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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 paulpan »

tedivm wrote: post #17

This was handled so very, very poorly. Frankly it's looking like Microsoft is going to come out of this better than anyone, especially if they end up getting almost 500 new AI staff out of it (staff that already function well as a team). > In their letter, the OpenAI staff threaten to join Altman at Microsoft. “Microsoft has assured us that there are positions for all OpenAI employees at this new subsidiary should we…

In hindsight firing Sam was a self-destructing gamble by the OpenAI board. Initially it seemed Sam may have committed some inexcusable financial crime but doesn't look so anymore.

Irony is that if a significant portion of OpenAI staff opt to join Microsoft, then Microsoft essentially killed their own $13B investment in OpenAI earlier this year. Better than acquiring for $80B+ I suppose.

Re: OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

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Post by sva_ »

falleng0d wrote: post #81
wxw wrote: post #16

Ilya signed it??? He's on the board... This whole thing is such an implosion of ambition.

he even posted a apology: https://x.com/ilyasut/status/1726590052392956028?s=20 what the actual fuck =O

The great drama of our time (this week)

Re: OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

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Post by sebzim4500 »

ethanbond wrote: post #19

It seems odd to have it described as “may resign.” Seems like the worst of all worlds. That’s like trying to create MAD with the position you “may” launch nukes in retaliation.

Presumably some will resign and some won't. They aren't going to get 550 people to make a hard commitment to resign, especially when presumably few concrete contracts have been offered by MSFT.

Re: OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

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Post by andy99 »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #44
FpUser wrote: post #39

So Ilya Sutskever first defends the board's decision and now it is 180 flip. Interesting ...

He’s on the board!

I'm extremely confused by this. It seems absurd that he could sign a letter seemingly demanding his own resignation, but also not resign? There must be some missing information.

Re: OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

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Post by _vere »

I will never not be mad at the fact that they built a developer base by making all their tech open source, only to take it all away once it became remotely financially viable to do so. With how close "Open"AI is with Microsoft, it really does not seem like there is a functional difference in how they ethically approach AI at all.

Re: OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

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Post by ekojs »

From The Verge [1]:

> Swisher reports that there are currently 700 employees as OpenAI and that more signatures are still being added to the letter. The letter appears to have been written before the events of last night, suggesting it has been circulating since closer to Altman’s firing. It also means that it may be too late for OpenAI’s board to act on the memo’s demands, if they even wished to do so.

So, 3/4 of the current board (excluding Ilya) held on despite this letter?

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23968988/openai-employee...

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