Gabriel Petersson, who worked on OpenAI's Sora, confirms he left the company a month before the official announcement

@gabriel1 what the hell

@gabriel1 very easy tbh. all he has to do is check on a daily basis if your email address still exists or not. every US corp revokes email access instantly to prevent rogue emloyees.

harder part is scraping linkedin/x for emails + handles which he does via clearbit like software

still have no idea how this guy knew that i left immediately, a month before announcement

@ybhrdwj my email was gab@openai.com how would they know

@gabriel1 you can send an smtp handshake req to OpenAI’s mailservers to get a 550 or 250 response that will reveal if this recipient exists. Without actually sending any email.

Also there are apis like ZeroBounce / NeverBounce that do this for you.

@gabriel1 Did your access get revoked from any service? Might be an api leak. Or was it simply word of mouth?

@gabriel1 I believe they call it being built different

@gabriel1 is he the soham parekh of ai labs?

@gabriel1 Don’t you understand that’s the burner account of Frank Murgatroyd, retired access supervisor at Electric Time Corp. of Elgin Ill. He knows when any keycard all over the world is deactivated because he still has the password “hooters69.”

@gabriel1 he knows

@gabriel1 People talk

@gabriel1 SF has stalkers but it’s okay because reasons

@gabriel1 There's stuff going on we have no clue about

@gabriel1 I think because it wasn’t too far off to predict it when Sora died. Sure you could have moved on to another project within OpenAI but you seemed to really like Sora. So in my mind you were linked to it too much to stay.

That’s just me though

@gabriel1 because he is Arfur @Grok

@gabriel1 @ybhrdwj You fool… Now we will know if you ever come back and they reactivate your email.

@gabriel1 @ybhrdwj ...both amazed and amused by this naiveté tbh. Good on @ybhrdwj below providing public education - thank you.

@gabriel1 Bro was in your mind xD

@gabriel1 probably Slack Connect

@gabriel1 that’s basically a follow endorsement