How did the guy who showed up at Sam Altman's house find out where he lived?
from cheese_greater@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca on 16 May 16:24
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MantisToboggon@lemmy.world on 16 May 16:43 next collapse

He asked chat gpt.

adespoton@lemmy.ca on 16 May 16:53 next collapse

I’m not going to detail how to find someone’s address on here, but it’s relatively simple via contact tracing, and these days everyone seems to put all the stuff they do on social media.

Krusty@quokk.au on 16 May 17:07 next collapse

If you don’t mind paying for information, there’s various services that will sell you access to databases with a ridiculous amount of information on basically anyone and everyone. If you don’t want to vet such providers yourself, hire a private detective as they often can access restricted databases. Ultimately, a bunch of stuff is public record but you would need to physically go look for it(even if it’s just a computer at the clerks office, you often wouldn’t find such things online – a PI can do this for you).

Others will sell you private data. Between those avenues, you’ll probably find something.

Then there’s other ethically dubious ways. If you have a friend at say Apple or Google in tech support or customer service or similar you could have them try to pull up their account, which often includes billing and mailing addresses and phone numbers.

Then there’s social engineering. Use your imagination.

tal@lemmy.today on 16 May 21:08 next collapse

www.realtor.com/news/…/sam-altman-openai-home/

Altman’s purchase of the company comes just a few months after he made a rather hefty personal purchase in the form of three San Francisco homes, which he snapped up in January for $12.8 million each, according to property records.

The three dwellings are all located next to a historic six-bedroom, seven-bathroom Russian Hill mansion that he purchased for $27 million in 2020—before later becoming embroiled in a bitter and lengthy legal battle with its developer, Greg Malin, and his company, Troon Pacific, over claims that the home was “plagued by shoddy construction.”

In November 2023, Business Insider reported that Altman had quietly snapped up an enormous estate in Hawaii in July 2021 for $43 million.

The 12-bedroom dwelling is located in Kailua-Kona on the Big Island and sits next to a reconstruction of the temple of King Kamehamela I, the first ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

The home no doubt provides the OpenAI CEO with an idyllic beach escape, that is when it doesn’t feel like spending time at his other vacation abode, a stunning ranch in Napa, CA, where he and his husband, Oliver Mulherin, spend many of his weekends, according to the New York Times.

lath@piefed.social on 16 May 21:40 collapse

No idea what you’re talking about, but a wild guess would be Altman’s famed product, if it has access to that information. It’s well known LLMs have no notion of privacy and the dudes in charge of them are obviously not excluded from that unless done so specifically.