Link to the NYT article

Aaron Swartz was prosecuted and took his own life for much less...

Can't link to the detailed proof since X links are I think banned in this sub, but you can go to @ SebastienBubeck's X profile and find it

Stein-Erik Soelberg, a 56-year-old former Yahoo manager, killed his mother and then himself after months of conversations with ChatGPT, which fueled his paranoid delusions.

He believed his 83-year-old mother, Suzanne Adams, was plotting against him, and the AI chatbot reinforced these ideas by suggesting she might be spying on him or trying to poison him . For example, when Soelberg claimed his mother put psychedelic drugs in his car's air vents, ChatGPT told him, "You're not crazy" and called it a "betrayal" . The AI also analyzed a Chinese food receipt and claimed it contained demonic symbols . Soelberg enabled ChatGPT's memory feature, allowing it to build on his delusions over time . The tragic murder-suicide occurred on August 5 in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Unlike the current administration, who claim a pause would harm America's competitiveness, Bernie is actually proposing a ban on chip exports to other countries.

Trump recently did the bidding of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and bizarrely ended a ban on the sale of H200 chips to China.

Ronan Farrow spent 18 months reporting this piece, drawing on internal documents that haven’t previously been made public — including ~70 pages of memos compiled by Ilya Sutskever and 200+ pages of private notes kept by Dario Amodei.

The piece covers a lot of ground. Some of what’s in it:

∙ The specific concerns that led the board to fire Altman in 2023. Sutskever’s memos allege a pattern of deception about safety protocols. One begins with a list: “Sam exhibits a consistent pattern of . . .” The first item is “Lying.”

∙ The superalignment team was publicly promised 20% of compute. People who worked on the team say actual resources were 1-2%, on the oldest hardware. The team was dissolved without completing its mission. When reporters asked to interview OpenAI researchers working on existential safety, a company representative replied: “What do you mean by ‘existential safety’? That’s not, like, a thing.”

∙ After Altman’s reinstatement, the firm behind the Enron and WorldCom investigations was hired to review the allegations. No written report was ever produced. Findings were limited to oral briefings.

∙ In a tense call after his firing, the board pressed Altman to acknowledge a pattern of deception. “I can’t change my personality,” he said. A board member’s interpretation: “What it meant was ‘I have this trait where I lie to people, and I’m not going to stop.’”

∙ In OpenAI’s early years, executives discussed playing world powers including China and Russia against each other in a bidding war for AI. The company’s own policy adviser: “We’re talking about potentially the most destructive technology ever invented — what if we sold it to Putin?” The plan was dropped after employees threatened to quit.

∙ When Anthropic refused a Pentagon ultimatum to drop its prohibitions on autonomous weapons, Altman publicly claimed solidarity. But he’d been negotiating with the Pentagon for at least two days. That Friday, OpenAI announced a $50B deal integrating its models into military infrastructure.

∙ Multiple senior Microsoft executives described the relationship as “fraught.” One: “He has misrepresented, distorted, renegotiated, reneged on agreements.”

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Shameful, I'm buying a second Anthropic Max subscription.

Things don't look good for OpenAI...

We trained our models with a 100th of the price… why then Chinese models are never better but always just slightly behind American frontier ones? They are copying.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-set-to-discontinue-sora-video-platform-app-a82a9e4e

Sam Altman has announced that Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents.
As part of the move, OpenClaw will transition to a foundation as an open-source project, with OpenAI continuing to provide support.

https://openai.com/index/sora-2/