OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Defends Pentagon Work to Staff

jesse_dot_id

It's not quite as bad as working for X, xAI, or Tesla, but engineers continuing to work for these companies are taking hits to their reputation as far as I'm concerned. Like, if I see it on a resume beyond a certain date, I'm not considering them types of reputational damage.

tombert

The backlash is "painful"? Maybe don't make a moralizing tweet about your principles only to change them three hours later. It comes off as opportunistic grifting. I don't blame the OpenAI staff (and as far as I am aware most people don't). Most of us end up working for assholes if you go far enough up the chain, but it's different when the CEO tries to earn social credit by having his principles, only to seize on an opportunity and just ignore those principles. He can say "oh well they pinky swore they wouldn't abuse this or redefine laws to say what they're doing is 'lawful'", but I personally would have trouble trusting the words of a convicted fraudster lolcow that we decided to elect as president and an alcoholic Fox News host. I guess that makes me a "radical leftist" though, I'm sure that the 10000 IQ people always trust convicted criminals. I'm sure Sam Altman will make his money, and I'm sure that OpenAI will continue to take over the world like before, but I don't have to fund it myself, hence why I canceled my ChatGPT Plus and signed up for Claude. I'm sure that the CEO for that company will be a douche eventually too, but at least as of right now he seems to have a shrapnel of integrity. I can't read most of the article because most of the common archiving sites don't appear to work.

ranger_danger

> Access is temporarily restricted > We detected unusual activity from your device or network. Anyone have an alternative link? The archive.* sites are also an endless captcha loop for me unfortunately. And no I am not using any VPN or CF DNS/etc.

vldszn

I built a website that shows a timeline of recent events involving Anthropic, OpenAI, and the U.S. government. Posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47195085

globalnode

blaming open ai emps is like blaming current germans for ww2. that sort of collective moral guilt, sometimes even inherited, is simply unfair and stupid. i get that people want to undermine companies' support structure and that their dream is probably to guilt shame open ai's employees into quitting. but it feels like people trying to score points for their own agenda, claim the moral high ground, and label entire groups of people with some sort of guilt by association. its fake. its a game. and they know it.

furryrain

I'm surprised this thread is only on page 5, despite 65 pts and 66 comments in 3 hours. What other factors go into listing position?