OpenAI execs whine about the New York Times lawsuit and user privacy during live NYT event, get roasted by NYT journalist: 'It must be really hard when someone does something with your data you don't want them to'

Sam Altman looking sad.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and COO Brad Lightcap were the guests on a recent live episode of the New York Times' technology podcast, Hard Fork, and entered the San Francisco venue like a pair of WWE wrestlers.

I'm not kidding: hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton began their introduction before Altman and Lightcap strode out early to take their seats. Roose told the crowd they'd been planning to list some recent NYT headlines about OpenAI to set the scene, and after Altman awkwardly insisted "this is more fun that we're out here for this" the chest-beating began.