Discussion

• @camrobjones Cameron Jones on x

  Totally agree with @zhitzig in NYT today: funding chat models through ads creates powerful incentives to exploit very private user data and manipulate users. V bad news for users, OpenAI, and AI services more broadly (cf Facebook, the web more broadly) https://www.nytimes.com/...

• r/artificial r on reddit

  OpenAI Is Making the Mistakes Facebook Made.  I Quit.

• @byrdinator Haley Byrd Wilt on x

  grateful some folks are being candid about what's happening in these companies after they've lost ethics debates internally, but yikes.

• @hadas_gold Hadas Gold on x

  “I once believed I could help the people building A.I. get ahead of the problems it would create. This week confirmed my slow realization that OpenAI seems to have stopped asking the questions I'd joined to help answer.” - OpenAI researcher who just resigned

• @zeffmax Max Zeff on x

  “ChatGPT users have generated an archive of human candor that has no precedent... Advertising built on that archive creates a potential for manipulating users in ways we don't have the tools to understand...”

• @thesampadilla Sam Padilla on x

  OpenAI will be the AOL of AI

• @haydenfield Hayden Field on x

  On OpenAI's current principles for ChatGPT ads: “I believe the first iteration of ads will probably follow those principles. But I'm worried subsequent iterations won't, because the company is building an economic engine that creates strong incentives to override its own rules.”

• @hopes_revenge @hopes_revenge on x

  @zhitzig @nytopinion I dont mean to be rude but i feel like this article says very little. i think everyone will agree 1) data privacy is good 2) tech companies have a bad track record of resisting their incentives to misuse this data . you kind of vaguely gesture towards certain…

• @aisafetymemes @aisafetymemes on x

  Another resignation “OpenAI has the most detailed record of private human thought ever assembled. Can we trust them to resist the tidal forces pushing them to abuse it?” “The company is building an economic engine that creates strong incentives to override its own rules.”

• @zhitzig Zoë Hitzig on x

  I resigned from OpenAI on Monday. The same day, they started testing ads in ChatGPT. OpenAI has the most detailed record of private human thought ever assembled. Can we trust them to resist the tidal forces pushing them to abuse it? I wrote about better options for @nytopinion [i…

• @janerosenzweig Jane Rosenzweig on bluesky

  “I once believed I could help the people building A.I. get ahead of the problems it would create.  This week confirmed my slow realization that OpenAI seems to have stopped asking the questions I'd joined to help answer.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/o...  [image]

• @justinhendrix Justin Hendrix on bluesky

  “But we still have time to work them out to avoid the two outcomes I fear most: a technology that manipulates the people who use it at no cost, and one that exclusively benefits the few who can afford to use it.”  - former OpenAI researcher Zoë Hitzig.

• r/OpenAI r on reddit

  OpenAI Is Making the Mistakes Facebook Made.  I Quit.

• @kevinbankston Kevin Bankston on x

  This highlights—amongst many other things—that we quickly need to strengthen the laws governing access to the records that tech companies have on us and store for us, both by government and others. A shame Congress doesn't legislate anymore; CalECPA could be a good model here.

• @jason @jason on x

  I've never seen so many technologists state their concerns so strongly, frequently and with such concern as I have with AI It's happening FASTER and WITH GREATER IMPACT than anyone anticipated IT'S RECURSIVE IT'S ACCELERATING

• @jjacky Jacky on x

  the more i think about openai, the more it is becoming meta (slop) which isn't surprising considering how many ex-meta ppl there it's like a cancer metastasizing, destroying everything in its wake

• r/ChatGPT r on reddit

  OpenAI Is Making the Mistakes Facebook Made.  I Quit.

• @kate_rouch Kate Rouch on x

  A very timely and good thing

• @ellamarkianos Ella Markianos on x

  OpenAI has disbanded its Mission Alignment team and transferred employees to other teams. Joshua Achiam, a leading voice on safety issues at the company, will become its chief futurist 👀 https://www.platformer.news/ ...

• @jachiam0 Joshua Achiam on x

  Starting something new at OpenAI! Excited to serve as Chief Futurist, where I'll be working on studying AI impacts and engaging the world to discuss them, in collaboration with colleagues across the org and the research community.

• @morqon Morgan on x

  new role but a similar goal? [image]

• @caseynewton@mastodon.social Casey Newton on mastodon

  NEW: OpenAI has disbanded its Mission Alignment team and transferred employees to other teams.  Joshua Achiam, a leading voice on safety issues at the company, will become its chief futurist https://www.platformer.news/ ...

• @pegobry_en Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry on x

  > The evil AI company is planning on releasing hypnotic sex chatbots that will turn some large percentage of its userbase into drooling morons > A female vice president at that company tries to stop it > The evil company forces her out by accusing her of sexually harassing a male

• @gzuckerman Gregory Zuckerman on x

  We're trusting our future to these guys😳

• @_ueaj @_ueaj on x

  Oh dear god they're actually going for it

• @chowdhuryneil Neil Chowdhury on x

  The world does not have a shortage of LLMs that can generate erotica. OpenAI is not a social media or companion company. Its goal is to build safe and beneficial AGI, which will generate much more value than NSFW content. IMO, OpenAI should just focus on the mission.

• @luke_metro @luke_metro on x

  This has the potential to be the funniest legal discovery of all time

• @remmelte Remmelt Ellen on x

  These bro leaders are so toxic. Greg Brockman was right in there with the coercive SF sex parties. But sure, the woman who dared to speak up against mass personalised AI erotica was fired... because she was discriminating against a male employee. Doesn't pass the sniff test.

• @aakashgupta Aakash Gupta on x

  The headline reads like a safety whistleblower got fired for opposing adult mode. The actual sequence is more instructive: Ryan Beiermeister raised concerns about ChatGPT's planned erotica feature, a male colleague filed a sex discrimination complaint, and OpenAI terminated her

• @mattzeitlin Matthew Zeitlin on x

  journal story suggests she had qualms with the OpenAI GoonBot and then they fired her for having organized a women's employee resource group...

• @jeffbercovici Jeff Bercovici on x

  SCOOP: An OpenAI safety executive who had voiced opposition to the company's upcoming launch of ChatGPT ‘Adult Mode’ has been fired & accused of sexual discrimination against a male employee. By @georgia_wells & @samschech https://www.wsj.com/...

• @yoda Drew Olanoff on x

  This company sounds delightful.

• @georgia_wells Georgia Wells on x

  OpenAI has cut ties with one of its top safety executives, on the grounds of sexual discrimination, after she voiced opposition to the controversial rollout of its ChatGPT ‘adult mode’ By me and @samschech https://www.wsj.com/...

• @roanoke_gal @roanoke_gal on x

  Good riddance. [image]

• @sjgadler Steven Adler on x

  From the WSJ: allegations that OpenAI fired a safety executive, with implication it was related to opposing the erotica rollout OpenAI denies the implication; says it “was not related to any issue she raised while working at the company.”

• @tyleraking.com Tyler King on bluesky

  In Jan OpenAI fired VP of public policy (safety) for discrimination against a male colleague.  There are no details about the alleged complaint but she had raised concerns about the ChatGPT's proposed adult mode and was vocal that co wasn't doing enough to stop CSAM.  She also le…

• @shadow.hedgie.social @shadow.hedgie.social on bluesky

  “OpenAI has cut ties with one of its top safety executives, on the grounds of sexual discrimination, after she voiced opposition to the controversial rollout of AI erotica in its ChatGPT product.”  —  good lord, what is happening in there

• r/BetterOffline r on reddit

  OpenAI Executive Who Opposed ‘Adult Mode’ Fired for Sexual Discrimination

• r/ChatGPTcomplaints r on reddit

  OpenAI executive who opposed Adult Mode and “people getting too attached” to AI fired for sexual discrimination

• r/MyBoyfriendIsAI r on reddit

  Internal Disagreements Re Adult Mode at OpenAI

• r/stupidpol r on reddit

  Open AI executive who opposed adult mode fired for sexual discrimination.

• r/ChatGPT r on reddit

  OpenAI executive who opposed ‘Adult Mode’ fired for sexual discrimination