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Re: OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment

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Post by kube-system »

dgfitz wrote: post #22

I wonder who called to ask about his well-being. The Boeing guy killed himself, this guy apparently killed himself. The pattern of David vs Goliath, where David kills himself, is almost becoming a pattern.

When David is just a nobody, and Goliath has all of the legal and PR resources in the world, Goliath doesn't even have to swing a punch. Goliath can just drive them crazy with social and legal pressure. Also, David might have been a bit of a decision-making outlier to begin with, being the kind of person who decides going up against Goliath is a good idea.

Re: OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment

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Post by recursive »

karlgkk wrote: post #6
recursive wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some do. Some don't. What's the basis for your analysis? Keep in mind that some people actually do kill themselves.

It’s not even released if it’s suicide. Please don’t uselessly speculate until more info is released. My wishes are with his family

I'm anti-speculating. My point is that no one knows what happened.

Re: OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment

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Post by bbqfog »

shusaku wrote: post #66
lolinder wrote: post #18

Normally the word "whistleblower" means someone who revealed previously-unknown facts about an organization. In this case he's a former employee who had an interview where he criticized OpenAI, but the facts that he was in possession of were not only widely known at the time but were the subject of an ongoing lawsuit that had launched months prior. As much as I want to give this a charitable reading, the only explana…

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Isn't it the other way around since OpenAI is training their models on news company content? OpenAI has behaved extremely unethical the entire time it has existed. It's very likely there is foul play here, it fits the pattern.

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Post by OutOfHere »

dang wrote: post #53
OutOfHere wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> Not that thoughtful. Copyright law is mostly harmful. Apparently he couldn't realize this simple conclusion. " Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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fantasticfifty wrote: post #55

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Single-purpose accounts aren't allowed on HN, and neither is using the site primarily for political/ideological/national battle. Since this account has been doing those things, I've banned it.

Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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dang wrote: post #77
fantasticfifty wrote: post #55

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Single-purpose accounts aren't allowed on HN, and neither is using the site primarily for political/ideological/national battle. Since this account has been doing those things, I've banned it. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Protecting your pedophile Zionist handlers, got it.

Re: OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment

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Post by TMWNN »

DevX101 wrote: post #20

Anyone who's a whistleblower should compile key docs and put it in a "dead man's switch" service that releases your testimony/docs to multiple news agencies in the event of your untimely demise. The company you're whistle blowing against and their major shareholders should know this exists. Also, regularly post public video attesting to you current mental state.

Didn't Luigi Mangione do this, arrange for a YouTube video to auto-publish after his arrest?

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Post by calf »

lolinder wrote: post #18

Normally the word "whistleblower" means someone who revealed previously-unknown facts about an organization. In this case he's a former employee who had an interview where he criticized OpenAI, but the facts that he was in possession of were not only widely known at the time but were the subject of an ongoing lawsuit that had launched months prior. As much as I want to give this a charitable reading, the only explana…

> Normally the word "whistleblower" means someone who revealed previously-unknown facts about an organization.

A whistleblower could also be someone in the process of doing so, i.e. they have a claim about the organization, as well as a promise to give detailed facts and evidence later in a courtroom.

I think that's the more commonsense understanding of what whistleblowers are and what they do. Your remark hinges on a narrow definition.

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