Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Wednesday, June 5th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.

As I said on that bonus episode with Alice Cantruwitz, the research side of Open AI isn't happy and

they're starting to speak out. More details on AI at W.W. D.C. next week, more

price hikes in digital media, Palmer Lucky, Can't Stop, Won't Stop, and how Corweave became one of the biggest

winners of the AI era. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Just a quick note up top that a whole bunch of construction flared up this morning right outside my window. I wasn't able to head into my office studio for various reasons and I tried to wait the construction

out but at this point it's go or no go so if you hear some faint stuff in the

background my apologies a group of current and former Open AI and Google Deep Mind staff have signed an open

letter warning of a culture of recklessness and secrecy at, quote, frontier AI companies. quoting the New York Times.

The members say Open AI, which started as a non-profit research lab and burst into public

view with the 2022 release of ChatGPT, is putting a priority on profits and growth as it tries to build

artificial general intelligence or AGI the industry term for a computer program

capable of doing anything a human can. They also claim that open AI has used hardball tactics to prevent

workers from voicing their concerns about the technology, including

restrictive non-disparagement agreements that departing employees were

asked to sign. Open AI is really excited about building AGI and they are recklessly racing to be the first there,

said Daniel Kokatillo, a former researcher in Open AI's governance division and one of the group's

organizers. The group published an open letter on Tuesday calling for leading AI

companies including Open AI to establish greater transparency and more protections

for whistleblowers.

Other members of the group include William Saunders, a research engineer who left Open AI in February

and three other former Open AI employees, the letter anonymously because

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