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Well, that didn't take long lmao

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[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This certainly looks like both venture and established capital saying that while it was fun pretending to take EA concerns about AI seriously, it's time to move on.

Also the increasing number of anti-EA effortposts that started cropping up in the OpenAI subreddit over the last few days is deilghtful.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 16 points 1 year ago

Meet the new boss

Same as the old boss

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 12 points 1 year ago

I cannot believe they kept the Quora guy.

[–] Shitgenstein1@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They should update their structure page and strike stuff like this:

The for-profit would be legally bound to pursue the Nonprofit’s mission, and carry out that mission by engaging in research, development, commercialization and other core operations. Throughout, OpenAI’s guiding principles of safety and broad benefit would be central to its approach.

And maybe a good ol' IRS audit to boot. From this vantage, it looks like a structural coop.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

They need to run it through Chat-GPT and apparently their account is overdrawn...

[–] rubythulhu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago

i’d be more impressed if he was coming back with a new beard tbh

[–] Oisteink@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I’m not sure about if this is good or bad - we have very little info on why he was ousted in the first place.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 13 points 1 year ago

"good or bad"? there is no good here. good would be when openai finally closes down. anything else is still just a shitty option from many shitty options.

[–] zogwarg@awful.systems 11 points 1 year ago

Either way it's a circus of incompetence.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

See the tagline

E: apparently Larry Summers is the 'women are worse than man at high end math' guy.

E2: It gets worse

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It certainly looks like more of the same. Maybe the negative publicity on EA is a silver lining.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah, there likely wouldn’t be much of a difference in badness if Altman went to MS vs. getting rehired at OAI. EA owns are at least a decent dopamine factory

[–] Gamers_Mate@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Anyone else thought they got a 404 error?