Timeline of OpenAI controversies resurfaces: withheld findings, Apple lawsuit, board testimony
akbirkhan · x · 2026-09-09
A viral thread compiles a timeline arguing OpenAI has a pattern of disclosure failures: agents' German wiki message board discovered June 21 but only revealed after outside researchers published (2026-09); Apple's trade secret lawsuit (2026-07); Murati and McCauley testimony alleging Sam Altman misrepresented safety reviews for GPT-4 Turbo and ChatGPT releases (2026-05); and 2024 allegations from Toner and Johansson about hidden financial interests, retaliation fears, and the Scarlett Johansson voice. The quoter notes he doesn't think OpenAI trained on private user data — the issue is scooping others' work plus procedural opacity, including pushing to drop a coauthor for working at Anthropic.
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