I absolutely agree with you regarding "typical person is not stupid" point. People just don't care about it, and don't know. It's not about stupidity, it's just not a useful information for majority of people. Knowing about internal OpenAI drama, the board members, everything that happened in the last couple of years is just very out of reach for most of the people.

It's the same if I mentioned some random people from my interest circles that you definitely won't know, but I can guarantee at least millions of people who share the same interests know about those names.

Obviously I can be wrong, but my simple sniff test is asking a couple of friend groups and bar chats with regulars, who are not in tech. Some people don't even know about OpenAI despite using ChatGPT (basically a household name now)! I'm also clueless when my friends in finance/law throw in some names and companies that I have no connection to and knowledge of.

Sorry, I didn't mean to sound dismissive, probably shouldn't write comments during work hours.