that's the kind of statement you make as the shadow of the other shoe dropping above you begins to blot out the sun
@molly0xfff I keep thinking about those allegations his sister made. and being absolutely horrified.
@molly0xfff There's something so perfectly sublime in an AI development corporation CEO who lacks transparency.
@molly0xfff @lmorchard oh wow, the thieving eugenicist turns out to have been a bad person? Why whoever could have known.
@molly0xfff @lmorchard It'll be interesting to see "what he was not candid about". I don't have high hopes that it'll lead OpenAI's models in a less blatantly racist direction though (treating model bias like a band-aid to be applied instead of the foundational problem that it is).
@molly0xfff @lmorchard Seriously, "copyright shield". When you're so convinced that all your products violate myriad numbers of laws and steal from millions of people, that's when you offer a service like "copyright shield". That'd be a damning statement in a world where copyright served artists and writers, not just corporations.
@molly0xfff Oh I so hope someone is already going through leaked docs writing something about this.
@molly0xfff how long before we can expect "AI is Going Just Great"?
@molly0xfff Wile E Coyote has been hit with smaller anvils than that.
@molly0xfff are we placing bets on what sort of crimes there are?
@molly0xfff It does make one wonder if the issue is the Annie Altman abuse accusations being proven, or if they decided to check on his financial statements regarding the company in the wake of Sam-Bankman Freid and found them littered with "ChatGPT can not do your financial statements accurately for you, however here are some financial statements that would fit in a Quickbooks format." disclaimers.
@molly0xfff your prose is always a treat
@molly0xfff Reading that statement again and again, was it written by ChatGPT? Has the board been replaced by ChatGPT? Has it started?! 🤣
@molly0xfff guess the allegations from his sister blew up his spot

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Maybe he proved Ed Zitron's point that ChattyGPT can replace most CEOs and board member so he just had to go?

@molly0xfff As you’d say “AI is going GREAT!”

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The hypothesis that I am leaning towards is that he and the board disagreed about getting bought by MS.

The president and chairman of the board of OpenAI also left the board, but is still president.

@molly0xfff @EFreethought Yeah that’s what I thought. That’s a “the shareholders are pissed off” statement. Pissed off that an approach had been made to SA and not been relayed to them, the reps of the shareholders.
OpenAI President Greg Brockman quits as shocked employees hold all-hands meeting – Ars Technica

@molly0xfff Reckon he will be replaced by AI ? 😛

Those cyberpunk stories where an AI became the CEO and uses humans as puppets.

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>not consistently candid

interesting, what is behind this legalese

@molly0xfff What the hell did Sam Altman do to get canned from his own company, one of the most amazing corporate success stories in recent memory? It must have been bad.
@molly0xfff "I wasn't lying, I was hallucinating" repeated Sam while being escorted out of the building.
@molly0xfff I just find it so odd that he actually went so far that they got rid of him.
@molly0xfff Something MAJOR happened, for sure. The chair of the board just resigned, too.
@molly0xfff can’t wait for PG to write an “innocent before proven guilty” post just before this blows wide open
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Translation: not only did he do something BAD, but then he lied to the board about it.

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A lot of what was said about Altman, according to this article, sounds verrrrry similar to what was said about SBF (substitute "AI" for "crypto" where appropriate):

• "Altman became one of the world’s most visible tech executives and a sought-after expert"

• "Altman has been regarded as the leading voice in the AI field"

• "Altman has long been viewed as a Silicon Valley wunderkind"

• "He has been called [...] the 'Oppenheimer of our age'"

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/17/openai-ceo-sam-altman-fired

OpenAI fires co-founder and CEO Sam Altman for allegedly lying to company board

AI firm’s board said Altman was ‘not consistently candid in his communications with the board’

The Guardian

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Oppenheimer of our age? 😱😂

@wa7iut @funcrunch @molly0xfff he is certainly destroyer of worlds in some manner

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How bad do have to lie for a Silicon Valley board to not trust you, when you are a rich guy?

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My guess is he either stole their money or it's something like cannibal-level outrageous.