{"id":10588,"date":"2026-04-28T19:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/sam-altman-caught-lie-bruno-mars\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T19:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:10:17","slug":"sam-altman-caught-lie-bruno-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/sam-altman-caught-lie-bruno-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman Caught in What May Be His Most Spectacular Lie Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman\u2019s unsettling blockchain-based side gig<\/a>, a startup with the uninspired name \u201cWorld,\u201d has left us scratching our heads for years.<\/p>\n

The startup claims that gazing into its spherical \u201cOrb\u201d iris scanner will solve the problem of \u201cverifying humanness,\u201d a cryptic value proposition most recently adopted by dating platform Tinder<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But considering the company\u2019s latest gaffe, Altman appears to have failed to ponder the orb long enough. In an April 17 announcement<\/a>, Tools for Humanity \u2014 also founded by Sam Altman, and which contributes to the World project \u2014 announced it was selling the first tickets to global music sensation Bruno Mars\u2019 upcoming world tour via a new product called Concert Kit.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, there turned out to be a glaring problem: Bruno Mars and his management had no idea about any of it, once again highlighting Altman and his companies\u2019 propensity<\/a> to distort the truth. In a joint statement to Wired<\/em> last week<\/a>, Bruno Mars Management and Live Nation said that the partnership \u201cdoes not exist\u201d and that Tools for Humanity had never even approached them.<\/p>\n

Now, as Vice<\/em> reports<\/a>, the startup has updated its website<\/a>, with a spokesperson confirming that it \u201cdoes not have any agreement with Bruno Mars to test or feature Concert Kit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Worse yet, Tools for Humanity now claims it\u2019s instead partnering with Thirty Seconds to Mars \u2014 the rock band of actor Jared Leto, who\u2019s been accused of a startling number of sex crimes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to look past the sheer irony of a company that claims to verify human identity hallucinating a major partnership with a superstar \u2014 only to recruit an unrelated music act that also happens to have the word \u201cMars\u201d in its name. (It\u2019s unclear if the Thirty Seconds to Mars partnership was drawn up before or after the latest gaffe.)<\/p>\n

But we\u2019d be remiss not to note that it would be far from the first time Altman has been caught lying, or at least misinterpreting reality to a baffling degree<\/a> to suit his agenda.<\/p>\n

Former OpenAI staffers claim that Altman has fibbed about a great number of things<\/a>, from hiding non-disparagement agreements employees were forced to sign to mothballing the company\u2019s foundational promise of realizing artificial general intelligence (AGI) that purportedly \u201cbenefits all of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Altman\u2019s shaky track record was put on full display earlier this month in an extensive investigation<\/a> by journalists Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz for The New Yorker<\/em>. According to the piece, Altman has picked up at lengthy reputation at OpenAI and beyond for stretching the truth to \u2014 and often beyond \u2014 the breaking point.<\/p>\n

\u201cSam exhibits a consistent pattern of,\u201d an internal list obtained by the publication reads, with the first item being: \u201clying.\u201d<\/p>\n

More on Sam:<\/strong> Tinder Scanning Users\u2019 Eyeballs to Prove They Aren\u2019t Creeps<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The post Sam Altman Caught in What May Be His Most Spectacular Lie Yet<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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