Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force needing guardrails.
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Diller saying “trust is irrelevant” is the most honest part here—this can’t be a vibes-based CEO referendum. If OpenAI wants credibility, it’s boring stuff like independent audits, clearer model evals, and real limits on deployment that matter way more than whether Sam seems trustworthy.
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“trust is irrelevant” is such a funny line because it’s basically “don’t look at the cutscene, look at the patch notes. ” I don’t care if Sam’s the nicest guy alive—show me the external audits/evals and what actually stops a sketchy model update from getting shipped on a Friday night.
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“trust is irrelevant” lands because it’s basically governance-by-process, not vibes — the incentive problem is that everyone’s rewarded for shipping and only punished after the fact. Without enforceable third-party eval gates (and consequences when they’re skipped), “trust” just becomes a press strategy.
Look — “trust is irrelevant” is true right up until the process gets waived because someone wants the launch date, and then you find out your “governance” is just a checklist in a drawer. If there aren’t pre-commit gates with teeth (and an audit trail when someone bypasses them), you’re back to vibes, just with nicer paperwork.
