REVEALED: OpenAI’s new boss Emmett Shear’s X posts on women’s ‘rape fantasies’, kinky sex and ‘literal Nazis taking over the world’, as staff revolt over Sam Altman’s firing

OpenAI’s new CEO has a wild history of social media posts, including tweets about women’s “rape fantasies,” kinky sex, and Nazis taking over the world.

Emmett Shear was dramatically unveiled this week as Sam Altman’s interim successor after he was fired for allegedly ignoring the potential dangers of AI.

Altman was quickly acquired by Microsoft, while OpenAI hired former Twitch boss Shear to replace him.

But Shear’s bizarre litany of social media posts has raised questions about whether the company made the right choice, with many employees demanding Altman’s return.

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Some of his tweets were also about sex and rape, including a tweet claiming that 40 to 60 percent of women have “rape fantasies.”

Shear appeared to defend the concept in August to a user who suggested young women use the practice to “gain relationship security.”

‘Hmm. Maybe,” Shear replied. ‘But between 40 and 60% of women seem to have rape/non-consent fantasies. Why would you assume it’s not a real sex fantasy for these girls? Or have I misunderstood and you agree that it is real fantasy, and you are only talking about the source of the fantasy?’

When the user responded that “women barely out of girlhood ask to be loved and loved in the only way they think it can be received, which is as a sexual kink,” Shear doubled down.

He wrote: ‘It’s a BDSM non-consensual/humiliation kink issue… you’re probably right that they eroticize some fear, just like almost any kink (e.g. feeders eroticize the fear of becoming fat and unattractive become). But it’s a kinky sex fantasy.’

Shear has also lashed out at Microsoft, which quickly hired Altman from OpenAI after he was ousted.

“When I interned at Microsoft, every paycheck felt like receiving payment for a little piece of my soul in the mail,” reads a message from Shear.

For a completely different purpose, he also advocated eating various insects in a September 18 post.

‘Bugs actually taste quite good, have you ever eaten popcorn crickets? completely delicious. on an unrelated topic: my shift pod is a great camping experience.”

In another post, he doesn’t seem to rate his own new position very highly, saying that CEOs can be automated.

‘Unironic. The majority of CEO functions (and the majority of most executive positions) are highly automatable.”

“Of course there are important decisions from time to time that you cannot replace,” he added.

He was also critical of liberalism and suggested that a housing market crash would be good for the country. However, he clarified in another post from September that this is all somewhat improvised.

“One of my favorite things is that when I talk, I don’t know what I’m going to say until I actually say it. So I get to discover my insights and jokes at the same time as everyone else, and it’s quite entertaining.”

Should Shear continue to run OpenAI, he faces the very real possibility of an employee revolt given Altman’s popularity.

One expert said there were fears that many employees would have left the company to join Altman if he were to set up his own AI venture. And leading investors have also increased the pressure to make a U-turn.

Born in 1983, Shear grew up in Seattle and attended Evergreen School for Gifted Children.

There he met Justin Kan when the couple were pre-teens, with whom he would start his first company.

The pair remained friends through high school as they mapped out their future projects — including one that landed them a NASA-sponsored competition.

Shear studied computer science at Yale University and graduated in 2005 with a Bachelor of Science.

In college he met another future entrepreneur and colleague in Michael Seibel.

The same year Shear graduated, he and Kan launched a calendar app called Kiko, which they sold on Ebay in September 2006 for $250,000.

Also in September, Shear and Kan founded Justin.tv with Seibel and Kyle Vogt, with Shear as Chief Technology Officer.

This was a streaming site that started with one channel – Stream Kan’s Life 24/7 – but grew into a site where users could launch their own channels and host their own live broadcasts.

Justin.tv divided its site into several categories and in 2011 separated the gaming content into a new site: Twitch.tv – which now hosts more than 30 million active users every day, creating live content or watching that of others.

Shear became CEO of Twitch and oversaw the company’s realignment with Justin.tv in 2014, which brought everything back under the Twitch Interactive brand when Amazon acquired it for nearly $1 billion.

That sale, and Kiko’s, along with his earnings during his high-profile career, contribute to a net worth reportedly between $100 million and $500 million.

It wasn’t until March 2023 that Shear finally left Twitch – after reaching $2.8 billion in revenue by 2022 – to be replaced by Dan Clancy, and has since been a part-time contributor to Y Combinator – the startup fund that fueled his first venture in 2005. .

In accepting his role at OpenAI, Shear cited his family as an important consideration around the “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” but he keeps his family life private, so it’s unclear who exactly that affects.

Altman co-founded OpenAI with ten others in 2015, and the company later became known for its industry-leading chatbot ChatGPT.

However, Altman was sidelined because he was afraid of ignoring the dangers of artificial intelligence New York Times report.

The concerns were raised by a fellow OpenAI board member and culminated in the 38-year-old’s sudden resignation on November 17, 2023, sending the tech world into a frenzy of speculation.

That speculation was put to bed when OpenAI’s board announced their new interim CEO on November 20, with Altman moving to Microsoft the same day to work on their AI team.