Comment by JumpCrisscross
4 hours ago
Sam Altman has been running a personal PR campaign against himself for three years now. It’s tremendously popular to take pot shots at him, which means launching an investigation or lawsuit against OpenAI is probably politically expedient even if it goes nowhere.
I suspect the plan here is to grandstand on this suit through the election cycle and then settle for a token $20M or $40M fine (payable to the state attorney general's office) and a jointly negotiated consent decree mandating vague rules which mirror the internal policies OAI has already adopted to shield themselves from liability. It's all politics, optics and 'governance theater'.
> suspect the plan here is to grandstand on this suit through the election cycle
Why? There is no incentive to go easy on OpenAI. (Short of Altman stepping down, which he won't.)
> It's all politics, optics
This was my initial reaction. Some excerpts from the complaint [1]. The facts are pretty bad.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363561