alternative copy without a paywall: archive.ph/k6qbD
Mark my words, this was a hostile poaching operation by Microsoft. Like 65% convinced this was the case. We won’t know until 10 years have passed and some dumb emails end up in discovery on some unrelated lawsuit.
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
The allegations from his sister aside (not discrediting them, I’m just not well informed on that atm), it’s been really strange seeing so many comments cheering for Sam Altman and dunking on the openAI board (handpicked by Altman himself btw) for this whole farce. We have no info on what’s happening inside, just 3rd party hearsay and speculation.
Not only that, the guy who allegedly led Altman’s ousting, Ilya Sutskever, signed the employee resignation letter asking to reinstate Altman as CEO.
And somehow Microsoft ends up the biggest winner out of this entire situation. I don’t consider myself conspiracy minded…but what the hell is going on here?
AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s the same with Elon’s cult. People probably really believe that Sam is a genius and the one who made ChatGPT.
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 11 months ago
I was certainly a fan of early Elon. A serious push to address one of the causes of climate change, opening up some patents to allow other companies build charging networks, a disruptive can-do attitude that spurred Old Automobile to actually start innovating in response.
There were doubts, but I think the turning point for me was when he attacked the divers working to get the Thai kids out of the cave, just because they thought his submarine ideas sucked.
He’d been doubling down on being an arsehole increasingly since then. I absolutely would have considered buying a Tesla in the old days, now? Absolutely not.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is what I was thinking, my feed is now full of this guy. I knew him from Y combinator videos, smart guy and everything, but now terminally online stans will put him on their pedestal and simp for his AI genius - until of course all the shit his done reaches critical recognition, and the general sentiment will turn on him. Almost like we shouldn’t celebrate billionaire tech bros.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I doubt over 2/3 (around 600) of the employees under Musk would sign a letter demanding that the board resign over their firing of Musk, though. Seems most of the employees actually liked Altman.
Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Agreed. I do not know Sam, but I do know smart people who push the boundary of tech and they are all heads down deep into whatever and have little time for talk. Talk is cheap.
Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Who though? Any examples?
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Meh, it’s kind of a perverse dream that all engineers have to go toe to toe with the suits and win. Like an ex admitting that you’ve been right the whole time and begging you to come back but you are already fucking three of her smoking hot physicist friends.