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OpenAI brings Sam Altman back as CEO less than a week after he was fired by board (ground.news)

submitted 9 months ago by jayandp to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (3 children)

So many people here are eager to determine who the money-grubbers are, but here I am just curious what the material disagreement actually is, and how MSFT fits into it.

Seems to me like the board of directors and leadership are mostly aligned on the underlying goals, but disagree on how to approach achieving them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

They're all money grubbers. The board are part of a rationalist cult called Effective Altruism that claims to want to save humanity, but they believe they need lots of money to do this (Sam Bankman-fried is an EA guy.)

Sam Altman is also nominally part of this group, but also hangs out with people like musk and Rishi Sunak. He's more like your typical alt-right tech bro.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I'm guessing Microsoft fits in basically having seen an opportunity and swept in. I doubt they have any "angle" in this other than "oh shit big name tech guy just lost his job and he's skilled in stuff we want to be skilled in? grab him now"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I've been really surprised that the blanket promise to pay the legal bills of folks who may or may not be operating under fair use has not been a bigger part of this conversation. Particularly as this new line of user customized gpt products already includes PAYING the people who build these sometimes illegal products. The money incinerator continues.