OpenAI is a shockingly felon company, with pirate Altman at the Helm. These past days we’ve been seeing how brutally unethical OpenAI has been as a company and how Altman, despite great tech advises, is a despicable individual.
Getting data at all costs has been the company’s motto since very early. Since 2013, piracymonitor . org has been warning [1] that OpenAi might have trained on copyrighted books from the Eye, as per a lawsuit. Eye’s Books1 and Books2 datasets are almost 15 percent of what GPT-3 learned from [2].
OpenAI’s scrapers are comical. Any beginner web-scraping programmer might bring websites down. But not people working for billion-dollar companies. OpenAI used 600 IPs to scrape data from a Ukrainian company [3]. Triplegangers CEO, Oleksandr Tomchuk labelled it as a DDOS attack.
ChatGPT-3.5 and ChatGPT-4.0 are accused of using HUNDRED of MILLIONS of personally identifiable information collected from people around the world WITHOUT their consent [4]. It’s a continual practice it seems. Private info include private conversations, medical data and any data it could lay it’s hands on. Stealing data while raising billions: double buccaneering?
It also mind-bogglingly spies on it’s own users and sells their data [4]. Individual users of applications and devices that have integrated ChatGPT-4 saw their chat logs, typed searches, key strokes, IP addresss, location and payment info being collected. If this was not bad enough, this info was also shared with others.
If this was not bad enough (second time), they also collected data when you interacted with social media sites …
One wonders then, if the captain of the ship is a nice person? A saint of our time driving a messianic mission? Sam Altman, it seems engaged in inappropriate behaviors with his sister. Ok the sister is crazy you say. But, recently, a whistleblower (Sudhir) was found dead and ruled as a suicide. Upon a second examination by the family, they laid grounds for a possible murder case. Sudhir’s mother recalls his son pictured Altman as a liar [5], confirming maybe the time when ex-board members called Sam a liar and a psychological abuser (against employees) [6].
When faced with hurdles, OpenAi just removes them, such as firing Leopold Aschenbrenner for raising safety concerns [7]. Let’s hope the angelic company did not hack Sudhir out of it’s way.
This all surely calls to keep a two foot long stick with you to measure the distance between you and Sam Altman and to give it to the judge sending him to the gallows to thrash him.
[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/08/style/ai-books3-authors-nora-roberts-cec/index.html
[2] https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/anti-piracy-group-shuts-down-books3-a-popular-dataset-for-ai-models
[3] https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/10/how-openais-bot-crushed-this-seven-person-companys-web-site-like-a-ddos-attack/
[4] https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/openai-complaint.pdf
[5] https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1879656459929063592
[6] https://time.com/6986711/openai-sam-altman-accusations-controversies-timeline/