A consistent pattern of lying': trial exposes what insiders think of Sam Altman
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Nadella's "amateur city" testimony seems to be the best summary we'll get: A bunch of people with waaay to much money and power and no clue what they are doing. If this case shows anything, it's that the industry needs to be regulated heavily.
Like a vampire taking thousands of bites the vampire hides the bites by refusing to be accountable and biting just enough to be under the tolerance of the victim
Corporate “governance” is the biggest joke ever - this is middle school logic.
>The Altman document consisted of dozens of examples of his alleged lies and other toxic behavior, largely backed up by screenshots from Murati’s Slack channel. In one of them, Altman had told Murati that the company’s legal department had said that GPT-4 Turbo didn’t need to go through the joint safety board review. When Murati checked with the company’s top lawyer, he said he had not said that.
I guess you can fire someone for lying and toxic behaviour?
It seems to have come to a head a bit over board member Helen Toner criticizing OpenAI's approach to safety. Altman I think wanted her gone and she wanted him gone hence the battle. I guess the employees and investors figured they wanted to be rich and could put up with the lying and toxic behaviour.
The CEO can be drunk, liar, cheat, steal, and be incompetent only as long as the board thinks it is ok.
“In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he’s not around, but it makes it hard to have realistic schedules.”