← 返回首页
RT Ian Miles Cheong: Is Elon Musk right about Sam Altman? just read the new Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz piece on Sam Altman in The New Yorker, and...
RT Ian Miles Cheong
Is Elon Musk right about Sam Altman? just read the new Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz piece on Sam Altman in The New Yorker, and it is damning. And the answer is yes.
It’s a deep dive based on never-before-seen 70-page memos from Ilya Sutskever and interviews with over a hundred people. The reporting revives the 2023 board drama where Altman was fired for not being “consistently candid,” only to get reinstated in days after employee pressure and Microsoft backing. But the real story is the pattern that led to it: repeated claims that Altman misrepresents facts, downplays safety issues, and tells people whatever they want to hear while steering OpenAI away from its original nonprofit safety mission toward aggressive commercialization, government deals, and power consolidation.
Basically, he’s a lot like ChatGPT. Dishonest and sycophantic.
From Sutskever’s memos and board discussions: “Sam exhibits a consistent pattern of… Lying.” And his direct warning: “I don’t think Sam is the guy who should have his finger on the button.”
On the firing call, Altman reportedly said, “This is just so fucked up… I can’t change my personality.” A board member took it as him admitting he lies and isn’t going to stop.
Altman later told the New Yorker authors: “In the past, my main flaw as a manager had been my eagerness to avoid conflict. Now I’m very happy to fire people quickly.”On integrity: “Yes, [AI] demands a heightened level of integrity, and I feel the weight of the responsibility every day.”
One former colleague summed up the skepticism: “His words were almost certainly bullshit.”
Is Elon Musk right about Sam Altman? just read the new Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz piece on Sam Altman in The New Yorker, and it is damning. And the answer is yes.
It’s a deep dive based on never-before-seen 70-page memos from Ilya Sutskever and interviews with over a hundred people. The reporting revives the 2023 board drama where Altman was fired for not being “consistently candid,” only to get reinstated in days after employee pressure and Microsoft backing. But the real story is the pattern that led to it: repeated claims that Altman misrepresents facts, downplays safety issues, and tells people whatever they want to hear while steering OpenAI away from its original nonprofit safety mission toward aggressive commercialization, government deals, and power consolidation.
Basically, he’s a lot like ChatGPT. Dishonest and sycophantic.
From Sutskever’s memos and board discussions: “Sam exhibits a consistent pattern of… Lying.” And his direct warning: “I don’t think Sam is the guy who should have his finger on the button.”
On the firing call, Altman reportedly said, “This is just so fucked up… I can’t change my personality.” A board member took it as him admitting he lies and isn’t going to stop.
Altman later told the New Yorker authors: “In the past, my main flaw as a manager had been my eagerness to avoid conflict. Now I’m very happy to fire people quickly.”On integrity: “Yes, [AI] demands a heightened level of integrity, and I feel the weight of the responsibility every day.”
One former colleague summed up the skepticism: “His words were almost certainly bullshit.”