The Person Who Was in Charge of OpenAI's $175 Million Fund Appears to Be Fake. "Jacob Vespers does not exist to our knowledge."

3 years ago by David Gerard to c/techtakes

For a period of time in 2023, the person in charge of OpenAI's $175 million startup fund appears to have been completely fake.

mountainriver 58 points 3 years ago

He appeared to be human, but then they counted his fingers.

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Soyweiser 30 points 3 years ago

Mr. Vesper, could you wire me my pay? I have not been paid in months, and I need to pay rent!

"As an AI language model..."

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Hyperreality 47 points 3 years ago

It's shocking to realise how much of capitalism is just irrational bullshit tulip mania nonsense.

Sure, AI's going to change the world, but some of the valuations are absurd.

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dgerard 18 points 3 years ago

true, it's going to make it worse

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PriorityMotif 13 points 3 years ago

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corbin 7 points 3 years ago

I agree, and also I find "over a decade" to be a very funny duration. ELIZA was developed in the 60s; it's been over half a century since humans confused bots for people, which was the point.

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mii 32 points 3 years ago

I swear, OpenAI is just a bunch of clowns LARPing as a company from Shadowrun and somehow it works and no one questions it.

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Soyweiser 11 points 3 years ago

It works, as no companies who have institutional power to call them out on their Shadowrun larping will call them out, as their lie relfects their own lie, and suddenly they can no longer sleep. Project mayhem is capitalism! His name is Robert Dunkelzahn!

E: think my chatbot which I trained on my own posts broke there in the end, should have never trained it on making references.

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HubertManne 9 points 3 years ago

no no. once they get it running on the blockchain it will take over everything!

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Soyweiser 27 points 3 years ago

"Or — bear with us here — maybe the AGI that everybody's so worried about is already online, and quietly trying to seize control itself. Just kidding... right?"

This is some sort of april fools joke right?

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Nobody 23 points 3 years ago

Fortunately, the OpenAI fund is insured by renowned financier, Maximilian Bigbux, III, whose vast personal fortune includes uninsurable beachfront Florida real estate, newspaper stock, and some sweet crypto his cousin told him about.

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Zier 20 points 3 years ago

AI = Crypto It's a hot mess, there will always be a scandal, and the con job is epic.

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dgerard 13 points 3 years ago

a reader tipped me off to a beauty last night, an "AI company" that appears to be a completely fake company

more as it comes, i'll probably write a post about it

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Etterra 15 points 3 years ago