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Altman's tweet (https://x.com/sama/status/1790518031640347056?s=46 https://x.com/sama/status/1790518031640347056?s=46) makes it seem as if he wanted to stay, an
by wavelander 2y ago
Altman's tweet (https://x.com/sama/status/1790518031640347056?s=46 https://x.com/sama/status/1790518031640347056?s=46) makes it seem as if he wanted to stay, and Ilya disagreed and "chose" to depart. Very interesting framing.
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- chimney 2y agoPR statement. After nearly being ousted, I'm sure Sam is relieved to have a thorn removed from his side.
- Handy-Man 2y agoWhile he does say, he is leaving for some personal and meaningful project, let’s see what it ends up being.
- kunley 2y agoThat "personal and meaningful" can just mean anything.
- jonathankoren 2y agoMore like hustle culture’s “spend more time with the family”
- jumpCastle 2y agoSpend more time with my side projects.
- peppertree 2y agoSince it's all in proper casing I'm going to assume he wrote it with chatgpt.
- TechDebtDevin 2y agoGood observation lol.
- xmonkee 2y agoHe used “easily one of the greatest minds of our generation” for two different people in the same message. 100% ai generated
- fsckboy 2y agoit said one was "easily one of the greatest", and it said the second was "also easily one of the greatest"... it's puffery but it's not an awkward or mindless formulation.
- willsmith72 2y agodoesn't read like chatgpt to me, but i certainly wouldn't call it good quality writing
- mewpmewp2 2y agoAI or GPT usually doesn't repeat like that. Although it usually is easy to tell if something is GPT.
- throwitaway222 2y agoThey probably avoid making it look like their writing is written with chatgpt.
- mewpmewp2 2y agoI thought so, but they must've changed a lot then. In any case it's not like the type of message they wrote is something special, and it's just usual polite PR.
- behnamoh 2y agoHe also literally mentioned Ilya's personal project; something that ChatGPT would do (it repeats parts of the prompt).
- zombiwoof 2y agoAltman is the biggest con artist in tech.
- freshpretzels 2y agoSurely he would have never gotten his current role if that is the case. There's way too much money and visibility involved.
- mikeg8 2y agoExactly. He’s only founded and led a company that’s built some of the most easily adoptable and exciting innovations in human-computer interactions in the last decade. Total fraud!
- blibble 2y agoand which company would that be?
- tortilla 2y agoLoopt
- greenthrow 2y agoAnd WorldCoin.
- coffeebeqn 2y agoWhat’s the con? Aren’t they constantly delivering frontier models?
- Nasrudith 2y agoI would say specifically the sort of chuunibyou cringe endemic to"AI safety" of claiming that their models are an existential threat.
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- nialv7 2y agoIt could be a PR statement, it could also be genuine. From outside looking in there's no way to know, so I will just pretend this tweet doesn't exist.
- baobabKoodaa 2y agoIt's PR for sure. A genuine announcement would have addressed the elephant in the room.
- djbusby 2y agoSorry, which elephant?
- Apocryphon 2y agoThat this was an employee who conspired against him in a failed palace coup
- WiSaGaN 2y agoAt the time, Sam was more powerful than Ilya for sure. But framing their relationship as employee/employer when they were both in the board seems not correct.
- hn_throwaway_99 2y agoI think calling it a "palace coup" gives it an inappropriate framing of what happened. I definitely think that how the board handled the situation was very inept, and I think the naivety over the blowback they would receive was one of the most surprising things for me. But after reading more about the details of what happened, and particularly writings and interviews given by the former board members, I don't think any of them did this out of any particular lust for power, or even as some sort of payback for a grudge. It seemed like all of them had real, valid concerns over Sam's leadership. Did those concerns warrant Sam's firing? From what I've read, I'm of the opinion they didn't, but obviously as just some rando on the Internet, what do I know. But I do think that there were substantive issues in question, and calling it a "palace coup" diminishes these valid concerns in my mind.
- jonathankoren 2y agoNah. It’s same platitudes that’s always said when a someone high profile is fired.
- rl3 2y ago> Ilya is easily one of the greatest minds of our generation ... > Jakub is also easily one of the greatest minds of our generation ... Phew, I was worried he'd be irreplaceable or something. Hopefully they've already standardized the comp package.
- data_maan 2y agoEasily the most plat of all platitudes of our generation
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- selcuka 2y agoSomeone has already tried doing that, and it's pretty close: https://twitter.com/eli_schein/status/1790520139164614820 https://twitter.com/eli_schein/status/1790520139164614820
- nwoli 2y agoPersonally I don’t trust much of anything sam says, so I’d take any framing with a large grain of salt
- behnamoh 2y ago> a large grain of salt You mean a lump of salt? I've always wondered what the right word is to describe this amount of salt /!jk
- __MatrixMan__ 2y agoI've been offered a "lump" of sugar before, and it was not a single sugar crystal. When I hear "large grain of salt" I imagine something like this https://crystalverse.com/sodium-chloride-crystals/ https://crystalverse.com/sodium-chloride-crystals/, quite different than a lump.
- behnamoh 2y agoThose huge salt cubes are so fascinating! New side project added to the list...
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- sebastiennight 2y agoThat is absolutely brillant and will make a fantastic week-long father-daughter science project. Thanks. Now back to figuring out something new for a 6-year old to program using Scratch...
- __MatrixMan__ 2y agoI'm 37 and it's also going to make a great me-me project.
- petesergeant 2y agoA pinch of salt
- johnbellone 2y agoHe’s got a good PR team.
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- apantel 2y agoIt’s too nice. Nobody is this nice. It’s like Truman Show nice.
- data_maan 2y agoThis was easily the most PR tweet of our generation. The fact Ilya himself tweeted about it too was also easily the most PR tweet of our generation. :D
- jiveturkey 2y agoYeah, like when Cheney shot Harry Whittington and it was Whittington that apologized.