OpenAI Security VP Reportedly Fired for Sexual Discrimination Towards Her Male Colleague

OpenAI has reportedly fired security govt Ryan Beirmeister, whose title on the firm was VP of product policy. In accordance with the Wall Avenue Journal, which broke the story, Beirmeister was instructed her firing was associated to sexual discrimination in opposition to a male colleague.

“The allegation that I discriminated in opposition to anybody is completely false,” Beiermeister instructed the journal in an announcement.

In accordance with nameless sources who spoke to the Journal, The firing, which apparently occurred in early January, got here after Beirmeister had said her opposition to the ChatGPT grownup mode (or erotica mode?) Sam Altman introduced in October of final yr. Beirmeister was additionally, in line with the Journal, the creator of an inner “peer-mentorship” group for ladies at OpenAI.

A doable grownup mode has been within the works for a very long time. A model spec in 2024 hinted at the potential for NSFW content material. Nevertheless, OpenAI told Mashable around the release of that document, “We’ve got no intention to create AI-generated pornography.”

OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman backtracked slightly on his grownup mode announcement from final yr, emphasizing mature conversations, quite than horniness, however the capacity for customers to have some type of cybersex with OpenAI’s signature chatbot nonetheless appears to be on its approach. Altman simply desires to supply, he says, “a whole lot of freedom for individuals to make use of AI within the ways in which they need,” and he mentioned he and his firm “aren’t the elected ethical police of the world.”

The sources who spoke to the journal additionally talked about an “advisory council” on “well-being and AI” inside OpenAI, and this entity has apparently requested for the discharge of grownup mode to be reconsidered.

However OpenAI’s assertion to the Journal on Beirmeister’s firing strongly implies that it had nothing to do with grownup mode. It says she “made invaluable contributions throughout her time at OpenAI, and her departure was not associated to any concern she raised whereas working on the firm.”