This is sort of baffling to me. It seems like common sense that you shouldn't attend sex parties with your coworkers and then do drugs there. But the Twitter post referenced doesn't even say that happened; it's vague and it deliberately omits any direct accusations of wrongdoing.
The article "links" OpenAI to sex parties, but obviously OpenAI as a company never hosted sex parties. Sonia Joseph (the woman whose claims are the subject of the article) says this on Twitter:
> I have seen some troubling things around social circles of early OpenAI employees, their friends, and adjacent entrepreneurs, which I have not previously spoken about publicly.
Seems like some of their employees were behaving badly, so the authors decided to use the OpenAI name for clout?
I'm not part of the "hacker house" scene, but this seems to me like an indicator of issues within that domain. I don't think it's fair to blame AI research, and I don't think it's fair to blame OpenAI or any other large company. If anything, this seems more like an indictment of "hacker house culture".
I think even from sex-positive position, combining sex with drugs and coworkers should be troubling because of consent/coercion issues. (I’m not taking a position on the accuracy of these allegations, just the general category.)
