[Paddyz]

[dead]

[tjwebbnorfolk]

Convincing naive people that you're building AI because you love people is the fastest route to power. You have it backwards. There was never any "arc".

[giancarlostoro]

S(c)am Altman has had this messed up story arc the entire time, the problem is most people are unaware. Remember when he declared himself the chairman of Y Combinator, they deleted it from YC's blog / website, he filed as YC's chairman with the SEC for years despite not actually being chairman. This was after he stepped down as CEO. Then there's all the sketchiness surrounding some companies he sold.

Guy's the worlds most successful grifter who has world economies by the... anyway...

[tempodox]

He’s prime dirtbag material. He and this administration deserve each other.

[MitziMoto]

Sama is the world's second most successful grifter. There's one guy ahead of him.

[kgwxd]

Tool assisted. And I'm not talking about the AI.

[archon810]

It was Greg and Anna Brockman who donated, not Altman. But close enough to the goal post.

[hn_throwaway_99]

In the past I've felt like some of the anti-Altman rhetoric on HN was overkill. It some cases it felt like piling on, and while there was definitely some shady stuff in the past, it seemed like folks were too quick to paste the "evil" banner on anything they disagreed with.

I was wrong, and I no longer think that. I now lump him in with the rest of the narcissistic sociopaths I see with so much power in the country. I'm honestly really curious what past Altman champions like paulg think of him now. I just don't see how this is the slightest bit defensible.

The "We Will Not Be Divided" pledge at https://notdivided.org/ (and discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188473 ) has 96 OpenAI signatories. Time for these people to show if their signatures actually meant something or were just meaningless theater. It's not like these people would have much of trouble getting jobs given they're AI experts with resumes to back it up. Signing that pledge and then staying at OpenAI after this would just look like rank hypocrisy to me.

[gwerbin]

I feel the same way about this as I feel about Trump himself. Nobody should be surprised or disappointed, you shouldn't have expected any different.

[computably]

Well, I'm not surprised, although I think I'm still within my rights to be disappointed. What's unfortunate is I expect some people to be surprised.