Can he safely lie about that? Or would that be a slam-dunk lawsuit against him? He's already got Elon Musk on his enemies list.

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317070 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

People need to understand that OpenAI is not a publicly traded company. Sam is allowed to be outrageously optimistic about his best case scenarios, as long as he is correct with OpenAI's investors. But those investors are not "the public", so he can publicly state pretty much anything he wants, as long as it is not contradicting facts.

So he cannot say "OpenAI made 20B profit last year." but can say "OpenAI will make 20B revenue next year." Optimism is not a crime.

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riku_iki 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I am not a lawyer, but it is possible he can say whatever he wants without consequences to public because OAI is not a public company.

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cmiles8 an hour ago | parent [-]

Kind of, but there are limits. The investors still have LPs who aren’t going to be happy if things get messy. Things can still get really ugly even for a private company.

	▲	azemetre 21 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Most of the credit being throwing around isn't coming from traditional banking companies, mostly private credit being utilized. Private credit isn't really unregulated. If you're interested in learning more I believe Matt Stoller has written a few articles about the private credit markets.
	▲	sethops1 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The LPs are eyeing that $1 trillion IPO to dump on retail. They don't care what Sam says until then.