Suspect Arrested for Allegedly Throwing Molotov Cocktail at Sam Altman's Home (wired.com) 35
San Francisco police arrested a suspect after a Molotov cocktail was allegedly thrown at Sam Altman's home and threats were later made outside OpenAI's headquarters. "Thankfully, no one was hurt," said OpenAI in a statement to WIRED. "We deeply appreciate how quickly SFPD responded and the support from the city in helping keep our employees safe. The individual is in custody, and we're assisting law enforcement with their investigation." From the report: "At approximately 3:45am PT, an unidentified individual approached Sam's residence and threw an incendiary device toward the property. The device landed nearby and extinguished. There were no injuries and only minimal damage was reported," the message to staff reads. "Shortly afterward, an individual matching the suspect's description was contacted by security outside MB1," the message continues, referring to OpenAI's headquarters in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood. "This person made threatening statements about the building."
OpenAI's corporate security team told staff it is cooperating with law enforcement on an investigation, and that employees may notice an increased police and security presence around the office on Friday. The security team said that the company's offices remain open, but employees were advised to "not let anyone tailgate into the building." UPDATE: Sam Altman has responded to the incident.
OpenAI's corporate security team told staff it is cooperating with law enforcement on an investigation, and that employees may notice an increased police and security presence around the office on Friday. The security team said that the company's offices remain open, but employees were advised to "not let anyone tailgate into the building." UPDATE: Sam Altman has responded to the incident.
Tailgating (Score:2)
employees were advised to "not let anyone tailgate into the building."
That's one very important prohibition on BBQ...
Re: Tailgating (Score:2)
So someone spilled their beer?
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Clearly burnt ends are a concern for them.
In response... (Score:1)
...Sam Altman announced the construction of 10 additional gas chambers to accelerate the purge.
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...Sam Altman announced the construction of 10 additional gas chambers to accelerate the purge.
Well... After reading reporting about how much Altman (apparently) lies, even by Silicon Valley standards, "gaslighting chambers" anyway ...
Honestly. (Score:2, Insightful)
If you want to deinstall the app, blowing up the owner's house is not he way to do it.
This was stupid, reckless, does nothing for actually improving AI safety, risks worsening that very safety, risks OpenAI letting their systems being used on more and more extreme products (because all publicity is good publicity), and in short does the exact opposite of anything that anyone could possibly have imagined going through the mind of of this dweeb.
However, it is what we've come to expect from the Nu Society that
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I'm not sure what point you think you're making here. Violence is good because the United States was formed from it? Those two things have nothing to do with one another.
I understand the frustration, whether it's lead to murdering healthcare CEOs, burning warehouses, or trying to set fire to the public face of Big Tech Con-artistry. But we can't have a society if we resort to violence on an individual level. We need to get a government into power that'll right the wrongs. The inability of Americans to do th
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Well the name of the company he was CEO of included the word "healthcare" but he was in fact CEO of a medical insurance firm which delivered no healthcare to anyone and who's business model depended on denying access to it as much as possible.
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America was degraded when healthcare require GoFundMe. America was degraded when school shootings are routine and there are entire industries spring up creating devices for schools to keep out school shooters.
Honestly, the fix is to make those billionaires at the top know they are just as human as the rest of us, and just as vulnerable.
The CEO of Five Guys burger chain had a promotion go so wildly successful that he had to give workers a bonus because he got afraid he might meet the same end as a certain he
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Honestly, the fix is to make those billionaires at the top know they are just as human as the rest of us, and just as vulnerable.
So you like pursuing political goals through street violence.
That makes you the brownshirt. I know you can't see that though.
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If you're going to San Francisco (Score:3, Funny)
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Sure, they even have their own Wikipedia page :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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My cherry-picking can beat up your cherry-picking.
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You really need to commit to cherry pick - you git!
I love how we all act surprised (Score:5, Insightful)
We're a whole society full of over stimulated sexed up violent greedy weirdos.
We're constantly at war, and the majority of our people are all kept just a single paycheck from total financial destruction. Our schools get shot up. Our clinics get bombed, and our people are dying on the streets to drugs and hunger. Our leaders insist half of us are monsters deserving of death while threatening genocide.
But shed a tear for Altmans home. Lookout for those CEOs.
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But... why? (Score:2)
Why would someone want to do this? Are they some sort of deranged Sora fan, raging against Sam for shutting down their favorite free AI slop video generation service?
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Yes, you're right that it doesn't make sense. Lacking any supporting evidence to the contrary, this seems a lot like it could be a "false flag" operation; something cooked up with Altman's consent in order to generate public sympathy for him and/or his commercial endeavors.
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