OpenAI Culture is Broken - AI Employees Are Evil

Eli the Computer Guy (0:00)

Coming from TechCrunch, OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company's, quote, culture is broken. So I think we are going to start seeing more of this out of OpenAI, as basically more and more employees realize they work for a criminal enterprise. That's what it seems like, and to my point of view. And so instead of trying to actually make the world a better place, they're just trying to profit from all of the crimes that their company is conducting. And I think we're going to start to see more and more employees leave, as they realize there's no way to write the course of this particular ship. One of the things I've talked about a lot for the technology world and the startup world is your most valuable asset as a CEO or as a founder is not your server rooms, it is not the servers, isn't any of that. It is your company culture, right? You want your company culture. Basically, the employees in your company aligned to the point where they will basically do what you would want them to do, even though you didn't know the things that they were doing, right? So you're going to have employees out there, they're going to be getting a whole bunch of information in, they are going to be making decisions. And when you as a boss run into them and you say, oh, what are you working on? And they say, this is the problem that I saw. This is how I went about figuring out a solution, and this is what I'm implementing. What should happen for you as a founder or as a boss? You should actually look at the employee and go, damn, that is actually a, that is better than I would have come up with, right? That is what you're looking at from your culture, that everybody basically is trying to go in the same direction. I've talked about this before, right? If you have a factory, punctuality is close to godliness, right? Because that's how factories work, right? You have shifts, right? There's three shifts per day or whatever else, right? If the line stops at 7.50, so that new employees can come in and restart it at 8 o'clock, you have to be there at 7.5 in order for the line to start at 8 o'clock. If you come in at 8.05, you come at 8.10, that is simply not going to work for a factory, right? So in factories, they don't want you to be freethinking, they don't want you to imagine a future, they just want you to show the fuck up on time, do your job for your 8 to 10 hours, and then go the fuck home, right? That's the company culture. If you have a whole bunch of factory workers that decide they're going to become visionaries, oh lord, if things got to get ugly pretty quick, right? On the other hand, like if you have a technology company, right, or you're doing web design or whatever else, if you have people that come in, right, and they believe punctuality is close to godliness, but then they want to be micromanaged, right? They want to be told exactly what to do. One of the things I've talked about, right? As a manager, as an owner of a technology company, you simply can't micromanage, right? It's just functionally impossible, right? Just a whole mess of different problems are coming in, they need to get solved. You need people to be able to assess the problem, figure out a solution, deploy the solution, and then maybe, maybe tell you what the hell is going on. If you have employees that come in, and they want to be micromanaged, simply, just simply not going to work out, right? And then, then, you know, beyond that, it goes into things like honesty. Do you want your employees in the company to be honest? Or frankly, do you want them to be dishonest, right? Should they be happy? Should they be, right? There's all this stuff that goes into culture. And the thing is, is that the culture will drive the outcomes. And so one of the big problems that I've talked about before with OpenAI, and I do keep bringing up Sam Alban's sister for a very profound reason. Don't keep bringing up Sam Alban's sister, because it's cool now, because in 2026, it's actually not cool. It's not 2022 anymore. Nobody gives a fuck about BLM or Me Too.

That's four years ago. That was last administration. But one of the reasons that I bring up Sam Alban's sister is because if you look at the story of Sam Alban's sisters, and not just the allegations, there's the allegations of Sam Alban's sister against Sam Alban. But the interesting part is, if you look how the family, Sam Alban, their family, integrates the sister, throws the sister under the fucking bus publicly, that is the thing that I think is most interesting. Not even the allegation itself, not even the possibility of the allegation being real. It's how the family deals with the allegation. And then when you see that, and then you see that Sam Altman was fired for a hot minute, two years, a year and a half ago, right? Because the board members felt that he was being dishonest and manipulative and that kind of thing. And then through dishonesty and manipulation, he was able to get his CEO position back. And then you see with Dario, then we see with Dario, right? Dario, literally, right? He went out and created Anthropic, and he said, how can you work for a CEO that you fundamentally don't trust? Right, again, another, right? And then we see Hugging Face, then we see Hugging Face, right? Hugging Face, apparently, from what I've gotten from CNBC, at 1.14,000 AI agents from OpenAI was hammering the shed out of Hugging Face for days or possibly weeks. Hugging Face literally had to call in the FBI, they had to expend resources in order to deal with this felonious attack coming in from OpenAI. And then when OpenAI puts out a blog post, what do they do? Do they profusely apologize for the damage that they caused? No, they talk about their partner, Hugging Face. Their victim, they co-opt into being a partner of their own victimization.