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So long Mira Murati. That's the second CEO OpenAI has ousted in one week. https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transiti...

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Her move makes even less sense than what the board did. The board told her the day before that they're firing Sam, so she obviously accepted it. But, one day later she caves and sides with Sam (that's what the heart tweet means)? That's weak leadership and resolve.

They might've just told her that she's now CEO without her actual approval.

Who sends heart emojis to their boss? Is this level of sycophancy normal nowadays?

Apparently, OpenAI President Greg Brockman doesn't use uppercase letters in his official communications with employees. So I'm not surprised.

yeah... as more folks join the no-uppercase wave, it makes me consider using capitals again. but, its just a lot more of an expressive way to talk to another human in a text based format.

There was a weird coordinated show of support for Altman by a lot of his employees, quote tweeting "i love the openai team so much"

I also found it weird and cultish. I guess it's not so different than signing a birthday card going around the office tho. "Sorry you got fired, see you at the next burning man"

Seems pretty reasonable she would accept it at first while she was still figuring out what's going on.

Like the board presumably called her and said, "hey Sam is out, you're the CEO for now, more details to come"

And then in the next 48 hours she had a chance to talk to Sam and others and realize that she was on his side.

And even if she did have the full context, she was going to be able to do more as CEO than as not-CEO.

> the board presumably called her and said, "hey Sam is out, you're the CEO for now, more details to come"

I wouldn’t take over as CEO or interim-CEO unless I knew why the previous CEO was fired and was OK with the process and reasoning.

Quite the contrary, that’s strong leadership having the courage to do so under those extreme circumstances.

> But, one day later she caves and sides with Sam (that's what the heart tweet means)

The amount of weight people here give to an _emoji_ on this site... Rampant, unnecessary, baseless speculation in every comment thread bout Altman.

Just wait til monday next time. These ultra wealthy over-privileged Worldcoin fucks are not worth this much attention.

Well if she talked to Sam and he showed her hypothetical 5 Billion in commitment and offered 1% in "SamAI" ...

Thank god they went with Emmett over Murati.

Why?

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