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Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by throwaway4aday on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @08:36AM (#38363401)
The more likely explanation is that D'Angelo has a massive conflict of interest with him being CEO of Quora, a business rapidly being replaced by ChatGPT and which has a competing product "creator monetization with Poe" (catchy name, I know) that just got nuked by OpenAI's GPTs announcement at dev day.

https://quorablog.quora.com/Introducing-creator-monetization...

https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/31/quoras-poe-introduces-an-a...

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Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by curiousllama on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @09:05AM (#38363739)
A (potential, unstated) motivation for one board member doesn't explain the full moves of the board, though.

Maybe it's a factor, but it's insufficient

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