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“AI is going to take away jobs.”
“Wait… not like that.”
Oops… didnt see that coming
He got billions in his account. I dont think he cares. For them job is something to do to not get bored, I guess?
He got billions in his account
Was unaware the man has had his bank account records leaked to the public. Do you have a source for this claim?
Net worth estimates seem to be $500M - $700M
https://www.thestreet.com/investors/sam-altman-net-worth-how-does-he-make-money
Seems to be somewhere between 0.5 and 0.7 billion, which due to a quirk of the English language are technicallybillions, making OP technically not wrong ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/ceos/sam-altman-net-worth/ https://www.thestreet.com/investors/sam-altman-net-worth-how-does-he-make-money
TIL I got billions myself 😎
So if we’re all billionaires, do we need to eat ourselves?
If everyone’s super(rich), no-one is.
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Hey, nobody’s judging anyone for their kinks. Do as you please.
Anxious people: We’ve been eating dead skin for ages!
Lol
Nope but assuming he’s broke af is pretty idiotic. He rolls wirh Musk, Branson and all.
I’m more surprised that the folks at OpenAI saw fit to fire him than I am that he committed fireable offenses.
Because he lied to them instead of for them.
But what he lied about is probably bigger news.
This has corporate PR speak all over it, but it is clear that it was circumventing the desires of the Board, and the chairman of the Board steps down as well.
The absolute hell happened?
If I had to guess, about how interested he was in keeping it non-profit in spirit. Which direction he believed in, I have no idea. I don’t know him or the board. The statement sounds like the board is leaning toward non-profit behavior, but I don’t believe a company who merely says “do no evil”.
The company is now actually being run by ChatGPT, Mira is just the face it’s hiding behind.
I asked Bard to give me a generic reason for firing a CEO.
Certainly, here are some vague reasons for firing the CEO of an AI company:
Leadership concerns: The CEO’s leadership style or personal conduct was not in line with the company’s values or culture. This could include issues such as lack of transparency, poor communication, or ethical breaches.Yup.
Bard is on copium with that last one.
No, Bard is just making a prediction based on the way CEO firings are presented in press releases. Those press releases are never the “real” reason, what we’re seeing here is the way a board would frame the firing of its CEO. “Ethical breach” is the term used when “The CEO was killing hookers for fun and WHOO-WEE we did NOT want to get any of that on us,” is not considered appropriate to tell the press.
I am actually very surprised. Did not see this coming.
That’s what my blind girlfriend said.
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Microsoft doesn’t have that power, and it has hurt their stock value. Their CEO’s response suggests that Microsoft and other partners didn’t know until everyone else did.
But they said it was because he wasn’t being totally honest with the board for OpenAI tho
Corps would never lie to save face or hide truths!!
Not exactly surprised here. Every time I’ve seen him on the news, it’s always him fearmongering about the dangers of generative AI, when ChatGPT is burning through money and seemed to become more and more restrictive with every iteration. You can’t run an organization if it is built on top of lies.
Actually open models (not open source, sadly) like specialized LLaMa 2 derivatives that could be ran and fine-tuned locally seems to be the future, because there seems to be a diminishing return in training/inference power to usefulness, and specialized smaller model tuned for specific applications are much more flexible than a giant general one that can only be used on somebody else’s machine.
OpenAI also announced that co-founder Greg Brockman will be stepping down as chairman of the board, though he will remain at the company.
Interesting. No way this isn’t connected
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Uhh… Keep reading?
Hours after it was published, Brockman posted to X that he had quit “based on today’s news.”
Apologies, looks like that statement may have been added after the fact.
He hallucinated to the board.
Oh no, anyways
This is unprecedented. They let that schmuck at Unity “retire” on a holiday but they fired Sam. Oof.
It sounds like there was a power struggle over the direction of OpenAI.
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I mean yeah but also no. I think anyone would be the former guy (i.e., the Sam on the left) over the latter if given the choice.
This is really big news, going to be interesting if anything leaks or if we stay in the dark. For Altman to be fired and for them to release a statement like this it has to be something drastic.
CEO? Fuck him. He’ll be just fine.
of course he will, he wasnt even getting paid
Huh??
On one hand, this was posted 15 minutes before you posted this… on the other hand, this is a much clearer headline
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Not sure how to handle this,
In times of great dishonor, the Samurai would commit seppuku with their sword.
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Only if you post the video
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Alternatively, you can do sudoku.
But he still has to do it with the plastic knife.
Best I can do is charcuterie with dried salami.
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That sucks, and weirdly sudden too. I don’t like OpenAI but I do like Altman. I saw a lot of the videos he makes and he strikes me as someone that knows what he’s doing and, despite running it as a business, genuinely cares.
It’s so alarming that he would get suddenly fired when the company is doing so well. Nobody knows what’s going on but I don’t doubt a “company board demands more profit” situation
You mean the guy who spun this all up as a Non-Profit company, then spun up an LLC for that Non-Profit to manage, then made deals with Microsoft?
Somehow his long term actions tell me, like most rich twatwaffles, you can’t actually trust what he is saying.
When the board that he answers to says he hasn’t been consistently candid, you can bet your sweet ass any soundbites you as a regular schlub have read are “not consistently candid” and you’re hearing what he wants you to hear.
But you do you on believing these chucklefucks when their actions speak loudly to the contrary.
“Not consistently candid” means lying his arse off to the point of endangering the continued existence of the organisation.
twatwaffles and chucklefucks
You are a visionary sir. I will add these words to my vocabulary.
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Thank you!! This made me laugh. TIL
I saw a lot of the videos he makes and he strikes me as someone that knows what he’s doing and, despite running it as a business, genuinely cares.
This makes his firing make more sense to me. Boards don’t want a CEO who knows what he’s doing and genuinely cares. They want a CEO who will do their bidding without question, and draw all the flak for their decisions.
Nah, competent boards want a CEO that will inspire investor confidence and pull in good numbers. Something Altman was doing in an above-and-beyond fashion.
I’m sure there was something going on behind the scenes and he pissed off some important bumblefuck.
Your comment was the equivalent of “I have no idea what I’m talking about”
“Capitalism sucks and thats all I know” level hot take
What’d he do?
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Whatever it was it’s spicy enough that they’re trying to bury the press release in the late Friday afternoon news graveyard
Edit: even better, whatever they’re trying to distance themselves from is so important they didn’t even wait for the closing bell on the market.
I interpret their wording that he lied to the board repeadetly and made some unethical backdoor deals of evil.
More likely he didn’t want to be evil and all the board cares about is money
Almost certainly the opposite - it’s the board that is non-profit and Sam has been the one bringing billions of dollars of commercially-tied investment
Makes me wonder if he wanted to put ethical guardrails on the product that would’ve been less profitable for the board.
Unverified, but I saw some rumor about sexual abuse in his past. Look it up.
Those allegations have been floating since ~2021, I have a hard time believing they’d take emergency action on them 2-3y later.
