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Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute their dismissals in open letter

Reported by 3 outlets from 2 newsrooms. Every outlet’s headline, how the story developed, and how loaded the writing was in each report we could read in full.

How outlets headlined it

Each outlet's own headline. Struck through: the loaded words our plainer version leaves out. Fewest struck first.

How it developed

  1. TechCrunch filed Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of effect
  2. Engadget filed Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute their dismissals in open letter
  3. BBC News (Technology) filed Fired OpenAI researchers say they were let go for 'prioritising safety'

Each row is the same event as one outlet told it, and the shaded row is ours: one of these reports in our plainer version, scored by the same engines, with the report it came from named. The bottom row is the spread between the outlets — our own row is excluded from it, because including it would let us widen the gap we are advertising.

Each cell shows what the outlet filed and, under it in green where it differs, what our version of that same report reads. Those are the numbers on the article page and in the extension: one article, one pair of readings, wherever you meet it.

OutletHeadline Language LoadAdjectivesper 100 wordsMood
BBC News (Technology) Fired OpenAI researchers say they were let go for 'prioritising safety' 6.31.349.1
Engadget Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute their dismissals in open letter 5.81.051.2
TechCrunch Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of effect 10.61.243.9
Mundane Read our version of TechCrunch’s report, which arrived with a Language Load of 10.6 Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of effect 7.41.143.9
Spread 4.80.37.3

A reading is a column only when it finds something in this story, the rule that lists it beside an article. What each one means.