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I don’t even know how this fake news started

• lolinder 2y ago
  Maybe the fact that they actually did dissolve the safety team formerly led by Ilya Sutskever in the aftermath of Altman's coup [0]? I'm genuinely unsure what part of this you're questioning. [0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-17/openai-dissolves-key-safety-team-after-chief-scientist-ilya-sutskever-s-exit https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-17/openai-di...
  • whamlastxmas 2y ago
    Like literally the third sentence makes it clear it was restructuring team dynamics but not eliminating safety goals or even losing the employees that are safety focused. There are many safety focused people at OpenAI and they never fired or laid off people in a safety team which is what people infer from “dissolve the safety team” when it’s used as a bullet point of criticism
    • lolinder 2y ago
      It's pretty obvious to most of us that "integrating the group more deeply across its research efforts to help the company achieve its safety goals" is the corporate spin for what was actually "disperse the group that thought its job was to keep Altman himself accountable to safety goals and replace them with a group that Altman personally leads". Eliminating Ilya's team was part of the post-coup restructuring to consolidate Altman's power, and every tribute to "safety" paid since then is spin.
    • richk449 2y ago
      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dissolve https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dissolve Definitions of dissolve: to cause to disperse or disappear to separate into component parts to become dissipated (see DISSIPATE sense 1) or decompose BREAK UP, DISPERSE Those seem like pretty accurate descriptions of what happened. Yes, dissolve can also mean something stronger, so perhaps it is fair to call the statement ambiguous. But it isn’t incorrect.