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“Real people have picked up quirks of LLM-speak,” the OpenAI CEO said.
Sam Altman thinks ‘the world should accept some bad things happening’ for the good of AI.
In an interview with Brendan Bordelon of Politico, Altman said this was a fundamental difference between OpenAI and Anthropic. He believes that “for the benefits of this technology” (rather than the benefit of humanity), we should just deal with “bad things happening.” [Link: Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI | https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/04/sam-altman-decoded-interview-ai-01106217 | Politico]
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If you're going to cite that NBER report from OpenAI about "how people use AI," you've got to at least caveat it. We have no way to directly verify most of the report, and we do have at least one good reason, via indirect evidence and quoted below, to not trust it. nber.org/papers/w34255
Maria Antoniak
Not the point of the OP, but I was curious and took a closer look at this 2025 piece from OpenAI. Much could be said, but it fails my go-to test for all of these pieces about "how people actually use AI": the tokens "sex" "erotic" and "NSFW" do not appear in the paper.