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I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken

476 points · 794 comments · Brajeshwar

jameshart · 1791036172 · focus · HN ↗
Gift link: <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/openai-safety-team-resignation/688881/?gift=v5U_UzUTothfWXsPxtvNVAh7esWToMRD6XnbXmc5WgA" rel="nofollow">https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/openai-safety...
1. Lerc · 1791038033 · focus · HN ↗
  That's nice, I do wonder about the legitimacy of a moral statement that you have to pay to see.
  1. jameshart · 1791039766 · focus · HN ↗
    For a very long time publishing something in a newspaper has been considered a way of putting something on the public record - up to and including legal obligations like announcements of deaths. The fact that newspapers cost money has never been considered a barrier to that.
    Lerc · 1791062437 · focus · HN ↗
    Publishing in a newspaper gets you distribution and a permanent record. After one day access was also virtually free.
    Going behind a paywall is a reduced distribution over what an individual can easily access, and the content is no longer permanent but subject to whatever the publisher chooses to keep providing.
    jameshart · 1791064774 · focus · HN ↗
    It’s in The Atlantic. There’ll be a copy in the Library of Congress. You’ll be able to read it for free in any dentist’s waiting room for the next six months.
    frm88 · 1791095965 · focus · HN ↗
    In the US, maybe. That's around 4% of the world population.
    simoncion · 1791101331 · focus · HN ↗
    > You’ll be able to read it for free in any dentist’s waiting room...
    Methinks that this says quite a lot about your socioeconomic situation. I've not seen The Atlantic in a dentist's waiting room.
    code_duck · 1791122237 · focus · HN ↗
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    pram · 1791131312 · focus · HN ↗
    I don’t think I have seen a real print copy of The Atlantic in my entire life fwiw lol

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