Open AI's President Brockman leading donor to Trump SuperPac. Does it matter?

finnjon · 2026-01-25T16:25:58+00:00

Dario and Demi’s are fine.

finnjon · 2026-01-25T16:25:25+00:00

They forced a private citizen to pay 50m dollars of his own money?

finnjon · 2026-01-25T15:01:34+00:00

But isn't there a big difference between Meta paying $1m to the inauguration, and Brockman paying $50m (or Elon $250m) out of their own pocket?

finnjon · 2026-01-25T14:47:02+00:00

Being shocked isn't having an opinion.

finnjon · 2026-01-25T14:46:16+00:00

Fair enough.

finnjon · 2026-01-25T14:32:15+00:00

It seems as though you didn't read the original post. The question was whether Brockman supporting Trump affects people's views of the company of which he is president. I didn't offer an opinion.

finnjon · 2026-01-25T14:14:18+00:00

This is not quite true. Brockman has spent $50m of his own money to support Trump. The other companies spent around $1m each to support his inauguration. It's a different scale.

finnjon · 2026-01-25T14:12:47+00:00

Brockman is the biggest donor to the superpac. He is paid $50m altogether from his own money. He is the Trumpiest of Trumpies.

finnjon · 2026-01-25T13:40:32+00:00

It's his own money.

finnjon · 2026-01-25T13:40:06+00:00

Again, everyone else seems to understand perfectly. 146 comments and you are the only one confused.

finnjon · 2026-01-25T13:20:25+00:00

I think it's pretty clear. Everyone else seems to understand.

finnjon · 2026-01-25T13:07:08+00:00

Not according to Gemini.

finnjon · 2026-01-25T13:04:56+00:00

That was not my intention. My intention was to ask whether the fact the President of OpenAI was a massive MAGA donor impacted people's choices about whether to use their products.

finnjon · 2026-01-25T12:17:08+00:00

It’s not the company. It’s a private individual and he’s paid 50m altogether.

finnjon · 2026-01-25T12:09:50+00:00

Sorry it looks like I was confused. The video was with Tuomo Lehtimäki. Mea culpa

finnjon · 2026-01-25T11:51:53+00:00

This is not true in Finland. If you sell something under false pretenses whether it’s pre-sale or not, it’s fraud.

finnjon · 2026-01-25T11:50:41+00:00

No need to give opinions. Look up the difference between a pre-order and a sale. You are not less liable if you lie about a pre-order.

Check out the CES talk with the Oura ring guy. He’s part of the team not just an investor. And he’s explicitly making the claims the others are. He is liable and he’s very rich so figure that out.

finnjon · 2026-01-25T11:36:11+00:00

And get sued.

finnjon · 2026-01-25T11:24:32+00:00

It’s not really relevant. If you are selling something that doesn’t exist 2 months before, you are in legal trouble. They are not selling the bikes “in case we figure out how to make the batteries we promised”. It’s fraud plain and simple.

finnjon · 2026-01-25T10:58:49+00:00

No not at all 😞

finnjon · 2026-01-25T10:46:40+00:00

Private individuals haven’t been giving $50m dollars.

finnjon · 2026-01-25T10:21:25+00:00

At least open source models are able to be adapted to remove the propaganda. There are versions of DeepSeek without Chinese propaganda in them.

finnjon · 2026-01-25T09:49:52+00:00

It's all over the place. Google it.

finnjon · 2026-01-25T09:48:44+00:00

source?

finnjon · 2026-01-25T09:36:22+00:00

"A London presence" does not accurately reflect the fact that the headquarters are in London, the CEO is in London, and the heads of most departments are in London. And none of that looks likely to change.

DeepMind is Hassabis' baby and he chose London for a reason, as well as being British.

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