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> [W]hen ChatGPT came out November 2022, the board was not informed in advance. We learned about ChatGPT on Twitter,” Jikes. Yeah I can see how a board would l
by Havoc 2y ago
> [W]hen ChatGPT came out November 2022, the board was not informed in advance. We learned about ChatGPT on Twitter,”
Jikes. Yeah I can see how a board would lose their sht.
Boards are generally quite tolerant unless you keep them in the dark on strategic matters or ask them to rubber stamp stuff post fact.
- shawabawa3 2y agois that so weird? Aren't board meetings normally once a quarter? ChatGPT may have been built in less than 1 quarter and between board meetings ChatGPT seemed to me like a fun extra product and they didn't anticipate the reaction they would get from the public or that it would completely replace their existing GPT interface
- PeterisP 2y agoWhile board meetings normally are relatively sparse, most of board work happens between these meetings (where you effectively perform any voting rituals required to formally approve the decisions the board members made beforehand) and it is very common practice for executives to continuously keep board in the loop - arguably doing this well is one of the primary duties of a CEO.
- Havoc 2y agoYeah it’s absolutely weird. The board is supposed to be the top governing body - they need sight of future plans. And if something changes in middle of quarter then at a minimum a mail or phone call as a heads up. They probably didn’t expect quite that big of a reaction sure but hard to believe they didn’t know at all that it would be important.
- sackfield 2y agoI would be thrilled, if I were board member I would want the organisation to succeed and ChatGPT can't be described as anything other than an unmitigated success. I wouldn't feel the need to make myself the main character of the story and act like my permission was required for innovation. But that's just me.
- threeseed 2y agoIt is absolutely just you. Almost everyone would prefer not to have repeats of Enron, FTX etc where poor corporate governance and unethical behaviour is tolerated just because the company is making lots of money.
- sackfield 2y agoI'm not sure OpenAI compares to Enron or FTX in terms of unethical behaviour or financial fraud. The only similarities might be, funnily enough, disfunctional boards (or in FTX's case, no board).
- threeseed 2y agoNo one thought anything was wrong at Enron or FTX until there was.
- borski 2y agoYet.
- ben_w 2y agoIf OpenAI gets as far with AI as they want to, then it is absolutely imperative that nobody there is accidentally leaning on the scales, let alone actually doing anything (even something minor) with selfish intent. Even if they're "just another tech firm", that's still enough for them to be another Facebook with the Cambridge Analytica and Rohingya scandals, and many people would like to make sure such things don't repeat.