OpenAI President Brockman's Ten-year Diary Publicly Mocked in Silicon Valley: Written Evidence of Conspiracy, Actively Providing Ammunition to the Enemy

According to Constellate Beating's monitoring, OpenAI President Greg Brockman has kept a private diary for over a decade, hundreds of pages long, which was unearthed by Musk's legal team during a January discovery process. In this week's trial, the two sides engaged in a subtle war of words just over the name: Musk's camp insisted on calling it a "diary," attempting to characterize it as a nefarious confession, while OpenAI stood firm on calling it a "journal," seeking to reframe these musings as routine executive decision-making brainstorming.

The most damning passage in the diary was written in November 2017. On that day, Brockman wrote, "The honest answer is we want him out," followed by, "Can't say we pledged to the non-profit. Don't want to say that. If three months later we convert to a B-Corp, then what was said earlier is a lie." Musk's lawyers used these passages to argue that Brockman and Altman had deliberately misappropriated the non-profit organization. OpenAI countered that the sentences were taken out of context, pointing out that in the same diary entry, it was immediately stated, "Taking the non-profit away from him is wrong, that doesn't hold up morally."

Responding in court, Brockman stated that having the whole world read his diary was "extremely painful, but there is nothing in it that makes me feel ashamed." He humorously likened his repetitive, self-reflective writing style to an AI model's "chain of thought."

The habit of meticulously documenting high-stakes business scheming in a diary drew widespread mockery within Silicon Valley circles. On the All-In podcast, investor Jason Calacanis said he was into "journal-maxxing"; David Sacks added that this was "discovery-maxxing" (actively providing the other side with evidence); and David Friedberg was more direct: "I love the guy, but what is he thinking? I don't know anyone around me who keeps a diary."