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Whilst I guess it's not entirely impossible that someone would become obsessed with OpenAI, GPT, online filing, fraud and espionage after OpenAI had accidentally attributed ownership of its venture capital fund to a shell company registered in his existing multiple aliases on the same day, I think Ockham's razor suggests the story fits better the other way round.

(I'm not sure what the security processes for online filings are, but it wouldn't surprise me if someone sufficiently motivated and ambivalent about it being a felony could provide the necessary fake documentation, social engineering and/or brute force hacking to get their registered business given a notional role in someone else's unrelated business on a nonbinding document, at least until the other business noted and corrected the record. I know GPT "hallucinates" real names, but picking the existing aliases of the sort of person most likely to go down those rabbit holes seems quite the coincidence. And it'd have been odder if OpenAI's response was anything other than a generic spokesperson denial)




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