Machine learning researchers claim to have knowledge of kinky drug-fueled orgies taking place at Silicon Valley's storied hacker houses, and link those parties and the culture surrounding them to OpenAI It seems like it is.
“Being active in the hackerhouse scene means you're accidentally signing up for a career as a shadow politician in the Silicon Valley startup scene,” says X (by former Princeton University ML researcher Sonia Joseph). Former Twitter)'s long post begins. He is currently affiliated with the Deep Learning Institute Mira-Québec.
What follows is a vague and anecdotal indictment of the “dark side” of startup culture. It became particularly explosive after Joseph mentioned so-called “non-consensual” sex parties among artificial general intelligence (AGI) enthusiasts. valley community.
As far as we know, the starting point stems from a thread in which Jan Leike, head of OpenAI superalignment, announced that he was leaving the company to disband a team aimed at preventing runaway advanced AI. It is emitting.
At the end of the X thread, Reich encouraged the remaining employees to “feel the AGI.” The phrase is also thought to be the words of her OpenAI co-founder Ilya Satskeva, who recently quit during a seemingly cult-like ritual revealed in an article. atlantic ocean Although exposed last year, there is nothing in that article or in the Super Alignment director's tweets to suggest any connection to sex, drugs or perversion.
Still, in his second viral memo-length tweet, Joseph addressed “to the journalists who have contacted me about AGI's consensual non-consensual (CNC) sex parties.” And in her post, she said that when she was in her early 20s and new to the tech industry, she witnessed “some problems” in Silicon Valley's “community house scene.”
“It is not my place to say why Jan Reich and the Super Alignment team resigned. I do not know the reason and cannot make any claims,” wrote a researcher unaffiliated with OpenAI. “But my cultural observations about the sci-fi AI scene, and more broadly, I believe he is relevant to the AI industry.”
“I don't think events like consensual non-consensual (CNC) sex parties or the heavy use of LSD by some elite AI researchers are good for women,” Joseph continued. “They create a very bad atmosphere for female AI researchers…I think they are symptomatic of a broader problem, a coercive climate that normalizes recklessness and boundary-crossing. I think we're seeing it play out more broadly in the industry today, applying it to people who move fast and break things.”
She said she didn't think there was anything wrong with “sex parties and heavy LSD use” in general, but that the culture surrounding these parties was “the most coercive I've ever seen.” “It's leading to a messed up social dynamic.” . ”
“I have seen people get shut down over and over again for pointing out these issues,” Joseph wrote. “I once tried to point out these issues by having three OpenAI and Anthropic researchers debate whether or not I have a mental illness on a Google Doc. I have no history of mental illness. And this incident stuck with me as an example of blind spot/groupthink.” ”
“These problems are not actually with OpenAI, but are likely symptoms of deeper corruption in the Valley,” she added. “I'd like to say more, but it's probably best not to.”
Overall, it is difficult to determine the truth or falsity of these claims. We reached out to Joseph and his OpenAI for more information.
“I have no NDA and have never worked at OpenAI,” Joseph wrote. “I simply observed the AI culture around me through the sci-fi community house scene, heard insider information and behind-the-scenes deals, befriended dozens of women, allies, and well-intentioned parties, and learned how many people succeed. I've seen it.
More information about OpenAI: Sam Altman visibly distraught in response to news that OpenAI silenced former employee
