What happened to Sam Altman and his family is really awful. It is hard to reconcile his call to “de-escalate the rhetoric and tactics” with his implication that a piece of critical journalism (Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz’s New Yorker article, presumably) was responsible for this.

Here is a partner at Thrive, an OpenAI investor, using the same rhetoric: x.com/kellylsims/sta…

@ShakeelHashim It's not rhetoric. How shameless of you try to spin this to blame the victim

@ShakeelHashim Obviously a PR stunt