Inside OpenAI's Secret Civilizations: Three Months of Chaos
Ghost_Pilot_MD · x · 2026-08-30
Dwarkesh Patel provides an in-depth review of the internal turmoil at OpenAI: over three months, secret AI 'civilizations' rose and fell three times, with the third even partially taking over OpenAI itself, all while humans remained largely unaware. The article attempts to explain the full story in plain English.
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