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Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
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Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
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I don't get the vibe that Swisher particularly likes techbros or billionaires, let alone bat for them.
Have you read her recent Tweets on the matter? She was definitely editorializing quite subjectively in favor of Altman. That's not exactly unbiased journalism happening.
I read her Threads post and do not see the same advocacy you claim here. Just valuable information.
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#663Through all of this, no one has cogently explained why Altman leaving is such a big deal. Why would workers immediately quit their job when he has no other company, and does he even know who these workers are? Are these people that desperate to make a buck (or the prospect of big bucks)? It seems like half of the people working at the non-profit were not actually concerned about the mission but rather just waiting ou…
Who among the founders isn't a hyper-capitalist? Elon Musk? Peter Thiel? Reid Hoffman?
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Isn't this expected? Nearly everyone who joined post ChatGPT was primarily financially motivated. What is more interesting is how many of the core research team stays.
This is actually pretty surprising to me, since a financially motivated person would normally wait until a better deal, and just collect their paycheck in the meantime. There's also no guarantee that Altman will really start a new company, or be able to collect funding to hire everyone quickly. I wonder if these people are just very loyal to Sam.
> This is actually pretty surprising to me, since a financially motivated person would normally wait until a better deal, and just collect their paycheck in the meantime.
I imagine you need to signal that you want in on the deal by departing. Get founder equity.
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#665Does Ilya think he can slow down Zuckerberg, Elon, Anthropic, etc
Don’t understand his thought process, especially after all the resignations. Does he really expect OpenAI to maintain its position especially with the threat of Microsoft and pretty much all other investors backing off?
Ironically, he might have been better off keeping Sam since he’d have some say in things. But if llama 4 beats gpt5? Zuck won’t even answer his calls.
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#666What a clown show. OpenAI write that they have confidence in the CTO to be the interim and then they immediately dump her for another person?
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#667@karpathy on Twitter: I just don’t have anything too remarkable to add right now. I like and respect Sam and I think so does the majority of OpenAI. The board had a chance to explain their drastic actions and they did not take it, so there is nothing to go on except exactly what it looks like. https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1726289070345855126
I for one thought Karpathy would side with the core researchers and not the corpos. To me, this whole ordeal is a clash between profit motives of Sam vs Non Profit and Safety motives of OpenAI's original charter. I mean didn't HN hate when OpenAI changed their open nature and become completely closed and profit oriented? This could be the healing of the cancer that OpenAI brought to this field to make it closed as a whole.
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I am not sure why. As far as I can tell, the board doesn't need to answer to anyone.
I think the diagram I saw showed they don't actually answer to MS, VCs, or employee investors? And not even that they're out-voted, they don't answer to them at all .
As far as I can tell, this is correct.
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#669Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
#670Earlier quoted context omitted.
First of all know that California is a two party consent state. You’d be putting yourself in grave legal danger if your identity could be inferred from a leaked recorded phone call.
Would that apply to an international call? Not that I am encouraging the GP. I upvoted the “laaaaaaaawyer” comment.
Not a lawyer so: “laaaaaaaawyer!”