Clive ThompsonThis OpenAI news is pretty wild
https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Thomas Vander Wal@clive The big question I’ve had is how, knowing how they built their massive trove of source material for OpenAI’s LLM and not with permission could they (and Microsoft prior) claim to back any lawsuit against it around claims of copyright infringement or IP infringements. That is a goods way to lose and insane amount of money.
Yep, the VC world in AI has openly admitted that should they been required to pay for access to all those training materials, they can't afford to do what they're doing -- at least not at the scale they're doing it
But I doubt that's what he's getting deposed over -- those risks had been well-known for a while, affect all other makers of LLMs, and it isn't clear the copyright case will be strong enough to win in court ...
I could be wrong, but I suspect the issue is elsewhere
@clive Reading the OpenAI announcement again and seeing Greg Brockman removed as chairman and off the board completely, but still president reporting to the CEO.
The other thing that jumped out is how internal the board is. Most are from OpenAI and it is a small board. Not sure if the full board wasn’t listed.
Yeah, I noticed both those two things also -- very interesting
sladner@clive @vanderwal so it smells like lying about the data then, and not the usual harassment or sexual misconduct.
I guess it certainly *could* be one of those, too!
I've genuinely no solid read on this
@clive @vanderwal I am hoping we will get more details