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Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees

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Re: Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees

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Post by Tao3300 »

warcher wrote: post #199
gundmc wrote: post #169

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> I went from very active on multiple subreddits to barely posting once every few months. Instead of answering programming questions or helping people get in shape I'm on other sites doing other things. Changes like that are hard to measure. Changes in sentiment can be hard to measure, but changes in posting behavior seems incredibly easy to measure.

It’s the rule of ten (I made that up) 1:10 upvote. 1:10 of them comment. 1:10 post. The people barking are actually the least worrisome, they’re highly engaged. The meat of your users say nothing and are only visible in-house. That said, they also don’t give a shit about most of this. They want their content and they want it now. I am very confident spez knows exactly what he’s talking about.

Some salty downvotes going on in here!

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Post by danielmarkbruce »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #243
danielmarkbruce wrote: post #130

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I don't think it was negotiated on exit. It was threatened on exit. The ability to do it was almost certainly already in place.

> The ability to do it was almost certainly already in place Why? OpenAI is a shitshow. Their legal structure is a mess. Yanking vested equity on the basis of a post-purchase agreement signed under duress sounds closer to securities fraud than anything thought out.

I'm not saying it was thought out, I'm saying it was in place. My understanding is that the shareholders agreement had something which enabled the canceling of the shares (not sure if it was all shares, shares granted to employees, or what). I have not seen the document, so you may be right, but that's my understanding.

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Post by a_bonobo »

achiandet wrote: post #142
ra7 wrote: post #61

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I don’t think it’s only AI influencers that do this. I’ve noticed people use lowercase as some sort of power move. Like they’re so busy and important they don’t care about conventions.

It's certainly a modern status symbol that can be seen as a power move.

So common in academia! The student writes a detailed, error-checked, well-edited long email only to receive an answer like

'yes plaese

Sent from my iPhone'

Definitely a 'I'm very busy look at me' powermove

Re: Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees

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Post by jrflowers »

5e92cb50239222b wrote: post #11
mateus1 wrote: post #4

What surprises me about these stories surrounding openAI is how they apologize while lying and downplaying any blame. Do they expect anybody to believe they didn’t know about clawback clauses?

Do they care? The mob will shout for a week or two and then turn their attention somewhere else. spez (the reddit chief) said something like that about their users, and he was absolutely right. A few days ago I was re-reading some of those threads about reddit API changes from ten months back where so many users claimed it was their last message and they were leaving for good. Almost none of them did. I checked two d…

> I checked two dozen profiles and all but one of them had fresh comments posted within that same day.

I also remember when the internet was talking about the twenty four Reddit accounts that threatened to quit the site. It’s enlightening to see that the protest the size of Jethro Tull didn’t impact the site

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Post by dexwiz »

dmitrygr wrote: post #62

Going to be hard to keep claiming you didn’t know something, if your signature is on it. I don’t really think a CEO gets to say he didn’t read what he was signing.

There is another very famous leader on trial for exactly that right now.

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Post by HaZeust »

ra7 wrote: post #61
minimaxir wrote: post #30

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Semi off-topic, but the trend of AI influencers adopting the all-lowercase communication style in professional conversation has been very annoying. It makes them appear completely unserious. I recently received an job recruitment email for an AI role in all-lowercase and I was baffled how to interpret it.

I don’t think it’s only AI influencers that do this. I’ve noticed people use lowercase as some sort of power move. Like they’re so busy and important they don’t care about conventions.

It also appears softer and borderline condescending. I always thought it was feminine because I've only seen women do it before very recently.

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Post by 8372049 »

suroot wrote: post #187
nwoli wrote: post #183

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They’re definitely doing this on comments too. I’ve had negative towards altman comments at the top dropped to below the negative voted ones in the past

Wait til you hear what happened to Michael O’Church.

This or something else?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9593177

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Post by dmvdoug »

ecjhdnc2025 wrote: post #226
danielmarkbruce wrote: post #213

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It must. Joke aside - I'm saying "it must" the same way someone might say "surely".

Wise. Stops people saying "and don't call me Shirley!"

Don’t call me Shirley.

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Post by warcher »

Tao3300 wrote: post #251
warcher wrote: post #199

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It’s the rule of ten (I made that up) 1:10 upvote. 1:10 of them comment. 1:10 post. The people barking are actually the least worrisome, they’re highly engaged. The meat of your users say nothing and are only visible in-house. That said, they also don’t give a shit about most of this. They want their content and they want it now. I am very confident spez knows exactly what he’s talking about.

Some salty downvotes going on in here!

Imagine how many people I actually pissed off to get those downvotes!

Re: Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees

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Post by HaZeust »

ra7 wrote: post #128
fragmede wrote: post #78

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it's because the stupidphone's stupid keyboard capitalizes for you in the wrong places, and you have to take extra effort to fix it when they get it wrong, or you turn it off, and then get lazy about fixing it when you do need the capitalization.

Does it? When I start a message, the keyboard automatically capitalizes. It also does it when a sentence starts after a period. I rarely ever have to fix capitalization. (I typed this from my phone)

I get incorrectly capitalized one in every 250 times the keyboard is used, I'd imagine.
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