Without wading into allegations about specific people mentioned in this post, I will note the following: 1. Researcher leaving frontier lab is really "dog bites man" news. There are dozens of such departures every month. These departures are motivated by all kinds of considerations, sometimes including those relating to safety. Even departures of key individuals are rarely covered by the mainstream media. To have the Wall Street Journal write an entire article about the departure of one researcher is absolutely extraordinary, particularly when it's not one of the most well-known senior researchers (AFAIK). 2. It is correct that the Wall Street Journal article went up before the researcher's tweet. 3. On views/likes/engagement: Ilya Sutskever's tweet announcing his departure from OpenAI in 2024 (possibly the most famous researcher departure from a frontier lab over the last few years) currently has fewer than 6M views. The post you quoted has over 100M. These are not "apples and oranges" for various reasons, but the comparison does give some food for thought. 4. This account was either purposely completely wiped before yesterday's tweets were posted or these were the first tweets from his account. This is obviously quite unusual; I can't remember another researcher wiping his or her account immediately before making an "I quit" post.