Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

openai.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

421–430 of 1001 posts

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#421

Post by podnami »

baidifnaoxi wrote: post #405

- Cant be a personal scandal, press release would be worded much more differently - Board is mostly independent and those independent dont have equity - They talk about not being candid - this is legalese for “lying” The only major thing that could warrant something like this is Sam going behind the boards back to make a decision (or make progress on a decision) that is misaligned with the Charter. Thats the only fir…

Doesn’t make any sense. He is ideologically driven - why would he risk a once in a lifetime opportunity for a mere sale?

Desperate times calls for desperate measures. This is a swift way for OpenAI to shield the business from something which is a PR disaster, probably something which would make Sam persona non grata in any business context.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#422

Post by zombiwoof »

nikcub wrote: post #301

Put 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 -…

Gtfo you mean LLMs aren’t safe with my data?

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#423

Post by Racing0461 »

This can go 2 ways.

Sam told the board the AI was dumber than it was. Sam told the board the AI is smarter than it was.

I don't know which one is worse.

I just hope it wasn't somthing silly like sleeping with a female intern or an "accusation of s/a or grape". AI growth is too important to mess up because of trivialities like these.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#426

Post by water-data-dude »

Someone probably already suggested this, but I haven’t seen it yet, so I’ll throw a wild speculation into the mix:

I saw a comment (that I can’t find now) wondering if Sam might have been fired for copyright reasons. Pretty much all the big corpuses that are used in LLM training contain copyrighted material, but that’s not a surprise and I really don’t think they’d kick him out over that. But what if he had a team of people deliberately adding a ton of copyrighted material - books, movies, etc - to the training data for ChatGPT? It feels like it might fit the shape of the situation.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#428

Post by romanhn »

baidifnaoxi wrote: post #405

- Cant be a personal scandal, press release would be worded much more differently - Board is mostly independent and those independent dont have equity - They talk about not being candid - this is legalese for “lying” The only major thing that could warrant something like this is Sam going behind the boards back to make a decision (or make progress on a decision) that is misaligned with the Charter. Thats the only fir…

Or rejected a sale without the board knowing.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#429

Post by mardifoufs »

nikcub wrote: post #301

Put 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 -…

What could be worse than that issue they had back in March, for chatgpt? Except for a model leak? I would be surprised if the firing was related to any operational issue openai has, it has to be something a bit less mundane to justify firing him when openai is at its peak imo.
Post reply on HN