lechekaflan“The problem is Sam Altman”: OpenAI Insiders don’t trust CEO
IlixtzeNah the problem is the whole fucking tech industry. Anything the techbros touch it turns to shit.
WhatAmLemmyWait… You’re telling me an industry primarily built around exploitation and deception — offering free/cheap services to build a user base and attract vulture-capital investment, with the intention of performing a bait and switch and shifting to wealth extraction once that deceived user base are dependent on your product — is filled with greedy, sociopathic, parasites?
Trying to blame the whole grift on just one person is just another part of the grift. Altman deserves all that’s coming to him, but there are many more to investigate.
After Altman was fired in 2023 for steering the company in a too profit-seeking directions, 745 out of 770 employees of OpenAI threatened to quit unless he was reinstated. They truly have nobody to blame but themselves.
The two people quoted in the article haven’t been with OpenAI for at least 2½ years. Amodei left in 2021 to found Anthropic, so he’s a piece of shit, but Sutskever voted to fire Altman and quit OpenAI when he was reinstated, and he actually seems to have been struggling how to make things right ever since.
Almost as if the board tried to oust him for this
Scam Altman
jrs100000Im just sick of the marketing disguised as concern and doomsday warnings.
I dont know how many people here are old enough to remember, but there was a time when everyone knew that the Internet was going to be big, and they were pouring big money into it, but they couldnt quite say why it would be big, or what a normal non-nerd person might actually need/want the Internet for. So, they decided it was going to be recipes. People used to have cook books and boxes of notecards, old magazine clipping, etc with recipes, and having the right recipe was kind of a big deal, and the Internet was obviously an easy way to solve this problem. Everyone in the world could share the same giant cookbook, any time they wanted, just by paying a modest minutely fee to tie up their home phone line for 20 minutes.
The current AI pitch feels like that, except this time the line is that there might be an extinction level famine because everyone will forget how to cook once they see how great this cookbook is.
Greg ClarkeHey, I work in AI! Wait, actually that’s fair. As you were
I don’t even trust A1 steak sauce.
So he’s Theil’s first fall guy? Cool.