Sir Pacings @sirpacings - Tumblr Blog

Hey do y’all remember when Boeing fucking killed a guy last year. And we all said “huh I guess Boeing fucking killed a guy” and then went on with our lives. And everybody knew that Boeing had fully just fucking executed a guy and nothing came of it. Like there was no police investigation no justice no nothing. Like literally EVERYBODY knew that Boeing had full on murdered a guy to silence him and there wasn’t any consequences for them. Kinda crazy.

flamie87

and there was even less talk when openai did the exact same thing more recently

flamie87

So for those who are, very understandably uninitiated on this story:

On 23 October last year (2024) the New York Times published an interview with former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji who worked on organising and gathering data for OpenAI until 2022 when he begun thinking about the morality of it. He eventually came to the conclusion that what OpenAI is doing blatantly violates copyright law and decided to leave the company altogether in August 2024.

After he came out with this accusation he was set to appear in court to testify against OpenAI’s data-gathering practices, something which had the potential of being a complete disaster for the company and the generative AI industry as a whole.

That was until 26 November, just days before he was due to appear in court, when he suddenly and mysteriously was found dead inside his own apartment. Investigators concluded that the death was self-inflicted, something which his family has disputed.

There was also “sign of struggle in the bathroom and looks like someone hit him in the bathroom based on blood spots”, and his apartment showed signs of having been ransacked for evidence: “The pin drive is missing. His computer was messed up.”.

Overall it feels pretty clear-cut what happened, that is to say that OpenAI had him killed because he was a legitimate threat to their business, indicating that they are fully aware that the way they’re gathering data is completely illegal.

Sources:

Alys Davies, 14.12.2024, OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment. BBC News

Barney Davis, 16.1.2025, Suchir Balaji’s family demand outside investigation into OpenAI whistleblower’s death. The Independent

Cade Metz, 23.11.2024, Former OpenAI Researcher Says the Company Broke Copyright Law. The New York Times

upandoutcomic

Shower time~🎶 Shoutout to The Northern Boys

shencomix

Actual account of a recent chess match of mine.

rainydayscore

Twitter has had a days long discussion about things they like about dark souls 2 stemming from this post so here's some highlights

pangur-and-grim

I'm so so so angry. in Horsey Game, I found a wild legless horse, cloned it repeatedly, and mass-sold the clones to all my rival ranches to pollute their gene pools. and when my plan finally reached fruition.....when at last, I came into a race where every opponent had no legs.......my stupid fucking horse fell over.

verminedev

pocket-deer-belly

the older i get the more it's terrifying to me how much child surveillance is normalized. scared for your child's mental health? here's more tools that will make them feel even more watched at all times. child is experimenting with their gender identity while away from you? we made it this other adult's job to surveil them for you. kid is "enjoying" their "free time" instead of doing homework? we've put parental controls on the things that they like so that you can monitor their private time. like can we fucking stop

pocket-deer-belly

it took me until 24 to realize that my parents don't deserve to just waltz into my room while i'm asleep and that me thinking this was fucking terrifying behavior wasn't actually unreasonable at all

pocket-deer-belly

unrestricted internet access is good for children because the alternative is that their parents are fucking inescapable. surveilling your child is abuse.

sabrebash

Oh no

depsidase

that-stone-butch

personalized ads are so funny to me

'hey we've been spying on you and tracking your every move. it's a culmination of state of the art technology and an unprecedented invasion of consumer privacy. a room full of men with made up jobs bent their will toward decades of constructing this system, defending it in court, and tirelessly innovating new ways to aggregate more data about you'

and the end result is

'yeah so uh we saw that you recently bought a car. so here's an ad for that car'

like no i'm good actually. you might be aware that i already have one

elfwreck

my-random-fandoms

thetrekkiehasthephonebox

Verified: Microsoft 365 gets massive 45% price hike — and it's all to do with AI tools (Tom's Guide - January 17, 2025)

mothwizard

oopsie i tripped and spilled my link to archive dot org's downloadable copy of Microsoft office suite for 2007, which features no AI tools and is a powerful word processor that still holds up just fine on windows 10!

ms-demeanor

Please please please please please please don't install a 2007 out of support microsoft product, just use Libre Office, an open source office suite that gets regular updates and is going to be NOT a massive point of vulnerability on your system.

Also if you get 365 Apps for Business it's the same office products without the AI stuff for about $70 a year.

ampervadasz

bumblebeerror

THE CASUALNESS OF THAT COLLIE SLIPPING RIGHT OUT OF THEIR COLLAR. That dude is a Willing Participant of this walk and by god everyone else is going to follow the RULES.

roach-works

im a fan of the moment where the husky is like 'wait you're not authorized to do that' and the collie is like 'THE FUCK IM NOT'

spacelazarwolf

unstoppable force (border collie) vs immovable object (husky)

bovineblogger

charl0ttan

deers are mostly known for being hunted and i think this is not fair because they can also be so so sweets and lovelies & licking you??

grimfeywizard

My dash did a thing

charl0ttan

exhibit A

heardbook

I understand where you’re coming from and you aren’t wrong but I’ll never forget the time I saw a deer investigate and sniff a truck, try for several minutes to have sex with the truck, fall over, see itself in the reflection of the bumper, freak out, and then headbutt the rear of the truck so hard it broke its own neck and died.

They are like dumber, weaker, less fragile, horses

charl0ttan

cant blame a girl for fumbling

twocubes

what if you combined a pressure cooker and a deep fryer and made a pressure fryer, the most dangerous kitchen implement in history

baedlyweathered

does this imply you want to heat cooking oil to past its boiling point at one atmosphere

iatrophilosophos

Its real and its called a broaster.

garaged0g

*grabs america by the shoulders* we have got to lock the fuck in. south asia and the middle east are running goddamn circles around us. we have got to come up with a more dangerous way of cooking food now or we can kiss these quarter finals goodbye

neopoints

me n the girls walkin into target headed straight to the clearance bread rack

jerryterry

tamascotchi-deactivated20190101

jerrod how long did it take you to photoshop all that bread

jerryterry

Did it the lazy easy way:

It may be less than stellar, but I have a strict personal rule: “don’t put longer than 30 minutes’ effort into a fetish joke”. The second you hit 30:01, the exposure becomes lethal and the fetish becomes unironic.