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Posted by cdrnsf 1 day ago

OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world'(www.businessinsider.com)
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cowboylowrez 1 day ago|
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armchairhacker 1 day ago|
Keep cooking, Ed
sinabis 1 day ago||
wow, scary news
HumblyTossed 1 day ago||
I think the word you're looking for is propaganda. They're deliberately using propaganda to make you think happy thoughts.
fullshark 1 day ago|
Aka advertising.
daveguy 1 day ago||
I'm going to guess part of the influence campaign is getting stories like this removed from the front page of HN as quickly as possible:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1144867/dont-be-...

eg:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49814211

Not even flagged, just disappeared.

_fat_santa 1 day ago||
I feel like the "We hacked hugging face" thing and this influencer thing are targeting different things but have the same goal of hyping up the company for the IPO.

- The HF incident was to get the attention of investors and convey the message: "we have this incredibly powerful technology, imagine where we will be in 5 years"

- With this influencer campaign it's just a drive to get more people to use ChatGPT / sign up to ChatGPT so when IPO time comes, they can show strong user growth.

Over the past few months I've seen various reports that OpenAI's financial position isn't great and if those reports have any merit, then likely the higher ups at OpenAI are panicking that they might become a WeWork 2.0. Everything they are doing now is an attempt to justify their $1T valuation to investors during the IPO.

abroszka33 1 day ago|||
Yeah, that post disappeared rather quickly. I was surprised by it.
in_absentia 1 day ago|||
Your wish wash granted, the story is already off the front page, with an obvious penalty applied.
emp17344 1 day ago|||
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dwroberts 1 day ago||
I think it’s more that YC is so heavily invested in AI-related stuff it cannot then have a message board affiliated with it that has anti-AI content on it. Maybe it has always been like this for anything YC had its fingers in and it was just less obvious?
dwroberts 1 day ago||
Getting downvoted for this is insane, do people really not think there can't be a conflict of interest between what YC does and what is allowed to appear on this site?
algoth1 1 day ago|
Well, if it wasn't for llms my wife would still be bedridden 24/7 and doctors would still be thinking the problem was mostly psychological. So if OpenAI wants to pay me, just reach out and I'll share everything to my dozens of social media followers
colingauvin 1 day ago||
Could you share more about this?
algoth1 1 day ago||
Not sure why I'm being down voted. She was initially diagnosed with complex regional pain syndrome aka "the suicide disease" for how much pain it causes, and heavily medicated. Her official genetic test didn't found anything, but trough years of iteration of a mixture of codex and Claude code over her raw genetic data we built a working theory of what might be wrong and trough cupious daily notes, labs, and over several iterations of feeding the notes to different ais (whatever was the best Ai at the time, with the exception of fable due to the refusals), we manage to get her to a much better situation where she can now tolerate touch up to the toe line and can also tolerate phisioteraphy. Turns out her genes point towards a very weird energy and electrolyte deficit that must be approached from a very unique angle. The first real impact of an llm on the condition was via o1-preview
colingauvin 1 day ago||
Thanks for sharing. Very interesting.
JKCalhoun 1 day ago||
Success stories vs. horror stories.

It would make for an interesting matchup.