Comment on OpenAI investors push to bring Altman back as CEO one day after he was ousted by board

Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How embarrassing must it be for both sides if no one is willing to go public?
  If it were something illegal, they wouldn’t be holding back. Unless the board is somehow complicit by default.

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  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah when I heard this, and after I read the available information, I was like did they walk in on him f****** a dog in his office or something? Like the secrecy around his dismissal is so total. But then all these people he has so much support within the company. Very confusing

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  • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The boards job is to deliver shareholder value. Ergo, it may or may not be something illegal, all ypu can guarantee is that they think that revealing information might lose shareholder value.

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    • eggymachus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The board that fired him was that of the nonprofit, so they don’t answer to shareholders.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They don’t have shareholders. Open AI is a nonprofit. So the job of the board is literally to do what is best for the organization, I can’t see how it could possibly be good for the organisation to fire the CEO and then point right refused to elaborators to the reason.

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    • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      To be honest the shareholder value on a non-profit is, uh, lackluster.

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• qwertyWarlord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d put money on it being about money

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  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Like he wanted more money and they didn’t think he was worth it?

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If OpenAI actually achieves their stated goal then any amount of money he demands will be worth it. They will basically be the company that controls the world, they will have so much money that they won’t actually even care how much money they have.

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• cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I guessing he made a sex robot that went on a killing spree.

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  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Viable theory

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  • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What does he want?

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• 31337@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Official statement is that Altman was not being “candid” with the board. The current best theory I’ve seen is that Altman is investing in AI hardware startups (he is, in fact) and likely planning on having OpenAI doing business with them. buying them, or merging with them in the future.

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  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh, good read. I saw that “candid” comment as well, but didn’t think of a possible connection. That makes sense. Thanks

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• droopy4096@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ars posted that there’s some evidence to suggest board wanted to chase profit over ethics or somesuch. Altman apparently did not listen.

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  • 5C5C5C@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You have that totally backwards.

    The board (which is the board of the non-profit) wanted the company to be more focused on its mission and less profit-driven. Altman is the one that’s been letting Microsoft get its tendrils around OpenAI and push a narrative that everything must be closed off and profit focused.

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    • droopy4096@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      yeah, recent revelations seem to point that way

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  • there1snospoon@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I thought it was the reverse, and Altman wanted to push forward recklessly while the board wanted to hew closer to ethical guidelines?

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  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The board really needs to explain to the investors why he was fired, It is utterly ridiculous that they don’t know.

  He may very well have been fired for a reasonable reason, but I’m not seeing it because why would you just fire someone out of the blue and then not release a statement if you’ve got reasonable cause? The only reason to act like they’ve got something to hide is because they do have something to hide.

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