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Re: OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

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Yeah, what the hell? Do we know why Murati was replaced?

Apparently she tried to rehire Sam and Greg. I don't think she actually had anything to do with the coup, she was only slightly less blindsided than everyone else.

To be fair, that is a stupid first move to make as the CEO who was just hired to replace the person deposed by the board. (Though I’m still confused about Ilya’s position.)

Re: OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

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post #18

> 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?

If it weren’t so unbelievable, I’d almost accuse them of orchestrating all this to sell to Microsoft without the regulatory scrutiny. It’s like they distressed the company to make an acquisition one of mercy instead of aggression, knowing they already had their buyer lined up.

Yeah, I also started out believing this must be a principle thing between Ilya and Sam. But no, this smells more and more like a corporate clusterfuck and Ilya was just an easy to manipulate puppet. This alleged statement from the board that destroying the company is an acceptable outcome is completely insane, but somewhat reasonable when combined with the fact that half the board has some serious conflict of interest going on.

Re: OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

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post #6

Well that accelerated very quickly and this is perhaps the most dysfunctional startup I have ever seen. All due to one word: Greed.

And the ironic part of the greed is that it seems there is far more (at least potential) earnings to be spread around and make everyone there wealthy enough to not have to think about it ever again.

Yet they start this kind of nonsense.

Not exactly focusing on building a great system or product.

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