Ronan Farrow

And I think that that runs through a lot of the professional situations that we narrate, that there are other people who really have a relationship that matters to them internally with the truth of a situation.

And I think he is...

uniquely suited in some ways to this job because he really can effortlessly shift between one version of reality and another as he is marshalling people to his cause.

So this is one area where it's important to note we didn't set out looking for that.

Part of what makes this circumstance extraordinary is the prevalence of this allegation that Sam Altman lies all the time.

Another thing that makes it extraordinary is that in addition to those, in my view, more substantive critiques that are so widespread, there are incredibly widespread claims about his personal life that don't stand up to as much scrutiny.

Again, in my view, having looked at this for months and months.

We capture the way in which actually, ironically, the existence of these falsified or thin claims trumped up by rivals kind of obfuscates the real criticism.

The atmosphere of conflict in this field is, we quote one executive saying, Shakespearean.

You could, historians could debate, but certainly we talk to many people in this field who say absolutely yes.

And, you know, one of the things we encountered, and I'm not talking about like a little bit here and there from arrival.

I mean, I got...

You know, the better part of a dozen incoming calls from government officials, from people at investment firms, from rivals.

You talk to anyone in this industry, and they will cite this, in many cases, as common knowledge.

Claims that, you know, Sam pursues minors.

That's a very persistent one.

And let's quickly stipulate that there's no...

Sam and I had direct conversations about it.

And while obviously, you know, people have been telling us to take things Sam Altman says with a grain of salt, I did feel there was a degree of sincerity in some of those conversations where we would talk, you know, in addition to our on-the-record conversations, we had, you know, frank personal conversations where I think I got a picture of his relationship with these allegations.

And we put what the facts we uncover can sustain in the piece, which is we found absolutely nothing.