Altman is “ambivalent” and wants governance changes.
  • burliman@lemm.eeEnglish
    892·
    1 year ago

    Okay so you fired someone, then decided later to bring them back. This means whatever guideline you use to fire people is floppy or petulant, you caved to public backlash, or the firing guidelines are clear but the information you took grave actions upon was bad (was unreliable and/or unverified).

    Anyway, none of those things are good markers of leadership.

    Edit: Forgot another reason for recanting a firing: your boss told you that you don’t have the authority. Nothing takes away your leadership teeth like that…

    • slaacaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      It was a board coup, led by the chief scientist over disagreement on monetization / speed of deployment. Minority investor Microsoft was super angry after they heard, probably put the pressure on them.

      • redcalcium@lemmy.instituteEnglish
        18·
        1 year ago

        What many people seems to forgot is OpenAI began as a non-profit organization to advance AI in a manner that don’t dangerously disrupt the society, and many scientists join them because they strongly relate to those early ideals.

        • knotthatone@lemmy.oneEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          This smells like an ethics fight. Altman has been chasing monetization and releasing commercial products in a way the board doesn’t feel is ethical or in line with their charter.

          Microsoft would very much like to continue commercializing this and they’re either going to neuter this board or take their ball and make their own ChatGPT with blackjack and hookers.

    • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      152·
      1 year ago

      your boss told you that you don’t have the authority

      Like when Michael tried to fire Kitty.

    • mr_tyler_durden@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      How is it that all these comments miss the fact that there are zero leaks from the board (even anonymously) that this is the case? This is so clearly a move by Altman and his supporters to chum the waters and make the board look incompetent (when there is no evidence to corroborate it). “People in the know” is what you say when you can’t be more specific and could literally be any from my Altman himself to disgruntled employees. You can bet your bottom dollar if they had a real line into the board you’d give something much less wishy-washy.

      Stop reading headlines as facts people.

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldEnglish
      112·
      1 year ago

      Called it lol. This could be one of the greatest marketing coups of all time. Its all about the guerrilla marketing, ads are useless, everyones drowning in data and information, cha ching cha ching. Said the same thing about OnlyFans. Give people a show and they’ll shower you back with their own gives

      • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        I dunno, it makes them look incompetent at running themselves. If I were an investor, I wouldn’t want anything to do with them after that, nor if I were a potential or current customer.

        But as I just finished saying to someone else, humans don’t really make the most sensible decisions so it might work anyway

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I guess it might have helped if they gave clearer details on the firing

      No one knows how to feel because they didn’t explain what was up

  • Ulvain@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    43·
    1 year ago

    So, folks, who can take over as CEO?

    Well theres… (Looks at list of top people who immediately quit after the announcement) … Aah shit.

  • tinkeringidiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    This is how you say “wait, shit, we fucked up” in Board of Directors.

    Be interesting to see how many of them still have seats by Christmas.

  • sviper@programming.devEnglish
    361·
    1 year ago

    Makes me remember how greeks made a rule to give capital punishment only after sleeping over the decision.

  • livus@kbin.social
    19·
    1 year ago

    Well the two people who quit in solidarity must be feeling pretty cool right about now.

  • eestileib@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    We need Armando Ianucci (The Thick of it, In the Loop, The Death of Stalin) to get the film rights to this when the dust settles. Holy shit what an opportunity to skewer high tech idiots and business idiocy in general.

  • Tygr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    161·
    1 year ago

    They got a look at how many were quitting on Monday and realized their whole company was screwed. This is how Sam will wipe out the board of directors, possibly with ownership percentage?

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    151·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The OpenAI board is in discussions with Sam Altman to return to CEO, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

    One of them said Altman, who was suddenly fired by the board on Friday, is “ambivalent” about coming back and would want significant governance changes.

    Developing…

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