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27% of their customers work at OpenAI? Other than a very small number of people directly involved, a handful of Reddit mods and Twitterati with a parasocial obs
by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
27% of their customers work at OpenAI? Other than a very small number of people directly involved, a handful of Reddit mods and Twitterati with a parasocial obsession with the company specifically, and people who can only sleep when they ask ChatGPT if it's time for bed, who's really going to be losing actual sleep over this?
- lucubratory 3y agoEvery single person working at OpenAI is going to have disturbed sleep right now, they're uncertain if their job or the projects they're currently working on are safe. Every recruiter in SV is probably losing sleep trying to poach people, getting anyone from OpenAI is striking oil but right now even high level employees who would normally never leave are in flux. There are a lot of startups in SV, including a huge number of startups based on OpenAI's APIs. If you're working for a startup based on the OpenAI API while this is happening you are working long nights to try and find alternatives and figure out whether you have a product tomorrow morning. This is a huge event like the suddenly bankruptcy of a large company, it's 778 people in flux. Their families won't be sleeping well.