
I’m so heartened by the comments here, because it’s such an obvious marketing ploy.
The market is speculative, a value isn’t in what a company produces, but in the investments people make in it because of the potential of future profits. It’s why a company can produce absolutely nothing of value at all and still be valued highly, see Theranos. This means that if you can sell an idea hard enough, you can get a lot of investors to give you money, which is fantastic for you up until the point the checks are due and you have nothing to show for it.
Scam Altman has come with so many lofty goals, general intelligences, 100 billion in profit by 2030, which is rich for a company that’s not pushing even a dollar in profit. Where are they going to scrounge up 100 billion in 3½ years?
So how convenient isn’t it then, if they had a secret model that they’re testing, suddenly go rogue in the exact kind of scenario that AI safety researchers have been talking about for well over a decade at this point? Truly, for AI to have advanced this much, and manage to circumvent even the safeguards that OpenAI, a company founded on the very tenet of AI safety and openness have placed on it? This model must be worth all that money! They’re getting somewhere!
Only, how would such a thing even happen? OpenAI is after all one of the global leaders of AI research. You’re saying that they, despite all of their knowledge in AI safety, test their models on hardware that isn’t airgapped? Or did the model somehow physically project into the real world and hook itself up to the internet? Or was it able to vibrate the atoms around it in a way to connect to WiFi despite the hardware it was running on not having a wireless card?
Surely a company of such renown wouldn’t be so stupid.
It’s a marketing ploy. It’s an incredibly dumb marketing ploy, but they saw that it worked for Anthropic with their nothingburger “too dangerous to release” model, so they orchestrated something similar.



Damn, this looks really complete. I’ve tried a bunch of clients, my go-to being Amperfy, but I’m also quite fond of Cadence. Going to keep trying this for a bit.
My only question is like, why does it have Audible’s colour scheme? Particularly some of the icons make it really look like Audible.
This is also a very interesting spelling of ADO.