Gary Marcus flags Altman's flip-flop: wanted an AI knowing his whole life, now claims data ignorance
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-10
Gary Marcus contrasts Sam Altman's 2024 claim that the ideal AI is "a super-competent colleague that knows every email and conversation of my life" with his current stance amid "Mathgate": OpenAI has no idea what it trained on, "but it wasn't us." Marcus uses the juxtaposition to question OpenAI's consistency on training data.
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