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OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Post by ssnistfajen »

IAmGraydon wrote: post #854

This thread reads like a horde of gossiping high schoolers. No one knows what truly motivated to board to make this decision, so there’s no point in posting random theories.

We are just highschoolers who have gone through a few extra rounds of cell division, so I don't see how anyone is above gossiping.

But I agree that the true details are still buried. Greg & Sam's joint post only laid out how they were fired while refraining from saying why they were fired. Probably preparing for a legal battle if both sides are being vague on purpose.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Post by ssnistfajen »

convexstrictly wrote: post #705
convexstrictly wrote: post #669

Kara Swisher: a “misalignment” of the profit versus nonprofit adherents at the company https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725678074333635028 She also says that there will be many more top employees leaving.

Followup tweet by Kara: Dev day and store were "pushing too fast"! https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725702612379378120

I thought GPTs were underwhelming but that's hardly worth such a dramatic purge. The rift was definitely something far deeper

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Post by tap-snap-or-nap »

IAmGraydon wrote: post #854

This thread reads like a horde of gossiping high schoolers. No one knows what truly motivated to board to make this decision, so there’s no point in posting random theories.

Many here seem to have a strong urge to fill gaps in information with something.

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autaut wrote: post #800

Happy. I never heard him say anything even remotely interesting about ai. He seemed a glib opportunist just not dumb enough to know how to sell a product he didn’t understand who eventually would have alienated or pushed out all the smart people who made the company’s and his success.

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Post by vl »

mfiguiere wrote: post #824

Ron Conway: >What happened at OpenAI today is a Board coup that we have not seen the likes of since 1985 when the then-Apple board pushed out Steve Jobs. It is shocking; it is irresponsible; and it does not do right by Sam & Greg or all the builders in OpenAI. https://twitter.com/RonConway/status/1725759359748309381

It’s interesting that board members essentially terminated their private sector careers: now nobody would want them on other boards, etc. This tweet illustrates that power players see this as unprofessional and, what’s worse, “not by the rules”.

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Post by wraptile »

water-data-dude wrote: post #426

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…

Honestly, it feels like OpenAI is not taking the copyright trolls* very seriously for this to be the case. I don't think US has the luxury to set this dangerous AI precedent.

* You can disagree but no copyright lawsuit by mega corporations is doing it for the good of the law framework. They just want money.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Post by painted-now »

johnwheeler wrote: post #699

Ilya booted him https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725702501435941294

Elon Musk was talking about his view on OpenAI and especially the role of Ilya just 8 days ago on Lex Friedman Podcast.

Listening to it again now, it feels like he might have know what is going on:

https://youtu.be/JN3KPFbWCy8?si=WnCdW45ccDOb3jgb&t=5100

Edit: Especially this part: "It was created as a non-profit open source and now it is a closed-source for maximum profit... Which I think is not good carma... ..."

https://youtu.be/JN3KPFbWCy8?si=WnCdW45ccDOb3jgb&t=5255

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