Ilya Sustkever's Deposition Reveals Previously Unknown Details [pdf]
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The deposition of Ilya Sustkever reveals previously unknown details about his involvement with OpenAI, sparking discussion among HN users about the implications and context of the testimony.
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Maybe that's driven by the long and embarrassing track record of lawyers, court clerks and admins somehow failing to properly redact text from PDFs again and again (eg only covering text with black boxes while leaving the text metadata intact). This despite it now being an infamous recurring mistake in a common yet crucial part of their jobs.
Also didn’t realise people and especially HN read legal documents like this in their free time?
> Anthropic reached out to Helen [...] with a proposal to be merged with OpenAI and take over its leadership.
> Q. When was that?
> A. On Saturday.
> Q. Saturday, November 18th?
I don't think that's been publicly hinted at before?
I wonder what they mean by "disappearing email". I thought it's not technically possible to send disappearing email.