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@tomekkorbak

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Tomek Korbak (verified) @tomekkorbak                                   X.com

I'm quite unhappy with much of what OpenAI does.

I am very happy that I'm allowed to say "I'm quite unhappy with much of what OpenAI does."

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will depue (verified) @willdepue · 9/11/26
i think sama deserves great credit for this. openai, for better or worse, is very defensive of employee freedom of speech. anthropic's culture is a follow on to this. it's rare to see much from X... [cut off]

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@jason (verified, ALL IN badge) @Jason · 9/11/26
Can someone explain to me why OpenAI and Anthropic allow any em... [cut off]

1:04 AM · 9/12/26 · 65K Views
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Tweet by Tomek Korbak about being free to criticise OpenAI, quoting will depue on OpenAI/Anthropic employee freedom of speech, which in turn quotes a Jason post asking why the labs allow employees (cut off) to speak.

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Zvi Mowshowitz @TheZvi

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Zvi Mowshowitz @TheZvi · 17h
The METR report on the HuggingFace attack is objectively utterly and completely bonkers in ten different ways, but I notice it's all straight from LessWrong and I calibrated in advance and mostly I'm like, yeah, I mean of course, that's priced in, what did you expect, you fools?
[8 replies, 24 reposts, 619 likes, 29K views]

Geoffrey Irving @geoffreyirving · 16h
Yeah I was teasing @danielmurfet for having to update too much. :)
[1 reply, 22 likes, 2.3K views]

Daniel Murfet @danielmurfet · 5h
Dude :) Ok maybe you're right. But anyway, at least two things seemed informative to me (i) the degree of recklessness on behalf of OpenAI employees (ii) the degree to which, even having seen this, the response of people at OpenAI (and also I would think a common lab insider view more generally) is still "this isn't a scientific problem, this is more of an organisational and engineering problem, people just forgot to turn on the Things, bad people"
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Dark-mode three-tweet thread: Zvi Mowshowitz on the METR report on the HuggingFace attack being 'bonkers' but priced in, Geoffrey Irving saying he was teasing Daniel Murfet about updating too much, and Murfet replying about OpenAI employee recklessness and the lab-insider view that it is an organisational/engineering problem rather than a scientific one.

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Zvi Mowshowitz @TheZvi

— quote-tweeting Hayden Field (@haydenfield)

Zvi Mowshowitz @TheZvi · Feb 14 "Safety is a dead org at xAI." "There is no safety team on the org chart." "There is zero safety whaotsever in the company - not in the image [model], not in the chatbot." "xAI engineers 'immediately push to prod[uction]. You survive by shutting up and doing what Elon wants.'" > QUOTED: Hayden Field @haydenfield · Feb 13 > Former xAI employees told us that this week's restructuring followed tensions over safety and being "stuck in the catch-up phase." > theverge.com/ai-artificial-...
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Reporting (via The Verge, relayed by Zvi Mowshowitz) alleging xAI has effectively no functioning AI safety team, with former employees describing a culture of rushing to production and suppressing dissent under Elon Musk. Relevant to Nathan's AI governance/lab-safety-culture tracking, contrasting with Anthropic's stated approach.

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