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Really weird phrasing in this tweet. The idea is that Altman and/or a bunch of employees were demanding the board reinstate Altman and then resign. And they’re calling it a “truce.” Oh, and there’s a deadline (5 pm), but since it’s already passed the board merely has to “reach” this “truce” “ASAP.”

Edit: an update to the verge article sheds some more light, but I still consider it very sus since it’s coming from the Altman camp and seems engineered to exert maximal pressure on the board. And the supposed deadline has passed and we haven’t heard any resignations announced

> Update, 5:35PM PT: A source close to Altman says the board had agreed in principle to resign and to allow Altman and Brockman to return, but has since waffled — missing a key 5PM PT deadline by which many OpenAI staffers were set to resign. If Altman decides to leave and start a new company, those staffers would assuredly go with him.

>>medler+(OP)
"Missing a key 5PM PT deadline by which many OpenAI staffers were set to resign."

Says who? And did they resign?

>>Animat+B4
one thing that I am curious about: aren't there non-competes in place here? and even without them, you just cannot start your own thing that just replicates what your previous employer does - this has lawsuit written all over it.

>>x86x87+db
It's California. Non-competes are void. It is one of the few states where non-competes are not legally enforceable.

>>x86x87+db
Nah this is California, that won’t work

>>x86x87+db
It'll be tough going with no Azure compute contracts, no GPUs, no billions from Microsoft, no training data, OpenAI capturing all of the value from user-generated content resulted in sites like Reddit and Twitter significantly raising the cost to scrape them.

>>sangno+oi
The same thing got said about Elon Musk and Twitter, and yet X is still somehow alive.

>>dabock+Lo
No nothing similar at all was said about that. Sam Altman is also not Elon Musk

>>edgyqu+0t
Yeah, Sam will not turn 40billion into 0 billion

>>dabock+Lo
Elon had a massive preexisting AI-compute capacity from Tesla and ann enormous training set from X. That’s very different.

>>medler+(OP)
Maybe they used the old Soviet Russia trick / good old KGB methods to seek out those who supported Altman. Now the board has a list of his backers - and they will slowly fire them one by one later. "Give me the man and I will give you the case against him".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_me_the_man_and_I_will_g...