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Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#491

The following was posted by an Alex Coven on X (Twitter). I cannot verify if it is legit. I was laid off from OpenAI today along with my boss Sam. I was the person in charge of putting together the presentations for our board meetings. No one has told me why I was let go but Sam texted me “wtf” and next thing I know my Slack and Gmail were disabled. I’m now looking for a new role, so if you’re hiring for investor rel…

Haha I think it's a fake account: https://twitter.com/anothercohen

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#492

I suspect that some big news of data leak or some other security incident is about to follow.

Sam would have been more apologetic or at least contrite in his tweet if it was hurting anyone. Same: Eric Schmidt was immediately positive, so presumably he knows. ES would never defend a guy who hid a leak.

Unless if, by “security” you mean OpenAI was used for military purposes, in which case: 100% Schmidt knew and supported and Sam might be proud of it.

But Ilya and Mira would have known about it too… Guess they did, told the board and things blew up fast.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#493

I can't wait for the revel that GPT-4 is just a chat application connecting you to a the worlds biggest center in India. Joking aside, this feels massive. Both that it happened so suddenly and that the announcement doesn't mince words. The fact that the CTO is now CEO makes me think it's probably not a lie about their tech. It wouldn't make sense to say "we've been lying about our capabilities" and then appoint the c…

Right? haha or Sam himself answered every query from his phone lol... that's why sometimes it feels like it's typing more slowly than other times haha

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#497

- Cant be a personal scandal, press release would be worded much more differently - Board is mostly independent and those independent dont have equity - They talk about not being candid - this is legalese for “lying” The only major thing that could warrant something like this is Sam going behind the boards back to make a decision (or make progress on a decision) that is misaligned with the Charter. Thats the only fir…

Could world coin be a part of this ? Its weird he'd use open AI for world coin?

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#499

I can't wait for the revel that GPT-4 is just a chat application connecting you to a the worlds biggest center in India. Joking aside, this feels massive. Both that it happened so suddenly and that the announcement doesn't mince words. The fact that the CTO is now CEO makes me think it's probably not a lie about their tech. It wouldn't make sense to say "we've been lying about our capabilities" and then appoint the c…

Yeah, it would be pretty surprising to find out that India has so many individuals that are profoundly competent at converting arbitrary text into rhymes in Elizabethan English.
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