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Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting

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Post by __loam »

malcolmgreaves wrote: post #206

This account is quite believable. It follows a pattern of unethical behavior from Altman. In his latest unethical binge, he illegally used Scarlett Johansson's voice and likeliness for the latest ChatGPT version with speech output. [1] His timed-announcement tweet, "Her", is quite self-incriminating. [2] Remember: inductive logic is a valuable tool for discovering truth. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/2416125…

I think what happened is OpenAI was probably going to easily defend themselves from this suit until Altman tweeted about it. It seems like the company didn't really do anything wrong (in this case) but that tweet is actually going to give ScarJo the legal standing she needs to move forward and even win.

It feels like leadership class in the valley is totally clueless sometimes.

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Post by nsxwolf »

mateus1 wrote: post #132
m3kw9 wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also ironic people jumping to attack Altman from every negative article about him without knowing all the details and the contexts

That is not a correct use of ironic.

Any time you use the word someone will say you used it wrong. It's no win.

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Post by ethbr1 »

Teever wrote: post #179
Hizonner wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Resolved" in that it seems to get no attention, and hasn't since shortly after it originally blew up. As far as I know, she never retracted her claim of "sexual, physical, emotional, verbal, and financial abuse". And he never admitted to any of the above.

Yeah it's pretty wild that more people don't talk about that given how much time people spend gossiping about him like he was a tabloid celebrity.

Yeah, it's weird when unfavorable topics suddenly aren't reported...

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Post by benreesman »

snowwrestler wrote: post #52

Kind of ironic that people are jumping in here to defend Sam Altman on the message board of Y Combinator, which also fired him from an executive leadership role for similar reasons.

It’s utterly mundane, completely common knowledge for those who have been around long enough to have watched both the start and end on Loopt that Altman is a dark-triad sociopath with one marketable skill: (in pg’s words) “becoming powerful”.

Guy can’t code, can’t design, can’t publish, can’t climb a traditional corporate ladder with even modest guardrails against fraud, can’t keep his hand out of the cookie jar. Can lie, threaten, cajole, manipulate, bribe with zero hesitation or remorse.

I’ve been short this nonsense for a decade, and it’s done no favors to me on remaining solvent, but when the market gets rational, it usually gets rational all at once.

Karpathy, Ilya, Yoon right off the top of my head, countless others. LeCun woke up the other day and chose violence on X. Insiders are getting short like Goldman dealing with Burry.

Guy has nine lives, already been fired for fraud like three times and he’s still living that crime life, so who knows, maybe he lasts long enough to put Ice Nine in my glass after all, but this can only happen so many times.

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Post by mewpmewp2 »

tbrownaw wrote: post #210
jjulius wrote: post #165

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>But it's a matter of survival of the entire universe? Surely you jest.

No, there's a group that truly believes that AI progress will inevitably end up creating an omnipotent God. And that if we're not careful enough, that newly created God will be evil.

There's no unlimited power (that omnipotent would imply), but just more power than humankind.

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Post by samatman »

AlbertCory wrote: post #61
XorNot wrote: post #58

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The issue with those things is we actually know how to measure success for most of them, and they notably work best when the politicians stay the hell out of the process other then setting broad directions. There's no equivalent for AI research, and a lot of temptation to try and find simple metrics which mean safe - and it's appealing. Water should be below X ppm contaminant is "easy" to establish. AI should be to b…

I don't get the feeling you read the link. But thanks.

The person you're snarking at is not replying to you, and is under no obligation to read your Substack before posting.

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Post by [deleted] »

mlindner wrote: post #18
Teever wrote: post #16

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What's with the recent attacks on Business Insider of all publications?

I've been attacking Business Insider for many years. They're effectively a show biz tabloid, but business oriented. They frequently misreport things and write stories that are effectively "clickbait for executives".

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Post by Auracle »

Teever wrote: post #179
Hizonner wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Resolved" in that it seems to get no attention, and hasn't since shortly after it originally blew up. As far as I know, she never retracted her claim of "sexual, physical, emotional, verbal, and financial abuse". And he never admitted to any of the above.

Yeah it's pretty wild that more people don't talk about that given how much time people spend gossiping about him like he was a tabloid celebrity.

I have no horse in this race but I’m glad that - for once - people aren’t taking claims with absolutely no evidence seriously. That’s no way to function as a society.

For all we know she could be jealous, have mental issues, or have a different bone to pick with him and thought that’d be the best way to hurt him. If I had his money I could see some of my own relatives doing similar things after being denied handouts, for instance.

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