I will always default to believing reports of abuse from silicon valley snake oil salesmen. It feels like wanting to lead a cult is essentially a requirement to run in those circles.
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Yeah, but come on, think about the value he's creating for stakeholders. Bet you didn't about that!
This reads as the same shit that was outed during the hullabaloo when Altman was fired, and even then, at the height of the controversy, everyone around him shot it down. Take anything she says with a grain of salt. She’s been critical of the company for a while, tried to stage a coup for the company, and got judo-couped when Altman came back and she got fired. I don’t want to appear dismissive of her or whatever problems she allegedly has faced, but so far she has yet to put forth compelling evidence, and is just beating on the same drum repeatedly. Coincidentally, she is returning to the forefront as the recent drama around the Scarlett Johansson voice model is cooling off, which comes across like an attack to keep pressure on the company, rather than anything with validity, especially when, as I’ve said, she isn’t offering anything new, just the same attacks that failed before.
Wow, another jerk CEO? I thought they were such nice people! We need to stop rewarding a-holes in society.
So am I hallucinating that a few months ago when he was removed the Internet loved him? I feel like that consensus turned quick.
Also, he reminds me of one of my favorite lines from MST3K: ‘Sorry about your face’
Ed Zitron has suggested that Altman is good at wooing VC capital and developing a cult of personality, but not particularly good at showing returns or even at staying focused on a task. I can easily believe that if you're not the sort to fall in line with the corporate religion he'd promoted, that you'd find yourself being ostracized and subjected to abuse.
My suspicion/understanding of what went down is that the board wanted him out for funneling money to undisclosed side projects and failing to deliver on more central priorities, and then his personality cult revolted. Things may be turning against him internally, though, especially if successive iterations of their core product don't live up to Altman's techno-messianic predictions of its capabilities and/or financials sag to the point that having a job there ceases to guarantee entry into the Bay Area's financial upper crust.
He has always been an asshole with an ego to match Musk.
The thing is that when all this went down, there was speculation that he was fired by corporate drones wanting to make Line Go Up, because a large percentage of the company's employees signed a letter demanding he return.
It depends on the crowd - the AI worshippers have and will always love him. Most people don't know who he is though so with a story like this you're getting a wider portion of folks responding.
I remember it differently. Employees of OpenAI threatened to quit if he was not reinstated.
That seemed odd (at least to me) given the other news about him, but I just accepted that maybe I was wrong.
Now I'm wondering how he got them to do that, did he promise that he will make them all rich or something?
And so they hired him back because... Oh wait I know this one. Fuck the employees, line must go up