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0 pointsdanso3y ago0 comments

I'm not a huge fan of these coordination theories. But a few things worth noting:

- In support of your argument, the Buzzfeed News investigation likely has been in the works for weeks, meaning Altman et al have had more than just a couple days to throw together a Dall-E 2 soft launch

- However, weren't OpenAI's GPT (2 and 3) announced to the world in similar fashion? e.g. demos and whitepapers and waitlists, but not a full product release?

- Throwing together a Dall-E 2 soft launch just in time to distract from the investigation would require a conspiracy, i.e. several people being at least vaguely aware that deadlines have been accelerated for external reasons. Is the Worldcoin story big enough to risk tainting OpenAI, which seems like a much more prominent part of Altman's portfolio?

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eganist3y ago

For discussion's sake:

- BFN reached out to A16Z, Worldcoin, Khosla Ventures largely declined to comment, which would mean that at least one person probably had a bit of runway from at least when the requests for comment were submitted. So yeah, you're probably right.

- Going from the github repos for GPT 2 and 3, those may have been hard launches:

Feb 14 2019, predating the first press for GPT-2 by a few days (was probably made public Feb 14 though) - https://github.com/openai/gpt-2/commit/c2dae27c1029770cea409...

May 28 2020, timed alongside the press news for GPT-3 - https://github.com/openai/gpt-3/commit/12766ba31aa6de490226e...

- Would it really have to be a conspiracy? Sounds like only one person would have to target a specific date or date range, and without really giving a reason.

One of the things that puts a hole in my own thinking here is that Sam Altman's name isn't really tied to the Dall-E 2 release. It's just OpenAI, and the press around Sam's name today still exclusively surfaces just this one Worldcoin story (https://news.google.com/search?q=sam+altman+when%3A1d&). So if this was actually intended to bury another story, Sam's name would have to have been included in all the press blasts to be successful. But the Buzzfeed story seems like it kinda died alone on the vine.

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