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Sam Altman Is Showing Us Who He Really Is

He’s a lying liar who lies.

Before we could connect, the system was out there.” And, as the Washington Post’s Nitasha Tiku tweeted, she noticed during a live demo in September—the very same month that OpenAI reportedly offered ScarJo its hire-for-training offer—that the Sky voice even then sounded like Johansson, and that executives denied this was “intentional.” company is squaring off against a brand-name and litigation-happy celebrity, over a rather bizarre interpretation of one of her most acclaimed movies, in a reference that was employed in large part to launch one of OpenAI’s most esteemed upgrades to date—and one that has already fueled a surge in its mobile-app revenue(as well as controversy over the spam used to train its Chinese-language capabilities). There are likely still others who can’t talk, as Vox found out, because of an “ extremely restrictive off-boarding agreement ” that OpenAI employees are forced to sign if they want to retain any vested equity with the company—and that “forbids them, for the rest of their lives, from criticizing their former employer” or “even acknowledging that the NDA exists.”

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