We need only ask the dead. Aaron Schwartz knew what Altman is. The answer to the topic is no.
did I read, sam said along with others , he would do AI for mankind, for free? but then collected royalties , Elon had a fallout over it I recall
Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?
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Thank you for this, very much appreciate the thoughtful response. The piece captures some of the anxieties within OpenAI right now about their competitive position. This obviously ebbs and flows but of late there has been much focus on Anthropic's relative position. We of course mention the allegations of "circular deals" and concerns about partners taking on debt.
Thank you. Yes, I saw that. The company's always been surrounded by endless talk about insane hype, speculative bubbles, and financial engineering. I wasn't asking so much about that. I was asking more about your informed view on how OpenAI's technology, products, and roadmap are perceived, particularly by customers and partners, in comparison to those of competitors. If you have an opinion about that, everyone here…
UPDATE: Well-regarded people on HN are saying OpenAI's most recent GPT-5x codex model is better than Claude 5x for certain coding tasks:
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maybe white teenaged ("military aged") males should stop shooting up American schools. you see hoe your argument is bigoted?
It's bigoted to observe white teenaged males shoot up American schools at a frequency unprecedented worldwide? Oh well then
> unprecedented
Oh it's pretty precedented by American blacks, since they commit school shootings at a higher frequency.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Racial-Ethnic-Identity-o...
Do you understand what the term "per capita" means? We should force people to take a test on this term before you're allowed to comment on racial issues.
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#976Ronan Farrow here. Andrew Marantz and I spent 18 months on this investigation. Happy to answer questions about the reporting.
I just spent a while reading the article. I really appreciate you writing it. In my case, it made me like Sam Altman a lot more. But I was only able to conclude this because of all the evidence you took the time to put together. It paints the picture of someone trying to do something very difficult in a rapidly changing environment and a lot of pressure, but still making the important choices and not shirking them.
In this industry, truly anything can be rationalized.
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Can you give more details? It wouldn't particularly surprise me if Sam Altman were racist, but I'm curious what the specific incident you observed was.
Yes, but first I want to be very clear on some things. 1. I could have hidden my identify behind a throwaway. I did not feel that would be appropriate when making this calim. 2. I am not looking for anything, literally at all. Any follow ups for blogs; anything that would benefit I will not answer. 3. This is NOT a new account, I am very easy to find; I am 6'1 140lbs I was working for a company called NationBuilder a…
Another black guy here, and I have to say man, if you're going to accuse someone of being racist( which you clearly are you despite the lame ass disclaimer, if his feelings towards black people is influencing hiring at OAI how is he not racist?) why don't you actually say specifically what he did?
"He damn near flagged down the police" tells us nothing about what actually happened. Did he back away? Did he look panicked? Did he say something dismissive? Did he literally call for police or security? You give all these pointless details like where you work and your height, and retreat to vagueness when coming to the actual behavior you're indicting him for.
A rich gay Jewish kid from St.Louis being weary, or even scared of black people is quite believable, a public figure screaming for police because a black guy he was next to said hi just beggars belief, especially when layered in emotionally charged nonspecific language.
And you don't even have the balls to admit you clearly think the guy who calls the cops on black people for saying hi to him, is racist, which you clearly do.
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Your point is that it's ok he's untrustworthy because lots of people in power are?
Not sure where I said it's OK? Please point it out. We have to deal with it. Or are you suggesting we should purchase a controlling interest and vote him off the board?
> A bit of a feeling of "so what" here.
That part right there implied you're ok with it
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#979Ronan Farrow here. Andrew Marantz and I spent 18 months on this investigation. Happy to answer questions about the reporting.
Thank you for coming on HN and offering to answer questions.[a] This is a fantastic piece, very timely, evidently well-researched, and also well-written. Judging by the little that I know, it's accurate. Thank you for doing the work and sharing it with the world. OpenAI may be in a more tenuous competitive position than many people realize. Recent anecdotal evidence suggests the company has lost its lead in the AI ra…
I’m assuming this is all sarcasm.
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You associating skin color with this behavior is the very definition of racism.
I don't care. It's not 2020 anymore
Time doesn't matter in relation to facts that we already knew about 100 years ago. You're actively discriminating based on something the affected people have NO control over, with no basis whatsoever other than vibes. Imagine someone took all your family's rights away and locked them all in cages, based on who your great great great grandpa was, which has never come up until now. Would that be fair? Would you care? That's a similar level of senseless discrimination.
I don't think the people discriminated against, who are people just like you and me, with feelings, families, etc. would give a shit if it was 2020 or 3020 or 1995. Acting on opinions like the one you've expressed explicitly makes the world a more unfair, worse place to live.