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0 pointsJensson2y ago0 comments

The two reasons:

> Sustkever is said to have offered two explanations he purportedly received from the board, according to one of the people familiar. One explanation was that Altman was said to have given two people at OpenAI the same project.

> The other was that Altman allegedly gave two board members different opinions about a member of personnel. An OpenAI spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment.

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fullshark2y ago· 2 in thread

Isn't Sustkever on the board? Why is this phrased like he isn't and is just delivering a message?

bhouston2y ago

In this situation the most powerful people on the board should have been Altman, Brockman and Sutskever. The others were sort of nice to haves who were there just to fill it out. For them to run this coup is just insane. There has to be more to it. Someone has to be pulling the strings with a plan.

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awb2y ago

It doesn't seem to reconcile well with the earlier paragraph:

> chief scientist and co-founder Sutskever, who helped vote Altman out and did the actual firing of him over Google Meet

If you're voting and doing the firing, you should know the reason.

bhouston2y ago· 1 in thread

You are a hero! I couldn’t access the article.

Weirdly both of these do not seem to be fireable offences. Maybe the second if it was related to a personnel issue that maybe he had a conflict of interest with?

JenssonOP2y ago

I posted it since that was hidden very deep in the article, it is annoying to find information among all that padding.

> Weirdly both of these do not seem to be fireable offences

Yeah I agree that doesn't seem egregious enough to warrant firing him on the spot. I can see why most of the company takes Altmans side here.

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klyrs2y ago

You've gotta keep in mind, the responses to prompts like this depend a lot on the temperature the model is being sampled under, precise phrasing of the prompt, and random chance. He was fired for being a stochastic parrot, or Sustkever hallucinated one or both stories, or maybe both. We'll never really know unless a certified prompt engineer takes charge of the inquest.

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