Comment on OpenAI brings Sam Altman back as CEO less than a week after he was fired by board

suction@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• doeknius_gloek@feddit.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The interesting part about this story isn’t Altman himself. It’s more about the weird decisions and inner politics of a $90bn company. A board firing their ceo without official reasoning, MS sweeping in while owning 49% of said company, 95% of the staff threatening to quit, the ceo coming back and firing the board while everybody else still tries to understand what the fuck just happened.

  Like another commenter said, this could straight up be an episode of Silicon Valley.

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  • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And at the end of the day what it really boils down to is that tech in ethics is a PR byline, and the money will always win within the system that exists

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    • rambaroo@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, it’s actually pathetic how many people immediately sided with this clown too. Dude had m is another generic salesman type who commercialized what was supposed to be open source software and people act like it’s bad thing that they dumped him.

      Just proves to me that most people involved in tech are greedy scumblings, from the top so the way down.

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      • deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Tycho at Penny Arcade (yeah remember them?) nailed it a year ago and it’s been sitting in my head ever since:

        www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2022/12/26/sockrates

        Ultimately, the technology is not my concern. It is that there’s another Industrial Revolution happening, right now, you can play with it like a toy, and it will be very surprising to me if it results in a greater bargaining position for the worker. That’s just not how it goes.

        Some portion of the conversation always has the sting of betrayal in it. But you like computer stuff! Yeah, I like computer stuff. Except we aren’t talking about computer stuff. We’re talking about people stuff. People are messy. I work with a lot of creative people, and I have also had the pleasure - firmly installed in quotes - of working with the kind of people who call those people “creatives.” We were at a meeting once where the person who will be advocating and using these technologies in your organization told us they hated creatives to our face. These technologies will displace workers and slash pay. That’s… I mean, that’s it.

        From the start of this AI boom, I’ve been saying, again and again, that regardless of the technology itself, the truly despicable thing about this are the people. Take all your idealistic futurist nonsense and “passion” for pushing the limits of technology and blow it out your ass, because this technology has one primary use case that was obvious from the word go, and every single one of these fuckers knew what that was when they started making it. For years they have worked to make a tool for corporations to hurt the working class and enrich themselves in the process. They can all get fucked.

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      • cybersandwich@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think people siding with him because they heard fuck all from the actual board.

        If the board came out strong with a “our mission isn’t to productize chat bots, but to research and develop AGI in an open, ethical, transparent way. Altman, as CEO, was undermining our mission by putting the emphasis on profit. These decisions by Sam weren’t communicated to the board. We the board agreed that, while this may be surprising and disappointing to some, the best long term course of action is to part ways with Sam. We wish him all the best in his future endeavors and we look forward to fulfilling our mission in a responsible, open way”.

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      • logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “Pathetic” is actually a really good word, because it’s root is the greek word “pathos”, which is known today as a type of persuasion where you rely on emotion.

        People only look at the headline. They see a person fired without a specified reason. It seems like it should be easy to see something happening is unfair.

        But this sort of thing is rarely that simple.

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    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think you mean ethics in tech?

      If so I agree.

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      • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ah yeah I’m up too late, thanks for pointing that out haha, fixed

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  • wmassingham@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Okay, so can we shunt all the “tech billionaire celebrity entertainment” posts somewhere else?

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    • rookie@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It is tech news, but I get you. It’s hard to find a place with news about actual technological innovations, advances, updates etc rather than the machinations of the corporations involved. I completely understand the relevance, but it’s often not the sort of genuinely interesting read you’re looking for.

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  • assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s putin prigozhin all over again

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  • suction@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or maybe it’s all a PR stunt, we don’t know what happens behind their closed doors.

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• Perroboc@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• lickmygiggle@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Would you like to hear about my week? I’m a thousandaire.

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