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I'd say that's unexpected, but nothing really is in this saga anymore. Yay public fuck ups! I can now put my popcorn down.

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[–] JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait so the story that he was hired by Microsoft wasn't real?!?!

Btw, I can now go to office and be absolutely confident because there's no way I can fuck up worse than these guys. Maybe if I delete the database of IRS, but my company is not involved in government's business at all....

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 13 points 1 year ago

The hiring was real. I think every step was real, but infused with separate fuck ups and miscommunication. This was a truly great story. PR students should write this down so they know what to not do.

[–] bmsok@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So the board submitted a question to the AI about who should be the next CEO and it welcomed Altman back with open arms, am I right?

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 5 points 1 year ago

Not impossible :D

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

This is like a crappy plot you would see because there was a writers strike or something.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not a big rollercoaster fan, and wow has this been a wild ride. I'll be over there, sick.

[–] DrDerynNewman@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

It's a good example of terrible PR, though.

[–] darelik@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Marketing team goes /shrug "Any publicity is good publicity"

[–] demonquark@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I genuinely still do not understand why they fired him in the first place. Without consulting microsoft. Right after a huge conference about Microsoft’s commitment to AI.

What did the board expect to happen?

[–] dookie@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably good old incompetence. Someone said something, someone else overheard it, misunderstood it, blew it out of proportion and that shitbubble eventually reached the board. There was also something about the chief scientist being part of the coup.

[–] demonquark@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Sigh. Perhaps you’re right. Everyday it becomes clearer that the world is run by idiots.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The same guy scanning peoples retinas running an AI company is textbook supervillian stuff

2023 isn't over yet, don't put the popcorn down!