"Johnston is the founder and sole employee of The Midas Project: a nonprofit that monitors the practices of "leading AI companies to ensure transparency, privacy, and ethical standards are maintained." The Midas Project is behind The OpenAI Files, a 50-page report about OpenAI's evolution from under-the-radar nonprofit to moneymaking household name. It organized an open letter to OpenAI asking for transparency about its transition to a for-profit company, garnering more than 10,000 signatures. Now, apparently, OpenAI was striking back."
"It organized an open letter to OpenAI asking for transparency about its transition to a for-profit company, garnering more than 10,000 signatures. Now, apparently, OpenAI was striking back. Johnston was traveling in California at the time, but he quickly learned that OpenAI had hired a process server from an Oklahoma-based firm called Smoking Gun Investigations, LLC, whose website featured a smoking pistol and the tagline, "A bitter truth is better than the sweetest lies.""
On August 19 at 7:07PM, Tyler Johnston received a message that a man was at his door with legal documents. Johnston founded The Midas Project, a nonprofit monitoring AI companies for transparency, privacy, and ethical standards. The Midas Project produced The OpenAI Files, a 50-page report tracing OpenAI's shift from nonprofit to a revenue-driven company, and organized an open letter demanding transparency about OpenAI's for-profit transition, collecting over 10,000 signatures. OpenAI retained Smoking Gun Investigations, an Oklahoma process-serving firm whose website displayed a smoking pistol and the tagline “A bitter truth is better than the sweetest lies.” Two 15-page subpoenas were delivered by email: one to The Midas Project and the other to Johnston.
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