OpenAI announces leadership transition

Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition by jstummbillig on Friday November 17, 2023 @05:00PM (#38311083)

I don't think this checks out, as most of the ideas around here involving him hiding OpenAI internals from the board don't, for this reason: How could he, given who is on the board?

There is no way that sama is the only person in this set of people to have unique information on critical privacy incidents or financials or costs of server operations, because these issues don't originate with him.

If some version of this turned out to be true, I would be seriously confused about ground truth transparency in the company and how the fuck they set the whole thing up, that this was an option. But again, this is why I'd say: Implausible.

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Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition by ehsankia on Friday November 17, 2023 @05:24PM (#38311337)

Hmm, I don't see which part of the theory requires the board to not have known. It just may have taken them a week to decide who's head to cut for the mess

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Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition by adastra22 on Friday November 17, 2023 @05:34PM (#38311478)

The part where the board said that as justification for firing Sam.

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Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition by otteromkram on Friday November 17, 2023 @05:29PM (#38311402)

Executive boards aren't involved in day-to-day management like CEOs and other executives. They meet periodically and review updated information. So, yes, Altman would have access to more information than the board.

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Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition by adastra22 on Friday November 17, 2023 @05:34PM (#38311484)

This board includes some C-level officers of the company.

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Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition by occamsrazorwit on Saturday November 18, 2023 @04:18PM (#38324562)

If you haven't seen the news update, that's apparently what happened. The Chief Scientist pushed out the other two C-levels, accusing them of hiding stuff from the rest of the board. The board took his side.

Altman and Brockman have yet to share their side of the story.

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Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition by frabcus on Friday November 17, 2023 @05:39PM (#38311542)

One of them is the Chief Scientist of OpenAI as well.

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Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition by occamsrazorwit on Friday November 17, 2023 @06:47PM (#38312422)

Don't they only have to hide the truth from one person? Altman and Brockman were ousted. The only other person on the board from OpenAI is the Chief Scientist, and I doubt he's that involved in the business-end of things.

Edit: Also, yes, it's hard to sweep things under the rug. We don't know the timeline of events, and we're seeing an instance where Altman failed to hide something.

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