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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
by medler 3y ago
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.
- Animats 3y ago"Missing a key 5PM PT deadline by which many OpenAI staffers were set to resign." Says who? And did they resign?
- x86x87 3y agoone 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.
- quotient 3y agoIt's California. Non-competes are void. It is one of the few states where non-competes are not legally enforceable.
- karmasimida 3y agoNah this is California, that won’t work
- sangnoir 3y agoIt'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.
- dabockster 3y agoThe same thing got said about Elon Musk and Twitter, and yet X is still somehow alive.
- rvba 3y agoMaybe 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_give_you_the_case_against_him https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_me_the_man_and_I_will_g...