{"id":4454,"date":"2025-08-12T17:52:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/sam-altman-lying-tell\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T17:52:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:52:33","slug":"sam-altman-lying-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/sam-altman-lying-tell\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman Allegedly Has a Very Specific Tell Every Time He Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is no stranger to accusations<\/a> of lying<\/a> \u2014 but according to one of the company’s most vociferous critics<\/a>, he has a tick when he does it on camera.<\/p>\n

In a post on X-formerly-Twitter<\/a>, AI researcher and skeptic Gary Marcus put forth a compelling theory: that viewers can tell when Altman is lying or stretching the truth by the way he looks up and away from the camera when being filmed.<\/p>\n

“When he says things he can\u2019t actually deliver, or that aren\u2019t the full truth, he often looks up at the sky,” Marcus proffered.<\/p>\n

Filmed and published back in February, the video evidence of Altman’s obfuscation<\/a> sees the CEO talking a very big game about GPT-5, OpenAI’s then-forthcoming large language model (LLM) that at that point had been eagerly anticipated for nearly two years<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The video shared by Marcus dates back to when Altman was visiting Japan in February in his second attempt<\/a> to sell AI software<\/a> to that country’s government.<\/p>\n

In the clip, the CEO boasted at length about the incredible capabilities of GPT-5.<\/p>\n

As we now know, those capabilities have very much not materialized, with all reports and anecdotes<\/a> suggesting that in the nearly two-and-a-half years between the releases of GPT-4 and GPT-5, OpenAI somehow managed to launch a product that left a lot to be desired, with users arguing that it was inferior to its predecessors, like GPT-4o<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The blowback was severe enough for Altman to announce<\/a> that OpenAI would be reinstating GPT-4o for paying subscribers a mere day after the GPT-5 announcement.<\/p>\n

Still, back in the halcyon days of early 2025, the CEO’s big talk likely sounded more like bravado and less like basura<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Going from GPT-3 to GPT-4 really surprised the world,” Altman told Matsumura in the February interview. “GPT-4 to GPT-5 will be similar.”<\/p>\n

When speaking those two opening sentences, the CEO twice looked up and away from the journalist \u2014 the very same “tell” that Marcus claimed to have clocked. Later, upon the utterance of “the capabilities of these models,” Altman again looked up and away, and his eye-line stayed there as he bragged about how smart OpenAI’s models are becoming \u2014 almost smarter than humans, he wagered.<\/p>\n

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Sam Altman says the leap from GPT-4 to GPT-5 will be as big as that of GPT-3 to 4 and the plan is to integrate the GPT and o series of models into one model that can do everything pic.twitter.com\/ZffzllbEwU<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Tsarathustra (@tsarnick) February 3, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n