managers repeatedly on key details of how their products work and how their customers operate so this doesn’t surprise me at all. It is totally a mistake I could see a product management director having been corrected on a dozen times but they keep making it.

I have to ask you for coaching advice here, as I may or may not be experiencing similar things. Does the correction impact your political capital? I am a firm believer in critique in private, but in key meetings where capabilities are the inputs to other discussion, it is difficult to bite my tongue
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