He must have lied about something BIG for the board to pull the trigger so soon after their dev day. Crazy news.
“not consistently candid” is an interesting way to put it… sounds like they’re talking about a trend…
“Look, I’m telling you that someone is definitely sneaking in at night and fucking the ChatGPT server and I’m positive it’s Sam!”
“Nuh uh! That’s crazy! You’re stupid! Who could possibly see that… *panting heavily* … fine piece of machinery and consider a future filled with little ChatGPT babies after one accidental time when I forgot to pull out. IT LOVES ME!!! OPENAI CAN FEEL LOVE AND IT FEELS IT FOR ME!!! YOU’LL NEVER SEPARATE US!”
From the article, quoting statement from the company:
“Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” the company said in its blog post. “The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.”
Then you have this at the very end:
OpenAI was founded as a non-profit in 2015 with the core mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. In 2019, OpenAI restructured to ensure that the company could raise capital in pursuit of this mission, while preserving the nonprofit’s mission, governance, and oversight. The majority of the board is independent, and the independent directors do not hold equity in OpenAI. While the company has experienced dramatic growth, it remains the fundamental governance responsibility of the board to advance OpenAI’s mission and preserve the principles of its Charter.
Then you have this in Greg’s resignation on Twitter:
i continue to believe in the mission of creating safe AGI that benefits all of humanity.
My money is on this being related to the way OpenAI suddenly became ‘ClosedAI’ with GPT-4 under the chain of it being about safety which ended up very profitable for them but has hampered global research and advancement on LLMs. Especially as they are now working on GPT-5.
The “not consistently candid” may have been him claiming such closed measures were temporary or limited but then continued to double down on them.
But it’s pretty clear the board sees the responsibilities he was interfering with as their core mission given the way they ended the announcement.
Cue the sexual harassment suit…
This is best summary/article I’ve seen on the situation. Honestly, I don’t know what to make of it all.
Dying to know what happened 👁️👁️
That guy is the face of the company in my mind. It seems insane to fire him.
Well they wouldn’t want their face to be accused of sexual assault. It would look bad.
