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0 pointsur-whale1y ago0 comments

> Almost the entire company

Almost the entire company is composed of wide-eyed young AI researchers who probably were never confronted in their entire life to the kind of psychopathic predator Altman seems to be.

One of the thing these type of folks excel at is winning the hearts of bright yet gullible folks.

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marcinzm1y ago

It's the same as all the revolutionaries and cult leaders that turned into dictators once in power.

Those seeking a greater meaning to their lives get drawn to the sweet nectar of lies that tells them their life will have meaning as long as, and only if, they just keep following the leader's every wish.

Except this time it's not aliens following Halley's comet but AGI.

Cthulhu_1y ago

Plus they - in theory - have a huge vested financial interest. All the OpenAI employees, assuming they held some kind of stock, became millionaires overnight as ChatGPT took off.

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