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by ronanfarrow 5mo ago
This means a lot to me. We're living in a time when we badly need independent journalism, with a very limited number of institutions devoting resources to this kind of work. Subscribing to support journalism you care about is a real pu
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by ronanfarrow 5mo ago
Appreciate this. I thought deeply about that and took a lot of time, when we had little of it to go around, iterating and shaping it. (Including talking to computer scientists to make sure I sounded as not-dopey as possible on the technical
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by ronanfarrow 5mo ago
The answer is that there really is no easy answer. It's an evolving assessment based on a complex matrix of considerations. You try to reach a critical mass of detailed, rounded understanding of a central question, integrating the most
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by ronanfarrow 5mo ago
Thank you so much. I’ll be answering more of them throughout the day as I have time.
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by ronanfarrow 5mo ago
I won’t get into behind-the-scenes specifics here but I think you can imagine how pressurized this topic was and the amount of heat that tends to generate. I’m used to getting a lot of blowback and it’s never fun. I just hope the work is me
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by ronanfarrow 5mo ago
For what it’s worth, I don’t think the piece at all avoids key areas of disillusionment with the technology. Quite the contrary.
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by ronanfarrow 5mo ago
This is a vast and tricky question. The business model has basically fallen out from under journalism, and especially this kind of labor-intensive investigative reporting. The media landscape is increasingly dominated by moneyed individuals
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by ronanfarrow 5mo ago
I’ve really appreciated how substantive and polite the discourse here is, overall!
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by ronanfarrow 5mo ago
This is so appreciated, thank you! These stories can honestly take a lot out of me so thoughtful reactions mean a lot.
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by ronanfarrow 5mo ago
Interesting to hear! While this hasn’t been a commonplace reaction, I think if I do my job right it should allow people to read the facts as they will, exactly like this. It’s strenuously designed to be fair and, where appropriate, even gen
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by ronanfarrow 5mo ago
For what it’s worth, the story, while focused on OpenAI, is not uncritical of Anthropic. It explores whether there is a wider race to the bottom in terms of safety, and erosion of even some of Anthropic’s commitments.
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by ronanfarrow 5mo ago
There is dwindling space for sincere independent accountability reporting on big tech like this to a) be created, since it's incredibly resource-intensive and so many resources flow from Silicon Valley, and b) actually reach people, si
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by ronanfarrow 5mo ago
As is always the case with incredibly precise and rigorously fact-checked reporting like this, where every word is chosen carefully (the initial closing meeting for this one was nearly eight hours long, with full deliberation about each sen
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by ronanfarrow 5mo ago
The piece is an interrogation of this very question, at great length and with some nuance. I think what it does most usefully is scrutinize an array of different answers to the question. My own impression after many hours of conversation is
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by ronanfarrow 5mo ago
Fair request, here you go: https://x.com/RonanFarrow/status/2041203911697068112
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by ronanfarrow 5mo ago
Thank you for this, very much appreciate the thoughtful response. The piece captures some of the anxieties within OpenAI right now about their competitive position. This obviously ebbs and flows but of late there has been much focus on Anth
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by ronanfarrow 5mo ago
All fair points on trauma and memory. As noted in the piece, we spent months talking to Altman's partners and what we found and didn't is as described.
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by ronanfarrow 5mo ago
Ronan Farrow here. Andrew Marantz and I spent 18 months on this investigation. Happy to answer questions about the reporting.