Jack HardcastleNov 22, 2023
tante

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.

Nov 22, 2023 at 9:34amWeb
Show threadC.Suthorn Nov 22, 2023

@tante

Wenn ChatGPT ein Mensch wäre, würde ChatGPT in vorauseilendem Gehorsam männlichere Antworten geben. Glücklicherweise ist ChatGPT ein LLM und hat keine Vorurteile und keinen Bias.

Show threadFlyingManaNov 22, 2023
@Life_is vorauseilender gehorsam wäre eine Entscheidung.
Vorurteile und Bias ergeben sich aber aus dem was einem beigebracht wird.
ein LLM wird es also eher constant erhalten, verstärken und aktiv helfen zu verschleiern.
Show threadSteffen ChristensenNov 22, 2023
@tante Holy f*ck.
I expected that the money would carry the day, and I sort of expected a coup would result from this because disaster capitalism, but this is even worse than I expected overall.
Show threadBeeksNov 22, 2023
@Wikisteff @tante psst, you can type out the word fuck here, we won't tell on you. 😜
Show threadtanteNov 22, 2023
@Beeks @Wikisteff We will tell, but only to the fediverse authorities that give you some special price after reaching one million fucks.
Show threadDarwin WoodkaNov 22, 2023
@tante @Beeks @Wikisteff Actually you get more fucks so you'll have more to give
Show threadideaPDishNov 22, 2023
@darwinwoodka @tante @Beeks @Wikisteff
I’m all outta fucks..... fuck
Show threadtomgrau 👨‍💻Nov 22, 2023
@tante what are the things Sam has been preparing you are referring to?
Show threadCuriousCutie23Nov 22, 2023
@tante damn, I wish more responsibel and common good oriented AI companies.❤️
Show threadAndrew DaviesNov 22, 2023
@tante Who picked the new board? I've read a couple articles and it's not clear to me.
Show threadleah & tigers & bears, oh my!Nov 22, 2023

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

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!
Show threadarclightNov 22, 2023
@tante Larry Fucking Summers - just when I thought this I'd seen everything this circus of stupid had to offer...
Show threadDawn Adill PickleNov 22, 2023
@arclight @tante he is the absolute worst entitled old white guy misogynist ever with an ego ten times the size of his tiny man brain…..aaaaargh!
Show threadLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Nov 22, 2023
@tante feeling like the women who wanted to do something about Sam were on the side of Humanity here.😔
Show threadGrayGooGlitch Nov 22, 2023
@tante
I would assume that along with the lack of women, there is a lack of people of color. We know LLMs have a tendency to be sexist and racist. Fucking disgusting.
Show threadPēteris KrišjānisNov 22, 2023
@tante I don't care about this scam in general. After all, such corpo scams are plenty.
What I still find how media falls for this so frequently.
OpenAI and Microsoft AI play thing will be memory of the past in one year. Everyone knows it, but it gives this pocket to unload MS shares to unsuspecting pension fonds and etc.
Show threadTaya NielsenNov 22, 2023
@tante 🤬🤬🤢🤢🤬🤬🤢🤢
Show threadCh M[ae][iy]e?r 🇪🇺 🤍 🇬🇱Nov 22, 2023

@tante it's called bias. 🤔 Bad training data leads to "learning" wrong things.
It's simply random FakeNews and AI is perfect in generating Bullshit.

On the other hand it's really good news.
So evolution of AI's recursion will lead to it's extinction. 🤷

Show threadRudi MentorNov 22, 2023
@tante there were 2 woman on the old board: Helen Toner & Tasha McCauley
Show threadtanteNov 22, 2023
@rudimentor I forgot Mrs. McCauley. Thanks, I corrected my post.
Show threadANov 22, 2023
@tante conspiracy theorists will say a sentient chatgpt is making all the choices and calling at the shots.
Show threadDavidNov 22, 2023
Is there much difference between an ai overlord and a billionaire with a cabal of profiteers operating in a system they built themselves?
Show threadYegor WienskiNov 23, 2023

@drdrowland that AI doesn't sleep is at least 12.5% difference if I calculate correctly, which can be quite substantial

but you have a good point

Show threadDavidNov 23, 2023
So hire 12.5% more people problem solved
Show threadJaime HerazoNov 22, 2023

@tante

That's this guy Cory Doctorow mentioned some days ago: https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/20/bloodletting/#inflated-ego

Pluralistic: Larry Summers’ inflation scare-talk incinerated climate action (20 Nov 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Show threadOscarNov 22, 2023
@tante It is pretty unsettling to think AI development and all the good it could indeed produce is in the hands of a bunch of moody, juvenile, cultish techno utopian libertarian bros that post emojis on X to communicate, chant "feel the AGI", believe they are creating "God" and naively think that if they actually achieve it, such an entity would serve their commercial interests. 😬
Show threadElenaNov 22, 2023
@tante clearly more dicks on the board are a priority.
Show threadDarwin WoodkaNov 22, 2023
@tante fuck Larry Summers and OpenAi.
Show threadcafkafkNov 22, 2023
@tante genuinely fuck larry summers
Show threadR. L. Dane  Nov 22, 2023

@tante

#Crapification

Show threadMattNov 22, 2023
@tante Larry Summers is a signal that this company is for the benefit of the usual suspects
Show threaddraNgNonNov 22, 2023
@tante I read https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/22/sam-altmans-back-heres-whos-on-the-new-openai-board-and-whos-out.html and then popped onto Fedi to say the same thing and here it is already in my timeline, so boosting instead
Show threadJakeQuokkaMCMNov 22, 2023
@tante all this turmoil hides the sad fact that this so called AI does not create anything new it simply shuffles and rearranges existing data in a clever way.
Show threadRobert J. BergerNov 22, 2023
@tante
Show threadMichiel BontenbalNov 22, 2023
@tante tech bros will be tech bros.
Show threadAnn HNov 22, 2023
@tante @bigbro Women who perpetuate patriarchal capitalism or neoliberal techofetishes are not progress. It ain’t about the genitals, change is what matters. P.S. Summers still sucks.
Show threadJeffy 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 ❤️🇱🇺Nov 24, 2023
@tante So it's BROpenAI now. Just what AI needs, less diversity, more greed.