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3 senior OpenAI researchers resign in the wake of Sam Altman's shock dismissal as CEO, report says (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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3 senior OpenAI researchers resign in the wake of Sam Altman's shock dismissal as CEO, report says::Jakub Pachocki, Aleksander Madry, and Szymon Sidor told associates at OpenAI that they had quit, The Information reported.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

All kinds of conspiracy theories are running through my head in light of further departures.

  1. Board has asked Altman to do something shady, he said he'd do it but really he didn't and they've got pissed firing him. Folks who were viewed as his "clique" naturally got worried and left before their names get tarnished.
  2. Altman and a group of supporters were up to no good, board got a whiff of it and fired him, and everyone involved saw the writing on the wall and resigned
  3. Board was shaping things up for acquisition, Altman opposed and was shown the door. Folks close enough to him understood the consequence and quit with their resumes clean of what's to come. ...

so many things will remain unknown for the nearest future it's hard to tell who's lying about what.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

form Ars

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/11/openai-president-greg-brockman-quits-as-nervous-employees-hold-all-hands-meeting/

According to reporting from Kara Swisher and The Information, it's looking like the ouster of Altman stemmed from an internal disagreement over the direction of the company with regard to a focus on profits over safety... wasn't too far off

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I posted up some more detail from a purported insider on [email protected]. It seems like Ilya Sutskever and others on the engineering side who led the efforts to get him out.