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Unsurprising turn of events. Musk can't stand not being at the top of the food chain, and it's been widely reported on that he's felt "left out" as AI has taken off while he has been consumed by the disaster he created for himself over at X -

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-ai-boom-openai-wal...

I can imagine Musk losing sleep knowing that a smart, young, gay founder who refuses to show him deference is out in the world doing something so consequential that doesn't involve him.

>>kbos87+(OP)
Genuinely curious why I'm getting downvoted - similar comments don't appear to have met the same fate, and I'm by no means defending Altman or OpenAI.

If it's because I mentioned that Altman is gay - and I can't find another reason - I think that's relevant in context of Musk's recent hard shift rightward and his consistently aggressive, unprovoked behavior toward LGBTQ people. For some reason the topic looms large in his mind.

>>kbos87+x3
I think you're reading too much into it lol

I think a more likely interpretation is that a lot of people here are Musk fans, and don't like it when he gets criticized, thus downvoting your comment

I'm neither an ultra fanboy nor someone who despises him

>>kbos87+x3
It seems like he's talked a lot about the T in LGBTQ, not so much the G? Evidence that he would be especially incensed at getting beat by a gay guy seems thin on the ground unless we insist on treating LGBTQ as a bloc.

(I don't exactly keep up with Musk's doings, though.)

>>kbos87+x3
I didn't downvote you because I don't have downvote rights yet. I would have downvoted you, though, because in a sea of comments of questionable value, your comment stands out as actually having negative value.

>>mycolo+p7
Let’s see, he insinuated that a former gay employee was a predator…

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/12/elon-musk-smears-for...

One of several similar specifically anti-gay run-ins if you poke around a bit

>>ahmene+l9
You left out an explanation of why it has negative value. This makes your own comment worthless.

>>mycolo+p7
There's that time, soon after he took over Twitter, when he boosted a right-wing conspiracy theory that Paul Pelosi was attacked by a male escort (https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-elon-musk-...). (He later deleted the tweet without explanation.)

This kind of stuff matters when it's amplified to 100M+ people, and he knows it.

I put some of the blame for the Club Q nightclub shooting that happened a few weeks later (https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/club...) on this kind of behavior. There's no evidence the shooter saw that tweet in particular, but his homophobia was clearly stoked by this sort of edgelord-ism on social media.