Re:Sam Altman, OpenAI board open talks to negotiate his poss...
by paulddraper on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @08:18PM
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> Maybe it's not defensible.
At this point, that's the 95% conclusion.
If you were in this position and had even a sliver of defensibility to play, you would have already played it.
Because the longer this goes, the more sharks circle and the less likely OpenAI's survival becomes.
(UNLESS you thought you f---ed up and wanted Altman back so you want to be nice to him. But if you wanted that, you wouldn't have hired Shear as interim CEO to replace your previous interim CEO.)
Re:Sam Altman, OpenAI board open talks to negotiate his poss...
by squigglydonut on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @10:04PM
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My first thought was that it's not defensible because it's a desired outcome and this route avoids either negative press or another consequence of him leaving of his own volition.
Or maybe it involves a deal that they're stuck with, and now dependent upon, even if the terms aren't aligned well with the non-profit. Saying that could be awkward.
What I can't guess at explanations for is publicly stating the not-consistently-candid in the initial announcement. I'm not expert on these things, but that sounds to me like either a euphemism for something that they needed to be seen as explicitly distancing the company from ASAP or a blunder that a lawyer or PR person would've advised them not to do, and which they didn't need to do.