Paris Marx

OpenAI is a menace. Two recent stories make that clearer than ever.

One day you have Sam Altman denigrating humanity to defend AI. The next, WSJ reveals OpenAI could have alerted Canadian police of a potential mass shooter, but refused pressure from employees. That person went on to kill 8 people.

https://disconnect.blog/sam-altmans-anti-human-worldview/

#tech #openai #genai #artificialintelligence #chatgpt #samaltman #cdnpoli #canada

Sam Altman’s anti-human worldview

OpenAI CEO downgrades humanity in pursuit of goal to merge with computers

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Feb 23 at 9:45pmWeb
Show threadToni AittoniemiFeb 23

@parismarx I think they hate humans because they hate themselves.

On some level they must recognise all the harm they’re doing. So, to merge it all into a coherent worldview the rest of us have to be downgraded to their level of disrespect for humanity, too. 🤔

Show threadtootbruteFeb 23

@parismarx 9 less people on earth means more water for AI, right altman?????

Ahhhhhhhhbhhhhhhhhh. runs screaming into the void

Show threadTaran RampersadFeb 23

@parismarx yeah, I ripped apart what he said. He was smoking philosophy in kaleidoscope frames, but he gave me the Altman Paradox: expansion framed as substitution.

👀

https://knowprose.com/2026/02/the-altman-paradox/

Show threadChad ZaharaFeb 23

@knowprose @parismarx The most succinct description I've read of him, and I quote:

"Scam Altman"

End quote.

Show threadTaran RampersadFeb 24

@Zahara @parismarx yeah. Most of the time I don't even bother with...

No sense giving them attention, in my mind...

But that whole comparison to humans was do wrong in do many ways, I had to call it out. I mean, I wasted a part of my life on it, listening to the audio, transcribing what was said...

But people get so caught up in it, i decided to name a paradox after him. 🙄

Show threadmirabilosFeb 23
@parismarx this clearly shows how TESCREALism implies hating humanity
Show threadTimFeb 24

@parismarx God said in the Holy Bible, that they will give an accounting. I'm waiting for Jesus to return. I know that's not popular.

Sorry, not sorry.

Show threadTimFeb 24
@parismarx Can I go first after the Apostle Paul?
Show threadredbrick01Feb 24
@parismarx I used chatgpt or something like that....it sucks! Dr. Sbaitso did better than this.
Show threadListerine Lavender MintFeb 24
@parismarx I'm not a lawyer or nothing but doesn't this make them accessory to murder
Show threadBoloMKXXVIIIFeb 24
@parismarx
In my opinion, Sam Altman is likely to end up in jail in the not too distant future. What he is doing is called fraud. He best hope the cell he ends up in isn't the same one Epstein was in.
Show threadKhleedrilFeb 24
@BoloMKXXVIII @parismarx Yep. He is the new Elizabeth Holmes.
Show threadKSHernandez ♊(she/her/they)Feb 24
@parismarx All that money and his hair looks like THAT!?
Show threadDevinFeb 24
@parismarx Sam Altman is a lying sociopath, to be sure...but let's pump the brakes. You think a private company should be alerting governments of people's hypothetical thought-crimes? I think that is a horrible take. What happened in Canada is awful, but the answer isn't "expand the surveillance state."
Show threadParis MarxFeb 24
@devin_and_earth Respectfully, this is a stupid take. The modern tech industry is the surveillance state. ChatGPT and generative AI do not exist without mass data collection. This isn’t about thought crimes, it’s about people using technology in a way that presents a real threat to people’s lives. We have always had a balance between privacy and safety, and that doesn’t end because the internet and cyberlibertarian ideas that have been formed around it.
Show threadDevinFeb 24

@parismarx Let me preface this by saying I am no champion of corporations, and I am certainly not a libertarian.

1. No, private industries are most certainly not the surveillance state—they are tools of it. When the state demands information from private companies, the companies hand it over. That very thing is happening with ICE right this moment to hunt down undocumented people.

2. So Google should start alerting governments of every potentially-dangerous series of search queries?

Show threadDevinFeb 24

@parismarx Does Meta screen and report their users this way? Can you cite examples of this supposed balance between safety and privacy you speak of? I'm genuinely asking.

Truly, I wish that people being put on watchlists was only ever for protection of the public, but then those surveillance practices get weaponized when malicious administrations take power.

Show threadParis MarxFeb 24

@devin_and_earth Yes, Meta does. Google also reports searches in certain instances. At least in Canada, therapists and similar professions have an obligation to report if patients intend to commit harm to themselves or others. These things are all very commonplace.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/facebook-scans-chats-and-posts-for-criminal-activity/

Facebook scans chats and posts for criminal activity

Facebook's monitoring software focuses on conversations between members who have a loose relationship on the social network.

CNET
Show threadDevinFeb 24

@parismarx Licensed therapists who regularly engage with the mentally-unwell are a completely separate matter from tech platforms capable of mass surveillance, and I disagree with conflating the two.

We are actively witnessing state access to user data cause more harm than that which it prevents. I wish I lived in a country where it were otherwise.

Show threadDevinFeb 24
@parismarx Relying on surveillance systems from tech companies to monitor theoretically dangerous people is a poor alternative to actually preventing mental health crises through robust welfare programs and meaningful reforms. Only one of those options can be weaponized by the state (or even the tech companies themselves, in some cases).
Show threadDevinFeb 24
@parismarx If the public had the chance to vote on whether OpenAI should be denied access to their personal, verbatim interactions with ChatGPT, it would be overwhelmingly popular, because no one likes being exposed to companies like that. Thus I think endowing them with mental health monitoring responsibilities is a begrudged solution people resort to after leaping over way too many other questions and problems.
Show threadCarlos SolísFeb 24
@parismarx Plenty of higher-ups seem to be willing to inflict a Purge, but only if they suffer no consequences for it. Otherwise they would have started doing it explicitly long ago. (Unlike now, where they do it only stealthily and in deniable circumstances)
Show threadgaryFeb 24
@parismarx it is too easy to pile on, you may as well blame the world. openai is losing money so it is easy to go after them - you may as well go after all of ai and then live under china