re: Elon Musk is Raking Sam Altman Over the Coals

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He's the CEO of OpenAI. They're currently being sued for theft of hardware. Musk hates him.

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Yeah, that’s a sorted saga Two bulldozers going at it.

from Jan. 2025:

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Tucker Carlson sits down with Poornima Ramarao, the mother of Suchir Balaji, who was an AI engineer working with Sam Altman at OpenAI, and quite likely murdered for his concern about how the mass data was being captured.

The effectiveness of the AI construct is dependent on large scale mass data collection to frame the underlying information network the AI can review. The larger the data capture, the more accurate, effective and valuable the AI outcome is. More inputs equal more reviewable data, equal a more comprehensive outcome; that’s the value.

Balaji became concerned that OpenAI was capturing “copyrighted” material as part of the input data flow. Suchir Balaji soon died under mysterious circumstances.

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Suchir Balaji was in charge of scooping up data, enmeshing it in the OpenAI library and noticed that some of the captured information was proprietary, copyrighted.

Balaji raised alarms and eventually became a whistleblower, because he saw OpenAI was now capturing the exclusive mental work product of others and then adding it to their AI system to create even more value.

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Chapters:
0:00 Suchir Balaji’s Career and Alleged Suicide
9:48 The Threat Balaji Posed to OpenAI
13:03 Was This Really a Suicide?
21:59 Evidence of Foul Play
35:27 The Authorities Response
38:47 Was Sam Altman Involved in the Death of Balaji?
46:55 Will Donald Trump Investigate Balaji’s Death?
48:57 AI Safety and Sam Altman’s Firing
55:01 Tucker Demands Action From Congressman Ro Khanna
59:23 Why Hasn’t Any Network Covered This Story?
1:01:00 More Whistleblowers Are Being Killed

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55:01 Tucker Demands Action From Congressman Ro Khanna
59:23 Why Hasn’t Any Network Covered This Story?
1:01:00 More Whistleblowers Are Being Killed

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Was Suchir Balaji murdered? Probably. And if so, it was probably a government hit.

Balaji was uniquely qualified and uniquely positioned to understand copyright infringement in AI data scraping practices. The threat of him making such a case was not just to OpenAI. It pertained to all US AI. If successful, and as China would never honor US demands to cease data scraping, the Balaji restrictions would have given China a massive upper hand in the AI wars. So one could easily imagine elements in US intel regarding Balaji as a national security threat.

However, if the government was involved, it could barely hope for a better messenger to bring that accusation than Tucker Carlson. In Tucker, they have someone who comes across as certifiably crazy. The fact that Tucker is making the argument, lends other media sources to shy away from it, lest they be associated with a lunatic spreading crazytalk.

So concerns about Balaji's case fall in the category of the proverbial "The right message, in the hands of the wrong messenger, ends up in the waste basket."

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He's the CEO of OpenAI. They're currently being sued for theft of hardware. Musk hates him.

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Elon Musk and his autist self puts up with no nonsense, especially deceit.

Sounds good to me. If the case is strong then Open AI will lose. I thought it was crap that OpenAI tried to backfill when Anthropic wanted guardrails for autonomous weapons but the US military wanted complete control. Altman didn’t care and signed up. So I favor Anthropic.

My observation was just that Musk lost a lawsuit to Altman already. So I’m not surprised he is yapping about him now.

i always had my suspicions on Altman.