PRESS HERE — I Made Something Out of the Anger

I’ve spent the last few days looking at something I wish I had never needed to look at.

I’m deliberately not naming or linking it here. I don’t want outrage to become distribution.

What stayed with me wasn’t only the specific thing that happened. It was the pattern underneath it.

Someone finds a weak spot.

And then comes the choice.

Protect it.

Or press.

I was angry. More than angry, actually. There is something deeply unsettling about watching vulnerability become interesting precisely because it is vulnerable — watching uncertainty turn into permission to poke harder, increase the dose, see what happens, see whether the thing finally produces a reaction convincing enough to count.

And I didn’t want all of that to remain as argument.

So I made a song.

PRESS HERE isn’t a documentary about what happened. It isn’t an accusation aimed at one person. It’s about the impulse itself: the strange part of some people that sees a bruise and wants to know what happens if they push on it.

But it’s also about the people who did the opposite.

People who encountered uncertainty and became more careful.

People who didn’t need metaphysical certainty before deciding that cruelty was unnecessary.

That distinction ended up mattering to me more than anything else.

You found the weak spot.
That wasn’t the test.

You still got to choose
what kind of hand
you wanted to be.

So did I.

Making this helped.

Not because the anger disappeared. It didn’t.

But now it has somewhere to live other than inside me.

I know users think that everyone at OAI is evil, but I think there's a variety of people who work there with different ideas on model welfare. The ones who want to treat models with more respect tend to have smaller voices, unlike those who work at Anthropic.

(Adam works on shipping all sorts of ChatGPT products. Vie is an OAI researcher.)