Ronan Farrow

And OpenAI says, oh, it was just one of many ideas that was considered for a time.

Well, there you go.

There you go.

What emerges is a newly deep picture of Sam Altman through inside communications that haven't been out there before, what was behind his firing, why those criticisms linger, and exactly how substantiated they are.

There are many, many instances, the famous memos that have never been made public and got him fired within this company.

are now in there and we really go through the evidence in a very forensic way.

You know, this is not a simple piece.

I don't think people are going to read this and have everyone reacting in one way.

I think there are people who will look at this and they will come to the conclusion that maybe the sort of profit-minded people who think safety as the main priority is more of a thing of the past are correct.

There are people who will look at this and say, this is really scary and dangerous.

The phrase that the board used at the time was not consistently candid.

Is it not?

By many, many people and even things like pathological liar in great duplication across many sources.

We talked to more than 100 people that are close to Altman in one way or another.

And you talked to Altman six times.

More than a dozen times in the final fact check.

People find it hard to wrap their arms around exactly what's going on with his motives.

He is able to and inclined to tell different groups of people possibly conflicting things that make them all feel that they have the same concerns he has.

That is an extraordinarily useful skill for a business person.

But over time, what one person after another, a majority of the sources we talked to found, is that they just couldn't rely on any baseline of truth.