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One thing pretty clear to me now, if even only half of these rumored reactions from the current OAI board are correct, then they have nobody or have consulted w

One thing pretty clear to me now, if even only half of these rumored reactions from the current OAI board are correct, then they have nobody or have consulted with nobody with legal and business experience regarding their actions. Like come on, a merger talk at this point is so stupid. Nobody would want to touch something this hot and the attempt alone just made OAI situation worse. What are they thinking?

HighFreqAsuka 3y ago
I think it's pretty clear by this point that the board consists of several people who are woefully ignorant about the way the world actually works.
- huytersd 3y ago
  Hellen and Tasha and possibly Adam.
- harryVic 3y ago
  Feels like sabotage. Adam, the quora guy runs a chatbot AI company as well and is on the board.
  - startupsfail 3y ago
    If they’d wanted to sabotage OpenAI, they could have declared that building GPT5 is unsafe, pulled the plug and erased all the backups, no?
    - jacquesm 3y ago
      They could have. But they wanted to have it too.
- PepperdineG 3y ago
  It just blows me away. The unusual board activity is what drew me to this. What I'm also waiting for is an explanation for why/how they canned Brockman as their Chairman of the Board. With him so far I've not even heard of a hint of it being for cause, which it isn't exactly normal to remove a board member without cause...them offering to let him remain as regular employee actually made what they did all the more eyebrow raising.
  - startupsfail 3y ago
    It’s hard to tell from the outside what happened there. And if the article used a reliable source.
    - murakamiiq84 3y ago
      https://twitter.com/willknight/status/1726793735143621058 https://twitter.com/willknight/status/1726793735143621058 This guy claims he has "reason" to believe it's a "complete fabrication." No idea whether to trust this guy or his source more than the original article though.
- rthnbgrredf 3y ago
  But who has the power to remove the board?
glimshe 3y ago
This just reinforces something I've been thinking for a while. When you look people at the top in medium to large companies, you'd think that they are extremely qualified and got there through merit alone. Although this is certainly true in many cases, it's probably not the case most of the time - a combination of luck and contacts often boost people to places they have no business being. In general, people in high places can just surf the waves and go with the flow in collecting cash and not really make that much difference, relying on the other people closer to the work (engineers and frontline managers). But when making the right decisions can decide the fate of a company, you then see who's supposed to be there and who isn't.

HighFreqAsuka 3y ago

I think it's pretty clear by this point that the board consists of several people who are woefully ignorant about the way the world actually works.

huytersd 3y ago
Hellen and Tasha and possibly Adam.
harryVic 3y ago
Feels like sabotage. Adam, the quora guy runs a chatbot AI company as well and is on the board.
- startupsfail 3y ago
  If they’d wanted to sabotage OpenAI, they could have declared that building GPT5 is unsafe, pulled the plug and erased all the backups, no?
  - jacquesm 3y ago
    They could have. But they wanted to have it too.
PepperdineG 3y ago
It just blows me away. The unusual board activity is what drew me to this. What I'm also waiting for is an explanation for why/how they canned Brockman as their Chairman of the Board. With him so far I've not even heard of a hint of it being for cause, which it isn't exactly normal to remove a board member without cause...them offering to let him remain as regular employee actually made what they did all the more eyebrow raising.
- startupsfail 3y ago
  It’s hard to tell from the outside what happened there. And if the article used a reliable source.
  - murakamiiq84 3y ago
    https://twitter.com/willknight/status/1726793735143621058 https://twitter.com/willknight/status/1726793735143621058 This guy claims he has "reason" to believe it's a "complete fabrication." No idea whether to trust this guy or his source more than the original article though.
rthnbgrredf 3y ago
But who has the power to remove the board?

glimshe 3y ago

This just reinforces something I've been thinking for a while. When you look people at the top in medium to large companies, you'd think that they are extremely qualified and got there through merit alone. Although this is certainly true in many cases, it's probably not the case most of the time - a combination of luck and contacts often boost people to places they have no business being. In general, people in high places can just surf the waves and go with the flow in collecting cash and not really make that much difference, relying on the other people closer to the work (engineers and frontline managers). But when making the right decisions can decide the fate of a company, you then see who's supposed to be there and who isn't.