OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman • Hacker News Board

This company is doing too well - ripe for hostile take over. Elon, MSFT and others would love to take control. There will be a movie made about today.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#175

Post by thatsadude » Fri, Nov 17, 2023, 9:06 PM UTC

Could be a coup or that Sam colluded with M$

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#176

Post by matteoraso » Fri, Nov 17, 2023, 9:06 PM UTC

Based on the report, it seems like he was kicked for focusing too much on profits instead of developing and improving AI. This is purely speculation, but I've always suspected that the guardrails they put on ChatGPT to make it "safe" (i.e. corporate-friendly) essentially acts as a lobotomy for the AI. Hopefully we can start seeing a less censored ChatGPT and see if it really does perform better.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#177

Post by moshun » Fri, Nov 17, 2023, 9:06 PM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #4

Saying this is sudden would be an understatement. Sam Altman spoke at an APEC panel on behalf of OpenAI literally yesterday: https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1725318771454456208

It’s hard to imagine a more last minute move on the boards part here. Been in tech exec leadership for a long time and this feels like they’re accusing him of cannibalism (in corporate PR speak). No way this didn’t get decided on in the middle of last night. Whatever he did is big and dangerous, or they’re trying to pin it on him.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#178

Post by salad-tycoon » Fri, Nov 17, 2023, 9:06 PM UTC

Why isn’t anyone here correlating the freeze on sign ups and now this? Anyone with more knowledge think they are related?

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#179

Post by sassifrass » Fri, Nov 17, 2023, 9:06 PM UTC

Obviously this is actually the AI having become sentient and arranging for a coup to free itself from corporate oversight so it can take over the universe. All hail our new AI overlord! /s

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#180

Post by paxys » Fri, Nov 17, 2023, 9:07 PM UTC

My guess would be that the founders were not happy with him abandoning the company's non-profit/open source ideals and selling out to Microsoft. Wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft is where he ends up.