This is straight out of Succession. What the heck happened here!
OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
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#342Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google has this to say: https://x.com/ericschmidt/status/1725625144519909648?s=20 Sam Altman is a hero of mine. He built a company from nothing to $90 Billion in value, and changed our collective world forever. I can't wait to see what he does next. I, and billions of people, will benefit from his future work- it's going to be simply incredible. Thank you @sama for all you have done for al…
Tons of high profile people spoke like this about Adam Neumann or Elizabeth Holmes too
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#343In a world where Musk isn't fired from Tesla for being an open anti-semite.
Whoa I did not hear about this. What happened?
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#344I would translate "not consistently candid with the board" as "he lied to the board about something important enough to fire him on the spot". This seems like the kind of statement lawyers would advise you to not make publicly unless you have proof, and it seems unusual compared to most statements of that kind that are intentionally devoid of any information or blame.
I can only speculate that he may have left them liable for huge copyright claims for illegal scraping
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#345Put the pieces together: Nov 6 - OpenAI devday, with new features of build-your-own ChatGPT and more Nov 9 - Microsoft cuts employees off from ChatGPT due to "security concerns" [0] Nov 9 - OpenAI experiences severe downtime the company attributes to a "DDoS" (not the correct term for 'excess usage') [3] Nov 15 - OpenAI announce no new ChatGPT plus upgrades [1] but still allow regular signups (and still do) Nov 17 -…
> "We were testing endpoint control systems for LLMs and inadvertently turned them on for all employees," a spokesperson said. "We restored service shortly after we identified our error. As we have said previously, we encourage employees and customers to use services like Bing Chat Enterprise and ChatGPT Enterprise that come with greater levels of privacy and security protections."
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#346So, to summarize the speculations: That the board is unhappy with his for profit and moat building charted path. That this is about his sister. That he pissed off microsoft. That he did something illegal, financially. That he has been lying about costs/profit. That he lied about copyrighted training data. I will add: maybe he's not aggressive enough in pursuit of profit.
Or accidentally let something egregious happen under his watch and then tried to cover it up, like a data compliance violation
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#347It doesn't have to be that he was actually caught in a scandal. It could be that the board was investigating some serious accusation, and he was not cooperative and forthright, which they might have no patience for. I invented a saying to describe this common occurrence: "Sometimes the cover-up is worse than the crime."
We have a long history of indicting people for "lying under oath" and never indicting them for the actual issue they were interrogated about, which often is not an indictable offense, but rather something personally embarrassing.
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#349Didn’t OpenAI close signups for plus a couple of days ago? Could they be connected in some way?
You'd think of Plus was profitable, ie: it costs less than a user was paying for it they'd just provision more resources. The fact that they can't seem to do that might either be an indication they're having a hard time finding hardware, or more likely they lose money with every new user they sign on.
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#350I just got an email saying they're moving to pre-paid billing... Seems like Sam Altman might've hidden some very large financial costs that the board just discovered?
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