An OpenAI Engineer Wrote a Wild Reply When Elon Musk's AI Company Tried to Recruit Him

After Elon Musk's "anti-woke" AI company tried to poach him, an OpenAI engineer rebuffed the offer in stark terms — and now, he's airing the dirty laundry. In a post on X, OpenAI's Javier Soto shared a screenshot of his response to xAI when the company tried to recruit him. "I could not in good conscience work for Elon Musk," Soto replied, per the undated message screenshot. "I am a happy Tesla owner and fan of SpaceX, but the rhetoric he's spewing on social media is one of the biggest threats to democracy that we have ever witnessed." "You and I, as well as every informed citizen on this planet, know that he's knowingly spreading very dangerous and harmful misinformation to manipulate hundreds of millions of people for his own personal gain," he continued. "You should know that for as long as you're associated with this dangerous individual you will struggle to hire (and retain) diverse, smart, and kind talent such as myself." Soto's broadside comes after users discovered that Mus ... Read full article.