Did you believe her when she claimed that she was shadow banned from all social media because of her brother? Or that she had to become a sex worker to pay the bills because of his 'technological abuse'?
To read the claims charitably, it could be that fans of open AI, and Sam Altman jumped to his defense in the ways that toxic fandoms often do to women. It wouldn't surprise me if constant flagging and reporting suppressed her presence on social media.
It also wouldn't be the first time a victim of a public figure received employment backlash for coming forward with their abuse.
I think the real question is though, what did you hope to accomplish by asking your questions?
It's not that different to (substantiated) things I've heard from other people, so… personally, I believe it. The alleged sexual / medical / financial abuse is pretty typical, as is the account hacking. If it helps, New York Magazine has substantiated some of the minor details: https://archive.ph/j4lVw#60%.
Sam Altman is fairly influential, and worse abuses from social media companies are well-documented, so as conspiracy theories go, this "Sam-induced shadowbans" one is quite plausible.*
Technically, nobody is forced to become a sex worker to pay the bills. But people can be forced to choose between bad options in order to pay the bills, and it's not that rare that the other options are worse than online sex work. Especially if you have mental health issues, and a disability that prevents standing-up work. Colloquially, "had to become a sex worker" (or "survival sex work", Annie's actual words) wouldn't be a misrepresentation of that.
*: Devil's advocate: saying the wrong things in the presence of the black box can be enough to get shadowbanned. It's plausible that words involved in discussions of abuse might end up automatically censored by a badly-designed learning-from-user-reports ML system. It's also plausible that many similarly-designed systems would independently end up categorising the same sorts of things as "don't show this to other users". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40435430 (placing blame on user reports coming from Sam Altman's fans) is a stronger theory.
It’s definitely plausible to me she would experience some form of shadow banning or algorithmic deprioritization due to posting advertiser unfriendly content and (incorrectly) blame it on her brother. These systems are frequently opaque so I don’t think it’s reasonable to count that as a strike against her credibility.
And of course it’s not really that implausible that Altman could pull some strings. It wouldn’t require a huge conspiracy to shadow ban a few accounts. I don’t think it’s the most likely explanation, though.
