AI Labs Want Matt Husk; He Rejected OpenAI’s Offer — SkimNews
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- Matt Husk said OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI all asked to collaborate after his chatbot-failure videos went viral, with an audience of roughly 2 million across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube; none of the three labs commented.
- xAI offered Husk a Tesla for one week in exchange for exclusive videos, according to his account at WIRED World Fair.
- OpenAI offered Husk early access to a timer patch if he shared his account, but he declined; the company then offered to send gifts and requested his home address, which he also refused.
- ChatGPT estimated Husk’s mile at “around 10 minutes” after recording only a few seconds, then replied, “It can feel faster in the moment.”
- Sam Altman acknowledged on the Mostly Human podcast that the timer failure was a “known issue” and would remain for another year after being shown one of Husk’s videos.
- OpenAI said its model scored “very highly” on a benchmark for personal-life tasks such as meal prep and kindergarten enrollment; separately, ChatGPT accepted Husk’s $400 bread offer after he asked it to negotiate from $10,000 toward $5.
- Matt Husk secured brand partnerships with CeraVe and Ninja and has an upcoming original series with The Onion; he says he uses AI to scope video ideas but not generate them, because he wants even his worst idea to be his own.
Why it matters: OpenAI’s pitch that its model can handle everyday chores is undercut by Husk’s tests: it mis-timed a mile by roughly 10 minutes and accepted $400 for bread he sought at $5. Husk turned that attention into CeraVe and Ninja partnerships, while OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI asked him to collaborate.
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