I wonder what that says about Altman.

That he’s a liability to OpenAI, which is slowly coming around to the realization that it would be worth more without him.

To be clear, I don’t think OpenAI could have raised what it raised as quickly as it did without him. But with the benefit of hindsight, Microsoft should have let the safety board fire him.

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Cthulhu_ an hour ago | parent [-]

Slowly? They realised that and ousted him in 2023. I'm not sure if you didn't know or just forgot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Sam_Altman_from_Ope...

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vessenes an hour ago | parent | next [-]

They is doing a lot of work in your sentence. Almost the entire employee population signed a public letter of support with names attached in the middle of the drama.

More accurate to say the board I think.

	▲	righthand 28 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Dont forget the US media incessant coverage of a private company’s business matter of firing someone as if it was an unheard of calamity. Pretty incredible that employees will go to bat for a lying scum bag when they would never do that for each other.

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JumpCrisscross an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> Slowly? They realised that and ousted him

Not because he threatened OpenAI’s valuation. The idea that OpenAI might be worth more without Altman is still heretical talk.

> not sure if you didn't know

My three-sentence comment directly references it in the third.