Famed playwright Jeremy O. Harris boozily confronted AI mogul Sam Altman at the star-studded Vanity Fair Oscar party on Sunday night, Page Six has learned — calling the OpenAI boss a Nazi.
We’re told that amidst a crowd that included Michael B. Jordan, Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner, Teyana Taylor, Zoe Saldaña, Chase Infiniti, Colman Domingo and more, the “Slave Play” scribe made a bee line for the ChatGPT founder and confronted him about his firm’s new deal with the Department of War.
Sputtering spies at the uber exclusive post-Oscars bash told Page Six that Harris accused Altman of being the “[Joseph] Goebbels of the Trump administration.”
But on Tuesday, Harris — whose hit play scored a record-setting 12 Tony nominations in 2020 — told us by email: “It was late and I had a few too many martinis so I misspoke when I said Goebbels… I should’ve said Friedrich Flick.”
For those whose History Channel subscription has lapsed, Flick was a German industrialist whose businesses had a symbiotic relationship with the Nazi Party which allowed the Nazis to be significantly more effective in their activities while earning Flick a massive fortune. He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials.
In late February OpenAI, which makes ChatGPT, signed a deal with the Pentagon to provide its AI for classified goverment systems.
The move sparked an intense backlash, including among OpenAI employees, and, the Post reported, Altman was forced to defend the contract in front of workers at a tense all-hands meeting after protesters outside its San Francisco headquarters urged employees to quit.
Critics have argued that the goverment could use the powerful AI tool to spy on citizens, but OpenAI has claimed its built in “guardrails” to prevent that happening.
Vanity Fair declined to comment and reps for OpenAI didn’t get back to us.
by ThrowawayGreenWitch
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“It was late and I had a few too many martinis so I misspoke when I said Goebbels… I should’ve said Friedrich Flick”
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If you’re defending Sam just because he’s jewish ; meanwhile he’s actively destroying society rethink your fucking priorities
His partner is Iranian and wrote a beautiful essay in VF about the current situation. I imagine it’s deeply personal for Jeremy
I mean he wasn’t wrong. 🤷🏻♀️
Good for him. These cretins should all be called out to their ugly fucking faces. I hope Jeremy O. Harris will not face sanctions from the Epstein Class.
I’d do it sober
the guardrails: trust me bro
“Find almost *literally any other comparison*” is really becoming my “read another book”
Okayyyyy. Still can’t stand this man but broken clock and all
I’ll get downvoted for this , but I’m Jewish and I kind of feel that the word Nazi is losing its meaning if you use it like this? The word Nazi is not an adjective. It refers to people who were members or followers of National Socialist Party in Germany during WW1 and WW2. Ideologically they promoted the aryan race and hatred (literal elimination )of Jews. Fuck AI and fuck Sam Altman but call him out for the right reasons.
Edit : seeing all the downvotes yet no one explains why?
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and he was fucking RIGHT
Okay?? What is the issue?
Well.
That’s ridiculous. Jonathan Greenblatt is the new Joseph Goebbels: chief propagandist for a genocidal, supremacist ideology.
“It was late and I had a few too many martinis so I misspoke when I said Goebbels… I should’ve said Friedrich Flick.”
My first thought was “No, no, no, Goebbels is Stevie Miller.”
Good. This needs to be happening at every opportunity. Ghouls should not be comfortable anywhere.
In vino veritas
Deserved
He drunkenly said the truth, wouldn’t even be the first gay Nazi either 😂😂
Jeremy O. Harris speaks for all of us.
If this man managed to never do a single thing of consequence after *Slave Play* he would still be one of the most important artists of my lifetime.
Jeremy O Harris is a genius and an angel, and this story is awesome 😂