The Fame Monster After spending years relentlessly chasing publicity across the media, huge speaking events and a world tour of multiple continents, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is humblebragging that all his newfound fame is taking a toll. “The inability to just be mostly anonymous in public is very, very strange,” he said on the Logan Bartlett Show this week. “I think if I had thought about that at the time, I would’ve said, ‘OK, this will be a weirder thing than it sounds like,’ but I didn’t really think about it. It’s like a much weirder thing. It’s a strangely isolating way to live.” “I was like, ‘AI’s going to be really important, OpenAI’s going to be a really important company,'” he added. “I didn’t think I would not be able to go out to dinner in my own city.” Because yes, Sam, the one thing that’ll cool off all this Altman Fever is definitely an appearance on a hit podcast that immediately racked up a third of a million views. Household Name Many tech leaders retain moderate anonymity in spite of their corporate influence — try to name the head of Anthropic or Samsung or Netflix without looking it up. But Altman is one the most idiosyncratic figures in tech even by the eccentric standards of the nascent AI industry, nevermind one who can seemingly never resist the urge to sound off in public. During his stint at Y Combinator, for instance, he once bragged that he had a…After Spending Years Relentlessly Chasing Fame, Sam Altman Complains That He's Getting Recognized in Public Too Much