[synarchefriend]

"Senior employees leaving due to its powers being so extreme"

This never happened. No one said it happened.

"the model some media outlet reported recently that is so powerful OAI is considering charging $2k/month for"

The Information reported someone at a meeting suggested this for future models, not specifically Strawberry, and that it would probably not actually be that high.

[shmatt]

Elon Musk and Ilya Sutskever Have Warned About OpenAI’s ‘Strawberry’ Jul 15, 2024 — Sutskever himself had reportedly begun to worry about the project's technology, as did OpenAI employees working on A.I. safety at the time.

https://observer.com/2024/07/openai-employees-concerns-straw...

And I’m ignoring the hundreds of Reddit articles speculating every time someone at OAI leaves

And of course that $2000 article was spread by every other media outlet like wildfire

I know I’m partially to blame for believing the hype, this is pretty obviously no better at stating facts or good code than what we’ve known for the past year

[semi-extrinsic]

My hypothesis about these people who are afraid of AI, is that they have tricked themselves into believing they are in their current position of influence due to their own intelligence (as opposed to luck, connections, etc.)

Then they drink the marketing koolaid, and it follows naturally that they worry an AI system can obtain similar positions of influence.