Given that the allegations predate the firing, and the fact that other senior members are resigning (the President/co-founder and other senior researchers) I actually doubt that it's 100% due to the allegations, and probably something banal/business-related. Could be personal fraud or impressions of fraud, but if the people who actually know why the board fired Altman are also ducking out, I doubt they'd have such open solidarity over sex offenses.

[–] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 37 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Oops it was another hype bubble, time to go to the next multi-billion dollar pit of unrealizable investment"

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 19 points 11 months ago

it's growth TM

[–] Dickey_Butts@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My guess was that he approved training their ai on a bunch of copyrighted material and they're staring down the barrel of a lawsuit. Well before i heard about this anyway.

[–] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

No. It's not related to that ongoing lawsuit (which OpenAI believes it can win). OpenAI's business model is relying on webscraped datasets, so it would be silly to fire Altman for doing what the sector has been doing for the last decade.

Also, it sounds like this is getting reversed, and in fact the OpenAI board might actually get purged instead due to pressure from Microsoft and other OpenAI senior figures: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/23967199/breaking-openai-board-in-discussions-with-sam-altman-to-return-as-ceo

[–] Dickey_Butts@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

Ah ok I remember hearing something about a lawsuit I wasn't sure who it was against. Thanks.