I feel like this isn’t surprising knowing about all the other stuff altman has done. Seems like yet another loss for the greater good in the name of profit.
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NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 9 months ago
So a Board member wrote a paper about focusing on safety above profit in AI development. Sam Altman did not take kindly to this concept and started pushing to fire her (to which end he may or may not have lied to other Board members to split them up). Sam gets fired for trying to fire someone for putting safety over profit. Everything exploded and now profit is firmly at the head of the table.
I like nothing about this version of events either.
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Now what would the company do if the AI model started putting safety above profit (i.e. refusing to lie to profit the user (aka reducing market value))? How fucked are we if they create an AGI that puts profit above safety?
HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social 9 months ago
Entirely. We all die. The light cone is turned into the maximum amount of "profit" possible.
This is still better than a torment maximizer, which may come as some comfort to the tiny dollar bills made of the atoms that used to be you.
misanthropy@lemm.ee 9 months ago
You get paperclip maximizer
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
What other stuff has he done? Genuinely curious.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Wasn’t that evident from the very first few days, when we learned the board stood for the non profit, safety first mother org while the booted ceo stands for reckless monetization.
Now he’s back, the safety concerns got silenced, money can be made, people can get fucked. A good day for capitalists
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 9 months ago
That’s why I was so confused that all the workers stood behind the CEO and threatened to go to Microsoft.
ours@lemmy.world 9 months ago
My guess is that they want the company to grow fast so that their salaries and stock options grow as well.
dustyData@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s what a personality cult gets you. The amount of idiots willing to die for another man’s ego is why we have some of the shittiest things in society. “Daddy told me so” is a powerful force when the people who believe it cannot see that their vision has absolutely no rational support. Jobs, Musk, Gates, Trump, they all thrive by telling people that their irrational beliefs are true and if they follow them they will make their dreams realities. The talk and narrative around Altman has always struck me similar to Musk cult of personality in the lat 2010s.
APassenger@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Stock options help.
FrostyTrichs@lemmy.world 9 months ago
US Military has entered the chat
TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 9 months ago
I'm not sure Gates ever had a "personality cult". In the 90s during his heyday he was pretty much reviled even by Windows users. He built his empire by swallowing everyone else around him that was doing anything even a little bit innovative. He wasn't really the "visionary artist/engineer" type like those others.
trafalgar225@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The company gave the companies a large amount of equity. That was the work of Sam Altman. The employees are voting their wallet my sticking up for him.
NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That was some classic business pressure tactics. The sort of thing a massive multinational corporation would have a lot of experience in. The sort of thing a massive multinational corporation suddenly blindsided by this with a lot of financial interest in the situation would be interested in doing…while at the same time mitigating risk by trying to pull those same employees into the parent company if things don’t go their way.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 9 months ago
Using a playbook isn’t clever, writing it was.