Sam Altman's Home Targeted a Second Time, Two Suspects Arrested (sfstandard.com) 44
"Early Sunday morning, a car stopped and appears to have fired a gun at the Russian Hill home of OpenAI's CEO," reportsThe San Francisco Standard, citing reports from the local police department:
The San Francisco Police Department announced the arrest of two suspects, Amanda Tom, 25, and Muhamad Tarik Hussein, 23, who were booked for negligent discharge... [The person in the passenger seat] put their hand out the window and appeared to fire a round on the Lombard side of the property, according to a police report on the incident, which cited surveillance footage and the compound's security personnel, who reported hearing a gunshot. The car then fled, and a camera captured its license plate, which later led police to take possession of the vehicle, according to the report... A search of the residence by officers turned up three firearms, according to police.
The incident follows Friday's arrest of a man who allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at Altman's house. The San Francisco Standard also notes that in November, "threats from a 27-year-old anti-AI activist prompted the lockdown of OpenAI's San Francisco offices." Sam Kirchner, whose whereabouts have been unknown since Nov. 21, was in the midst of a mental health crisis when he threatened to go to the company's offices to "murder people," according to callers who notified police that day.
The San Francisco Police Department announced the arrest of two suspects, Amanda Tom, 25, and Muhamad Tarik Hussein, 23, who were booked for negligent discharge... [The person in the passenger seat] put their hand out the window and appeared to fire a round on the Lombard side of the property, according to a police report on the incident, which cited surveillance footage and the compound's security personnel, who reported hearing a gunshot. The car then fled, and a camera captured its license plate, which later led police to take possession of the vehicle, according to the report... A search of the residence by officers turned up three firearms, according to police.
The incident follows Friday's arrest of a man who allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at Altman's house. The San Francisco Standard also notes that in November, "threats from a 27-year-old anti-AI activist prompted the lockdown of OpenAI's San Francisco offices." Sam Kirchner, whose whereabouts have been unknown since Nov. 21, was in the midst of a mental health crisis when he threatened to go to the company's offices to "murder people," according to callers who notified police that day.
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If at first you don't succeed... (Score:5, Funny)
it's pretty obvious that ChatGPT came up with their game plan.
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Re: If at first you don't succeed... (Score:2)
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it's pretty obvious that ChatGPT came up with their game plan.
Sam would argue that the Oceans 11 plug-in hadn't been installed in that particular version of his confabulator yet.
Let's hope the Oceans 14 cameo goes better. I hear the W.O.P.R. is in charge of the vault this time, so Chatty McChatface here is gonna have to learn the old ways.
"Negligent discharge" (Score:5, Insightful)
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When 900 children you make as I am good you will not look, hm?
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Re: "Negligent discharge" (Score:2)
I have to be honest, I didn't think this charge was about guns.
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Interesting (Score:2)
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Re:Interesting (Score:4, Informative)
I don't blame Altman. I blame all the morons who pay their $20~200/month subscription fee and use the Weighted Random Word Generator over doing actual searches, doing their own writing or talking to other human beings. It's the same way I don't hate Bezos. I don't like Amazon, haven't shopped there since 2016, but the problem isn't Amazon
Capitalism gives people choices, but few people realize they have choices. Instead they grow envious at the person at the top for convincing the masses they are the best (and often first and most convenient) choice.
Envy is the root of all communism.
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He's tried to do a bit more that just bring a product to market. He seriously considered trying to extort countries into investing into his company, He was going to sell his tech to whichever country promised to give him the most and fabricated national security threats to add urgency to his scam. In his mind, the AI tech is more powerful and dangerous than nukes and he was going to sell it to the highest bidder. I'm going to guess that's why he was targeted.
You can and should blame corrupt people for b
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Anyone want to start a GoFundMe to support future protests of this form? And another for Zuckerberg. And one for Musk. And one for... oh heck, there's just too many tech bros.
Wrong target (Score:2)
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Everyone that works with him says he has no understanding of programming. https://futurism.com/artificia... [futurism.com]
Re:Wrong target (Score:5, Insightful)
If these people are targeting Sam Altman in order to hinder progress in AI, they are aiming at the wrong target.
Shooting at Sam Altman over the state of current AI is like shooting at Ronald McDonald because you got a bad cheeseburger. It's not gonna change anything, but I suppose you may get a little Warhol effect fame.
Schizophrenics attacking Altman... (Score:3, Interesting)
Schizophrenics attacking Altman is like a human version of a broken clock being right twice a day.
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Violent schizophrenics aren’t “right”, nor is encouraging them.
Re: Schizophrenics attacking Altman... (Score:2)
They are definitely broke. But if their illness leads them to believe there's a powerful cabal of people using technology to enslave people and drive them into servitude, they'd be right.
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They are definitely broke. But if their illness leads them to believe there's a powerful cabal of people using technology to enslave people and drive them into servitude, they'd be right.
There’s always a “powerful cabal”! That’s been 100% true throughout human history and worldwide, regardless of culture!
What you’re (perhaps deliberately) missing is that schizophrenics and their apologists underestimate the power of a pluralistic society to integrate and handle such “cabals”, and so choose to reject blind justice, rule of law, decentralized government, free speech, etc as the best methods for harnessing and constraining them.
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Schizophrenics attacking Altman is like a human version of a broken clock being right twice a day.
Kind of like gang members killing other gang members.
To use the Altman-approved phrasebook... (Score:3, Funny)
They weren't trying to kill him... they're just conflict-inclined.
Aaron Swartz knew Sam (Score:1)
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That’s no excuse for violence.