OpenAI Employee's Claim That AI Spread Doesn't Depend on Human Understanding Sparks Backlash

OpenAI's Will Depue sparked controversy on X by claiming the tech world has been swallowed by machines and that AI's spread doesn't depend on human understanding, citing 1.2 billion ChatGPT users and revenue not concentrated in the West.

2026-11-11 ~ 2026-11-11 · 3 related posts

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• OpenAI's Will Depue sparks backlash claiming the third world contributes little to science and AI diffuses itself — willdepue · 2026-11-11