tanteNov 22, 2023

Sam Altman is back as OpenAI CEO with a new board.

And of course the new board was hand picked to no longer restrict Altman so he can run OpenAI as a business as he sees fit (until he jumps to one of his own things he's been preparing for months now).

The interesting aspect of this: The new board no longer has any women, the 2 women on the old board were replaced by Larry Summers who's known to think that women just have less "intrinsic aptitude" for "science and engineering". So Yeah. Says a lot about what OpenAI considers important.

Show threadleah & tigers & bears, oh my!

re LB: wait, what? the entire board was dismissed and replaced with Summers toadies, to reinstate as CEO someone who literally two days ago was accepting a job with a competitor... and that is somehow perfectly legal?

America, your corporate governance laws don't look well; maybe you should call them an ambulance

Nov 22, 2023 at 11:47amWeb
Show threadLatte macchiato  Nov 22, 2023
@thamesynne OpenAI is just a Microsoft puppet allowing them to claim they're such a nice nonprofit anyway, not like it really matters under whose flag he actually works
Same shit ​​
Show threadStephen CzettyNov 22, 2023
@thamesynne We don't call ambulances here in the states; it's too expensive. Our laws will have to drive themselves to the hospital and hope it doesn't bankrupt them.
Show threadcultdevNov 22, 2023
@stephenczetty @thamesynne pitch perfect
Show threadJohannes HentschelNov 22, 2023
@thamesynne As the owner of OpenAI, Microsoft doesn't really qualify as competitor, does it?
Show threadleah & tigers & bears, oh my!Nov 22, 2023
@johentsch i edited to reflect that. does your instance / client not keep up with edits? (some clients, older versions of Mastodon, and some other ActivityPub implementations don't)
Show threadJohannes HentschelNov 22, 2023
@thamesynne Apparently not  sorry!
Show threadleah & tigers & bears, oh my!Nov 22, 2023
@johentsch no worries!