Gary Marcus claims content creator Theo may be paid by OpenAI for promoting its models despite limited technical depth in AI topics
Theo quoted the accusation in a reply on X.
@theo you want to me share some of the evidence that was sent?
I thought this guy was supposed to be smart?
@theo Good for you (not sarcastically, but genuinely), assuming this is true.
@GaryMarcus I am not paid by OpenAI. I was offered a small appearance fee for being in a video once and I refused it. I was also offered a free sub for a year and refused that too. I pay them over $40k/month for inference on T3 Chat.
update: Theo (I still don’t really know who he is) reports that he has not in fact accepted fees from OpenAI.
another of the dudes going after me (Theo) is perhaps paid by OpenAI 🙄
@theo taking you at your word i am deleting my tweet. i hope you will considering doing me the same favor with respect to my own clarifications.
@GaryMarcus I am not paid by OpenAI. I was offered a small appearance fee for being in a video once and I refused it. I was also offered a free sub for a year and refused that too. I pay them over $40k/month for inference on T3 Chat.
I thought this guy was supposed to be smart?
another of the dudes going after me (Theo) is perhaps paid by OpenAI 🙄
@GaryMarcus I am not paid by OpenAI. I was offered a small appearance fee for being in a video once and I refused it. I was also offered a free sub for a year and refused that too. I pay them over $40k/month for inference on T3 Chat.