Tucker Carlson, Musk Revive Murder Theory of Ex-Openai Employee, Suchir Balaji
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Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk revived a murder conspiracy theory surrounding the death of ex-OpenAI employee Suchir Balaji, prompting discussion about the validity of the claims and the role of AI in spreading information.
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theartfuldodger
4 months ago
In an adjacent research project I asked 5 LLM's today about suspicious deaths relating to whistleblowers. All 5 identified this case. I was surprised as I did not think there was much media coverage to have made it into training data. It's a hard prompt to get around content safeguards as it is.
phs318u
4 months ago
Though it may be tempting to summarily dismiss this due to the individuals involved and their historically elastic relationship to the truth, even a broken clock is right twice a day. The investigation (paid for) by the mother seems to have identified things that don’t necessarily gel with a conclusion of suicide.
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