Sam Altman Steps Down as OpenAI CEO

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

Seems like the mofo was chasing a bag and clout so they got him up outter there

 

[Micky Mikey]

I’ll just agree to disagree.

What's your take on it?

 

[BaggerofTea]

I think taking humans out of the equation when it comes to some things is good. Lets face it. Humans kind of suck when it comes to running a stable and healthy civilization for ourselves and the planet. We need a higher intelligence to solve some the issues we face, whether its climate change, disease or poverty. The best outcome with A.I. is that it could eliminate the need for most human labor, while simultaneously providing abundance for everyone the planet. We'll have to figure out new ways of being and it will inevitably cause some problems. Especially for those who've come to identify with their work/profession.

I don't think extinction is something to worry about if we align A.I. successfully. And even without A.I. we're headed for collapse due to climate change anyway. IMO A.I. is one best shots we have to avert human extinction and collapse.

You underestimate machines

 

[bnew]

theres more info in the link

Sam Altman's sister, Annie Altman, claims Sam has severely abused her — LessWrong

TW: Sexual assault, abuse, child abuse, suicidal ideation, severe mental illnesses/trauma, graphic (sexual) langauge …

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Sam Altman's sister, Annie Altman, claims Sam has severely abused her​

by pl5015

33 min read7th Oct 202387 comments
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Sam Altman's sister, Annie Altman, claims Sam has severely abused her​

by pl5015

33 min read7th Oct 202387 comments

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TW: Sexual assault, abuse, child abuse, suicidal ideation, severe mental illnesses/trauma, graphic (sexual) langauge

This post aims to aggregate a collection of statements made by Annie Altman, Sam Altman's (lesser-known) younger sister, in which Annie asserts that she has suffered various (severe) forms of abuse from Sam Altman throughout her life (as well as from her brother Jack Altman, though to a lesser extent.)

Annie states that the forms of abuse she's endured include sexual, physical, emotional, verbal, financial, technological (shadowbanning), pharmacological (forced Zoloft), and psychological abuse.

I do not attempt to speak for Annie; rather, my goal is to provide an objective and unbiased aggregation of the claims Annie has made, as well as of relevant media surrounding this topic.

I have made this post because I think that it is valuable to be aware of the existence of the claims that Annie has made against Sam, given his strong influence over the development and alignment of increasingly powerful AI models. I have also made this post because I think that these claims are not covered well elsewhere (at least, at the time of this post's writing.)

Disclaimer: I have tried my best to assemble all relevant information I could find related to this (extremely serious) topic, but this is likely not a complete compendium of information regarding the (claimed) abuse of Annie Altman by Sam Altman.

Disclaimer: I would like to note that this is my first post on LessWrong. I have tried my best to meet the writing standards of this website, and to incorporate the advice given in the New User Guide. I apologize in advance for any shortcomings in my writing, and am very much open to feedback and commentary.

Relevant excerpts from Annie's social media accounts​

c.f. Annie Altman's:

• X account
  
• (primary) Instagram account
  
• Medium account (her blog)
  
• Youtube account
  
• TikTok account
  
• Podcast, All Humans Are Human (formerly/alternately known as the Annie Altman Show, The HumAnnie, and True shyt)
  
  • Especially: 21. Podcastukkah #5: Feedback is feedback with Sam Altman, Max Altman, and Jack Altman, published Dec 7, 2018

Note: throughout these excerpts, I'll underline and/or bold sections I feel are particularly important or relevant.

From her X account​

1. 
   
   1. "I’m not four years old with a 13 year old “brother” climbing into my bed non-consensuallyanymore. (You’re welcome for helping you figure out your sexuality.) I’ve finally accepted that you’ve always been and always will be more scared of me than I’ve been of you."
      
      1. Note: The "brother" in question (obviously) being Sam Altman.
         
         
   2. 
      
      1. "Aww you’re nervous I’m defending myself? Refusing to die with your secrets, refusing to allow you to harm more people? If only there was little sister with a bed you could uninvited crawl in, or sick 20-something sister you could withhold your dead dad’s money from, to cope."
   
   
2. 
   
   1. "Sam and Jack, I know you remember my Torah portion was about Moses forgiving his brothers. “Forgive them father for they know not what they’ve done” Sexual, physical, emotional, verbal, financial, and technological abuse. Never forgotten."
      
   2. 
      
      1. "Thank you for the love and for calling I spade a spade. I experienced every single form of abuse with him - sexual, physical, verbal, psychology, pharmacological (forced Zoloft, also later told I’d receive money only if I went back on it), and technological (shadowbanning)"
   3. 
      
      1. "I experienced sexual, physical, emotional, verbal, financial, and technological abuse from my biological siblings, mostly Sam Altman and some from Jack Altman."
         
   
   
3. 
   
   1. "{I experienced} Shadowbanning across all platforms except onlyfans and pornhub. Also had 6 months of hacking into almost all my accounts and wifi when I first started the podcast"
      
   2. Sam Altman's sister says he sexually abused her when she was 4 | Hacker News,
      
      1. Some commenters on Hacker News claim that a post regarding Annie's claims that Sam sexually assaulted her at age 4 has been being repeatedly removed.
   
   
4. 
   
   1. "I feel strongly that others have also been abused by these perpetrators. I’m seeking people to join me in pursuing legal justice, safety for others in the future, and group healing. Please message me with any information, you can remain however anonymous you feel safe."
      
      
5. 
   
   1. "This tweet endorsed to come out of my drafts by our Dad
      
      
      
      He also said it was “poor foresight” for you to believe I would off myself before ~justice is served~"
6. 
   
   1. (Jokingly) "{Sam's 'nuclear backpack'} may also hold our Dad and Grandma’s trusts {which} him {Sam} and my birth mother are still withholding from me, knowing I started sex work for survival because of being sick and broke with a millionaire “brother”"
      
   2. A reply to Annie's post: "https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/sam-altman-artificial-intelligence-openai-profile.html…I feel like you are misrepresenting things here. If the article is correct of course. "Sam offered to buy Annie a house." Isn't that a big financial help?"
      
      1. Annie's replies:
         
         1. 
            
            1. "There were other strings attached they made it feel like an unsafe place to actually heal from the experiences I had with him."
               
               
         2. 
            
            1. "The offer was after a year and half no contact {with Sam}, and {I} had started speaking up online. I had already started survival sex work. The offer was for the house to be connected with a lawyer, and the last time I had a Sam-lawyer connection I didn’t get to see my Dad’s will for a year."
   
   
7. 
   
   1. "I was too sick for “normal” standing jobs. Tendon and nerve pain, and ovarian cysts. “Pathetic” to you seems to mean something outside of your understanding"
      
      
8. 
   
   1. Annie states that (Sam's) technological abuse (shadowbanning) has made it hard for her to make an income / financially support herself.
      
   2. She refers to Sam as her "first client" in her (current) sexual line of work.
      
   3. "{I have been} under the thumb of this deeply depressed human {Sam Altman}, dealing with his guilt about our dad dying much earlier than he needed to - because our dad was not given money while he was alive, even though he'd had heart issues, and was 67 - can you imagine being a fukking multimillionaire and not giving your dad -- that's for me to talk about in therapy"
      
   4. Context: Annie is (somewhat jokingly) talking about making shirts saying she survived Sam Altman's shadowbanning. "The shirts - they're gonna say 'I survived Sam Altman's shadowbanning.' And it's gonna be such a clusterfukk - because the longer that this has gone on - and it's been 4 years now - I no longer care about sounding like a crazy person. There's so much proof - go to my Instagram for "Hi Censorship" highlights. Also, the amount of friends I have had and tested things out with - and seen, when they share things, {versus} when I share things; sharing anything about the podcast..."
      

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[BaggerofTea]

Dayuum, didn't think that story had any legs.

A lot of these milqtoast cacs got some secrets

 

[B86]

Mind me asking doing what?

Multiple websites filled with content specifically aimed at algorithms, which turns into revenue from affiliate links. Not so much anymore but initially when AI "art" was brand new, my wife and I's Etsy store was booming because we could easily create designs and target specific audiences with ads in pretty much no time. Before we earned enough to buy a DTF and screen printer, we had ordered so many prints for shirts, mugs, hoodies, etc at the beginning of this year that the lady that owns the print shop near us gives us a 50% discount on all orders even if it's just 1 print, though we don't need her services much anymore because we bought our own printers.

I was selling SVG/PNG packages at $3 a piece and killing it without doing anything but a 5 minutes Photoshop/Illustrator job. Fivver content creation, editing/proofreading. Generating whole YouTube scripts then using the scripts to generate entire videos which then turns into ad revenue/views. Social media content affiliate links. Affiliate marketing funnels with damn near no work with AI analytics for driving conversions.

I've done so much with it and still learning.

 

[bnew]

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

Facebook head of augmented reality just quit too: https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-head-augmented-reality-software-stepping-down-2023-11-17/

 

[Lexington Steele]

Facebook head of augmented reality just quit too: https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-head-augmented-reality-software-stepping-down-2023-11-17/

The bubble gets closer to popping.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

That conversation tells me that it’s hard to recreate nature

How can you “teach” a system to fully think, discover new things, do people even know how humans think?

Trial and error. Unless you believe that God simply gave humans intelligence, then human brains must have learned to think the same way at some point.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

I've never liked Altman at all at all, he seemed like a clout-chasing figurehead who was all about the bag and had no clue what he was actually doing.

But that has nothing to do with why he was fired. They'll probably just replace him with someone else like him.

 

[Gritsngravy]

Trial and error. Unless you believe that God simply gave humans intelligence, then human brains must have learned to think the same way at some point.

Probably need to have some scientific breakthrough in Neurology or psychology or something

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Probably need to have some scientific breakthrough in Neurology or psychology or something

Possibly. But it's quite possible it will just happen automatically, as a natural consequence of creating more complex neural networks that just happen to figure out how to think as an emergent property all on their own.

 

[Lamar Givens]

I think taking humans out of the equation when it comes to some things is good. Lets face it. Humans kind of suck when it comes to running a stable and healthy civilization for ourselves and the planet. We need a higher intelligence to solve some the issues we face, whether its climate change, disease or poverty. The best outcome with A.I. is that it could eliminate the need for most human labor, while simultaneously providing abundance for everyone the planet. We'll have to figure out new ways of being and it will inevitably cause some problems. Especially for those who've come to identify with their work/profession.

I don't think extinction is something to worry about if we align A.I. successfully. And even without A.I. we're headed for collapse due to climate change anyway. IMO A.I. is one best shots we have to avert human extinction and collapse.

We already have that, it’s called God. But, lost little nikkaz like you won’t bow down and worship HIM and seek his direction. So like a fukking imbecile you turn to flawed man made computer software for direction. Just when I think some humans can’t get even fukking stupider someone always takes the cake

 

[The Fade]

Probably need to have some scientific breakthrough in Neurology or psychology or something

Ray Kurzweil says ai has to understand biology