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I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken

473 points · 791 comments · Brajeshwar

  1. angoragoats · · focus · HN ↗

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    1. JSR_FDED · · focus · HN ↗
      Doesn’t mean the concerns aren’t valid
      1. miyoji · · focus · HN ↗
        Just less important than personally making generational wealth.
      2. angoragoats · · focus · HN ↗
        I agree, and I think the concerns are invalid for completely separate reasons. But it does mean that the writer of the article is morally bankrupt.
    2. [deleted] · · focus · HN ↗

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    3. mattm · · focus · HN ↗
      The author mentioned that things have become different in the last six months. People are allowed to change their minds when circumstances change.
      1. angoragoats · · focus · HN ↗
        Sam Altman has always been a scummy piece of shit. Company culture comes from the top. If the author only realized that the company is garbage in the last six months, they’ve got some serious introspection to do IMO, and I’m not going to take any of their “concerns” seriously.
    4. verdverm · · focus · HN ↗
      I remember when they said GPT-2 was too dangerous to release...
    5. nunez · · focus · HN ↗
      It can take a while to fully form a position on something. A year isn't really enough for most people to see how deep the rabbit hole goes (unless you were that one CFO that OpenAI had that left after a year). Regardless, publishing a piece like this against a massive company is always a gigantic risk.
      1. angoragoats · · focus · HN ↗
        I’m not a current or former OpenAI employee and I can see from the outside that they’re immoral and unethical enough that I’d never work there in the first place. That’s what I was commenting on. This person is probably set for life, so you’ll have to forgive me if I don’t really take their “concerns” seriously.
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