Openai employees are fighting with the company’s social media

Many current and former researchers in Openai talk about the company’s first invasion on social media: Sura applicationTIKTOK summary filled with videos created from artificial intelligence and a lot of Sam Taman Devilx. Researchers, who broadcast their complaints on X, seem to be torn on how to fit the launch on the non -profit Openai mission to develop advanced artificial intelligence that benefits humanity.

“The extracts based on artificial intelligence are scary,” said John Halmann, pre -researcher of Openaii. After x. “I will not deny that I felt some anxiety when I learned for the first time that we were releasing Sora 2. However, I think the team has done the best absolute job they can design a positive experience (…) We will do our best to make sure that artificial intelligence helps and does not harm humanity.”

AI is scary. I will not deny that I felt some anxiety when I learned for the first time that we were launching a fence 2.
However, I think the team has done the best possible job in designing a positive experience. Compared to other platforms, I find myself imagine … https://t.co/ULEVMKNCL

John Halmann (@johnohallman) September 30, 2025

Boaz Barak, another researcher at Openai and Professor at Harvard University, to reply: “I share a similar mix of anxiety and excitement. Sora 2 is technically amazing, but it is too early to congratulate ourselves on avoiding the risks of other social media applications and deep deeds.”

The ex -researcher at Openai Rohan Pandey used this moment Connect a new startup companyPeriodic laboratories, which consist of former researchers in the artificial intelligence laboratory trying to build artificial intelligence systems for scientific discovery: “If you do not want to build unlimited AI Tiktok launcher but want to develop artificial intelligence that accelerates basic science (…) joins us in periodic laboratories.”

There was a lot last Posts along the same lines.

Sora Light highlights the basic tension of Openai Flares Over and over again. It is the fastest consumer technology company on Earth, but it is also a Frontier AI laboratory with a non -profitable charter. Some former Openai employees who spoke to them argue that consumer work, in theory, serves the task: ChatGPT helps finance artificial intelligence research and distribute technology on a large scale.

The CEO of Openai Sam Altman said in A. After x Wednesday, address the reason for the company allocating a lot of capital and computing to the application of social media Amnesty International:

“We often need the capital of construction (SIC) artificial intelligence that can do science, and definitely we focus on AGI with almost all our research effort.” “It is also good to show that people are wonderful/new products all the way, make them smile, and we hope they earn some money given all this need.”

“When we launched Chatgpt, there was a lot of” who needed this and where is AGI “.

Get the atmosphere here, but …

We often need capital to build artificial intelligence that can do science, and definitely focus on AGI with almost all our research effort.

It is also good to show great people/new products along the way, make them smile, and we hope they will do some … https://t.co/bccumxloop

Sam Al -Taman (Sama) October 1, 2025

But at what point does the Openai consumer excel over its non -profit mission? In other words, when Openai says no for the opportunity to earn money, the platform grows because it contradicts the task?

The question is waving on the horizon while checking the organizers Openai’s transition to profitWhich Openai needs to complete to raise additional capital and at the end. California Public Prosecutor Rob Punta He said Last month, he “is particularly interested in ensuring that Openai’s announced safety task as a non -profit regulation remains at the forefront and the center” in restructuring.

The skeptics refused Openai’s mission as a brand to attract talent from Big Tech. But many people in Openai insist that they can join the company in the first place.

Currently, a small wall imprint; The application is one day old. But for the first time it represents a great expansion in the business of consumers in Openai, and offers the company to incentives that were afflicted with social media applications for decades.

Unlike ChatGPT, which has been improved for benefit, Openai says Sora is a functional – place to create and share artificial intelligence clips. Nutrition feels closer to Tiktok or Instagram rollers, and notary platforms for their rings that cause addiction.

Openai insists that he wants to avoid those pitfalls, and demand them Blog post The announcement of the launch of Sora that “concerns about Doomscrolling, addiction, isolation, and fodder RL-SSLPTIMIZED are of the highest mind.” Frankly, the company says it does not improve the time it spends in nutrition and instead you want to increase the construction to the maximum. Openai says it will send reminders to users when they are passed for a very long time, and primarily show them the people they know.

This is a stronger starting point than the feelings of Meta-short video of artificial intelligence released last week-which seems to have been settled without many guarantees. As a former leader in Openai, Miles BRUNDAGE, It indicates, There will be good and bad applications for AI-VIDEO foods, as we saw in the Chatbot era.

However, Altman has long admitted, no one is published to create an addiction application. Nutrition incentives guide them to it. Openai has faced problems around it SYCOPHANCY in ChatgptThe company says it is unintended because of some of its training techniques.

in June PodcastAltman discussed what he calls “a major imbalance in social media”.

“One of the big mistakes in the social media era (that) was that the nutritional algorithms had a set of negative consequences unintended to society as a whole, and perhaps even individual users. Although they were doing the thing that the user wanted – or someone believed that users wanted him – at the present time, (to) they get it, like them, like, they continue to spend time on the site.”

It is too early to know how the Sora application is align with its users or Openai mission. Users already notice some of the techniques of improving sharing in the app, such as dynamic emojis that appear every time you love the video. This designer feels a little dopamine photography for users to participate with a video.

The real test will be how Openai Sora develops. Given the amount of artificial intelligence that artificial intelligence has acquired regular social media, it seems reasonable that local feed of artificial intelligence can have a moment soon. Whether Openai can grow Sora without repeating its previous errors, it should still be seen.