Exactly. He’s only founded and led a company that’s built some of the most easily adoptable and exciting innovations in human-computer interactions in the last decade. Total fraud!

and which company would that be?

Loopt

And WorldCoin.

What’s the con? Aren’t they constantly delivering frontier models?

Agree with the sentiment.

But Sam as 'conman' might just be the impression because he is more on the promotion/marketing side.

I've been under the impression that Ilya is the brains. So this seems bad for long term growth.

I would say specifically the sort of chuunibyou cringe endemic to"AI safety" of claiming that their models are an existential threat.

Con artist is a bad description. The guy is legit dangerous. He's not after swindling you out of your money, that wouldn't be worth it.