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Purely outside perspective, but people’ve been complaining for quite a while that OpenAI seems to have bailed on their original mission. Sure looks like Altman was capitalism’ing the whole thing—maybe not on purpose, but because it’s just the only way he knows to operate—and had kinda half-sold it to Microsoft, which sure is corroborated by folks posting on here expecting MS to now be in a position to forcibly override the nonprofit board’s decisions, and by rumors that in fact that’s what’s going on.

Looks like they were right to boot him, but may have done it way too late, having already de facto lost control due to the direction he’d guided the organization. If he comes out on top, it’ll mean the original OpenAI and its mission is dead, looks like to me, and the board was already cut out months ago but didn’t realize it yet.

>>hotnfr+(OP)
OpenAI was ideologically dead when when they sold it to MS imo

>>bossyT+v9
Can we use more precise language please

>>hotnfr+(OP)
Yeah it's interesting to me how many here on HN seem to be taking Sam's side -- I feel like I've noticed HN users in OpenAI threads mentioning how dishonest Sam is.

Sam seems to have a "move fast and break things" approach which would be appropriate for a less critical industry