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Is it normal for a company this big to make a public blog post like this with almost no introduction to what they’re on about? I would expect them to start out
by efnx 2mo ago
Is it normal for a company this big to make a public blog post like this with almost no introduction to what they’re on about?
I would expect them to start out with something like Apple is suing us for yada yada yada, but instead it reads like the diary of a hurt teenager.
- gr_norm 2mo ago> it reads like the diary of a hurt teenager. Yep, down to the pages of iMessage screenshots
- jbverschoor 2mo agoThey aren't screenshots
- tuoret 2mo agoWhich, somehow, confused me even further. I get that it's a stylistic choice to make them easy to read or whatever, but my first thought was "wait, they just posted screenshots with the names censored like a bad Reddit post?"
- dannyw 2mo agoSemantic HTML and CSS for text is infinitely better than screenshots for accessibility, as well as cheaper to process for LLMs/agents reading it. For the first reason alone, it's worth it when you can.
- xg15 2mo agoThey did keep the emoji though
- justonepost2 2mo agooh my god did you see brian’s hat?
- chneu 2mo agoThis reads like a mypillow CEO type post. Its insane this is coming from a company with as much scope as openai. Scope may not be the right word.
- jeron 2mo agothey assume if someone wants context, they'll just ask chatGPT for it
- kunai 2mo agoThis should tell you how unserious these "companies" are when they consider themselves the grand harbinger of the one and true "AGI" because their frontier models were able to solve (with great assistance) some sort of conjecture that was never taken seriously in the mathematical world but somehow is significant now because ???
- ragequittah 2mo agoI was wondering where this goal post would shift to next. So now instead of AI being incapable of doing something not in its training data it needs too much external help doing what no human could do, and what it came up with isn't even important anyways. The companies can suck and their product can do amazing things at the same time.
- duxup 2mo agoI think a lot of what Open AI has done feels insecure and looking for some sort of business validation. I posted this in another comment but this was weird: https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/ https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/
- kubb 2mo agoThey spend a lot of the investors’ money on that. All the videos they put out are extremely high quality. They literally have communication experts sitting there, breaking their heads over how to influence the public opinion in the company’s favor. I guess they learned it from Elon: if people like you, they’ll just hold your stock forever, even if you don’t make much money.
- codemog 2mo agoFull self driving teslas on the moon any day now. AI data centers in space! We’re all going to be rich! What a whacked out timeline where this is the richest man.
- onion2k 2mo agoEvery company does that. It's literally a whole industry: Public Relations
- dgellow 2mo agoIt’s supposed to be subtle. Or at least, more subtle than whatever that is
- ethbr1 2mo agoExactly. This reads like someone decided PR firms don't know what they're doing and decided to handle it themselves. But... it turns out that professional people and consulting companies who have years of experience in a subject area might have something to offer. Who knew?!
- kubb 2mo agoNot to that extent though. For OpenAI the PR investment is disproportionate. Regular companies have people that talk to the media or maybe run some ads. OpenAI is trying to have in-house media. For a frontier lab it’s striking just how much energy (and dough) goes into this. You’re right of course that PR exists elsewhere, but that obviously true assertion misses the finer details of how PR works at OpenAI. In doing so it functions as a thought-terminating cliché.
- breppp 2mo agoI see it as the Anti-AI aesthetic. When you write using this style it is obvious this isn't LLM generated and you signal this is well thought out. If you noticed Sam Altman's latest posts he moved to all lower case, including "I", which I see as due to the same reason
- kajman 2mo agoThe content does not read like it's well thought out to me, but I am at least convinced it's human.
- FinnKuhn 2mo agoAI would have probably told you that posting this is not a good idea.
- moogly 2mo agoHe's done that forever. For a while he stopped doing it, which made people think everything he posted was ChatGPT.
- breppp 2mo agoNot here at least https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=sama https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=sama
- dgellow 2mo agoNop, that’s extremely weird
- like_any_other 2mo agoIt reads direct and unrehearsed, instead of like something where all humanity has been sanded off by legal and PR departments.
- actionfromafar 2mo ago:-D Yet, it's signed "OpenAI".
- anon373839 2mo agoDirect and unrehearsed doesn't seem like the right tack for a high-stakes legal dispute between two (allegedly) trillion-dollar companies. Especially since they've not been able to make a coherent point here.
- like_any_other 2mo agoYes, we've built a society where being two-faced and false is rewarded. The least we can do is temper our criticism when someone "fails" to adhere to that.
- Brian_K_White 2mo agoWe've built a society where we shit in private, not in the middle of the street.
- like_any_other 2mo agoYou got your crude analogy backwards - it is the calculated, tactical PR-speak that is more like shitting up the public square, than the naive, honest-if-self-serving speech.
- Brian_K_White 2mo agoDid no one ever explain to you why you should wear nice clothes to a job interview? Or a wedding? Not simply that you should, but why? Conducting onesself with decorum and professionalism in certain contexts is not about deception. It's about respecting other people, both individually/directly, and the communal space. Even if you consciously don't care about or respect anyone else, "everyone else is wrong for not being be ok with my t-shirt and flipflops" it's still simply a self-own to present this image of someone who lacks such a minimum level of perception. A business communique like this isn't a performance art piece where it's fine if most people react badly to it because the whole point was to make people think about their reactions or reflect on some aspect of life. It's not the time or place to make a chocolate Jesus. It's just some infants in pants they don't know how to fill, not "refreshing honesty".
- yreg 2mo agoIronically (?) I am immediately reminded of Steve Jobs by reading the first paragraph. Specifically Thoughts on Flash, but there were probably more such press releases. [0] https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history/steve-jobs-and-his-thoughts-on-flash-2010 https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history/steve-job...
- InsideOutSanta 2mo agoExcept that Jobs was a good writer and made a clear point in a succinct fashion.
- bombcar 2mo agoJobs was an asshole but at least you could usually see where he was coming from.
- dwaltrip 2mo agoHe was a complete asshole, but he wasn't an unhinged sociopath like Sam.
- crossroadsguy 2mo agoSo a hinged sociopath then?
- InsideOutSanta 2mo agoI think that's generally a reasonably good description of Jobs.
- Melatonic 2mo agoProbably asked Siri to write it
- epolanski 2mo agoWe're not the target of the blog post.
- JKCalhoun 2mo agoTo be sure. Just not clear who is…
- InsideOutSanta 2mo agoThis is pretty wild. Without context, it's barely coherent, but I guess they didn't want to say "Apple is suing us for X, Y, Z" because that makes them look bad. But there's just no upside to publishing this: If you don't know what's going on, this blog post is nonsensical and makes OpenAI look weird. If you do know what's going on, you'll immediately notice they don't address 80% of the stuff Apple is accusing them of, which makes OpenAI look dishonest. It just seems incredibly unprofessional and ill-considered.
- csomar 2mo agoYes, the CEO is Sam Altman.
- rf15 2mo ago> it reads like the diary of a hurt teenager. ...you expected more from OpenAI leadership? Based on previous incidents this seems kinda par.
- JKCalhoun 2mo agoSure, give us just one side of the story… It's always suspect when one side tries to argue their case in the court of public opinion. Frankly, it's a big red flag for me and immediately casts suspicion on said party. I mean, do you think you're going to lose in court and so you're trying to get out ahead of that?
- ethbr1 2mo agoNo. This is a fucking legal case. It will be decided in the courtroom, not on the internet. Posting this is insane in the sense of "What will posting this possibly improve for OpenAI?" It's not going to change the court case. It's not going to impress professional adults. I guess... teenage reddit users with too much time on their hands who are fans of OpenAI? Though struggling to see how that demo would care about a theft of trade secrets case. Whatever executive decision-making thread led to this being released needs to be recalibrated. I'd expect >13 year old maturity from a company even 1/10 the size of OpenAI.
- xg15 2mo agoWas reminded of SBF and his series of "I can explain everything" blog posts and interviews that somehow always made the thing worse...
- ethbr1 2mo agoWho would have thought that making someone with Asperger's CEO and giving them carte blanche to decide public statements was a bad idea?
- HDThoreaun 2mo agoOpenAI needs mass consumer buy in because a large part of their strategy is ad supported consumer use. Bad pr pushes those users away. A lot of people have teenage Reddit user mindset
- ethbr1 2mo agoI'm struggling to imagine someone like that who also cares about the minutiae of this case. Or heck, who even knows this case exists. "OpenAI is so inept at system isolation that it accidentally hacked Huggingface" seems like a more important PR fire to put out. (Whether or not that breach was artificially manufactured)
- irthomasthomas 2mo agoFrom: Che Chang <redacted> Date: Feb 23, 2026, at 8:04 PM Subject: Re: Former Apple Employees at OpenAI Retaining Non-public, Confidential, and Proprietary Information To: <redacted> Hi [Apple in-house legal counsel] and [Apple in-house legal counsel], This guy from Weil claims to be representing you. For some reason, he is lying about speaking with me on the phone. I don't know who he is and we have never spoken. I don't know what the point of his lie is, but could you please confirm if he is actually representing you, and if so, whether you have other counsel you can use. I don’t think interacting through him is appropriate given this behavior. --- So, a lawyer emailed the wrong person. That's it. And they use that as a peg to hang their whole case on. I guess GPT 6 thought this was the real smoking gun!
- EPWN3D 2mo agoIt's kind of how stupid people think the law works. "The cop misspelled my last name on the ticket your honor, so I don't have to pay it, checkmate!"
- stiltzkin 2mo ago[dead]
- duxup 2mo agoOpen AI has had some strange posts for sure: https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/ https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/