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OPENAI AND X: PROMISES OF POPULIST TECHNOLOGY, SHAPED BY A SINGLE MAN


THE DRAMA INSIDE THE SILICON VALLEY ICONS SHOWS THEY’RE JUST AS SECRETIVE,
CENTRALIZED AND EGO-DRIVEN AS THE BIG TECH TITANS THEY VOWED TO SUPPLANT

Analysis by Drew Harwell
Staff writer
November 23, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST

(Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos/Washington Post; Gonzalo
Fuentes/Reuters; Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images; iStock)

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The mutiny inside OpenAI over the firing and un-firing of chief executive Sam
Altman, and the implosion of X under owner Elon Musk, are not just Silicon
Valley soap operas. They’re also reminders: A select few make the decisions
inside these society-shaping platforms, and money drives it all.


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