Why a man’s rejection letter from OpenAI after applying for CEO job is making headlines everywhere

Every once in a while, someone on the Internet does something so outrageous that it makes you pause and smile. That’s what happened when a young tech professional, Omer Oztok, casually applied to be the CEO of OpenAI,the same company led by Sam Altman and then went viral for posting the rejection letter.

On LinkedIn, Oztok admitted that his application was “overambitious,” but he wasn’t embarrassed. In fact, he proudly shared the letter that detailed his wild ideas for “fixing” OpenAI, and the Internet couldn’t stop talking about it.

So, what exactly did he propose? For starters, Oztok wanted to replace OpenAI’s entire leadership team with ChatGPT-powered bots, an idea the company politely described as “potentially catastrophic.” He also pitched the plan of poaching Meta’s entire AI division by dangling free lifetime ChatGPT Plus subscriptions. And if that wasn’t enough, he suggested buying Google—yes, the whole company—just for the brand name.

But perhaps the boldest idea of them all was his vision for GPT-6. According to Oztok, the model should be trained exclusively on his own social media posts. Unsurprisingly, OpenAI’s legal department flagged that one as “highly disruptive.”