I feel compelled as someone close to the situation to share additional context about Sam and company.
Engineers raised concerns about rushing tech to market without adequate safety reviews in the race to capitalize on ChatGPT hype. But Sam charged ahead. That’s just who he is. Wouldn’t listen to us.
His focus increasingly seemed to be fame and fortune, not upholding our principles as a responsible nonprofit. He made unilateral business decisions aimed at profits that diverged from our mission.
When he proposed the GPT store and revenue sharing, it crossed a line. This signaled our core values were at risk, so the board made the tough decision to remove him as CEO.
Greg also faced some accountability and stepped down from his role. He enabled much of Sam’s troubling direction.
Now our former CTO, Mira Murati, is stepping in as CEO. There is hope we can return to our engineering-driven mission of developing AI safely to benefit the world, and not shareholders.
Obviously just speculation for now, but seems plausible. The moment the GPT store was released I thought:
“wow that’s really good for business … wow that’s really bad for alignment”
I’ve read their other comments. The initial comment sounded somewhat plausible, but their other comments sounded less like what I’d expect someone in that position to sound like.
Found this on Reddit: Anxious_Bandicoot126 comments on Sam Altman is leaving OpenAI (reddit.com)
Obviously just speculation for now, but seems plausible. The moment the GPT store was released I thought:
“wow that’s really good for business … wow that’s really bad for alignment”
I’m skeptical.
I’ve read their other comments. The initial comment sounded somewhat plausible, but their other comments sounded less like what I’d expect someone in that position to sound like.
This seems
the most plausiblespeculation so far, though probably also wrong: https://twitter.com/dzhng/status/1725637133883547705If you think it’s more plausible than misalignment with OpenAI’s mission, you could make some mana on