In one of the strangest reporting experiences of my career, the person who responded was just as confused as I was about what was happening. He was also a former employee at OpenAI, but not one who had been involved in writing the letter. He had simply received a copy of the letter in his personal email with zero explanation; when he tried to follow up with questions, he received another mysterious response: a link to the Tor inbox with the phrase capped_profit, which seemed to be a username, followed by what looked like a password.
