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OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

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Re: OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

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Post by brianjking »

dougmwne wrote: post #69
georgehill wrote: post #3

> Remarkably, the letter’s signees include Ilya Sutskever, the company’s CTO who has been blamed for coordinating the boardroom coup against Altman in the first place. What in the world is happening at OpenAI?

(Rips off mask) Wow, it was the Quora CEO all along! So this was never about safety or any such bullshit. It’s because GTPs store was in direct competition with Poe!?

Absolutely mindboggling that Adam is on the board.

Poe has direct competition with the GPTs and the "revenue sharing" plan that Sam released on Dev day.

The Poe Platform has their "Creators" build your own bot and monetize it, including OpenAI and other models.

Re: OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

georgehill wrote: post #3

> Remarkably, the letter’s signees include Ilya Sutskever, the company’s CTO who has been blamed for coordinating the boardroom coup against Altman in the first place. What in the world is happening at OpenAI?

Ok... so this is not the scenario any of us were imagining? Ilya S vs Altman isn't what went down?

JFC.

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Post by qup »

0xDEF wrote: post #56
georgehill wrote: post #3

> Remarkably, the letter’s signees include Ilya Sutskever, the company’s CTO who has been blamed for coordinating the boardroom coup against Altman in the first place. What in the world is happening at OpenAI?

Ilya is much less active on Twitter than the others. The rumors that blamed him emerged and spread like wildfire and he did nothing to stop it because he probably only checks Twitter once a week.

not this week, trust me

Re: OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

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Post by hotsauceror »

hotsauceror wrote: post #139
fny wrote: post #20

At this point, I think it’s absolutely clear no one has any idea what happened. Every speculation, no matter how sophisticated, has been wrong. It’s time to take a breath, step back, and wait until someone from OpenAI says something substantial.

I agree. Although the story is fascinating in the way that a car crash is fascinating, it's clear that it's going to be very difficult to get any kind of objective understanding in real-time. This breathless real-time speculation may be fun, but now that social media amplifies the tiniest fart such that it has global reach, I feel like it just reinforces the general zeitgeist of "Oh, what the hell NOW? Everything is…

I will say, though, that there is going to be an absolute banger of a book for Kara Swisher to write, once the dust has settled.

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Post by SilverBirch »

It's not clear to me that bringing Sam back is even an option anymore given the more with Microsoft. Does Microsoft really takes it's boot off OpenAI's neck and hand back Sam? I guess maybe, but it still begs all sorts of questions about the corporate structure.

Re: OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

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Post by ignoramous »

georgehill wrote: post #3

> Remarkably, the letter’s signees include Ilya Sutskever, the company’s CTO who has been blamed for coordinating the boardroom coup against Altman in the first place. What in the world is happening at OpenAI?

The signatories want Bret Taylor and Will Hurd running the new Board, apparently.

> We will take this step imminently, unless all current board members resign, and the board appoints two new lead independent directors, such as Bret Taylor and Will Hurd, and reinstates Sam Altman and Greg Brockman.

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Post by enginaar »

saagarjha wrote: post #66
0xDEF wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ilya is much less active on Twitter than the others. The rumors that blamed him emerged and spread like wildfire and he did nothing to stop it because he probably only checks Twitter once a week.

One would think that he would be on Twitter this week.

looks like found his twitter password https://x.com/ilyasut/status/1726590052392956028?s=20
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