Comment from Eric Schmidt:
https://twitter.com/ericschmidt/status/1725625144519909648
OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
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#362Tweet from Sam 10 minutes ago
>i loved my time at openai. it was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. most of all i loved working with such talented people.
>will have more to say about what’s next later.
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#363Move fast and break people.
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#364Sam Altman was the business side. Ilya Sutskever is the brains behind OpenAI.
I don't think changes anything.
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#365My bet is that the last paragraph of the statement holds the key: > OpenAI was founded as a non-profit in 2015 with the core mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. In 2019, OpenAI restructured to ensure that the company could raise capital in pursuit of this mission, while preserving the nonprofit's mission, governance, and oversight. The majority of the board is independen…
>>my bet is that the last paragraph of the statement holds the key:
No, this is obviously the key:
"review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board"
This is an explicit statement that he was lying to the board about something. It cannot be worded more clearly unless switching to use the word "lying".
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#366Sama has posted to twitter now
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#367I wonder if there is any connection between this and the decision to turn off new paid accounts a couple days ago.
yeah, gotta think a massive breach or a massive lawsuit is on the horizon
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#369Next they'll announce GPT-4 is the new CEO.
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#370Put 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 -…
I don't think this checks out, as most of the ideas around here involving him hiding OpenAI internals from the board don't, for this reason: How could he, given who is on the board?
There is no way that sama is the only person in this set of people to have unique information on critical privacy incidents or financials or costs of server operations, because these issues don't originate with him.
If some version of this turned out to be true, I would be seriously confused about ground truth transparency in the company and how the fuck they set the whole thing up, that this was an option. But again, this is why I'd say: Implausible.