OpenAI has reportedly fired safety executive Ryan Beirmeister, whose title at the company was VP of product policy. According to the Wall Street Journal, which broke the story, Beirmeister was told her firing was related to sexual discrimination against a male colleague.
“The allegation that I discriminated against anyone is absolutely false,” Beiermeister told the journal in a statement.
According to anonymous sources who spoke to the Journal, The firing, which apparently occurred in early January, came after Beirmeister had stated her opposition to the ChatGPT adult mode (or erotica mode?) Sam Altman announced in October of last year. Beirmeister was also, according to the Journal, the creator of an internal “peer-mentorship” group for women at OpenAI.
So by the sound of it they copythefted Literotica.
I can’t conclude anything from this. No specifics on the discrimination, and nothing but innuendo on tje firing itself. I get the feeling the implication is she was fired because of her opposition to this adult mode, but there is no proof on either conclusion.
With the current atmosphere in the US I wouldn’t be surprised if they somehow twisted the fact that she was against said “erotica mode” to be gender based discrimination because “men want it and women don’t” or some other similar bullshit that would usually not fly, but with Big AI and Trump passing money and favours between each other, these companies can literally do anything without any semblance of punishment…
there likely will never be any concrete proof why exactly they fired her. there will always be plausible deniability, unless some whistleblower came out.
i’ll just make my own inferences, you can disagree.
Disgusting.
