The ten thousand-word report reveals the dark history of ChatGPT's parent company! Exposes Sam Altman's habitual lying and failure to comply with conflict of interest rules, Musk angrily condemns: liar.

Non-profit organization exposes the ugly side of ChatGPT's parent company OpenAI

Rob Wiblin is the director and host of The 80,000 Hours Podcast, a podcast that engages in deep conversations from different perspectives to explore the world's most pressing issues. The show has also invited Vitalik Buterin to discuss topics such as AI regulation.

Rob Wiblin shared the "Open AI Document" on Twitter, which was compiled by The Midas Project and The Tech Oversight Project. It is the most comprehensive public record to date regarding OpenAI's governance practices, leadership integrity, and organizational culture. The document's sources include statements from former employees who have left OpenAI, media reports, and more.

The Midas Project is a non-profit oversight organization aimed at ensuring that artificial intelligence companies can take on social responsibility. The Tech Oversight Project ( technology oversight plan ) holds large technology companies accountable for anti-competitive practices and internal corruption.

Sam Altman Eight Deadly Sins: Lying to the SEC and Congress?

Rob Wiblin handed the document to Claude for整理, summarizing several major omissions:

Did Sam Altman lie to the SEC claiming to be the chairman of Y Combinator?

The Wall Street Journal pointed out that before stepping down as president of Y Combinator, Altman proposed to promote himself from president to chairman in order to leave smoothly. He preemptively posted a blog post on the company's website announcing the change. But the firm's partners never agreed, and the announcement was later removed from the article. But Altman still falsely claimed to be chairman in SEC (SEC) filings for years.

Sam Altman indirectly holds shares in OpenAI through Sequoia Capital and YC.

Sam Altman claimed to Congress that he does not have equity in OpenAI, but he indirectly holds shares in OpenAI through Sequoia Capital and Y Combinator funds. At the same time, Sam Altman has not disclosed to the board that he owns shares in the OpenAI startup fund for many years. He requires board members to inform him every time they speak with employees, which limits the board's supervisory power.

OpenAI has a clawback provision for equity, which allows the company to reclaim vested equity if a departing employee criticizes the company.

Sam Altman denied knowing about the existence of the equity clawback clause, which threatens former employees with the loss of millions in vested equity if they criticize OpenAI. However, Vox found that Altman personally signed the documents authorizing these clauses in April 2023. These restrictive non-disclosure agreements even prohibit employees from acknowledging the existence of the agreement.

Sam Altman did not adhere to the principle of avoiding conflicts of interest, collaborating OpenAI with his investment positions.

Sam Altman did not adhere to the principle of conflict of interest. He owns 7.5% of Reddit, and when Reddit announced its partnership with OpenAI, Altman's net worth surged by $50 million. Sam Altman also invested in Rain AI, after which OpenAI signed a letter of intent to purchase chips worth $51 million from it.

Claude's founder accuses Sam Altman of managing the company through emotional manipulation and psychological abuse.

Claude's parent company Anthropic founders, former OpenAI employees Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei, described Sam Altman's management strategy as "gaslighting" and "psychological abuse." At least five other OpenAI executives have provided similar negative feedback about Altman to the board.

OpenAI was hacked quietly, whistleblower was fired.

OpenAI experienced a major security breach in 2023, where a hacker stole details about its AI technology, but the incident was not made public until over a year later. OpenAI fired Leopold Aschenbrenner because he expressed security concerns to the board.

OpenAI's upper management also does not trust Sam Altman to lead the product towards AGI.

OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever told the board, "I don't think Sam is the person who has the ability to control AGI ( general artificial intelligence )." Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati also stated, "I feel uneasy about Sam leading us towards AGI."

OpenAI secretly modifies the profit cap yet still takes pride in being a limited profit company?

OpenAI's profit cap has quietly been adjusted to 20% per year, at this rate, its profits will exceed 100 trillion dollars in 40 years. This adjustment has not been made public, and OpenAI still takes pride in the existence of a profit cap structure while not acknowledging the quiet modification of the cap.

Elon Musk angrily accuses Ultraman of being a fraud.

Elon Musk also reposted the article and wrote: "Sam Altman is a fraud." In fact, Elon Musk was one of the original board members of OpenAI, but he left in 2018 due to concerns that the development of GPT-4 and the next generation of AGI could pose a threat to public safety. He believes that Microsoft's control over Sam Altman and the OpenAI board will prevent GPT-4 from transforming into AGI, thus maintaining the confidentiality and profitability of the related technology.

(Musk restarts the lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman: luring investments with the slogan of non-profit )

He criticized the current OpenAI for only focusing on making money, and thus filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman, demanding that the product return to open source.

( focuses only on making money, Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, demanding a return to open source )

Rob Wiblin also mentioned that the above is just a part of a document consisting of tens of thousands of words. He skipped the question regarding OpenAI's restructuring, but that is the real bigger issue.

(Illustration of OpenAI Company Structure: Sam Altman and the Board have no equity? Why can Microsoft only observe? )

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