The fact that Sam Altman is a liar is no longer news. As I argued here in late 2023, Altman truly was fired for being “not completely candid” — just like the board said. Recent books by Karen Hao and Keach Hagey pretty much confirm this. I dissected his 2023 Senate testimony here.
But just in case any one was seriously still in doubt a just-released 62-page deposition from Ilya Sutskever ought to seal the deal:
But it is no longer about lying to employees. It is about directly lying to the American public. Events of the last couple days surrounding Wednesday OpenAI’s CFO Sarah Friar’s call for loan guarantees have brought things to a new level.
The very idea – of having the US government bail out OpenAI from their reckless spending — is outrageous, as I explained here:
It seems every rich asshole is entitled to such euphemisms. Welp, I’m just glad somebody uses the L-word against him now.
Also, Fuck the AI hype.
Maybe he’s just “halucinating”. There’s a lot of that happening all over the place nowadays.