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[–] makyo 68 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I hate everything about this: the lack of transparency, the lack of communication, the chaotic back and forth. We don’t know now if the company is now in a better position or worse.

I know it leaves me feeling pretty sick and untrusting about it considering the importance and potential disruptiveness (perhaps extreme) of AI in the coming years.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Same here. I like Sam Altman but if the board removed him for a good reason and he was reinstated because the employees want payouts, humanity could be in big trouble.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Given the rumors he was fired based on undisclosed usage of some foreign data scraping company's data, it ain't looking good.

Now that there's big money involved, screw ethics. We don't care how the training data was acquired.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Now that there's big money involved, screw ethics. We don't care how the training data was acquired.

I dont care about ethics here, if the money would be excluded as well.

IF they would live up to their goals they settled for its fine.

But its similar to google, back in the days, with "dont be evil".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can I find out more about these rumors somewhere?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've tried to find it but I can't seem to find it. There's been a thread on Lemmy somewhere about it that linked to a thread on Blind where someone claiming to be working at OpenAI having heard that from the board.

But, it's ultimately just rumors, we don't know for sure. But it was at least pretty plausible and what I would expect the board of a very successful AI company to fire the CEO for, since the company is obviously doing really well right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

What? Rumors work by people discussing them.

I didn't ask for proof.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually like the chaoticness, because I don't like having one small group of people as the self-appointed and de-facto gatekeepers of AI for everyone else. This makes it clear to everyone why it's important to control your own AI resources.

[–] makyo 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm with you there, I just hope the general public come to that realization.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just like it did with climate change?

[–] makyo 1 points 1 year ago