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Corporate Gossip

Sam Altman & Open AI Part 2: King D*ck of Liar Mountain

Corporate Gossip

Becca Platsky

Society & Culture, Business

5.0590 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

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We're back with part two of our series on Open AI (we're done after this one for a while). Everyone's making everything up all the time and no one has any idea what will happen in the future. In this episode, we cover the wild claims made about AI and AGI and how those predictions are being used to justify environmental destruction and human exploitation. Also Sam Altman stands on his tippytoes. 

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Links: 

Empire of AI (Book) 

'There was all sorts of toxic behaviour': Timnit Gebru on her sacking by Google, AI's dangers and big tech

AI is draining water from Areas that need it most

Small Oregon county reckons with fallout from data center scandal

Arizona city defeats massive data center project over water, energy concerns

Behind the AI boom, an army of overseas workers in 'digital sweatshops'

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the corporate gossip podcast.

0:02.8

It's the business podcast for gossip lovers.

0:05.5

We explore the most absurd corporate scandals, the juiciest Wall Street tea, and the not-so-hidden secrets of famous business people.

0:14.0

You don't need to know anything about business to enjoy the corporate gossip podcast, but you might learn something along the way.

0:21.4

Speed. Welcome back to the corporate gossip podcast, but you might learn something along the way. Speed.

0:22.7

Welcome back to the corporate gossip podcast. I'm your host, CPA Skia Skorned Becca Platsky.

0:27.6

I'm here with my co-host and my brother. Data Analytics Playboy Adam Platsky.

0:31.9

And by the way, we have a lot of new listeners. Some of you have asked, where did speed come from?

0:39.6

And that, you'd have to go all the way back to our Disney episode, but you would find out then that we are huge fans of the Seminole 1996,

0:47.5

classic heavyweights with Ben Stiller. Jeffrey Tambor.

0:52.0

Oh, Jeffrey Tambor is actually also in it. Sean Weiss. Oh, yes, Sean Weiss from The Mighty Ducks. And Keenan Thompson. Speed. Does that mean rolling? Okay, so now you're all cut up. I don't like people to feel like out of the loop in terms of inside jokes. You know what I mean? That's why I tell everybody to watch Vanderpump Rules, so you'll know what we're talking about. It's going to come up in this episode. Anyway, the other housekeeping item I did want to talk about is a change that you might have noticed in the podcast. And we're taking a break from our little vignettes in the beginning of the episode. There's a couple reasons for that. First, I found out that some people thought that our podcast was actually, like the whole thing was a vignette. The whole thing was like acted out in that way. And it turned some people off. They didn't like skip forward to find out that it was mostly just talking. Wow.

1:50.1

So I thought, let me just do an experiment to see what would happen if we just started it with a different opening where I explained the podcast.

1:52.2

That actually did really well.

1:54.2

So we're going to take a break.

2:00.4

The other reason is, frankly, they take me a lot of time to write and produce and record and edit.

2:04.8

And because we're putting out way more content now, I just had to make a cut.

2:07.0

And that seemed like the thing that made the most sense.

2:13.3

Those kind of creative endeavors will not leave you completely because I'm working on my Mark Zuckerberg, Cheryl Sandberg, Love Stories, musical?

2:17.4

The musical? The Musical?

2:18.2

The musical.

2:18.9

Fan fiction?

2:20.0

Anyway, so one day that will premiere, perhaps to live audiences.

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