{"id":20411,"date":"2025-10-10T15:37:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/10\/its-sam-altman-the-man-who-stole-the-rights-from-copyright-if-hes-the-future-can-we-go-backwards-marina-hyde\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T15:37:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:37:32","slug":"its-sam-altman-the-man-who-stole-the-rights-from-copyright-if-hes-the-future-can-we-go-backwards-marina-hyde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/10\/its-sam-altman-the-man-who-stole-the-rights-from-copyright-if-hes-the-future-can-we-go-backwards-marina-hyde\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Sam Altman: the man who stole the rights from copyright. If he\u2019s the future, can we go backwards? | Marina Hyde"},"content":{"rendered":"

His AI video generator Sora 2 has been reviled for pinching the work of others. One giant leap for Sam: for everyone else, not so much<\/p>\n

Take a look at Sam Altman. I mean, actually do it. Go to Google images, where you can find countless photos of the OpenAI boss smiling in a kind of wan genius way, the humble lost puppy of Silicon Valley. But I urge you to simply cover the bottom half of his face in any of these pictures, and you will immediately clock that Sam has the sad-psycho eyes of the lost woman\u2019s boyfriend who the police have asked to front the missing person\u2019s appeal. Please come home, Sheila \u2013 we\u2019re all worried sick and we just want you back.<\/p>\n

If that joke seems off-colour, or crass, or some kind of manipulative stretch \u2013 please, don\u2019t worry. I\u2019m using the OpenAI gold standard of giving-a-toss, where the unwilling subjects of any generated content have to formally, time-consumingly and bureaucratically opt out<\/em> of being used\/abused\/exploited any way anyone likes. I haven\u2019t heard from Sam, so my assumption is that he\u2019s fine with me saying that he knows exactly where Sheila is because he put her there. He is, after all, fast emerging as precisely the type to appear alongside the phrase \u201cin plain sight\u201d.<\/p>\n

Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist<\/p>\n

A year in Westminster: John Crace, Marina Hyde and Pippa Crerar
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\nHis AI video generator Sora 2 has been reviled for pinching the work of others. One giant leap for Sam: for everyone else, not so much
\nTake a look at Sam Altman. I mean, actually do it. Go to Google images, where you can find countless photos of the OpenAI boss smiling in a kind of wan genius way, the humble lost puppy of Silicon Valley. But I urge you to simply cover the bottom half of his face in any of these pictures, and you will immediately clock that Sam has the sad-psycho eyes of the lost woman\u2019s boyfriend who the police have asked to front the missing person\u2019s appeal. Please come home, Sheila \u2013 we\u2019re all worried sick and we just want you back.
\nIf that joke seems off-colour, or crass, or some kind of manipulative stretch \u2013 please, don\u2019t worry. I\u2019m using the OpenAI gold standard of giving-a-toss, where the unwilling subjects of any generated content have to formally, time-consumingly and bureaucratically opt out of being used\/abused\/exploited any way anyone likes. I haven\u2019t heard from Sam, so my assumption is that he\u2019s fine with me saying that he knows exactly where Sheila is because he put her there. He is, after all, fast emerging as precisely the type to appear alongside the phrase \u201cin plain sight\u201d.
\nMarina Hyde is a Guardian columnist
\nA year in Westminster: John Crace, Marina Hyde and Pippa CrerarOn Tuesday 2 December, join Crace, Hyde and Crerar as they look back at another extraordinary year, with special guests, live at the Barbican in London and livestreamed globally. Book tickets here or at guardian.live
\nDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

His AI video generator Sora 2 has been reviled for pinching the work of others. One giant leap for Sam: for everyone else, not so much Take a look at Sam Altman. I mean, actually do it. Go to Google images, where you can find countless photos of the OpenAI boss smiling in a kind …<\/p>\n

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