OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired

Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by nmfisher on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @02:30AM (#38360490)

> Is a non-profit expected to exclusively help impoverished communities or something? What type of politicking and deception is involved in creating a for profit subsidiary which is granted license to OpenAIs research in order to generate wealth?

OpenAI was literally founded on the promise of keeping AGI out of the hands of “big tech companies”.

The first thing that Sam Altman did when he took over was give Microsoft the keys to the kingdom, and even more absurdly, he is now working for Microsoft on the same thing. That’s without even mentioning the creepy Worldcoin company.

Money and status are the clear motivations here, OpenAI charter be damned.

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Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by sumedh on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @05:11AM (#38361702)

> OpenAI was literally founded on the promise of keeping AGI out of the hands of “big tech companies”.

Where does it say that?

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Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by stavros on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @05:52AM (#38361980)

In their charter:

> We commit to use any influence we obtain over AGI’s deployment to ensure it is used for the benefit of all, and to avoid enabling uses of AI or AGI that harm humanity or unduly concentrate power.

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Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by nottheengineer on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @06:30AM (#38362253)

Right here: https://openai.com/charter

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Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by sumedh on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @06:47AM (#38362384)

Which line specifically says they will keep AGI out of the hands of “big tech companies”.

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Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by nmfisher on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @07:54AM (#38363016)

“Big tech companies” was in quotation marks because it’s a journalistic term, not a direct quotation from their charter.

But the intention was precisely that - just read the charter. Or if you want it directly from the founders, read this interview and count how many times they refer to Google https://medium.com/backchannel/how-elon-musk-and-y-combinato...

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Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by sumedh on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @08:58PM (#38373651)

Look at the date of that article, those ideas look good on paper but then reality kicks in and you have to spend lot of money on computing, who funds that, its the "Big tech companies".

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Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by hatenberg on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @07:10AM (#38362565)

I bet you could chatGPT to actually explain this to you, it's really not very hard

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Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by Applejinx on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @08:25AM (#38363295)

'unduly concentrate power'

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Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by LMYahooTFY on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @12:48PM (#38367121)

I don't know about the motivations, but the point seems valid.

I agree WorldCoin is creepy.

Is the corporate structure then working as intended with regard to firing Sam, but still failed because of the sellout to Microsoft?

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