OG OpenAI Employee Slams Company's Pattern of Vague Responses to Controversies
j_asminewang · x · 2026-10-09
Girish Sastry, an early OpenAI employee, criticized the company's recurring playbook for handling controversies: deflecting with vagaries and hoping the story fades from institutional and public memory. "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, a zillion times is... OpenAI," he wrote, amid the fallout from the recent firing of safety researchers.
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